Cricket 1913

M arch 15, 1913. CRICKET : A WEEKLY fully well the burden of years far beyond the Psalm ist’s allotted span, he can still look ou t from Coxheath on the hill over the beautiful Loose valley to north or towards the Weald to southward, and think of the days when he held his own with two generations of Kentish cricketers, wronging no man, liked b y all. He does think of them too, in proof of which here is a confession of his last year to an interviewer : “ Only the other night I was lying awake and trying to think on what village ground in Ken t I had not played cricket, and I could bring none to mind.” So, at 84, the glamour of the game is still strong upon one of its oldest votaries, and his memory harks back to the days th at are no more, to the scent of mown turf and the ring of eager faces— to Kent cricket, than which, surely, no cricket anywhere was or is of greater charm ! Cr icke t ; A W E E K L Y RECORD OF TH E GAM E . 125, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. SA TU R D A Y , MARCH 15 , 1913 . 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T h ir t y years ago Ludford Docker, then quite a young man (he was born in November, r86o), was Derbyshire’s best batsman. He played particularly good cricket for a side then, as now, by no means favoured with Fortune’s smiles, in 1881. Later he appeared for Warwickshire, playing regularly for a few seasons, but giving up county cricket comparatively early. He was a member of Shaw and Shrewsbury’s England team to Australia in 1887-8, but scarcely came up to his home form on the wickets down under. A batsman of the dashing type, he was always a favourite with the crowd. T h e Lincolnshire C.C, has quite hopeful prospects for 1913, I am told. There are ten fixtures arranged as against eight in 1912, and a good deal of interest should be aroused b y the appearance of Kent second X I. at Woodhall Spa, where Captain Weigall will entertain RECORD OF THE GAME. 71 both the visitors and the home team. W . E. Thompson, the popular skipper of the last few years, will again lead the side ; and it is believed that D ay, though now engaged by a North Staffordshire League Club, will be available for the 'county’s matches. G r a n th am has taken up heartily the scheme for the cricket coaching of elementary schoolboys referred to in the January issue of this paper, and in Lincoln arrange­ ments are being pushed forward in good time. P. H. T a r il t o n , whose portrait appeared on the first page of the February issue, has just achieved a new record. He is the only batsman in the West Indies who has ever made a four-figure total in a single season. Elsewhere in this number will be found chronicled three centuries from h is'bat, one of them against the M.C.C. ! Team, and two in one match. W. O. Gibbs (Barbados) | and A. H. Brebner (British Guiana) are the only other West Indian batsmen who have made two centuries in a match. Tarilton’s 210 not out for Pickw ick v. Spartan (in the same match in which Gibbs made his two cen­ turies for the Spartan C.C.) is the record West Indian score, and his 157 is the highest made in the West Indies against an English side. H is scores during the season of 1912-3 were 124, j 86, 22, 58, 82, 94, 55, 94, n o ,- 129, 36, 157, 14 and 2 3 - total, 1,084 ’n r 4 innings, once not out, average 83-38. A t a dinner given to the English Team at Bridgetown Ion February 8, Mr. A. F. Somerset expressed his opinion that with a few months’ coaching the Barbados eleven would be fit to play the best county side in England. The Barbadians are the strongest aggregation of talent in the West Indies, though Trinidad has also several j men of note ; and in such a.s P. H. Tarilton, P. A. Good- J man, H. B. G. Austin, R. Challenor, G. Challenor, W . O'. Gibbs, H. W. Ince, and others, the side which twice beat | the M.C.C. Team has an array of sterling players good ! enough for any class of cricket. | T h e Hon. G. A. Goodman, K .C ., late A ttorney- j General of Barbados, left Bridgetown on February 5, j b y the R.M.S. Thames„ w ith Mrs. Goodman and their [ son, for the Straits Settlements, where Mr. Goodman ; will take up an appointment as Attorney-General. |G. A. Goodman is an elder brother of P. A ., the crack all- rounder ; and C. E. and W. E. Goodman, both num­ bered now with the great majority, belonged to the same illustrious brotherhood. The eldest brother did not : play as. much cricket as the other three ; but he repre- | sented Barbados once or twice some tw enty odd years ago, and he has always been a keen supporter of the ; game. A t the Bridgetown Club on February 3 there was a farewell gathering in honour of Mr. Goodman ; 1a purse of money was presented to him in order th at he |might buy some memento of “ his life’s work and his Ilife’s friends in Barbados ” ; and Sir Herbert Greaves, an old schoolfellow of his at the Lodge School, made an j eloquent and telling speech, to which the ex-Attorney- | General of. Barbados replied with much feeling. ----- M a n y Cantabs, will remember C. Keith Bancroft, i who was at Cambridge some six years or so ago.. Thongh I never tried in the University eleven, he was a w icket