Cricket 1914

368 THE WORLD OF CRICKET. J u l y 25, 1914. H is highest total is 453 in 1908, average 13-34. In 1907, 1911, and 1913 he averaged between 10 and 11. In 1909 his average was under double figures, and in 1912 he only totalled 94 runs in 25 innings— 9 of them not out, however. T h is scarcely looks the sort of stuff of which century- makers are made. Bu t did not Harry Phillips score a century against the Australians in 1884 ? It seldom happens th at a wicket-keeper does not learn to bat at least tolerably well. Board, Lilley, Tom Russell, J. J. K elly, Stone, Smith (“ Tiger ” to his intimates), Dolphin, Oates, Huish, all developed their batting— some of them becoming first-class bats— after they had established their reputations as wicket-keepers. T h e hints to young cricketers given last week were not b y the Editor, and were inserted under his name in error. T h ey were sent on for inclusion in the issue, and the mis­ taken attribution was discovered too late for remedying. C. B. F r y has scored his 30,000th run in first-class cricket since the current season began, joining David Denton, John Tyldesley, and George Hirst, w ith only Tom Hayward (well over 40,000) of present-day players above them. W illiam Q u a if e and Rhodes have now topped 25,000 ; and Langdon has recently qualified for inclusion among those who have scored a five-figure total. F ie l d should get his thousandth w icket some time before the season ends. He is over 980 now. I n t e r v iew e d on his arrival in Dunedin, John Crawford spoke highly of the possibilities of New Zealand cricket— to which, of course, he is no stranger— and strongly advo­ cated the sending a N .Z. team to tour the old country, the best way, in his opinion, to educate the players— even better than an Australian tour, because of the many more men met. C r aw fo r d will act as assistant secretary as well as coach to the Otago C .A . W e ought to hear of some good young ones brought forward in Dunedin before his three years’ engagement there ends. There is the material to work upon, and he should be the right man to handle it. I t is not often the score of a match in the Malay States reaches us. Y e t there is an organised system of inter-state matches there. A victory by Selangor over Negri Sembilan is recorded on another page, and we hope in future to have scores sent wrhenever a match of genuine interest is played. M r. A. C. D enh am writes to point out th at Tom Lan­ caster ( v. Notts at Manchester in 1894) and Laurence Cook (v. Essex at Leyton in 1907) each obtained a w icket with the first ball he delivered for Lancashire. H. Tyldesley, who performed a similar feat lately, is a brother of William and James, he says. T h e same gentleman (whose skill in cricket lore is not easy to rival) also draws our attention to the fact that Mr. R . E. Prothero was up at Oxford after leaving Marlborough, and played for Hampshire in a few matches, and that the brothers Jones-Bateman played against each other in the ’V arsity match— the only instance of this bar the Lagdens. H e gives quite a long list of county and other well-known cricketers who were up at one ’V arsity or the other without obtaining their blues, besides those mentioned last week. R. O. Schwarz and M. H. C. Doll (Middlesex), E. O. Powell (Surrey and Hants), C. Heseltine (Hants), the Rev. H. Staunton and J. S. Robinson (Notts), Sir Archibald White D. C. F. Burton, and H. Wilkinson (Yorkshire), T. E. Manning (Northants), H. M. Braybrooke (Kent), A. G . Richardson (Gloucestershire and Orange Free State), the Rev. A. M. Sullivan (Sussex), Bishop Wilson of Melanesia (Kent), J. Le Fleming (Kent), aad W . Fairbanks (Glouces­ tershire) were all at Cambridge. A n d Oxford passed over C. E. Horner (Surrey), J. Robertson-Walker, R. Henderson, and Cecil Headlam (Middlesex), H. C. Stewart, D. W . Carr, the Rev. R. T. Thornton and P. C. Baker (Kent), C. K . Langley (Warwick­ shire), A . W . Roberts and F. M. Luce (Gloucestershire), E . A . Greswell, the Rev. F. Reed, C. E. Dunlop, R. B. Porch, and H. T. Stanley (Somerset), the Hon. Mervyn Herbert (Notts and Somerset), R. Joyce (Leicestershire), H. M. Taberer (Essex and South Africa), and the brothers P. A . M. and R. H. M. Hands (Western Province). J. V. Y oun g , brother of R. A., was at both ’Varsities, b u t did not get his cricket blue at either. A n error w ith regard to Barlow ’s first w icket for Lanca­ shire was made last week. He himself writes to correct it. The match was Lancashire v. Yorkshire, not Lancashire v. Derbyshire, and the batsman whom he bowled w ith his first ball in county cricket was the late John West, who had made over 40 when Mr. Hornby threw Barlow the ball. T h e list of thousand-runs scorers for the season up to Wednesday last, w ith the date on which the total w as reached, reads : 1.— Tarrant (June 15) ; 2.— Heame (J. W .) (June 16J ; 3.— Mead (C. P.) (June 16) ; 4.— Hobbs (June 19) ; 5.— W oolley (F. E.) (June 30) ; 6.— H irst (July 9) ; 7.— H. P. Chaplin (July 16) ; 8.— F. R. Foster (July 17) ; 9.— P. A. Perrin (July 20) ; 10.— Denton (D.) (July 21) ; 11.— Hardinge (July 21). K e n n e d y (July 10), Booth (July 21), and B lythe (July 22) are the only bowlers w ith 100 wickets to date of writing. BLANCO For Cleaning and Whitening White Buckskin and Canvas Shoes, Cricket Pads, and all other articles of a sim ilar nature. It is prepared in a very careful manner, and extra precautions are taken to ensure an evenness of colour. 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