Cricket 1913

August -2, 1913. C R ld kE T : A WEEKLV UHCORl) OF THE GAME. 179 five seasons,' the bow lin g in four, and in three seasons was first in both. He bow led fast and hit hard. T he highest scores credited to him were 162 for M ilw aukee v. Racinc C o llege in 1885, and 128*' for Pu llm an v. Pastim es of St. Louis in 1893. F . F. K. M r. R a l p h C r a c k n e l l , who died on June 24 at Boston, M ass., was a Londoner by birth— born M ay 27, i860. He went to the States in 1884, and for several seasons was reckoned quite one of the best bow lers in N ew England, p layin g for the Longw ood and Boston A th letic Association teams. B oth in i8gi and in 1895 he took over 100 wickets. In 1890 he had 7 w ickets for a single run for Longwood v. Paw tu cket, and in 1892 for the N ew En glan d X V . against the G entlem en of Irelan d X II. he took 7 for 18. In recent years he was on the staff of the Boston G lobe, and was con­ sidered an authority 011 go lf. F. F . K. A l f r e d F e r e d a y , who died at D udley on June 11, aged 6 i, w as a w ell-kn ow n local p layer 111 his younger days. John F ered ay, who has played for both W orcestershire and Staffordshire, and A lfre d F ereday, ju n ., who has been a prom inent figure in L eagu e cricket in the M idlands, are his sons. A . C. D. M r . S. E . C lIR IS T O F F E L S Z, who was born on January 3 1883, .died of enteric fev er at Colombo early in June. He was a prom inent member of the C olts and Bloom field Clubs, and a rea lly good w icket-keeper. Educated at St. Bene diet’s Institute, Colom bo, he played for C arlton, a club now defun ct, before join in g the two to which he belonged at the tim e o f his death. He kept w icket for the Cey.jon side which played the M .C .C . T eam of 1907-8 on its way back from Australia, and as recently as three months ago was first reserve for the C eylonese eleven v. the Europeans. H is on ly century was 120, made in the M ercantile Compe­ tition in 1912. One of the keenest o f cricketers, he w ill be g rea tly m issed by his comrades. S. P. F. M r . D o r a b E . M o d y , brother o f the once-fam ous Parsi fast bow ler, R. E . M ody, threw him self out of a second- floor w indow during M ay, and was k illed by the fa ll. The cause of suicide was depression induced by heavy losses in his business as a tim ber merchant. A s a C olt he was chosen to p lay for the Parsis v. Bom bay P residency at Poona in 1892 (the year in which matches between the sides were instituted), and showed great pluck and determ ina­ tion when thin gs w ere goin g against his side. H e made 36 and 39 in totals of 93 and 182 again st Lord H aw ke’s Team , and, though never a very big scorer, was alw ays to be found in representative Parsi team s after that. Am ong his best scores were 48 at Poona in 1896 and 46 at Bombay in 1900 again st the Presidency. In 1911, in the. absence of both D r. P a vri and D r. K an g a, he was elected to cap­ tain the P arsi team in its big gam e of the year. A steady and ca re fu l, if somewhat cram ped, bat, he had a particu­ la rly good scoring stroke over cover-point's head. He was an active field, too, w ith a safe pair of hands. A t the time of his death he had not reached 40. M. E. P. D r . L. F o r b e s W i n s l o w , the em inent specialist in men­ tal diseases, was born in London, January 31. 1844, and died very suddenly at his residence, D evonshire Street, Portland P lace, on June 8. Educated at Rugby and Cam bridge, he did not get his colours at either school or ’Var sity, but he captained the D ow ning C ollege X L , and was a ll his life an ardent lover of the game. He frequently played for the M .C .C . some 40 years ago, and was a mem ­ ber of its team when W . G. made his first appearance at L ord’s, w ith the South W a le s side. In his Rem iniscences, Published a fewr years back, D r. W in slow stated that he was in vited to captain the am ateur team to Am erica in 1872, and that it was on ly his in ab ility to spare the time for the trip which led to Mr. R. A . F itzg erald ’s takin g on the captaincy. A . C. D. T h e R e v . G e o r g e E d w a r d C o t t e r il l died at C am bridge on June 2. Born J u ly 28, 1839, in the N eilgh erry H ills, India, he was educated at B righton C o llege and St. John’s, C am brid ge; and was three seasons— 1858, ’59, ’Co— in the L igh t B lue X I. A gain st O xford he scored 90 runs in 5 completed innings, and took 9 w ickets fo r 91. It was in his second m atch that he did best, w ith 17 and 55, 5 for 23, and 3 for 47. In 1858 he was second in the ’V a rsity a ve r­ ages— 291 runs at an average for 26.45, highest score 55 v. Cam bridgeshire. In 1866 and ’67 he played a few times for N o rfo lk ; and between 1869 and 1874 he played in 8 matches for Sussex, to ta llin g 214 w ith an average o f 14.26. In 1869 he hit 48 and 16 v. Surrey at B righton, beginning the bigger score w ith a 4 and a 6— the latter a straight drive of 110 yards clear out of the ground. S ix feet in height, he was alw ays a punishing batsm an; he bow led round arm, medium fast, and also underhand slow s, and was a fine field either at long-Ieg or cover, w ith a splendid throw-in. From 1862 to 1865 he w as H ead of St. A n drew ’s C o llege, G raham stown, South A frica , from 1865 to 1881 a m aster at his old school, from 1S81 to 1887 curate of St. John the Baptist, W okin g, from 1887 to 1895 Head of W eyb ridge School, and from i8g6 onwards R ector of Idlicote, W a r­ wickshire. F rom i8gg to-igo3 he held the post of Assistant D iocesan Inspector. H is brother, D r. J. M. C otterill, and his son, Mr. G . H. C o tterill, also played for Sussex. A . C. D. Some other obituary notices, am ong them that of Mr. H erbeit P ig g , are u navoidably held over. Alexander Kermode. [ B y G . A . B r o o k i n g . ] 1 have many tim es regretted during the past three or four years that the services of A lexan der Kerm ode were not retained by Lancashire beyond the season of igo8. T here may be reasons not made public why the big colon ial has not been attached to O ld Trafford of recent years, and into this, o f course, one cannot enter. A ll the same, he was— and doubtless is still— a great bowler. T he presentation of the b a ll (mounted on three silver-plated wickets) with which he captured a ll 10 w ickets for B acup again st Church recently draw s attention to this fact. Y e t he only played for Lan cashire in county gam es for fou r and a h a lf seasons, comm encing in Ju ly, UJ04, and term inating in 1908, and it may be said that he enabled Lan cashire to get a grip, on the m ythical Championship honours th at m ight have vanished aw ay lik e elusive m ists on an autumn morning. I shall not easily forget the first tim e I saw him , when (being courteously allow ed by D arlin g to p lay for the County P alatin e, although his q u alify in g period had only just started) he, along with G. Littlew ood, a slow left-hander— now, I believe, p layin g in Ireland— gave the A ustralian team of 1902 a fright. T h ey only won by 18 ru n s; and K erm ode and Littlew ood bow led unchanged in the match, except for 5 overs by the late Jam es H allow s and I ’Anson. A gain , at the O val in 1904, when L an cash ire, as Champion County, played the Rest of E n glan d , he trundled very w ell, though his average was not out of the o rd in a ry ; yet he beat and bow led H ayw ard— and everyone know s how hard a w icket H ayw ard’s was, and is, to get— w ith one of the best balls I have ever seen. I feel sure that, c a re fu lly nursed by a good captain, with long bow lin g spells avoided, he w ould yet be a source of strength to Lancashire. He is not really a veteran, being, in fact, a younger man than W alter B rearley, though more w eighty. But I do not suppose he w ill ever p lay for his adopted county again.