Cricket 1913

464 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. August .% 1 !H;S. L . & N .W .R . at home had a b ig w in over H ighgate. T h e y w ere able to declare at 203 for 3, thanks to fine innin gs of 106 by A. E. W ilso n and 73* b y H. J. P a ris; and then P. G. S kilton (5 -for 32) and P aris (4 fo r 19) put out the visitors for 103 (M acdonald 30). W est K en t W an d erers A drew w ith B lackheath W a n ­ derers A. T h e la tter m a d e . 141 (W . Shru bsall 48, A. T ith e rleig h 4 1), the form er 68 for 8. C. Law rence was the on ly member o f the W .K .W . side who did h im self justice in the m a tc h ; w ith 7 for 44 and 20* at a c ritica l tim e he was responsible fo r re a lly valu ab le work. T h ere was one very pronounced surprise in North S ta f­ fordshire L eagu e m atches, P o rth ill P a rk being defeated for the first tim e a fte r go in g through fifteen engagem ents scathless. T h e m atch was on their own ground, and their conquerors w ere K n yp ersley, who w ere responsible fo r a sim ilar feat last season. P o rth ill ow ed their d ow n fa ll to m issed catches and two cases of run-out, but no glory must be taken from the w inners because of these matters. K n yp ersley had tw o outstanding p layers, H. E . Bourne b attin g gran d ly fo r 46— m arred on ly by a chance at 44— and S ed gw ick gettin g 6 w ickets, 5 clean bow led, fo r 52. T h e Y orksh irem an bow led throughout, and he kept up a rare speed to the close. P o rth ill’s ch ief scorers were H. F . W ood (39), S. H. W ood (23), and A . G. Jone's (20). and B arnes (5 fo r 49) th eir lead in g attacker. W h ils t P o rth ill w ere bein g subjugated, their nearest competitors w ere also h a v in g trouble, the B urslem team — for the second tim e this year— bein g w e ll thrashed by N orton, who scored 216, as again st 145. In this stru ggle no few er than five p layers w ere run out, three o f them being Norton men, but perhaps Burslem suffered most by these foolish .errors of jud gm en t, for the tw o w ickets they had thrown ajvay were those o f their best batsmen, A. H ollow ood and M ills. B attin g first, Norton lost h a lf their w ickets for 75, but the ta il made a big re v iv a l, L. E v a n s— m issed before he had scored— gettin g 56, H. W rig h t 37, and G. W orth in gton and R. Hunt each 20. O f the earlier p layers, A . Sm ith put on 30 and E . T atton 23. Seven Burslem men w ere out for 76, but H. Cotton and W . Pointon pu lled up w ith 30 and 20 resp ectively, and H. B eech— p ra ctica lly disdain ing run -getting— made a fine attem pt to save the gam e, h a v in g a stay o f over an hour fo r 9 ru n s! T h e losers’ heaviest sco ier was J. H. H odg- kiss w ith 44. T here w ere no .outstanding bow lin g feats in the game. T u n stall had a big w in at the expense of Stone, whose batting was feeble indeed, on ly one p layer reaching the tw enty m ark. T h e w inners started p oorly, but F . (». B eech (42) and W . J. C rum p (25) alm ost doubled the score for the fifth w icket, and S. L o ck ett was top notchor o f the m atch w ith 47*. T u n stall were able to declare at 8 fo i 213, an a g g ie g a te which Stone never seemed lik e ly to approach. M organ had a. w icket in his second over, two in his fifth, and two in his seventh, and finished w ith 8 for 32. T h e pitch did not help him , -but he varied his pace most clev e rly , and feeble strokes resulted in five Stone men bein g cau ght by the m id-w icket fielders. T h e m eeting of F enton and S ilverd ale furnished a glu t of runs, 439 bein g scored for 12 w ickets, and a th rill at the finish. S ilve rd ale declared at 221 for four, and Fenton -got 218 fo r eight. S ilv e rd a le ’s most prom inent players were J. A n kers (51*),- F . E llam s (61), and J. C. Cooper (37). T h e home club lost a w icket in the third over at IX, and fou r w ere down for 79, but D eyes and W . Bourne provided; the th rills when they added 95 for the fifth part nership, in quick tim e. D eyes hit glo rio u sly in putting on 79, and Bourne's 44 was a cap ita l innings. Ernest Groom bow led sp len did ly in accounting for four Fenton men for 55. H eavy scoring also took p lace at C rew e, where Longton had a b ig advan tage in a drawn gam e, for . they put on 173 for three in response to the A lexa n d ra ’s fu ll innings of 194. C rew e had six dual figure scorers in their effort, the most prolific run-getters b ein g C. E . G resty (55), A. Cope ■ (39*), and G. R. Jackson (27). B arb er was the Longton b ow ler to do most dam age, as he secured h a lf the w ickets for 62. F. T h o rley (33) and E . G. B ax ter rattlea up 80 as L o n gjon ’s opening p air, and the la tte r and A lfred Sm ith doubled the score— and a unit over— for the second partnership. Sm ith had* ten 4’s in a m ilitan t 58, and B axter’s sk ilfu l 60* in clu d ed eight boundaries. . Leek were rather easily beaten b.v Stoke, who were saved from h avin g fo stra g g le hard by .th eir opponents’ in ability to take catches. F . W . W atson (48*),. H. Thompson (26), and H. W h ittles (2 2) w ere the batsmen m ostly concerned in L eek’s respectable a ggrega te of 143, and the Stoke bow ler to cause most trouble was A. W righ t, who came off when the more fan cied men were ineffective, and took 6 for 3g. T h e w inners .had two players to thank for surpassing -the opposition aggregate, P. B rig g s scoring 43 and N ich o ls 51*, but the latter owed som ething to the clem ency of the fielders. T h ere was some b ig gish sco rin g in the D urham League on Saturday. T h ree centuries and. eigh t in n in gs of 50 or over w ere registered in the six matches. T h e heaviest run- gettin g was at Eppleton. H ere F . P. W h ittak e r (166), playing fo r W h itb urn , set up a new record for the ground (A. New som e, the Ep p leton captain, made 160 v. S. S hields in June). W h ittak er hit seventeen 4’s. No one else did much, but the total was 304. T hen A. L. Scutt- Ow.en hit m igh tily, with M ark C ox keepin g up his w icket, and the E ppleton score was 202 before the form er left. His 142 included six 6’s and eighteen 4’s. C ox was 51*, A. Newsome 41*, the total 251 for one at the finish (made in iwo hours). In five hours’ p lay 555 runs were scored. B oldon ’s defeat of Chester-le-Street put the latter prac- ;ic a lly out of the running for the championship. J. K. B ew ick was the great man o f this game. H e made 59 of Chester’s total of 166 (T. M ellor scoring 44), and after J. J. C omm on . (5 8 ) and D . T h u b ro n (56) had p u tu p 190 for B oldon ’s first w icket he went on and took 4 for n . B ew ick did not deserve to be on the losin g side. Wearmouth put out Ph ilad elphia for 134 (R. Hall 53), and then Rothery (69*) and T . Prince (65*) hit off the runs w ithout the loss of a w icket. South S hields disposed of Seaham H arbour for 113 (W arn er 58), H arry takin g 6 fjor 19; then Shields made 201 for 4, W . M cEw an hitting a 6 and fourteen 4’s in his 102*, w h ile T . C oulson, the captain, scored 38 and H arry 31*. Buram oor (143— J. Coltm an 53) had a very narrow win over Durham C ity (135— A. F . M aynard 57, C. Y . A dam ­ son 33). G. Summ erill’s b a g of 7 w ickets for B u r n m o o r played a big part in the result. Last, but not least, Sun­ derland (145 for 5— H. B rooks 58) beat Hendon (137— W- M altby 37*, G. M etcalf 28) by 5 w ickets. M orris took 6 for 55. He w ill n o t1 be w ith Sunderland next season- D enis Hendren comes instead. M orris’s term s were re­ garded as altogether too high. Perhaps he ought to have lem embered that no man is indispensable.