Cricket 1913

80 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. M arch 15, 1913. th at English readers may find necessary), he and George Heam e (78) adding 127 for the second wicket. The Hands brothers, J. Carstens, A . V . C. Bisset, P . T . Lewis, C. Fock and R. E . Turner are all doing well, too. Turner began badly ; but his last three innings have been 32, 79, and 56, so that he is now playing up to his reputation. Bowley, on the other hand, has not kep t up the remarkable form he showed at first. This is doubtless due to his having gone a bit stale, and also to the effects of an unaccustomed climate. He is an immense success as a coach, I am told, and is idolised by his pupils, which is good news. From the other centres there is little to record. The Griquas will almost certainly send a team here at Easter, a generous supporter of cricket at Kimberley having promised to defray expenses. A s a finale to his century collecting in minor cricket at Bloemfontein, Capt. H. S. Poyntz has scored two separate hundreds in an inter­ company match at Tempe, the final for the Garrison Cup. His scores (for G. Co. v. B. Co.) were 139 and 129. He gave one chance, after scoring a single in his first innings. On the other side one Baile (which sounds like cricket) h it up a century, including nine 6’s and thirteen 4’ s in a little over half an hour ! The aggregate score of the match was 1082. B u t of course it was distinctly minor cricket. Neville Lindsay “ made another century, and took practically all the wickets ” (why won’ t special correspondents bring their great minds down to details ?) for Phillipolis v. Jagersfontein late in January ; and more recently Collegians (Bloem­ fontein) dismissed S .A .R . in a League match for 91, after the first w icket had put up 55 (Keith Hill taking 3 for 11, J. Miller 4 for 28), ran up 282 (J. Parsons 101), and put out the railway team again for 107— good work for a side of youngsters ! Here is the Transvaal and Western Province century list to date since our la s t : Jan. 18— J. H. Rutherford, 112, Pirates v. S.A.R. ,, 18— D. D. Davies, 109, E.R.P.M . v. Randfontein. „ 18— J. Carstens, 114*, Claremont v. Alma. ,, 25— C. Fock, 117, Alma v. Cape Town. ,, 26— A. E. Cooke, 141, Pretoria v. Germiston Callies. Feb. 1— H. J. G. Bennett, 130*, S.A.R. v. Wanderers A. „ 1— M. Commaille, 197*, Cape Town v. Alma. „ 1— W. F. Yeoman, 145, Cape Town v. Alma. „ 9— H. E. Smith, 126*, E.R.P.M . v. Wanderers A. C y p h e r . Cricket in Natal. Durban, February r, 19x3. In the Durban Senior League the matches finished on January 25 saw Greyville further improve their position at the head of affairs by a narrow first innings’ victory over Queen’s Park. Had Herbert Taylor been able to play for his club, however, the verdict might easily have been reversed. The scores were : Greyville, 169 (A. D. Nourse 51) ; Q.P., 144 (H. W. Chapman 58) and n o . Nourse had 6 for 41 and 3 for 40, and I.. R. Tuckett took 4 for 17 in Q.P’s second. Zingari, who put in a three points’ victory over Wanderers II., are only two points behind Greyville, and Escombes only three. Escombes did well, and created something in the nature of a mild surprise, by topping the old Wanderers’ score of 216 (C. D. Saville 81, H. A. Hawkins 50) by 51 (K. O. Siedle contributing 81, L. B. Siedle 40 to their 267). Cox did little for his club this time, and the bowlers generally were pretty freely punished. The brothers Siedle batted in capital style, as did Saville and Hawkins for the losers. Claude Carter, Kenneth Logan, and L. D. Dalton as bowlers, with V. Robbins standing out alone as a batsman, were the principal figures in Zingari’s win over Wanderers II., the latter only making 96 and 50 to their rivals’ 162 for 3, declared. Robbins’s 104* is his first century in senior cricket. Logan took 8 wickets for 44 in the two innings, Carter 6 for 56 in the first, and Dalton 6 for 31 in the second. On January 18 Maritzburg beat Standard by 105 runs in the Maritzburg Senior League. The scores were : Maritzburg, 135 (G. H. Cook 42) and 175 for 8, dec. (C. O. C. Pearse 104*) ; Standard, 116 (H. F. Dowling 46) and 89 (D. K. Pearse 27). E. Arbuthnot took 5 for 24 in Maritz- burg’s first, and in Standard’s second E. Saville had 4 for 11, and did the hat trick. He had been so dead out of luck lately that he had talked of giving up the game, by the way. I gave this incorrectly as a win in the first innings in my last letter. Ormerod Pearse seems quite fit again now, and has been going great guns lately, with 61* (Maritzburg v. Zingari), 117* (in a minor game), and now 104*. Everybody would like to see him doing well for Natal at Easter. Up in the Northern Districts they have a young player of considerable ability in Frank Greaves. His friends would like to see him given a trial in the Natal team, and it looks as though he deserves one. Quite lately he scored 136 and took 4 wickets for 17 for Newcastle v. Utrecht in a N. Dis­ tricts Cup match. When Alec Hearne was here two years ago he considered Dan Taylor, jun., quite the most promising of his pupils, and Dan’s brother Herbert, with characteristic modesty, maintains that Dan is a better cricketer than himself. D. Taylor, jun., is now bursar and actually (if not officially) games master at his old school, Michael House. That gives him a qualification for Northern Districts, and he was down in the list for each side in the Maritzburg v. Northern Districts match, to be played next week. He plays for Maritzburg Zingari, and in their^last match, against Maritz­ burg, scored a really good 85. During January Maritzburg cricketers had the benefit of coaching by Lohmann, a brother of the great George. City players are handicapped in several respects as com­ pared with the players of the port, the chief being the want of a regular coach and the fact that they have only three teams competing in the Senior League, so that one is “ odd man out ” every time. Lohmann’s stay, though brief, should be of use to them. Durban, February 15, 1913. Greyville won outright, by 9 wickets, in their ninth Senior League match this season, the scoring on both sides being small. Wanderers were two short on the first day, and the nine could only total 63. Joe Cox took 7 wickets for 41, and performed the hat trick on Hawkins, Easter- brook and Budgen, though the feat was somewhat dis­ counted if, as was said, the supposed catch made by Nicol came off the top of Easterbrook’s pad, not from his bat. Greyville did little better, the only stands being by H. Morley (20*) and L. Field (19), who added 36 for the sixth wicket, and H. B. Le Clercq (24) and Morley, who put on 30 for the last. In Wanderers’ second only Cecil Smith (38), M. Hawkins, and J. W. Easterbrook did anything, Nourse