Cricket 1913

478 CR ICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD O f T i l t GAME. August 2, 1913. took 6 for 6o. T h e best b ow lin g o f the day, how ever, wras by N ew stead— 6 for 41, Rishton v. Todm orden. In the C en tra l Lan cash ire Leagu e, C ran field (G loucestershire) was very much to tke fore w ith 56 and 7 (6 bowled) for 43 for H eywood v. R och dale. Thornton had 5 for 56 for M ilnrow v. G lossop. J. A. Low e took 6 for 59 (Crom pton v. Dukin- field). T h ere w-as a big partnership in the Norton v. Saltburn m atch (North Y o rk sh ire and South Durham League). N. S. A. H arrison and H. H eavisid es came together w ith the score 20 for 1, and w ere still together, w ith a century each, when the innings w as declared at 266. Saitburn lost by 107 runs. A very sim ilar stand w as made by T horn aby by two W est H artiep ool batsmen, A. J. G raham , the Durham C oun ty p layer, and Shields. T h ree w ickets were down for 16, and they added 218 before S hields w as out fo r q 8. G rah am made 121. T h e in nin gs was declared w ith 300 up and 5 w ickets down ; and T horn ab y collap sed for 92, Sm ith, the county pro., gettin g 6 w ickets. F o r D arlin gto n v. B ishop A u ckland , T o lso n took 9 for 32, and for Stockton v. North O rm esby, C. P. B arrow cliff had 7 for 44. Another g o o d .b o w lin g perform ance w as by the G itisborough pro., B ulm er, who took his benefit, and also 7 for 47 v. Redcar. F . R. B ulm er (not the pro.) bit up 77 tor Guisborough. Special Club Notes. C O N T R IB U T E D BY T H E C H IE L . A very common fa u lt w ith you n g club cricketers is p la y ­ in g an altogether different gam e in the nets from that which they p lay in the m iddle. A sp ell of hard hittin g to loosen one’s m uscles is a ll very w e ll; but net practice that de­ gen erates into indiscrim in ate slo gg in g is worse than use­ less. Some of them seem to th in k, too, that words of advice by the coach are on ly waste of time. On the other hand, some coaches certain ly do labour too g rea tly to discourage a batsm an’s n atural tendencies, and induce him to p lay in a style that does not suit him. A d v ice is g o o d ; but don’t rub it in too hard ! " B ad lu ck ,” they say, when the man who has been used to m akin g his h a lf centuries and centuries cannot get go in g at a ll, and descends upon p altry sin gle figures. “ B ad lu c k ,” or “ business w orries.” W e ll, it m ay be either. B ut quite as lik e ly it is a case o f ph ysical unfitness, and o f that grav e disease, “ the blu es,” w h ich is so clo sely connected with physical unfitness. Y o u can :t be at you r best if you are keep in g late hours and not p la yin g the gam e with you rself. T hen come failu re and “ the blu es.” T h e latter never come to the man who is h avin g a run o f success. Success helps to keep him f it ; his keen enjoym ent of it stim ulates his body to respond to the c a ll for further effort. Get fit and keep fit, and there w ill seldom be need to ta lk of bad luck. A bow ler must not lose his temper. It upsets his own side, and it disgusts the other. E v e ry bow ler has m isfo r­ tune to meet at tim es. L et him meet it lik e a man ! It is grossly u nsportsm anlike to d isp lay open dissatisfaction at the umpires or your captain, to m ake Unnecessary appeals, to behave lik e a spoiled ch ild deprived of a toy when taken off. A man who p lays for his side, not for his ow'n hand, w ill do none o f these things. A n d the man who does not p la y for his side m ay be a v erj’ fine bow;ler or batsman, but he is no cricketer. I had not the good lu ck to be able to attend the South London v. W est London C h arity Fun d m atch at E a lin g last w e e k ; but from several who were present I hear glow in g accounts of the p la y on both sides. Perhaps before long these m atches w ill be played on the county grounds of London, w ith the final at L o rd ’s. Better w eather lu ck to tourists and those ho ld in g their w akes— they are m any in these days— ihan was experienced last year. One does one’s best to enjoy a tour even when “ the rain it raineth every d a y ” ; but success is difficult, for, a fter a ll, the gam e’s the th in g— and the gam e I mean is that which men p lay on green tu rf under blu e sky, not bridge in the p avilion w ith the pitch outside a dismal swamp ! Obituary. M r . D aniel S mith N ewhall , one of a band of seven brothers, a ll of whom played cricket, w hile fou r, including D. S ., earned great fam e at the gam e, died on J u ly 12 at the Jefferson H ospital, P h ilad elp h ia, U .S .A ., w hither he had been taken from his country home, Cram ond, Strafford, for an operation for tuberculosis o f the kidneys. F o r many years D. S. N ew h all was one of the most prom inent figures in P h ilad elp h ian cricket, leading the team in international matches, scoring consistently if n ever very h e a vily , and g e t­ ting w ickets w ith his lobs. H is best show ing as a batsman in first-class gam es in Am erica w as v. Mr. E . J. Sanders’s ceam in 1885, when he scored 43* and 37*; but he very rarely failed to get runs, and some idea of his consistency m ay be gain ed from the fact that in between 25 and 30 im ­ portant gam es in which he took part, from the H a lifa x (N .S.) Tournam ent of 1872 to the Ph ilad elp h ian tour in E n glan d in i88g (after which he retired from first-class cricket), he averaged over 26— 45 innin gs, 13 not outs, 836 runs— w ith on ly two scores reach ing 50, one o f exa ctly that number for A ll Com ers v. H a lifa x quite at the beginning of his career, and another of 51* for the G entlem en of P h ilad elp h ia v. Gentlem en of K en t at T own M ailin g, when he made 39* in the second in nin gs of his side, and was highest scorer in each, almost at its end. A gain st the G entlem en of Ireland team in 1879 he took g w ickets for 44. H e only made two centuries during his career, and they were separated by an in terval o f 22 years, for he did not giv e up the gam e when he ceased to p lay in b ig matches. In 1876 he scored 106 for the Y o u n g Am erica C .C . v. G er­ mantown, and in 1898 he ran up 119 for P h ilad elph ia V eterans v. C aton sville Country C lub. H e had w e ll q u ali­ fied to p la y for the veterans by that, tim e, fo r (born on A p ril 7, 1849) he was in his fiftieth year. H e captained the 1889 team here, and would have captained that of i88_4 but that he was unable then to m ake the trip. F orm erly m the su gar business, he was at the time of his death the purchasing agent of the P en n sylvan ia R a ilro ad . Thus passes into the G reat B eyond another o f the men who helped to establish cricket so firm ly in P h ilad e lp h ia ; D an N ew h all follow s his brother Robert and J. B. T h a y er and Sutherland Law . But he w ill not be soon forgotten. J. N . P. M r. H a r r y G r o s v e n o r H il l (born J u ly 24, 1864) died at his residence, Soho H ill, B irm in gh am , on Ju n e 4. F or eight years— 1888 to 1895— he played pretty re g u la rly for W arw icksh ire, and on some few occasions also assisted the G entlem en of W orcestershire. B ow lin g was his forte, but he could also hit. He made his last appearance for W a r­ w ickshire in 1900, v. London C oun ty at the C rysta l P alace, and bow led W . G . a fter the great man had made 76. F or n early a quarter of a century Mr. H ill was captain and secretary of the H andsworth W ood C .C ., and he w as one of the founders of the B irm ingham and D istrict League. A . C. D. M r. J o s e p h C u m m in g s , who died from a heat-stroke at P u llm an , Illin o is, U .S .A ., on June 15, was born at Durham on J u ly 10, 1861. He played a prom inent part in Chicago cricket during the !8o’s and ’go’s, help in g the P u llm an C .C . to w in the lo cal championship in 1888, ’8g, ’go, ’Q2, V)3, ‘94, and ’95. H e headed the batting averages for P u llm an in