Cricket 1913

412 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u l y 19, 1913. C r icke t; A W E E K L Y RECORD OF THE GAME. 25, W H IT E S T R E E T , MOOR LA N E , LONDON, E.C. SATURDAY , JU LY 19 , 1913 . Letters for the Editor should be addressed to M e . J. N. P e n te lo w , Malvern, Steyning, Sussex. Advertisements, Subscriptions, &c., should be sent to : The Manager of Ckicket, 25 , White Street, Moor Lane, E.C. The following are the subscription rates :— United Kingdom. Abroad. One Year ... ... ... 6s. 3 d. ... 7 s. 6d. The 2 i Summer Numbers 5 s. Od. ... 6s. Od. The 6 Winter Numbers ... Is. 3 d. ... Is. 6d. f lbav i lkm 0 o s s i p . What so good when time is sunny, And the air as sweet as honey, As the game of crease and wicket, England's proper pastime—Cricket ? N orm an G a l e . D e a n ’ s performance in taking 17 wickets in the extra Lancashire v. Yorkshire game at Liverpool was a remark­ able one, all allowances being made for the state o f the pitch. Only eight times before have so many been taken by one bowler in a first-class eleven a-side game, and W alter Mead is the only man whose name appears twice in the list which is appended :— Fenner (F. P.), Cambridge Town Club v. Cambridge University, at Cambridge, 1844— No analysis on record. Mycroft (W.), Derbyshire v. Hants, at Southampton, 1876— 9 for 25 and 8 for 78. W . G. Grace, Gloucestershire v. Notts, at Cheltenham, 1877-— 9 ft>r 55 and 8 for 34. C. T . B. Turner, Australians v. X I. of England, at Hastings, 1888— 8 for ,13 and 9 for 37. Mead (W.), Essex v. Australians, at Leyton, 1893— 9 f°r and 8 for 69. Mead (W.), Essex v. Hampshire, at Southampton, 1895— 8 for 67 and 9 for 52. W . Brearley, Lancashire v. Somerset, at Manchester, 1905 — 9 for 47 and 8 for 90. Blythe (C.), Kent v. Northants, at Northampton, 1907— 10 for 30 and 7 for 18. Dean (H.), Lancashire v. Yorkshire, at Liverpool, 1913— 9 for 62 and 8 for 29. T h e County Palatin e has had many fine bowlers— John Briggs, A lec Watson, R ichard Gorton Barlow , W illiam M cIntyre, A rthur Appleby, • Arthur Mold, W alter Brearley, and others— but none more hard­ working and very few better than H arry Dean. Here are his bowling figures fo r each season to date :— Season. 0. R. W. A. Season. O. R. W. w. 1906 548-3 1509 60 25-13 1910 966-3 2113 137 15-42 1907 923-2 2240 110 20*36 1911 1287-3 3191 183 17-43 1908 1052-5 2455 129 19-03 1912 1060 2216 162 13-67 1909 702-1 1745 102 17-10 1913 <>24-5 1395 84 16-60 The 1913 figures are to Ju ly 12 inclusive. W ithin the next two or three weeks Dean is likely to take his hundredth w icket o f the season and his thousandth in first-class cricket, needing only 16 for the former feat and 33 for the latter. D e a n has taken 17, 16, 15, 14, 13 (three times), 12, 11 (five times), and 10 wickets (six times) in first-class matches. In all to June 12 he had 967 wickets to his credit, taken in the course o f 328 innings, thus : nine wickets j in an innings 6 times, eight 5 times, seven 12 times, six 25 times, five 23 times, four 47 times, three 55 times, two 59 times, one wicket in each o f 53 innings, and no wicket in 43. ------ -------- T h e Idol a back number? Perish the thought! A little o f the superb audacity o f youth has vanished per­ haps ; but he can still do what no other man dares to attempt, and it was only in the fitting order of things that he should score a century fo r Gentlemen v. Players. This was his fifty-second century in big matches, in­ cluding the wonderful hitting display v. the West Indians in 1900. I mention that because officially it does not rank first-class, so sticklers for the maintenance o f the very queer classification made and ordained for our benefit may deduct one. T h a t very reliable person, George Joseph Thompson, had the pleasure o f taking his hundredth wicket o f the season while captaining his county’s side for the first time. Thompson is always working so well that some of his best performances, not being absolutely sensational, are apt to miss the advertisement they deserve. During this season he has taken in various matches 9 fo r 38, 9 for 101, 10 for 154, 10 for 183, 8 for 1,25, 8 fo r 135, 11 for 132, and 10 for 107— that is to say, 75 fo r 975 in 8 matches. These are not his fu ll figures, o f course; in the 8 other games in which he has played 27 have fallen to him for 679. ------------- G. W i ls o n ’ s 173 for Harrow v. Eton is the tenth century for the school on the h ill in these matches, those previously recorded having been by M . C. B ird (two in the 1907 match), C. H . B . Blount, T . G. O. Cole, E . C raw ley, A . W . T . Daniel, R . B . Hoare, J. H . Stogdon, and A . K . Watson. R . B. H o a r e ’ s 108 in 1888 was nearly twice as high as the next highest score— 59 by F . S. Jackson— in the match. Eustace C raw ley’s 1 0 0 and A . K . Watson’s 135 were in 1885 (though W isden gives the former as in 1815 !). The pair added 235 in 165 minutes while to­ gether. A . W . T . D an iel’s 112 in i860 made his side safe from defeat, but could not win the game for them. J. H . S t o g d o n ’ s 124 in 1895 gave his side a lead of 66 in the first innings, but in the end they narrowly escaped defeat— one to go at the close with nearly 150 still needed. T . G. O. Cole’s 142 in 1897 were made in 140 minutes. C . H . B. Blount’s 137 last year was finely hit, if rather lucky. M. C . B ird ’s two great in­ nings in 1907— 100 not out in 105 minutes and 131 in 135 I — were made by a batsman always on top o f rather | moderate bowling. I O n the whole, one is disposed to think o f W ilson's century last Saturday as the finest o f the ten. It was played with his back to the w all. H e saw man after man fa il, and yet he stayed on (by favour o f an Eton fields­ man after 62, but that’s all in the game), and when he found a partner he hit out vigorously. Another hour of Makant and Wilson might have pulled the game round. | It is worth noting that in 1912 Wilson made only 84 runs | altogether, average 8.40, highest score 29. T h e nine centuries for Eton were by E . B ayley (now the Rev. Sir Em ilius B ayley-Law rie, and in his 91st year), D . C. Boles, B . J. T . Bosanquet, E . N . S. Crank shaw, C . P . F oley, W . F . Forbes, C . J. O ttaway, H . C. Pilkington, and A. W . R idley.