Cricket 1913

426 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u ly 19, 1913. Club Cricket Notes and Jottings. In a departmental G .W .R. match for the W ilkinson Cup on Monday of last week (Chief Goods Manager's Team v. Engineers’ Team) C. E. Honeyball, whose portrait appeared in these pages a few weeks ago, hit up 132 in about 90 minutes, which is capital going, even if the bowling had few terrors— and for all I know the bowling m ay have been good enough. Hants C. and G. ran up a biggish score v. Trojans on the County Ground on July 8— 331 for 6, dec. ; Newman 116, Rem ­ nant 106. B u t a capital innings of 83 by M. B. Lawson, helped by R. W. F. Jessori's 43, saved the Trojans (192 for 7) from defeat. The Cryptics took down a strong side to Felsted on the 9th, and defeated the school heavily. D. M. P. Whitcombe (95), F. M. C. Hare (85), and C. H. Campbell (82*) all scored freely, despite the fact th at the fielding was maintained at the high pitch which has characterised the out-work of Felsted this year. The innings was declared at 338 for 7, and the home side, tired out, slumped for 139— E. W. C. Wace 34, H. J. Ord-Bell 21, and C. H. S. Haygarth, G. D. Kitchingman, and E. K. Tolhurst (each 18) making practically all the runs. On the same day Sussex Martlets declared at 215 for 8— Major F. H. Watson, with i l l * , a long way highest scorer— v. Eastbourne, and won b y 86 runs. After R. M. Daly (58) and H. R. K irby (45), who made a good stand for the second wicket, had been parted, no one offered any resistance to the bowling of H. S. Malik and A. L. D. Skinner, each of whom took 5 wickets. St. Lawrence had two matches on the Thursday. North Dulwich (166— L. J. Rawlins 42, H. J. Craughton 33) easily beat the first X I. at home, in spite of Smith's fine bowling (8 for 58). The home side’s score was only 80, S. H. Bacon and A. Hicks (6 and 4 respectively) dividing the wickets. The A team beat Belmont at Belmont (Faversham)— 124 (H. G. Thompson 27*, P. T. Baker 23) to 61 (L. M. Elgar 33). A. L. Davies took 5 for 31* Murrin 4 for 28. Going in again, Belmont made 138 for o wicket— (L. Watson 76*, Rev. R. Head 47*). Acton Town drew with Twickenham Orleans on July 2— 147 for 7 (C. M. Richardson 54*, B. Ilsley 30) to 168. I was surprised to receive no report last week, for, unlike some of my corres­ pondents, the Acton Town Hon. Sec. is very regular in sending along ; now th at I know the cause of the lapse I can only offer Mr. King, who has lost his wife in tragic circumstances, my sympathy. Last Wednesday Acton Town beat Hounslow by 42 runs— 137 (H. S. Wheatley 57, C. M. Richardson 30, J. Jarvis 21) to 95 (Col. White 28). For the winners T. Tatham took 5 for 44, C. M. Richardson 4 for 17. I regret to hear th at the game was not altogether a pleasant one. Would-be sarcastic remarks in the field do not add to the amenities of cricket, and they ought to be suppressed. There was only one century in the leading matches in Sussex I on Saturday, A. Whenday hitting up 126* (eighteen 4's) for Tonbridge Y.M .C.A. v. Horsham at Horsham. The home side went down heavily ; all out 68, E. S. Jell (4 for 5) and J . F. Reynolds (5 for 32) doing the dam age; Y.M .C.A., 245 for 5. J. F. Hope’s excellent 82 and H. E. D avey’s 5 for 54 were the chief factors in Lewes Priory’s victory over the home side at j Seaford— 195 to 137. J. R. Davis scored 52 for the losers. For Arundel (152) v. Petworth (28 and 24) C. S. Arbery took 7 for j 22 and 5 for 20. For Hove (153 for 4. dec. ; G. B . Smith 68*) v. Portslade (39), L. H. Coppard had 7 for 11. Horley (249— D. A. Collard 63, the Rev. C. J. M. Godfrey 50*) and East Grinstead (183 for 3— F. C. Maplesden 70) drew. Hayward's Heath, who have not been much in luck’s way this season, beat Brook House— 202 (A. Higgs 70) to 83 and 59 for 6. Philip Cartwright, the county man, had 7 for 49 in the losers' first. Littlehampton II. put up 299 for 3 (C. Woodhams 87*, J. H. Marshall 64, G. Silvester 60, W . Harriss 54) v. Walberton (125— C. Hooker 51*). For once in a way the Old Olavians’ skipper won the toss. After a shaky start C. J. H. Pearson (94) and P. Brownlow (73) got going in undeniable fashion, and put up 168 in an hour for the first wicket. G. H. Pearson contributed 40, and H. Bessell 36* ; but Walham Green are too strong in batting to risk much with, and the innings was not declared until 150 minutes’ play had produced 322 for 9. The fielding was not of the best ; perhaps Walham Green have not got used to their new ground at j North Kensington yet. Their batting was all right, however, and j at the finish they were 119 for 1— H. W. Weston a very sound 58*, | H. W. McRae 33, A. P. Comyns 21*. Colchester and East Essex (178 for 6— Capt. Goldie 59, E. S. Missen 57) beat Dedham (66) on a slow wicket, Whitcombe and Mander bowling well for the winners. G.W .R. were at Broxbourne, where the home team unac­ countably collapsed on a pitch which, though on the slow side, was quite good. They were all out 94, A. Grugeon taking 7 for 45 and C. E. Honeyball also bowling well, while the fielding was of the best. After Gibbs had left at 2, W . R. Morris (87) and Wye batted so well together th at they soon passed the Broxbourne total, and the score was 151 when the second wicket fell. Wye's 74 was real class— his first match for the side, too. He has a good defence and drives well. Morris stayed in until 192 ; his cut- | ting and leg strokes were specially good. For once in a way j Grugeon and F. K. Honeyball were promoted, and added 37 in partnership, the team’s senior member making 23. The score j at the close was 234 for 7. Nothing can be said in praise of the Broxboume fielding ; it was worse than indifferent. G.W .R. II. put out Brookfield II. for 54, and then ran up 256 for 7 (E. W. Morris 57, Mead 55). The third team easily beat Queen’s Park Congregational, Ashford making 94 in very promising style | for the winners. The railway club thus won all three of its i matches. Old Whitgiftians made 178 (W. D. Hackney 67, G. A. Ellis 24, R. E. Baker 21*, Carter Pegg 20) v. L. & W . Bank, who with 151 for 6 (H. S. Baker 48, S. Bowman 38*) had a bit the best of the resultant drawn game. Hackney followed up his capital innings by taking 4 of the 6 wickets. Clapham Ramblers had an easy win over Beddington, whom they put out for 162 (A. Lacey 54), after which they piled up 265 [ for 5. R. Sothcott played a fine innings of 107*, H. R. Jordan | made 60, and Cyril Browne (who had 5 Beddington wickets for ! 6o) 47 - West K ent Wanderers drew with Camberwell House. The start was late, leaving only 3J hours for play. W. D. Myers (81) and C. Morrell (76) put up 152 before a wicket fell, both batting finely, though the former was twice missed at point. The W .K .W . innings was declared a t 202 for 4 ; but after one wicket had gone cheaply Cole (55*) and Shepherd (40*) put Camberwell House quite out of danger, and the total at the finish was 117 for 1. W .K .W .s’ A team beat Brockley by 83— 139 to 56. G. { Brooker (6 for 25) was backed up by fine fielding, the catches j made by Bronsdon and Lawrence being particularly good. A. Willis (41), C„ Lawrence (34), and Brooker (30) were chief scorers for the winners. Battersea, in spite of making the very fair total of 211 (W. J. Croft 66, G. Dawdry 52, L. E. Livesey 25, A. J. Trollope 20) sustained a heavy defeat at the hands of Ealing, who, though lacking Jessop, had a very strong side out. W. G. Cobb played great cricket for 126*, and J. H. A. Tolkien (65), B. S. Cumber­ lege (46), and Hastings Squire (37*) all made substantial con­ tributions to the winners’ total. Battersea II. also went under, Townley Park II. making 259 for 8 (J. R. Crack 88, R. Gibson 58. H. G. Farmer 29, W . Hilton I 24*) to their 86, of which B. Harding (50) had quite the lion’s I share. Ilford won a narrow victory— 114 to 95— over Dulwich at Dulwich. A. J. Spelling’s 28 was top score of the match, and E. Porter made 21 for the winners ; S. J. Goodall (24) and P. H. | Slater (23) did best for the losers, for whom E. J. Bridger took 7 wickets and performed the hat trick. W . Cuttle (5 for 11) and J. Sm ith (5 for 42) bowled finely for Ilford. B y the way, it was of course T. M. Weaver who took all 10 wickets of Honor