Cricket 1913

432 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u l y 19, 1913. Overseas Cricket. CANADA . T. Smith, who was last season in Chicago, where he averaged ju st on 62 per innings for the Wanderers C.C. of th at city, making five centuries, was top scorer in league cricket of June 14 at Winnipeg. He and R . Bingham (41) put up 67 for the first wicket of the Wanderers (Winnipeg) ; and he and E. C. Laver (55) added 82 for the second. Sm ith’s score was 78. Wanderers declared at 206 for 4, and put out Civics for 95. Winnipeg beat Young Conservatives— 94 to 58— and C .P.R . defeated St. Jude’s •— 61 to 27. In the Second Division of the League Eaton’s, the big store team, put out Wanderers B for 8, Hunt and Maltby each taking 5 for 4. For the Wanderers Game had 7 for 34. Scoring in W innipeg does not rule particularly high ; only ten batsmen of the eight First Division clubs averaged over 20 in 1912 ; but a total of under double figures is not the sort of thing th at happens frequently. A week later E. C. Laver made a century for the Wanderers — 101 of 181 for 8, dec.— v. St. Jude’s, who could only make 49 in response. L aver’s first chance was at 98, and he scored freely all round the wicket. W. L. Price had 5 for 29 for the Wanderers. W innipeg (267— L. Adams 91, K . E. Money 53, J. A. Walker 37) easily beat Civics (52), R. M. F lett taking 5 for 25, and Adams 4 for 26. Young Conservatives (111 for 4 — D. McNab 40*) defeated C .P.R . (105— W. Stalker 33). Cricket seems to be going ahead in W innipeg; another league— the Selkirk Cricket League— has been formed, and opened its cam­ paign on the 21st, when International Securities (70) beat Free Press (26), Flack taking 5 for 9 and Perkins 5 for 11 for the winners ; while St. Andrew's beat Young Conservatives W an­ derers, Lukyn (6 for 13) bowling well. On June 14 the feature of British Columbian cricket was the heavy defeat administered b y Albion A (Victoria) to Vancouver a t Beacon Hill, Victoria. The brothers Ismay were very much to the fore, H. A. contributing 97 and E. W. 70* to Albion’s 279 for 7, dec. Then Bonello (5 for 27) and Milne (4 for 25) put out Van­ couver for 72. T hey followed on, and Parsons (6 for 36) was the main factor in dismissing them even more cheaply— for 59. U N ITED STATES. Scoring in New York as yet has scarcely reached the cus­ tomary level. In the three chief games of June 21 no side reached 150. Bensonhurst beat New Y ork Veterans by 6 wickets, A . G. Hoskings, an Australian, making 46 for the losers, and C. E. Marshall and C. E. Blades, both W est Indians, 86* and 27 respectively for the winners. Staten Island, though only totalling 56, beat Richmond County by 20 runs. N. F. Hart, who used to play for Trinidad, made 30 for Staten Island. Crescent A.C. (126— J. P. Stuart 57) beat Manor Field (49). Another crack W est Indian player has left home for the States. Richard Ollivierre (St. Vincent), who will be remembered here as a member of the 1906 West Indian Team, is now in New York, and will play for the Cosmopolitan League v. the Australian Team in August. F. Hinds (Barbados), of the 1900W. I. side, and W. Shepherd (Barbados) are also to play, and the last-named is expected to captain the side. CEYLON . On May 31 R. Aiyadurai, playing for Tam il Union (124— S. Nagendra 33, S. Ponnambalam 30, M. C. Raju 29) v. Bambala- pitiya Y.M .C.A. (78— H. W. B. Peiris 48), bowled in great form, taking 8 for 13 in 8 overs. For Colombo C.C. v. Tamil Union on June 7, W. T. Greswell took 5 for 9, and V. F. S. Crawford (33*) was top scorer in the match. Aiyadurai was playing, but was not put on to bowl. V. F. S. Crawford was again top scorer (38) for the Colombo C.C. on June 14— v. Y.M .C.A. The Nondescripts C.C. celebrated the 25th anniversary of the club by a dinner at the Bristol Hotel, Colombo, the Hon. James Van Langenberg, the club's President, taking the chair. The members mustered strongly, and many prominent cricketers attended as guests. It is now almost certain th at a New South Wales team, captained by the Rev. E. F. W addy, will visit Ceylon next Christmas. A well-attended meeting was held at the Bristol Hotel, Colombo, on June 12, to discuss the project, Dr. David Rockwood taking the chair, and Mr. S. P. Foenander being appointed Hon. Sec., and many promises of support were received, though one or two leading clubs held aloof. A fund will be opened b y the Ceylon Sportsman to raise enough for the visitors’ entertainment in Colombo ; up-country the hospitality of the planters can be counted upon ; and the visitors will pay their own travelling expenses to and from the island. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Library. Probably no one else could edit the Official Cricket Guide* for America, which Messrs. Spalding publish, quite as F. F. Kelly does. In fact, I am sure no one else could, for there is not on the whole North American continent anyone who knows so much of the game as played over that great area as does he. Very few items of note escape his eagle eye ; and he has a way with him, too—he gets reports from secretaries in all localities. The 1913 edition of the Guide is the fullest yet published. It deals with cricket in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, California, Washington, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Sas­ katchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia. There are many pages of portraits and many pages of averages, lists of centuries, long stands, bowling perform­ ances, the scores of the matches .played by last year’s Australian Team, lists of batsmen who have scored 1,000 runs, and bowlers who have taken 100 wickets in any season in the States and Canada, and many other features of interest. The labour entailed must be enormous, and no one but a real enthusiast could have brought it to a successful close. A few of the more notable batting averages for clubs in North America may be noted : A. G. Laurie’s 58.85 and A. G. Hoskings’s 49.90 for the N.Y. Veterans, J. B. King’s 49.37 for Belmont, E. M. Cregar’s 86.00 for Philadelphia, F. E. Huish’s 54.92 for Falls of Schuylkill, E. Guest’s 46.42 for Germantown British-Americans, C. Page’s 47.50 for United Shoe Machinery (Beverley), T. Smith’s 61.90 and W. Balster’s 41.30 for Wanderers (Chicago), A. Dixon’s 43.10 for South Park (Chicago), P. J. Higgins’s colossal 180 . 83 , O' D. Rasmussen’s 68 . 00 , and W. G. Cochrane’s 50.83 for Los Angeles (Cal.), Marshall’s 54.00 and P. Broad- foot’s 46.22 for the Winnipeg Wanderers, C. A. L. Payne’s 41.07 for Vancouver, and A. F. R. Martin’s 59.40 for Victoria. It is worth while to give these, because few people on this side realise that there are across the Atlantic a number of batsmen who would do well in a higher class of cricket if they had the chance. Of course, the standard of play varies a good deal, and it would be wrong to assume that the best averages here indicate the best batsmen ; but they do show a capacity to score runs in plenty. Bowling averages are even more misleading, for while no batsman can consistently make a lot of runs even against moderate bowling unless he has ability, a very mediocre bowler may skittle the wickets of duffers week after week, and build up imposing figures. Four bowlers took 100 or more wickets in 1912 —V. V. Murphy (since dead) of the Cowichan C.C. (100 at 8 . 17 ), A. G. Tracy of the University Masters, Victoria, B.C. (140 at 10 . 38 ), H. G. Wookey of the Rosedale Club, Toronto (122 at 10 . 59 ), ar>d A. G. Hoskings of the N.Y. Veterans (108 at 11 . 73 ). Ninety-four centuries were made during the season in Canada and the States. ________ Every reader of C r ic k e t ought to get a copy of Between the In n in gsi, for in this booklet Mr. W. R. Weir tells in most interesting fashion of the paper’s early days, its foundation by Mr. C . W. Alcock, and its contributors twenty years or more ago (including him who pens these lines). But the brochure is not devoted exclusively to the history of C r ic k e t ; it contains also some charming verses and an article of real value on the evolution of the cricket ball, with many reminiscences. Its writer has been all his life asso­ ciated with athletic journalism, and what he has to tell can hardly fail to be of interest to every reader. * S p a ld i n g ’ s O f f i c i a l C r i c k e t G u id e f o r 1913, edited by F. F. Kelly. Price 25 cents. American Sports Publishing C o ., 21, Warren Street, New York. f B e t w e e n t h e I n n in g s , Cricket Items Old and New, col­ lected by W. R. Weir. 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