Cricket 1913

September 6 , 1913. CR I CKET : A WE EK L Y RECORD OF THE GAME 589 inn ings at Eastbourne a few weeks a g o . A nd it can hardly be said that the situation demanded it, for his side had a g o o d lead on the first innings, though the early dism issal o f Randall Johnson no doubt had its effect on the side’s other mainstay. Som erset have no luck ! Braund is g o in g , and Ta lbot Lew is has g on e , and Maxwell, I hear, is not com in g back . H e has been re-engaged for three years b y the Swansea club . M organ , wh o played a few times for Somerset before g o in g to Staffordshire, w ill be in Lancashire next season . If he has a birth qualification for Somerset, he m igh t be worth trying again in matches b e g in n in g on M ondays, provided his new club does not ob ject, o f course. H e is a destructive bow ler, and can hit hard too. There are fears that com pu lsory military train­ ing in Australia will have a bad effect on cricket. S o 1 gather from a c o p y o f the “ S ydn ey Daily T e le g ra p h ,” sent me b y Mr. W . Bardsley (father o f the renowned W a rren ), who has slipped between the pages a sp rin g o f wattle b lossom , the Australian floral emblem , which A frikanders call m im osa. T o me, half Australian b y birth, though I have never seen as yet the land from which my mother came, there is a real charm in this little g ift. T h e wattle means much to a g o o d Australian. D o you re­ member K ip lin g ’s “ L ich tenberg (N .S .W . C on ­ tingent) ” ? “ It was all Australia to me— A ll I had found o r missed : E very face I was crazy to see, A n d every woman I ’d kissed. A ll that I sh ou ldn ’ t ha ’ done, G od knows ! (A s H e knows I ’ ll do it again), That smell o f the wattle round L ich tenberg, R id in g in, in the rain ! ” But I am getting away from the subject o f com ­ pu lsory military training v. cricket. Drill is re­ quired every second Saturday in S ydn ey . Grade matches last two Saturdays. T h e military districts and the cricket districts do not coin cide. Hence there is likely to be considerable difficulty with the grade clubs, who may have half their elevens away one Saturday and the other half the next. W e ll, training to defend on e ’ s country is a higher th ing than cricket, and it remains for the cricket authorities to manage so that the innovation should not hit them harder than need be. T h e suggestion is to re-grade S ydn ey in accordance with the m ili­ tary districts, and it seems feasible en ough . Som e say there are too many first-grade clubs, and a suggestion to lessen their number is b e in g con ­ sidered at the same time. T a lk in g o f innovations, G loucestersh ire’s p ro ­ posed match at M oreton -in-the-M arsh next year is scarcely on e. T h e coun ty played there tw o or three matches in the eighties, and I can recall p o o r A rthur S h rew sbu ry ’s runn ing up over 200 on that truly rural g round in 1886. A s finally made up (G . V . Cam pbell having had to withdraw , ow in g to a strained leg ) the In cogn iti team fo r the other side o f the A tlan tic, which sailed on A u gu st 27, consists o f G . R . R . C olm an , B . P . D ob son , C . H . E iloart, M . F a lcon , L ieu t.-C ol. C . E . Greenway, C . E . Hatfeild, B . G . von B . Melle, E . J. Metcalfe, H o n . H . G . H . M u lholland , Capt. W . G . M . Sarel, C . L . S t. J. T u d o r, and D . M . P . W h itc om b e . Falcon , Ila tfe ild , Melle, and Mu lholland are the principal bow lers, W h it ­ com be and T u d o r the stumpers, and all the team can bat. M r. P h ilip C ollins, o f h ockey fame, goe s as manager. T h e In cogn iti programm e is :— Sept. 5, 6 — at M anheim , v. G erm antow n. Sept. 8, 9— at H averford, v. M erion. Sept. 10, 1 1 — at Staten Island , v. N ew Y ork. Sep t. 12, 13, 15— at Manheim , v . Gentlemen o f Philadelph ia. Sep t. 17, 18— at T o ron to , v. T o ron to . Sep t. 20, 22, 23— at S t. M artin ’s, v . Gentlemen o f Philadelph ia. Ph iladelph ian cricketers are ask in g whether Bar­ ton K in g w ill turn out. T h e y fear not, but hope for the best. If he does not, P . H . Clark and H . G . Pearce w ill have to d o most o f the b ow lin g . D u rin g the match between Germantown and the Australians, P . H . Clark hit a ball which was carry­ in g well over the boundary when Bardsley, in the lo n g field, grabbed at and touched it. It went over, but the umpire wou ld on ly allow four, on account o f its hav in g been touched. M r. C lark asks me what I think. S ix , w ithout d o u b t ! If it had touched a post, fo u r ; but W a rren Bardsley is no part o f the Manheim g rou n d ’ s boundaries, surely ? M r. G . F . H ow ell, H o n . S ec., o f the W e s t K en t W anderers C .C ., writes me that the recent charity match at Blackheath resulted in a clear profit o f X'45 for the benefit o f the Blackheath and Charlton C o t­ tage H osp ita l. Expenses were on ly ,£3 6 s .; sale o f tickets realised over ^ 1 5 ; gate m on ey just on £ 4 io s ., and there were various other items, includ­ in g £ 1 16s. 1id . for sale o f match cards b y M iss S o p h y Sm ith . G o o d ! I hope that the egregiou s M r. Benjam in (if the adjective strikes anyone as rude, let him look up its true m ean ing in the dictionary— it is almost always