Cricket 1913

December 1 7 , 19 13 . CR I CKET : A WEEK L Y RECORD OF THE GAMfi. 650 m iles and I have made that journey several times when E n g lish team s have been in the States. I remember T eddy W illsher’s team , of which G eorge Freeman was a member. What a splendid bow ler he w a s ! T here was little John Sm ith of C am bridgesh ire, too, so wonderfully ninny in the field. H arry Jupn I saw, and Tom Humphrey, and many another famous man of the older days. I recall G eorge F in d er of D a ft’s team particularly well. He was a saw- grin d er by trade, and I enjoyed a tilt with him, for saws and steel have been my business life .” T h a t Mr. R id gley has carried into business the same enthusiasm and thoroughness that characterised his cricket is evident. We talked of business after this, and he told me much of interest which cannot find a place here. “ L astly, Mr. R id gley, what has become of T om D ale.ex- H ousehold B rigad e trooper, professional cricketer, and origin al ?” “ Poor old T om ! F or many years he was employed in the D etroit Postal service, but about a year ago he was run down by an electric motor-car, and received a serious injury to his leg, which w ill, I fear, leave him perm anently lame. He was confined to his bed for a number of months, but is now able to g e t around with the aid of a cane. T h is, taken togeth er with the fact that he must be 71 or 72, makes it fairly certain that his cricket days are over. Only his pluck and spirit keep him go in g , and I sincerely hope that the indem nity n egotiations now under way wdll prove just and equ able.” I took my leave then. If ever I get anywhere near Detroit I am pledged to look up Mr. R id gley. If— or when— he comes to En glan d again , we shall certainly meet. But should it chance that we never set eyes upon one another a gain , I shall still remember w ith pleasure a long after­ noon’ s talk in the loun ge of the Grand Hotel at Brighton w ith a man whose seventy-odd years had not bowed his shoulders, a man to whom the greatest of gam es has always been his most absorb ing interest apart from business, and— what it is to m any of us— in some sort a life standard, almost a religion. If one can say of a man that he “ alw ays played crick et,” or “ alw ays played the gam e ” ( which I take it is a cogn ate phrase) it is sayin g much; but I am sure it can be said of my friend from D etroit.— J.N .P . SECOND - C LASS C R I C K E T IN 1913. T h e B ow ling A verages. Since the publication of the Second-class battin g averages and the various other figures relatin g to the M inor C oun ties’ cam paign of 19 13 (in C R IC K E T of September 20) several enquiries for the bow lin g averages have reached us. T h ese would have been published earlier had it been pos­ sible. F igu res for the m ajority of the counties were— th rough the courtesy of the secretaries in many instances— ready by the end of September. But a Cheshire score-book had gone astray, and the D evonshire averages could not be procured. No local paper had published them; the Devon­ shire secretary paid no heed to an appeal; and an effort to g e t the m issin g analyses proved fruitless. E ven now the D evonshire bowlers have to be left out of the list which follow s; but the w aitin g has enabled us to giv e the Cheshire figures, which Mr. Pendlebury kindly forw arded as soon as the m issin g book turned up. O nly those bowlers who took 10 or more w ickets are in­ cluded. T o giv e everyone who bowled would take up far more space than can be afforded. A s nearly as can be gath ered from such records as are available the Devonshire bow lers who took 10 w ickets or more (Devon C. and G. v. M .C .C . match included) were: W. Wreford (5 1 ), L ig h t (36), M. R. F ishw ick (12), and W. F. Sturt (12). T h e enquiries for these figures and the letters sig n ify in g appreciation of the statistics already given point to a grow ­ in g public interest in m inor county cricket gen erally. T h is is at it should be, and if C R IC K E T has helped— as we honestly believe it h a s— in fosterin g this interest the trouble taken, though b y no means sm all, has been repaid. But is it too much to ask th at secretaries should help us to make such tables complete? Our ideal is to g iv e m inor cricket matches (with analyses in every case) directly after they are played, as the first-class matches are given; but without such help as su ggested this is not alw ays practicable. R I C H A R D D A F T ’S N O T T I N G H A M S H I R E MA R L .— P articu lars, apply Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. S E C O N D -C L A S S B O W L IN G A V E R A G E S . B ow ler and County. F ifty wickets or m ore :— O. R. w . A. Barnes (S taffordshire) ................................ 196.3 397 65 6.10 H acker (G lam organ ) ................................... .... 318.5 90; 67 *3-52 W h itin g (C orn w all) ....................................... 777 57 *3-63 Creber (G lam organ ) ................................... 273 745 53 14.05 R iley (L in coln sh iie) ................................... 776 55 14.10 M orris (D urham ) ........................................... 464.3 >259 87 14-47 P en fold (Suffolk) ........................................... .... 325-1 890 58 *5-34 M iln e (N orthum berland) .......................... •••• 323 795 50 15.90 Burton (H erts) ................................................ 464.4 >459 79 15-93 M itchell (W ilts) ........................................... .... 350-2 1070 60 17-83 Twenty-five or more, under 50 :— B roughton (L in coln sh ire) ......................... 429 36 11.91 D eyes (S taffordshire) ................................... 152 490 39 12.56 F alconer (N o rfo lk ) ...................................... 465 36 12.91 Sm oker (C heshire) ....................................... .... 197 628 48 13.08 H . B. Cumm ins (D orset) ............................ 124.3 368 28 I3-M M axw ell (G lam organ ) ................................. 585 43 13.60 Freem an (S urrey I I.) ................................ 187.1 479 35 13-68 Freem an (K en t I I .) .................................... .... 195-5 604 44 13-72 Preston (K ent I I .) ........................................ .... 227.4 598 42 14-23 M. F alcon (N orfolk ) ................................... 518 36 14.38 S ilverlock (M onm outh) ................................ 558 38 14.68 M organ (S taffordshire) ................................ .... 199-3 558 37 1508 H aw ksw orth (B erks.) ................................... 761 49 15-53 W . E. H azelton (B ucks)................................ 436 28 15-57 W atson (N o rfo lk ) ........................................... 469 30 15-63 C. M. Skinner (N orthum berland) ....... .... 199 630 39 16.15 D r. W . Y. W oodburn (B erks) ................... 704 43 16.36 H arry (D urham ) ............................................. .... 286.5 795 48 16.58 N ewm an (W iltsh ire) .................................... 464 27 17.18 F. G . P h illip s (M onm outh) ................... 142 484 28 17.28 Abel (W . J .) (S urrey I I.) ....................... 579 33 17-54 B lack lid g e (S urrey I I.) ............................ .... 213.4 670 38 17-63 N orbury (N orthum berland) ................... 159.4 505 28 18.03 E. A. M cIn tyre (D orset) ............................ .... 258 1013 48 21.10 S h elford (H erts) ............................................. 715 33 21.66 D ay (L in coln sh ire) ......................................... 692 3i 22.32 E. H . D. Sew ell (Bucks) ............................ 938 39 24.05 Coulson (Cam bs.) ............................................. 887 33 26.87 Ten or more, under 25 :— H . A. G ilbert (M onm outh) ...................... 66.4 *65 24 6.87 J. A. H arrison (C heshire) ........................ 51 88 12 7-33 B ucknell (S taffordshire) ............................ 89 10 8.90 P arkin (D urham ) ........................................... 186 16 11.62 B arrell (C heshire) ......................................... 189 15 12.60 270 20 13-50 23* 16 14-43 J. S. H eath (S taffordshire) ........................ 306 18 17.00 W . E. K in g (B eds.) ..................................... ... 87 281 16 17-56 339 19 17.84 401 21 19.09 R. D. Busk (D orset) .................................... 3*3 16 19.56 397 20 ■9.85 N. J. C ox (H erts.) ......................................... 402 20 20.10 362 18 20.11 438 21 20.85 S. G. F airbairn (B ucks.) ....................... 478 22 21.72 285 13 21.92 H . G rierson (B eds.) .................................... 461 21 21-95 358 16 22.37 250 11 22.72 H endren (D .) (D urham ) ............................. 432 19 22.73 K . C. R aikes (M onm outh) ......................... 270 12 22.50 R. H . K in g (B eds.) .......................................... 253 11 23.00 273 11 24.81 F. W . W ilson (Cam bs.) ............................... 301 12 25.08 D r. A. F. M orcom (B eds.) ....................... 480 >9 25.26 407 16 25-43 Bayes (Y orkshire I I .) ................................. ... 87 286 11 26.00 W ingham (N orthum berland) ................... 501 *9 26.36 Capt. H . M . L aw rence (S uffolk ) ............ 423 16 26.43 C. T . A. W ilkin son (S urrey I I .) ............ 364 *3 28.00 M . W righ t (B ucks.) ...................................... 34i 12 28.62 E. H aw ken (C orn w all) ................................. 494 17 29.05 166 572 >9 30.10 372 12 31.00 802 23 34.86 F O R S A L E . C ricket.— V ols I to X X X (1882-1911) R egulation binding — good as new. Price: ,£12 12.— A p p ly to J. G. Q. B ., 11, D ean Road, Cricklew ood, N.W . P A P E R C O V E R S— P rice is. net. Post free, is. 2d. C U R IO S IT IE S O F F IR S T C L A S S C R IC K E T — 1730-1901. 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