Cricket 1914

200 THE WORLD OF CRICKET. M a y 30, 19 14 . display. Hendren hit up 63 in 35 minutes, he and M clver adding 76 together. A t 538 for 6 the innings was declared, and the composite eleven had rather over an hour and a half to bat after their tiring time in the field. It was scarcely surprising that their resistance did not prove of the sternest type. A t first an absolute slump appeared probable, for Pegler, swinging, had four wickets, all of batsmen who as a rule score heavily, with only 11 runs on the board. Meakin, the Staffordshire skipper, and W hittington, who captained the Minor Counties X I, stopped the rot, adding 37, and after Meakin left W hittington and Franklin (a wonderfully improved bat since his Repton days) offered further resistance. The Buckingham shire wicket-keeper made his 48* in 80 m inutes. Morris scored 20 by hit-or-miss methods. The side were left 111 the hopeless position of being 392 in arrear. T h ey began well on Friday. Titchmarsh and Riches, men good enough for any county side, put up 107 before a wicket fell, the little Hertfordshire man m aking 61 of these in 80 minutes. Meakin and Riches added 46 for the third wicket. The Glamorgan skipper left soon after lunch, having batted a trifle under three hours for his solid 74. O f the rest only Morcom, who hit hard, did very much. M.C.C. won by an innings and 108 runs. M.C.C. Tarrant, c Franklin, b Fal- 1 N. Haig, b Morcom coner . 77 i M. H. C. Doll, not out Hearne (J. W.), b Morcom .. 228 B 24 lb 12 C. D. M clver, b Creber .. 58 I Hendren (E.), c Stevens, b Morcom .. .. 63 Capt. W . G. M. Sarel, c Stevens, b Creber .. 13 Total (for 6 w., dec.) 3 1 32 36 538 A . V. Drummond, S. J. Pegler, Morton, and King (J. H.) did not bat. M in o r C o u n t ie s ’ B o w l e r s ’ A n a l y s is . Morcom, 23-1-0-130 -3; Morris, 20-0-120-0; Creber, 18 -1-10 7 -2 ; Falconer, 22 -0 -117-1 ; Riches, 3 -0 -11-0 ;jMeakin, 4-0-17-0. M in o r C o u n t ie s ’ X I. First Innings. Second Innings. C .'H . Titchm arsh, c H aig, b Pegler 1 run out 61 N. V. H. Riches, b Pegler 2 b Tarrant 74 G. A. Stevens, b Pegler 0 lbw, b Morton 16 B. Meakin, b Pegler 27 lbw, b Pegler 16 F. W . H. Nicholas, b Pegler 2 lbw, b Tarrant 9 T. A. L. W hittington, c King, b Hearne 36 lbw, b Tarrant 0 W . B. Franklin, not out 48 b Tarrant 12 Dr. A. F. Morcom, b Hearne 0 b Hearne • 36 Falconer, b King 0 b Morton 5 Morris, b Pegler 20 not out • 17 Creber, lbw, b Tarrant 1 lbw, b Hearne • 13 B 8, lb 1 9 25 Total 146 Total . 284 victory for them seemed no certainty, for after H ayw ard and Hobbs had put on 25 for the first wicket 4 were down for 32. Wilkinson showed his m ettle at this stage, however, and pulled his side through by 4 wickets. White again bowled well, and had 11 for 72 in the match. S om First Innings. A. D. E. Rippon, b Abel .. A. S. E. Rippon, c Strudwick, b Ab Robson, c Rushby, b H itch Braund, b Hitch E. S. M. Poyntz, c and b Hitch R. E. Hancock, c Strudwick, Rushby Hym an, lbw, b Abel J. C. W . M acBryan, b R ushby P. P. Hope, b Rushby J. C. White, c Hayes, b Hitch Chidgey, not out B 3, lb 5 Total S u r r e y B o w l e r s ’ A n a l y s is . F ir s t I n n i n g s : — Hobbs, 3 -0 -3 -0 ; H itch, 13*2-5-17-4 ; Abel,. 7-2-22-3 ; Rushby, 9-4-27-3. S e c o n d I n n i n g s : — H itch, 11-1-2 -3 3 -6 ; Rushby, 16-6-24-3; Abel, 7-0 -23-1 ; Bird, 2-0-16-0. Rushby, one wide. S u r r e y . • First Innings. H ayward, b Robson.. .. 1 Hobbs, lbw, b Robson Hayes, c and b W hite Harrison, lbw, b W hite Ducat, b Robson M. C. Bird, c Chidgey, b W hite .. 2 C. T. A. W ilkinson, c Poyntz, b W hite ............................................ Abel (W. J.), c A. D. E. Rippon, b W hite .. .. .. 3 Hitch, c A. D. E. Rippon, b White Rushby, not out Strudwick, lbw, b Robson Byes R SET . 14 Second Innings, b Abel 33 i 2 b Rushby 0 O c Bird, b H itch 3 IO b Hitch 8 I c Hobbs, b H itch 5 9 b Rushby 1 0 c Hayes, b R ushby . 1 0 8 b H itch . . . 22 19 b H itch 26 1 not out 0 5 c Harrison, b H itch . 0 8 Lb 1, w 1 2 77 Total 108 Second Innings, st Chidgey, b W h ite.. 9- c Hope, b W hite . . 17 c Hym an, b W hite .. 3 c W hite, b Robson .. o- lbw, b W hite .. 2 not out . . .. 12 not out ................. 25. b W hite .. . . 13. Total 104 B 2, lb 1 . . . . 3 T otal (for 6 wkts.) 84 M.C.C. B o w l e r s ’ A n a l y s is . F ir s t I n n in g s :— Tarrant, 10-2-22-1 ; Pegler, 18-2-69-6; Morton, 6 -1-17 -0 ; Hearne, 5-0 -16 -2 ; King, 5-0 -16 -1 ; Haig, 3-1-6-0. S e c o n d I n n in g s :— Pegler, 17-1-5 0 -1 ; Tarrant, 2 3 -4 -72-4 ; Morton, 15 -4 -4 7 -2 ; Hearne, 15-5-2-46-2 ; King, 7-0 -24-0 ; Haig, 4 -0 -10 -0 ; Sarel, 1-0 -10-0 . Morton and King, one nb. each. Umpires :— A ttew ell (T.) and B utt. SO M E R S E T v. S U R R E Y . A t Bath, M ay 21 and 22. It cannot often have happened that a first-class county has been represented by a weaker eleven than that which Somerset put in the field at Bath. A t this period of the season P. R. Johnson is never available ; B. L. Bisgood is now but an occasional player, and J. D aniell has (it is said) finished with county cricket. B ut of the men who appear regularly nowadays Bridges was kept aw ay b y th ejd eath of his wife, a defection which still further weakened bowling already scarcely A i at L loyd ’s. An interesting first appear­ ance was that of Sidney Rippon, tw in brother of D udley Rippon, who has already made his m ark definitely. The brothers went in first together ; but neither th ey nor anyone else made a stand, and before H itch, W illiam Abel, and Rushby the whole side tumbled out for the p altry total of 77. A bel and M. C. Bird, by the w ay, replaced G oatly and Fender in the visiting side. The collapse of Somerset was surpris­ ing enough ; but when Surrey slumped in scarcely less m arked fashion some other explanation than bad batting or good bowling was sought, and it was suggested that the wicket must have been watered on W ednesday with more zeal than discretion, which appears likely. H alf the visitors’ w ickets were down for 30, and it was m ainly due to Morice Bird and Abel, whose partnership of 20 m inutes produced 40 runs, that Surrey had a lead of 27 at the end of an innings each. Abel hit W hite, who bowled unchanged with D udley Rippon, for three successive sixes. W'hen Somerset batted again they showed for some tim e very little im provem ent on their first display, for, though Rippon stayed nearly 90 m inutes, none of the other early batsm en did anything. Hope, the old Shirburnian and B ath R .F.C . captain, who had hit pluckily for top score in the first venture, and M acBryan gave their side a lift b y adding 31, however, and at drawing of stumps Somerset were 77 on with 2 to go, having just equalled Surrey’s total. H itch had M acBryan’s wicket with the last ball in the evening, took Hope’s with his second ball in the morning, and got Chidgey caught with his third. Surrey had only to get 83 to win ; but there were times when S o m e r s e t B o w l e r s ’ A n a l y s is . F ir s t I n n in g s : — W hite, 17-6-49—6 ; Robson, 16-4-4-49-4. S e c o n d I n n in g s :— W hite, 17-6-23-5 ; Robson, 17-1-5 8 —1. Umpires :— Richardson and Roberts. C lub N o te s : M ay 16. (1 Crowded out last week.) F o r South Hampstead v. Pallingswick L. P. Gilliard had 6 for 17. F e r e d a y (41*) played right through Handsworth W ood’s innings of 91. F o r M arlow v. Frieth R. O. Buckm aster took 7 for 13, and did the hat trick. P a r s o n s ’ G r e e n (226 for 9) easily defeated Roehampton (103), thanks m ainly to the brothers Higgs, A. C . bowling splendidly and J. S. making 83. The next highest score in the m atch was only 28. O l d O l a v ia n s (81) beat Mill H ill Park (36) in a m atch of small scores, not easily to be accounted for, since the wicket was first-class. For the winners W. J . W illiams took 5 for 14, W . B . Owen 5 for 18. On Wednesday, May 13th, W . H. Denton scored 71, and the third Denton brother, A.D ., 48 for Wellingborough Masters v. Jesus College. J. S. Denton is getting well over his severe bout of scarlet fever, one hears. C . M il l s , who played for Surrey ever so m any years ago and later represented South •A frica both in the sub-continent and during the 1894 tour here, took 5 for 51 for Heathfield v. Mitcham on Saturday. Evidently the old hand has not lost all its cunning. D e r r ic k W a n d e r e r s (114) beat Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank (83). W . G. Hankin played a very careful and steady innings of 39 on a wicket inclined to kick for the winners, and first in was ninth out. R. T. Childs (7 for 34) for the W anderers and A. B. Palm er (5 for 27> for the Bank bowled well.