Cricket 1913

August 16, 1913. CR ICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. and South Australia at Melbourne before that side’s match with V ictoria, has been mooted. It sounds feasible, if gate-money considerations do not enter largely. Hubert Myers, the Yorkshirernan, has got the ap­ pointment as coach to the Tasmanian C .A . Lincolnshire Notes (Week ending August -2.) The Lincoln Lindum Cricket Week ended on August 2 after one of the most successful and enjoyable six daysJ cricket Lincoln has ever known. The first match was v. M.C.C. Lindum made 127— Burrows 36, R. Whitton 33. Against the- burly Burrows and B. P. Nevile, M.C.C. could only total 63. Then R. C. Burton, the old Malvernian, and Tarrant put out the home side for the paltry score of 53 ; and Capt. A. C. Watson (63*) and Tarrant (47*) knocked off the 118 required .without the loss of a wicket. •The second-match was v. Derbyshire Friars, and there was some biggish scoring in it. H. N. Newsum (77) and W . Rose (74) gave their side a splendid start by making 145 for the first wicket ; and J. M. Lawson’s 55* helped the Lindum total to 322. Captain Watson was again in evidence. He made 82 of the first 119 ; then C. H. Campbell (54) and C. J. Corbett (76) added 98 for the third wicket, and the Rev. H. W . Bevan’s 62 was'-fhe chief remaining contribution to the Friars’ aggregate of 365. J. M. Lawson (46) was the prominent figure in Lindum’s second innings (160) ; and Captain Watson made 60* of the 85 scored by the visitors before time closured. The third match was against a team brought by Major A. G. Weigall* M.P. It included R. H. Spooner, L. H. W . Troughton, A. W . Carr, G. J. V. Weigall, A. F. Leach-Lewis, and Preston ; but Meunier (7 wickets) howled so well that the score would have been meagre but for an eleventh wicket stand of 81 (twelve a side played) by the Rev. C. Gathorne and Preston. A lead of 70 runs (185 to 115) was estab­ lished on the first .innings, Preston taking 6 for 29 ; and when the scratch side batted again, Carr played a splendid innings* of 127 (two 6 ’s, ninteen 4 ’s), and he and Troughton (53) put on 159 together. The innings was declared at 243 for 5 ; but Lindum played out time, making 164 for 9. W . Rose (33) and B. P. Nevile (27) were chief scorers. Grantham won well again on Saturday. They put out Notts Forest at Trent Bridge for 79, M. W. Appleton taking 9 wickets (twelve a side). The vititors lost 1 tor 0 ; but then H. Eaitch (57) and W . Barnes ( 101 ). made a long stand, and eventually the total read -19 for 3. Barnes played most attractive cricket, free and withal sound. On Thursday he had scored 66 v. Peterborough. Eaitch, by the way, is quite one of the best fieldsmen in Lincolnshire club cricket. New Somerby had a spell of leather-hunting v. Denton on the London Road Ground at Grantham. The two Hawleys quickly skittled them out, and then Denton ran up 198 for 2— Harold Hacker 95, H. Johnson 51. Retford A (125 for 5— H. Dickinson 45, J. WT. Iremonger 39*) somewhat easily beat Gainsborough A (120). Cricket in .Scotland. [ B y H a m i s h .] E. L . K id d does not appear to take kindly to Scottish w ickets for since his return N orth, his scores have been 4, 5, and 13. W e look to him to retrieve his reputation before the season closes. T h a t the m ost successful bow ler m ay suddenly strike a b a d patch has received strikin g illustration by the latest perform ances o f M ortee, who for the greater part o f the season has been carrying all before him . In his last three m atches his figures have been— four for 154, Scotland v. N o rth a n ts; none for 78, C u p ar v. A y r ; three for 68, D unferm line v. K irk ca ld y . W hen our batsm en realise that he is m erely a little faster th an they have been accustom ed to, his analysis will not so often call for special m ention. N ext year m ay tell a tale. P erthshire m ade their position, at the head o f the Scottish C ounties, u nassailable by defeating C lackm an n an C o u n ty — 82 to 118 for 7. C h ie f cred it is due to B en skin (7 for 43), A lan F raser (4 for 12), VV, L . F raser (43), and J. A . F erguson, who dism issed five batsm en in succession with catches in slips. Perthshire are deservedly at the top, and m oreover they are probably the best side in the country. T h e W estern U n ion C h am p io n sh ip was also settled on Saturday when A y r (182 for 8) overcam e K elb u rn e (16 6 ). T h e latter ow ed their respectable total m ainly to R. K . W aters (9 3 *) who p layed through the innings. A y r had to struggle to secure the runs, but A . F. M. M orton (66) m anaged to make the w inning hit a few m inutes before tim e. T h u s, for the secon d year in su ccession A y r have em erged cham pions, a position they always app eared likely to fill. Y e t another ch am p ion sh ip was d ecid ed last week> Selkirk m aking secure o f the B order Leagu e. T h e y rattled up 305 for 7 w ickets— W. G rieve 7 1 , G . Linton 97, and VV'. G . G rieve 50, bein g c h ie f sco rers— and had eigh t of G ala out for 132. S elkirk have been scorin g very heavy of late, and this was th eir record score for the G ala ground. R . W . Seivw right had a curious experience on Saturday. F o r A rb roath U n ited again st Dundee V icto ria he captured six w ickets for 8, and in clu ded in the runs was a six hit. A n oth er rather unusual bow ling perform an ce falls to the credit o f W . E d die, Peebles C ou n ty, who again st St. Boswells, accom plish ed the ‘‘ hat trick ” tw ice in the cou rse o f the innings, his six w ickets co stin g 34. R . G . T a it, Forfarshire, and W. F . T u rn b u ll, S tew art’s C o lle g e (F. I3.), have com p leted their 1,000 runs for the season, and M orfee has taken over 100 w ickets.