Cricket 1913

CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J ui . y 20, 1913. H a ig h Sm ith , b y th e w a y , is a p re tty h e fty b atsm an to b e g o in g in N o . 11 . H e m a y n o t h a v e d o n e v e ry m u ch fo r th e c o u n ty a s y e t, b u t h e h a s sc o re d no en d o f ru n s in g o o d m a tch e s to o fo r th e T ro ja n s. © * © The Tunbridge Wells Week, which dates back to 1902 , has never before been so unfortunate in regard to weather as this year, when three days were blank through rain, as the following list will show : IQ 02 —Kent beat Hants, lost to Sussex (by one wicket). igo 3 —Kent lost to Lancashire, drew with Middlesex (rain). igo 4 —Kent drew with Sussex and with Yorkshire ( 2,337 scored during the week). 1005 —Kent lost to Yorkshire, drew with Worcester­ shire, who had one wicket to go, and needed igi for vic­ tory. 1906 —Kent beat Essex and Gloucestershire. 1907 —Kent beat Worcestershire, lost to Essex. 1908 —Kent drew with Lancashire (rain), beat Worces­ tershire. 1909 .—Kent beat Derbyshire, drew with Sussex, who, with only two wickets to go, needed 38 to avoid an innings’ defeat. 1910 —Kent beat Somerset and Lancashire, ign—Kent beat Somerset, drew with Sussex (rain on Saturday). 1912 —Kent beat Lancashire, lost to Yorkshire. 1913 —Kent drew with Worcestershire and with York­ shire (scoring first innings’ points). © * © Of the 24 matches during the 12 weeks, Kent won 10 , lost 5 , and drew g. Leicestershire, Northants, Notts, Surrey, and Warwickshire have not appeared at Tunbridge Wells during the period, it may be noted. © © Everyone knows that G. L. Jessop was not down to play for the Gentlemen at Lord’s last week, and, though on the ground, he had not his bag with him. His captain | describes him in the W estm inster Gazette as going in to bat in his (Warner’s) flannels, John Douglas’s boots, far too heavy for him, and a Middlesex cap, and with Simms’s bat. But he triumphed over all these handicaps, was not out at lunch, and afterwards was able to resume his innings without borrowed plumes. © ^ © It looks very much as though Rhodes would again total 1,000 runs (this he has already done, of course) and take 100 wickets, as he did in igo 3 , 1904 , 1905 , igo 6 , igo 7 , igo 8 , 1909 , and 1911 . Other likely candidates for the double distinction are Hirst (it will be his fourteenth time), Albert Relf (who has already been seven times on the list), Tarrant, J. W. Hearne, Booth, and Sydney Smith. Ire­ monger, Thompson, and Jeeves are scarcely likely to make enough runs; Woolley may fall short in the number of wickets. © % © The injury to the knee which G. A. T. Vials, the Northants captain, suffered early in the season, has proved a serious matter. He is going into hospital for an opera­ tion, and there is no chance of his playing again this season. © * © The Eastern Province people would like a test match at Port Elizabeth during the forthcoming M.C.C. tour in South Africa, and are applying for one of the two provisionally allotted to Natal. They will scarcely get it, one fancies. T h ey also suggest that instead o f the two matches v. Eastern Province the M .C .C . side should meet the Province in one match (probably the Graham stown one) and a Cape Colony X I. (which could include players from Cape T own, the Border, and K im berley) in the other. © * © Mr. R. E. Foster, a fter a few days in Cape T ow n and Oudtshoon, went on to Bloem fontein. He was invitect to spend a few days at Johannesburg, to con fer w ith the S .A .C .A . on beh alf of the M .C .C . (of whose Comm ittee he is, of course, a m em ber); but his doctor thought he should avoid any unnecessary trav ellin g , so Mr. E. T . Robert­ son (V ice-President of the S .A .C .A .), and Mr. Ivo r G if­ ford (Secretary) went to B loem fontein to see him. R. E. was to return to E n glan d about the 10th of July. E v e ry ­ one w ill hope that he m ay come back th orou ghly fit and well. South A frican s would be delighted if he was out again as captain of the M .C .C . T eam a few months hence; but I fear there is no chance of that. © * © A t the Swan H otel, Petw orth, on J u ly 17, an interest­ ing presentation took place. An old member of the Pet- worth P ark C .C ., A. A. K n igh t, was presented w ith the b all, suitably inscribed, with which on June 25,* v. Stor- rington, he took 3 w ickets in 4 b a lls, and 3 in 3 b a lls in the same innings. T h e double feat is sufficiently note­ worthy to be worth g iv in g p rom in ence; and it m ay be remarked that Storrington, an ancient home o f cricket in Sussex, has still a team by no means to be despised. © % © T h e fu ll score of the match played by the A ustralian team en route to Am erica at S u va, F iji, does not seem to have been published an yw h ere; but the Snorting M ail (Adelaide) of June 12 has some inform ation about it. T he F iji team consisted of thirteen En glishm en and one native, Ratu Pope, who did so w ell when the F ijia n s visited A u s­ tralia a few years ago. T he fourteen made 79, Em ery taking 7 for 17. T h e A ustralian score was 219— Arnott j 68, retired, C ollin s 66, not out. © * © U p to Ju ly 7, in ten matches, W arren B ard sley had already made over 800 runs for the A ustralian team in Am erica, w ith an average of somewhere about 80. F ou r centuries are included in his total. A rnott and M acartney were the on ly other men who had reached three figures in an innings so fa r; but Cody three times scored over go during the four matches in Ph iladelphia. © ^ © Dr. G. O. G auld, whohad the unusual distinction o f captaining Notts on his first appearance in the team , was educated at Aberdeen G ramm ar School and Aberdeen University, and had a high reputation as cricketer and Rugby footballer in the G ranite C ity. He played a good deal for Aberdeenshire ten or a dozen years ago, and I note that in 1900 he averaged 26.16, and in 1901 15.30 for that side, takin g some w ickets, too. H is first practice was in Y o rksh ire, but he has been four years or more in Notts. © * © T h e combined U .S . and C anada team in the first match against the A ustralian s consisted of seven P h ila ­ delphians, one p layer (Hosking-s) from N ew Y o rk , and three (R eid, Goodman, and Henderson) from the D om i­ nion. J. B. K in g was still an absentee, and C. C. Morris and J. L. E van s were not included. N o doubt C anada w ill haveb igger representation in the match at T oronto next month-