Cricket 1913

608 CR I C K E T : A W E E K L Y RECORD OF THE GAME. September 13, 19i3. registered totals o f 334 fo r 8, 317 fo r 8, 472 fo r 7, 343, 287, 309, and 402 in som e o f their matches in Canada. A re all these to be doub led to get at their correct value in terms o f Eng lish cricket ? A n d if not, wh y does on e rule ap p ly to Canada batsmen and another to batsmen from overseas ? But to both o f m y correspondents, and to every man w h o p lays the great gam e or helps on the great gam e in Canada— Salve ! If an y th in g I write offends, I am s o r r y ; believe me when I say that the best interests o f the gam e wherever played are very near m y heart. Need more be said ? O n another page m y con tribu tor, T h e Chiel, su gg ests that clu b matches m igh t be started at two o ’ clo ck even th ough substitutes had to be provided in the field fo r several players. I cannot quite see eye to eye with him there. A substitute is som e­ times an absolute necessity ; but I d o n ’t like the idea o f starting a match with two, three, or more o f them in evidence. It w ou ld make rather a m ongrel gam e o f it. Th ere seems no chance now that the projected M .C .C . tour in India will com e off this winter. But we shall have the Sou th A frican cam pa ign to help us th rough the lo n g dark months, and an Austra­ lian side w ill visit C eylon , and a New Zealand side w ill tour in A u stra lia ; so there w ill be som ething to be g o in g on with till M ay com es round again . T h e district scheme wh ich has answered so well in the Australian cities— and especially in S ydney — has not p roved a success in W e llin g to n (N .Z .) ; and the W e llin g to n cricketers are reverting to the old club system . T h e coun ty season closed not on ly in a deluge o f rain, but in a spasm (so to say) o f magnificent w icket-keep ing. In defeating M idd lesex at L o r d ’ s b y 5 runs, K en t owed much to H u ish , w h o stumped R obertson and W a rn e r, and made 6 c a tch e s ! M eanwhile Buswell, for Northants in W a rw ick ­ sh ire’ s first inn ings at N ortham pton , was stum ping three men off S ydn ey Sm ith ’s b ow lin g and catch­ in g tw o ; whilst fo r Surrey v . Leicestershire at the O va l, S trudw ick stumped one and caugh t three. I Io w ’s that ? Buswell, b y the way, o f the wicket-keepers with names b e g in n in g with B— B lackham , Board, Butt, Bush, B rooke, B lom ley— who have in the fulness o f time supplemented the lon g er list o f P ’s— P o o le y , P inder, P lum b , Ph illip s, Pentecost, PhilipsoM , Payne, P illin g ! A correspondent writes : “ Pelham W a rn e r, still faithful to his faded H arlequ in ’s cap, has created som e amusement while field ing this summer du ring the most sweltering hours o f the afternoon , by handing the umpire his cap , and receiving in ex­ change an almost equally faded Zulu hat. A fter a coup le o f hours or so, when the greatest heat of the day has passed, he solem n ly received back his cap and the umpire pocketed the harmless, neces­ sary Zu lu . Not a bad ‘ wheeze ’ o f W a rn e r ’s this, in such a summer as we have exp erien ced .” John Craw ford made 111 for the Australian Team at C h ica g o on A ugu st 28. Astill, o f Leicestershire, goe s as coach to the Christian Brothers’ C ollege at K im berley in place o f W illiam Quaife, who is not able to spare time this off-season. A tfield, the old W ilts and G lou ces­ tershire man, returns to coach the Johannesburg sch ools, thanks to the liberality o f S ir A b e Bailey. It was a pity A . C . MacLaren cou ld not play for Mr. L ionel R o b in s o n ’ s X L v. M r. J. R . M a son ’s K en t X I . In the two matches immediately preced­ ing it he had scored centuries— 108 v . O x fo rd U n i­ versity Authentics and 141 v. O x fo rd Harlequins. A sprained wrist kept him out o f the K en t gam e. It is quite on the cards that he w ill play fo r N orfolk next year. A rem iniscence o f L ieu t.-C ol. C . E . G reenwav, captain o f the In cogn iti Team in Am erica. Another b ig hit— and worth record ing— was that which took place at W e llin g ton (Somerset), the trundler be in g Samuel W o o d s , and the smiter Captain Greenway, another o f the leather-movers b e lon g in g to the In cogn iti, fo r whom he was play­ ing. T h e captain g o t so well h old o f, and under the ball, that he spanked it straight up— am ongst the birds— and had made tw o runs,, and off for a third, when Samm y, after tu rn ing round several times to watch the flight o f the ball, b a g g ed it most cleverly, and thus brough t off a caught and bow led that has never been excelled, nor never w ill be as lon g as the game lasts.” — R . T . in C r i c k e t , 1894. Th e H on . L ionel T enn y son , who has so sensa­ tionally com e to the fore with the bat fo r H am p ­ shire, w ill be remembered b y many Adelaideans as a small b o y , who, when his father was G overn or o f Sou th Australia, used to scamper in the m orn ­ ings around the grounds o f G overnment H ouse, and for that matter outside, on a p on y . H is introduc­ tion to cricket is remarkable, because on e cannot find any record o f his hav in g taken part in first- class cricket. H e must be a very fine batsman to have been able to com e out o f his shell and straight­ way score three centuries, follow ed b y a 96 against such a strong side as Y orksh ire. It w ill be inter­ esting to follow his future career.— F rom the Sport­ ing Mail (Adelaide).