Cricket 1914

24 THE WORLD OF CRICKET. J a n u a r y , 1914. E n g lish B o w ler s ’ A n a l y s is . Bames, 16-3-26-3 and 34-8-102-5 ; Hearne, 16-4-49-5 and 14-2-58-1 ; Relf, 14-7-24-1 and 29-12-40-2 ; Douglas, 7-2-16-0 and 13-4-2-34-2 ; Woolley, 5-1-13-0 and 7-0-24-0 ; Rhodes, 3-5-1-y-l and 6-1-17-0 ; Bird (second innings), 2-1-2-0. Bames bowled 1 nb first innings, Douglas and Heame 1 nb each second innings. T H E AU ST R A L IAN TEAM IN AMER ICA . Mr. F. F. K elly, in the American Cricketer , gives the bowling averages o f the team th u s :— Bowler. B. M. R. W. A. C. G. Macartney • • 2,444 153 721 189 3 - 8 i J. N. Crawford • • 2,963 107 1,246 213 5-85 G. S. Down 321 13 122 17 7-17 A. A. Mailey .. 2,951 82 1,330 183 7-26 H. L. Collins •• i ,540 68 613 74 8-28 L. A. C od y.. 766 34 352 4 i 8-58 S. H. Emery .. 2,146 66 1,094 127 8-6i G. C. Campbell 275 7 208 20 10-40 E. R. Mayne 525 11 339 27 12-55 P. S. Arnott 432 12 236 15 15-73 W. Bardsley 443 8 304 19 16-00 A. Diamond 234 9 155 9 17-22 Bowling of second innings v. Yorkton not available : 3 ; Crawford, 2 ; Campbell, 1. : Mailey, 6 wickets ; Bardsley, E X TEN S IO N OF TH E N .S.W . TOU R TO IND IA . According to the Times of India the Rev. E. F. W addy’s side of N.S.W . cricketers were after all to visit Bombay, arriving there on January 25. Two matches were proposed to be played, one v. A ll India, and one v. Lord W illingdon’s Eleven, which it was hoped his lordship himself, who won his blue at Cam­ bridge nearly th irty years ago, would captain. The help of the JamSaheb of Nawanagar was hoped for. A visit by the Australians to Madras after leaving Bombay was considered quite likely. TH E PR O JE C TE D A U ST R A L IA N TEAM FO R NEW ZEALAND . The last mail brings more definite news of this. It appears th at the prime mover in the matter is Arthur Sims, the Canter­ bury cricketer, who has played for Eltham , Sutton, and other English clubs while over here. He was in Melbourne during December to organise the team. Up to December 16 applica­ tions had been made to the Board of Control for permission to join it b y M. A. Noble, W . W . Armstrong, F. Laver, V. T. Trumper, V . S. Ransford, H. Carter, C. McKenzie, C. E. Dolling, E . L. W addy, and H. L. Collins. I t is stated th at if the team goes Sims will captain i t ; but a New Zealander captaining in New Zealand an Australian team including at least six men who have had charge of State teams at home seems rather an anomalous notion. K e n t will give James Seymour a benefit in 1915. T he benefit to Edward Humphreys realised over ^1,300. T h o m p so n will coach the rest of the Northants team in April. B o w e l l has Hampshire v. Sussex at Southampton this year as a benefit. M r . G. J. V. W eig all will again act as instructor to the Tonbridge Nursery. K e n t do not approve of Saturday starts. They have five Weeks to fit in, and starting on Saturdays would muddle these up badly. A T a s m a n ia n tour in England was projected for this year. The notion was th at a side mainly composed of young players should be sent, to play matches against, schools, clubs, and a few of the minor counties. Substantial progress towards an adequate guarantee fund had been made ; but the tour will not take place this season, as it was found too late to arrange matches for the side. “ L a n y a r d L y r ic s ” is th e title o f a bo ok of poems, w ritten b y R . P . K eigw in , o f C lifton, C am bridge, and E ssex fam e, and illu strated b y P . L . B u tt, R .N ., who has k e p t w ick et for th e N a v y , a t Lords, la te ly published. Som e of th e verses h a v e a crick et interest. CORRESPONDENCE . C. D. M. (S.A.).— There is no obligation on a bow'ler to toe the crease ; he can bowl from a couple of yards or more behind it if he chooses. TH E NEW ZEALAND TOUR IN AU STR A L IA . In their first match the New Zealanders beat Northern Districts No. i at West Maitland on December 14 by 303 runs— 228 (Hickmott 80, Sandman£6i) and 285 for 7 declared (Tuckwell 84) to 120 and 90. Sandman took 8 for 29 in the losers’ second innings. The second match, at Glen Innes, against Northern Districts No. 2, was won on December 17 by an innings and 46 runs— 232 (Patrick 57) to 86 and 100. Sandman took 6 for 40 in the second innings. A t Brisbane on December 22 the tourists had a narrow victory by 12 runs over Queensland— 89 and 161 to 124 and 114 the totals. On December 28 they went under very heavily to New South Wales, making only 161 and 105 to the home side’s 513— Macartney 142, Collins, 104. ^ Two V e r y Y o u n g C r i c k e t e r s . As many as forty players were nominated by the various New Zealand cricket associations for the tour to Australia ; Auckland sending in eleven names, Canterbury seven, Otago five, Welling­ ton four, Nelson and Southland three each, Marlborough and Wanganui two each, and South Auckland and West Coast one each. Hawke’s B ay and Taranaki made no nomination, it would appear. The side selected consisted of Six from Canter­ bury, four from Auckland, two from Wellington (one an un­ nominated man, D. C. Collins, the Cambridge blue), and one from Otago. In the upshot Collins could not go, and an Auckland man replaced him, while T. Carlton of Canterbury was sent as fourteenth man. “ T. R. M c K ib b in has a most ardent and whole-souled admiration for Archie MacLaren as batsman and sportsman. No bowler had better opportunities of sampling the powers of MacLaren than ‘ T .R .’ , who struck the Lancastrian in Sydney in his history-making exploits, when he had the ability to spank the ball two feet off the wicket over cover’s head time after time, and beat the traps laid there. But in those big, brilliant, wonderful innings he played in Sydney, MacLaren reduced, or elevated, batting to mere mechanical work, beautiful and dazzling, but too faultless, I used to think— because I was not an Englishman.” — From an interview with McKibbin in the Sydney Referee.