Cricket 1913

September 20, 1913. CR I CKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME BELGIUM. The Anglo-Beige C.C. had a week’s cricket from August18 to August 25 on their beautiful ground at Vivier d'Oie, Brussels. Perfect weather prevailed throughout. In thefirst match the club met the Hailsham C.C., on tour in Belgium, and beat them by 23 runs on the first innings—140 and 3 for 6 5to 117. G. Alpen scored 62* for the winners, and L. Atkins (30) was top scorer for Hailsham. J. P. Press (8 for 69) bowled particuarly well for Hailsham, and J. Cocke, G. Alpen, and F. A. Konig each took 3 wickets for the home side. The second match was also with Hailsham, who declared at 167 for 6 (J. Burgess 48), and got down 7 Anglo-Beige wickets for 145 before call of time. G. Alpen made 61*, J.Cocke 26 for Anglo-Beige. R. W. Seeldrayers (4 for 36) was their bestbowler. The third match was between sides captained by Comte J. d’Oultre- mont and by C. J. Posthuma, the famous Dutch bowler. Mr. Posthuma’s side wen by 6 wickets. Their captain (6 fir 46 .in the i$t innings) and A. W.rtnald (6 for 61 in the second) bowled well for them, and Post­ huma (64 and 40*) was top scorer in each innings, too. For the losers O. Lombaert made 29 in the first innings, and in the second G. Alpen srored 51, W. Burgess.(of the Hailsham Club) 41, and A. Daumerie 25. F. A. Konig took 7 for 61 in the first innings of Posthuma’s team. Then another match was played with Hailsham. The home side ran up 212 for 3—Alpen 83*, Seeldrayers 42, Lombaert 39*. Hailsham lost 7 wickets for 89. The last game was between two sides of the club. The A side ran up 285—Daumerie 58, Lombaert 51, F. Wright 33, Seeldrayers 31, P. Chibert 25. The B side made 179—Alpen 86, A. G. Slater 35. For the B team W. J. Fowler took; 5 for 40. Konig had 4 for 54 for the A side. He bowled well all through the week. Alpen’s batting was even more noteworthy. His scores were 62*, 6r*, 8, 51, 83*, and 86— or 351 in 3 completed innings. This player was not out in five innings .against the Hailsham C.C. this year—two when the Anglo-Beige C.C. visited Sussex, and three in Brussels. Quite a feature of the week was P. Chibert's smart fielding. It is good to see that the game is flourishing in Belgium. F loreatl CRICKET IN JAVA. The enquiry in a recent issue as to whether the game is piayed in Java has brought from Mr. Cecil Spiegelhalter, of Newton-le-Willows, testimony that it was playedthere nearly 50 years ago, if it is not nowadays. Thistestimony takes the shape of an extract from the F ield of May 11, 1867, which is so interesting that it is here repro­ duced in full. It will be seen that the Batavian C.C.won the game. 73rd (PERTHSHIRE) REGIMENT v. BATAVIAN C.C. After passing seventy-eight days at sea on board s.s. *' Golden Fleece," with nothing to do but diminish our worthy purser's stock in hand, of which spring chickens formed no inconsiderable item, we put in at Ourust, an island twelve miles from Batavia, for mangoestines, pineapples, and coal. Little expecting a challenge at a colony com­ posed of heavy phlegmatic ■Dutchmen, and opium-eating Malays, we were much astonished on our arrival at the appearance of the captain and secretary of the Batavian English C.C. (Messrs. M'Kenzie and Forrest), who anticipating our delight at being able once more to meet our countrymen on the tented field had hospitably made all arrangements for transporting our eleven and regimental band to Batavia. The excitement was great, and amidst cries of “ Oh ! where are my flannels? " and “ I am sure I can't bowl without spikes,” the invitation was accepted; and on the 12th of February the game was commenced at three o’clock, with the thermometer at only 120 deg. We won the toss and elected to go in first, but from visions of sun­ stroke, heat, apoplexy and all the ills that flesh is heir to in an Eastern clime (to say nothing of the bowling of Mr. Hutchinson) our innings closed rather prematurely for a score of 85. The Batavians then went in, and it was noticed by all observers that the 73rd had not recovered their shore legs, and that their movements were general-ly done at the regulation double. The game lasted two days, but owing to the scarcity of light and the want of gas in the tropics, only the first innings were played out. During the first day’s play our band roused the torpid Dutchmen and astounded the swarthy crowds of Malays and Japanese who surrounded us. Nothing could exceed the hospitality of Mr. M’Kenzie and his eleven. They vied with each other in showing us every attention, making our visit most agreeable, and it is with feelings of the greatest pleasure that we all look back to our short stay in Batavia. 73 r d R e g im e n t. J. Turner, b Hutchinson ... 12 W. H. Preston, b Pryce........... 4 Capt. Gibsone, b Hutchinson ... 25 J. W. Boddam, b Hutchinson ... 6 H. Gunter, b Pryce .......... 0 Capt. Holroyd, c Adam, bPryce 4 W. S. Price, c Meikelham, bPryce 3 J. B. Doncaster, run out ... 0 Capt. Paine, not out ........... 5 W. Gordon, b Adam ............. 3 A. H. Sharp, b Pryce .............. 0 B 14 , lb 1 , w 8 ............. 23 Total........................ 85 B a t a v ia n C.C. M’Nair, b P rice........................ 3 Owen, c Gibsone, b Price ... 22 Wilson, runout ............. ... 1 M’Kenzie, b Price ............. 8 Adam, b Turner........................ 3 Hutchinson, not out ............. 34 Pryce, b Price ........................ 0 Mullins, b Turner ............. 6 Forrest, c and b Price............. 0 Gray, run out ............. ... 0 Meikleham, b Turner ... ... 12 B 2, 1 -b 2 , w 13 - ... 17 Total........................ 1 C 6 R I C H A R D D A F T ’S N O T T IN G H A M S H IR E M A R L .— P articu lars, apply, Radcliffe-on-Trent. N otts. THE SCORE BOOK. Kent and Yorkshire v. Rest of England. At Kennington Oval, September 15 , 16 , and 17 . Six Kent players and five Yorkshiremen made up the combined team ; the Rest was a very powerful side, the inclusion of Sydney Smith strengthening it materi­ ally. There were stoppages from tain during the first day, and on a pitch that wras never easy the combined counties only made 130 for 9 in about three hours, Booth being top scorer. On Tuesday the innings closed for 154 . Three of the Rest batsmen furnished an interesting struggle for first place in the averages, and in the case of two of them— Hobbs and Mead— for the highest aggregate. Mead secured both distinctions in the event, heading Hobbs by 22 in total, and by some­ thing under half a run in average. If all three had failed E. L. Kidd might have stepped into first place. Hobbs and Gunn put up 53 for the first wicket. Just before lunch Sir Archibald W hite made a sensational catch dismissing Hearne. He jumped while running and clutched the ball with his left hand. Warner batted 55 minutes for his excellent 28 . Mead and S. G. Smith added 56 for the sixth wicket, the Hants pro. batting 110 minu'es for 43 , top score of the match. Rain cut play short with 197 for 7 on the board. The tail— if the rest could be said to have a tail— hit out next day, and the total was raised to 266 . Then, on an uncom­ fortable kind of pitch, the men of the two counties were helpless before Barnes. Booth again made top score, he and Huish adding 31 in 25 minutes together. All were out for 67 and the Rest won by an innings and 45 runs. In all but one respect it was a disappointing match. But the attendances helped to redeem the disappointment. In showery weather over 12,000 paid gate. K ing Cricket is not dead yet. V iv e le r o i! K e n t a n d First Inning?. Humphreys, c Jessop, b Smith Rhodes, lbw, b Barnes........................ Seymour (Jas.), c Strudwick, b Smith Drake, C Jessop, b Barnes ............. Hirst, lbw, b Barnes ............. Hubble, c Relf, b Smith ............. Booth, not out ... ............. Huish, bRelf ... ............. Sir A. W. White, b Hearne Blythe, c and b Hearne....................... Fielder, c Hearne, b Barnes ............. B 4 , 1 -b 6 ........................ Y o r k s h ir e . Second Inning-*. 16 lbw, b Barnes....................... 7 17 c Hitch, b Barnes ............ 9 4 run ont.................................. 0 23 b Barnes ....................... 4 C c Hitch, b Smith ............ 9 4 c Gunn, b Barnes ............. 2 38 c Strudwick, b Barnes ... 20 16 not out............ ............. 10 14 c Hearne, b Barnes ... ... 0 2 run out ... ........................ 0 10 st Strudwick, b Barnes ... 5 10 L-b 1 ... ..................... 1 Total ............. 154 Total 67 R e s t o f E n g l a n d . Hobbs, c White, b Booth 23 Relf (A . E .), c Hubble, Gunn (G.), b Booth 25 b Humphreys 17 Hearne (J.W.), c White, b Booth 14 Hitch, c Booth, b Blythe 18 P. F. Warner, b Drake ... 28 Barnes, not out ... 17 Mead (C.P.), b Hirst 43 Strudwick, cBiythe.b Hnmphreys 18 G. L. Jessop, c Booth, b Fielder 9 B 9 , 1 -b 10 , n-b 3 22 S. ;G. Bmith, c Booth, ----- b Humphreys 32 Total ... 266 R tS T OF E n g l a n d B o w l in g A n a l y s is . 0. M. R. W. O. M. R . w. Barnes.................................. 32 12 59 4 ... 1.62 10 20 7 Smith.......... . ............. 29 4 53 3 ... 13 5 32 1 Relf...................................... 7 3 12 1 ... — — —• — Hearne ........................ 6 1 17 2 ... 3 0 14 0 Hitch.................................. 2 1 3 0 ... — — . — K e n t a n d Y o r k s h ir e B o w l in g A n a l y s is . O. M. R. W. O. M. R . w. Blythe............. 20 6 65 1 Fielder............. 9 2 21 2 Drake............. 14 2 33 1 Rhodes............. 7 0 26 0 H irst............. 10 2 32 1 Humphreys ... 10.4 1 41 3 Booth............. 13 2 26 3 Drake, Fielder and Humphreys each bowled one no-ball. Umpires—Brown and West (W.A.J.)