Cricket 1914

74 THE WORLD OF CRICKET. A p r il , 1914. CENTURIES. For England J. W. H. T. Douglas scored 119 in the first match at Durban: Mead 102 in the first at Johannesburg and 117 at Port Elizabeth ; Rhodes 152 in the first at Johannesburg. For South Africa H. W. Taylor scored 109 in the first match at Durban. ENGLISH BOWLING AVERAGES. M. OVERS. M. RUNS. W. AVER. Barnes (S. F .)........................... 4 222 57 536 49 10-93 Booth (M. W .)......................... 2 52 8 130 7 18-57 Relf (A. E.).........................................5 129-3 47 227 t o 22-70 J. W. H. T. Douglas............... 5 74_-2 11 239 10 23-90 M. C. Bird................................. 4 23 4 76 3 25-33 Hearne (J. W.)......................... 3 62 12 217 7 31-00 Rhodes (W.)............................. 5 88-5 24 195 6 32-50 Woolley (F. E.).............. 5 102212747 39'i4 The Hon. L. H. Tennyson bowled once— 1 over, 1 run, no wicket. SOUTH AFRICAN BOWLING AVERAGES. M. OVERS. M. RUNS. W. AVER. C. P. Carter............................ 2 98 29 188 9 20-88 J. M. Blanckenberg.............. 5 172-1 46 428 19 22-52 H. Wr. Taylor.......................... 4 29 9 92 4 23-00 C. J. Newberry..................... S 93 15 268 11 24*36 A. D. Nourse.......................... 5 87 15 238 5 47-60 J. L. Cox................................ 3 96 22 245 4 61-25 Also bowled :— In two matches, G. P. D. Hartigan, 23-5-96-1 ; in one each— C. D. Dixon, 40-6-118-3 ; P. A. M. Hands, 6-0-17-0 ; F. L. de S. Le Rouxfc9-3~24-o ; B. Lundie, 47-4-9-107-4 ; L. R. Tuckett, 19-4-69-0. Obituary. The R e v . A . W. D o r m a n died at the Vicarage, Hinton Charter­ house, near Bath, during the first week in January. He was born on October 24, 1862, and was educated at Dulwich and Corpus College, Cambridge. He was in the Cambridge XI one year, 1886, when his best performance was 9 wickets for 103 v. Yorkshire. In all he took 24 wickets at a cost of slightly over 25 runs each. He had the dis­ tinction of appearing for Gentlemen v. Players at the Oval in this, his only season in first-class cricket ; but he would scarcely have been chosen but for the fact that other amateur bowlers were unavailable. He was in succession curate of Knaresborough (1890-1), Roadhill, Wilts (1891-3), and St. Bartholemew, Sydenham (1893-8), and from 1898 to his death vicar of Hinton Charterhouse. M r . J a m e s C l a r k , one of the vice-presidents of the Hunslet Cricket and Football Club, died at Hunslet during the last week in January, aged 65. He was born in 1849 at Yeadon. A well-known local cricketer, he appeared for XVIII of Hunslet against the Australian Team in 1878. M r . A r t h u r H e n r y A y l m e r M o r t o n died at his residence, 80, Eaton Place, Belgrave Square, on June 16, 1877. He was in the Eton XI of 1854, and in the school matches at Lord’s v. Harrow and Winchester (the latter’s last appearance there) took 18 wickets for 135. He went up to King’s, Cambridge, but did not get his blue, and only once (in 1855) appeared in the ’Varsity XI. He was M .P . for Deptford from 1897 to 1906, and for the last nine years of his life a member of the Ecclesiastical Commission. Mr. H e r b e r t P ig g died in Manitoba during last summer, at the age of 56. He was born at Beauchamps, Buntingford, Herts, on September 4, 1856, and was educated at Abingdon House, North­ ampton, where he was five seasons in the XI, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He gained his blue, as a senior, in 1877, but did little against Oxford, and did not retain his place the next year, though he appeared in several of the Cambridge matches. That year’s side has often been spoken of as the strongest the Light Blues ever put in the field, among its members being Alfred and Edward Lyttelton, A. G. Steel, A. P. Lucas, and A. F. J. Ford. Mr. Pigg was a free batsman, with plenty of strokes, and a fast bowler ; his twin-brother, Charles, played a very steady game and bowled slows ; and some w-ag gave them the nicknames of “ Hot ” Pigg and “ Cold ” Pigg. Herbert Pigg assisted Northamptonshire in 1874 and 1875, and from 1876 to 1897 played for Herts, scoring for them 2,778 runs, with an average of slightly under 20, and taking 150 wickets at about 17 runs each, as far as the records show. He made 141 v. M.C.C. at Lord’s in 1885, and 114* v. Hampshire in 1886. A first-class cricketer, Mr. Pigg was comparatively little known to the public by reason of his association with a minor county ; but from 1886 to 1891 he appeared in the Hastings Festival matches, and among his best performances were 59 and 8 for 125 (South v. Australians, 1886) and 35 and 11 for 112 (Gentlemen v. Players, 1889). He also made 38* in 1888, and 37 in 1890against the Australians. A schoolmaster by profession, he was on the staff of Blair Lodge School in 1880-1, from 1882 to 1892 a private tutor at St. Leonard’s, and from 1892 to not long before his death in Canada at Cambridge. Known as “ Yorkshire’s twelfth man,” L e e s W h it e h e a d , a very useful all-round cricketer, died suddenly at the Alma Hotel, West Hartlepool, of which he was landlord, on November 22. He was born at Birchen Bank, Friarmere, on March 14, 1864. His early engagements were with the Rawtenstall and Denton clubs, and it was a fine bowling performance (15 wickets for 75) for Yorkshire Colts v. Notts Colts, at Trent Bridge in 1889, when he took four wickets with successive balls in the first innings, each time hitting the leg stump. That secured him a trial for his county. He played regu­ larly for the remainder of that season, and took 52 wickets at under 17 runs each. In 1890 he had 32 at about 21, by far his best perfor­ mance being 6 for 15 v. Leicestershire. Thenceforward for a long time he made only an occasional appearance in the Yorkshire team,, and for four years (1895-8) did not play at all. In was in 1899 that he reappeared, and during the next few years that he earned the sobriquet referred to. Among his scores in 1899 were 60 v. Sussex and 54 v. Hants. In the following year, aided by six not-outs, he headed the county’s batting averages with 53-50, making 67* (his highest in big cricket) v. Somerset at Taunton, 62* v. M.C.C. at Scarborough, 62 v. Warwickshire at Leeds, and 50 v. Hants at Hull. Playing more regu­ larly in 1901, he was useful, but his average was only 18, his highest being 52* v. Derbyshire. In 1902 his best innings were 61* v. Derbyshire,, and 56 v. Notts, in 1903 60 v. Middlesex and 59 v. M.C.C., while against Lancashire at Manchester, when he scored 45*, he helped Lord Hawke to add 108 for the last wicket. In 1904, his last year, he only played in eight matches. Altogether he appeared in 135 matches for Yorkshire, played 201 innings, with 43 not-outs, and totalled 2,314 runs, average 14-64. In the 98 matches in which he bowled he secured 141 wickets for 3,106 runs, average 22-02. Whitehead was a member of the ground staff at Lord’s from 1890 to 1904. In 1895 he scored 64 for M.C.C. v. Oxford University, and on May 28, 1898, took all ten wickets of Esher in an innings, for which feat the Club committee presented him with an inscribed ball. He twice spent an off-season in South Africa, as coach to St. Andrew’s College, Grahamstownr and was one season with the Georgetown C.C., Demerara. He was buried at West Hartlepool on November 25. The Hon. George W illiam Spencer L y tte lto n died at his resi­ dence, 49, Hill Street, London, W., on December 5. He was born in London, June 12, 1847, the fourth son of the fourth Baron Lyttelton,, and like all his seven brothers distinguished himself in the cricket field. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was three seasons (1863-4-5) in the School XI, and captain in 1865. In the matches against Harrow and Winchester he totalled 208, with average 23, and his fast round-arm bowling accounted for a dozen wickets. In 1864 he made g 6 *v. Winchester and 50 v. Harrow. At Cambridge he got his blue as a freshman, but did nothing great v. Oxford in either 1866 or 1867, and in his third year, considering his form unsatisfactory, gave up his place to Mr. W. B. Weighell. His best work for Cambridge in his first year was done with the ball, as he took 24 wickets at under 16 runs each ; in 1867 he met with little success as a bowler, but headed the batting averages with 34-63 per innings, making 114 v. Cambridgeshire and 99 against the Gentlemen of England. In 1868 he scored 52 v. Cambridgeshire, and took 5 for 17 against the Gentlemen. After his ’Varsity days Mr. Lyttelton played little cricket of im­ portance, affairs claiming most of his time. He was at one time assistant and, later, principal private secretary to Mr. Gladstone,, after having been for a short time assistant private secretary to Earl Granville. A member of the executive committee of the Royal College of Music and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he was also- a J.P. for Worcestershire. S ir J o h n G e o r g e D a v ie s , K.C.M.G., from 1903 to his death Speaker of the Tasmanian State Parliament, died at Hobart on Novem­ ber 14. He graduated as a press-man in the office of his father,, proprietor of the Hobart Mercury , and was later himself proprietor of that paper and of the Tasmanian Mail. For more than thirty years- he occupied a place in the forefront of the island’s cricketers. Born at Melbourne on February 17, 1846, he played until he had turned 5or representing Tasmania v. South Australia in the only match ever played between the two states (then colonies), in 1876-7 captaining the Tasmanian team which visited New Zealand in 1883-4, and frequently acting as leader on other occasions. He also captained the first Commonwealth Rifle Club from Australia, which won the Kolapore Cup at Bisley in 1902. He was knighted in 1909. His will be a place hard to fill in the island’s cricket councils, for up to the last his keenness for the game was undiminished. A. C. D. THE MERION C.C.’s TOUR IN ENGLAND. During the last few years several club teams from the other side of the Atlantic have carried through very pleasant tours in England— among them the Toronto Zingari, the Philadelphia C.C., and the Germantown C.C. This year the Merion Club (Philadelphia) will send a team across in August. As to the personnel of the side, that can scarcely be given so far in advance, our informant says ; but a fair proportion of the club’s best players will be sure to make the trip. The programme arranged is : Aug. 4, v. Reigate Priory ; Aug. 5, v. Sutton ; Aug. 6 (vacant at present) ; Aug. 7 and 8, v. Lord Decies’ XI, at Sefton Park ; Aug. 10 and 11, v. Incogniti, at Lord’s ; Aug 12, v. Blackheath ; Aug. 13 (vacant) ; Aug. 14 and 15, v. Eastbourne -r Aug. 17 and 18, v. Mr. J. R. Tvlden’s XI, at Milstead (Kent); Aug 19 and 20, v. Band of Brothers, at Thanet; Aug. 21 (vacant) : Aug. 22, v. Mitcham : Aug. 24 (vacant) ; Aug. 25, 26, and 27, v. Mr. Lionel Robinson’s XI, at Old Buckenham. N a t a l has a new sporting paper in Cricket and Football , to be issued monthly at Durban. It is edited by Mr. Frederick Setav, who used to- contribute to our predecessor, Cricket. The first number is a capital production.