Cricket 1914

A p r il , 1914. THE WORLD OF CRICKET. 79 for 3 wickets, v. Medical College, and then disposed of its opponents for 11, L. H. Sempre and Abdul Aziz each taking 5 wickets for 4 runs. E. A. Hartley for Dalhousie v. E. B. S. R. (whatever that may be) took 4 wickets with 4 consecutive balls. The tables given reflect credit on someone’s industry, though batting and bowling averages are not offered. TH E ARGEN TINE . Buenos Aires heavily defeated Lomas on February 15. E. D. Ayling and B. H. Smyth started somewhat slowly ; but later Smyth forced the pace in capital style, and when he was out for a faultless 115 of 175 put up for the first wicket, he had only been batting 95 minutes. Ayling was in 165 minutes for his 65. The innings was declared at 266 for 6, and Lomas were put out for 148, only B. J. Kortlang (87) staying long. Hurlingham beat B.A.G .S. quite as easily. W. D. Gardom won the toss and sent the railway men in to bat ; P. A. Foy, the old Bedfordian, bowling at a great pace and swinging in from leg, took 6 for 20, and all were out for 52. Hurlingham replied with 321, Moffatt, Powell-Jones, and Simpson all topping 50, and the two Gardoms and Garrod getting into the 30’s. San Isidro (104 and 122 for 8, dec.) beat Quilmes (43 and 64 for 3). H. C. Lacey’s 56 for the winners was the chief score of the match, and J. Goodfellow took 7 for 17 for the same side. On Monday, February 16, the annual Cricket Carnival com­ menced. The principal match of the week— North v. South— will be found in the Score-Book pages. Other games of minor importance preceded it, and these afford one or two items of interest. Rosario and District, in meeting Hurlingham, lacked full numbers, and made up their ranks by the inclusion of Lacey, so long a familiar figure in Argentine cricket, and his two sons. They had six wickets down for 44 ; then S. H. Holland, who had gone in first, was joined by one of the younger Laceys, H. C. These two added 145 for the seventh wicket. Lacey’s share was 99, including 16 fours. Holland played right through the innings of 238 for a chanceless 91. Northern Camps and Buenos Aires had a very close game on Monday at Palermo. W. D. Gardom contributed 81 to the Camp’s total of 255, and for B.A. the old Blundellian. B. H. Smyth, followed up his innings of Sunday by a.nother chanceless century, 101 in 140 minutes, 15 fours included. The score had topped 200 with only two men out, E. D. Ayling and H, D. Williams (each 39) having helped Smyth in stands of 90 and 103 respectively ; but after that there was a slump before the bovvling of F. A. Sutton (6 for 51), and at the finish B .A . still needed 14 with two wickets to go. F'. A. Sutton, who bowled well in this match, distinguished himself as a batsman on Tuesday, when he contributed 71 to the Northern Camps’ total of 195 v. Belgrano. Northern Camps were beaten by 3 wickets, however. The Carnival over, ordinary Championship matches were resumed on March 1, when Lomas (183) defeated Belgrano by 60 runs. J. B. Campbell carried his bat right through the innings of Lomas for 70 ; and B. J. Kortlang, formerly of San Francisco, New York, Bermuda, Sydney, and Melbourne, made 42 of the first 78 runs and took 4 wickets for 51, he and J. H. Lawrie (6 for 61) bowling unchanged. B.A.G.S. beat San Isidro (two men short) by 9 wickets in a match of small scores. W. E. Scorey took 6 for 28 in San Isidro’s first and C. J. Day 6 for 39 in their second, while J. Goodfellow had 5 for 28 for the losers. F. L. P latt scored 108* for Hurlingham (284) v. Buenos Aires in a friendly game, and F. A. Sutton made 80 of the 107 which he and P latt added for the third wicket. When Buenos Aires batted a second time (their first innings total being 108), they lost 5 for 72, and William Abel took all five at a cost of only 26 runs. In a Second Division game J. F. Bowen made 155* for Hurlingham v. Western Railway. Buenos Aires easily beat B.A.G.S. (229 and 76 the totals) on March 8. G. G. Brown made 82 and J. B. Sheridan took 5 for 25 for B .A . Hurlingham declared at 256 for 9 v. Quilmes, and put out their opponents for 146. F. A. Sutton (42) and J. R. Garrod (40) were chief scorers for the winners ; S. A. Cowper made 63 for Quilmes. Belgrano I and Belgrano II had quite an interesting tussle, the seniors making 264 (H. T. Ratcliffe 95), and the second string 201 for 8 (C. G. Bulman 94). F. M. Mendle scored 93 for Hurlingham v. Quilmes in the Second Division Championship. In the same competition Western Railway made 71 v. San Isidro II, who in return had 66 up with only three men out, but (one man short) were all dismissed for 68— an instance of how an apparently lost match may be pulled out of the fire. The bowling of E. Deandreis, who did the hat trick and took another wicket with the first ball of his next over, was largely instrumental. In all Deandreis has 5 for 33 - NEW ZEALAND . Never before has the Dominion had so many big matches in one season, and this fact, combined with the visit of a New Zealand team to Australia, has rather cast club cricket into the shade. But the club cricket has been better than usual, from all accounts, and H. B. Whitta, of Christchurch, has distinguished himself specially. For his club (Riccarton) in first-grade matches he had scored up to February 14th as many as 664 runs in 6 com­ pleted innings, and with 360 runs (in 8 innings) in representative games against Wellington, Auckland, Otago, and Southland, he had totalled over 1000 (a rare feat in N.Z. cricket), with some weeks of the season still to go. M r . W. R. P a t r ic k (C a n t e r b u r y , N.Z.) Among centuries recorded since the last list have been :— Jan. 31— F. Woods, 157, Sydenham v. Riccarton (Christchurch). Feb. 7— H. B. Whitta, 145, Riccarton v. W. Christchurch. „ 21— E. Horspool, 138, Grafton v. Eden A (Auckland). The accompanying portrait is that of a player who was some­ what disappointing on the recent Australian tour. Patrick never really got going then— a fact due in part, no doubt, to the effects of the illness which very nearly caused him to drop out of the team at the last moment. But the fast wickets probably had something to do with it, for since his return his best form has been shown on the Carisbrook Ground at Dunedin, where wickets are as a rule somewhat slow. There he made 118 for Canterbury v. Otago, and 38 and 66 (the highest aggregate for his side in the match) for New Zealand against the Australian Team.