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Otago Witness, Issue 2785, 31 July 1907, Page 57

CRICKET.

SQTES IT LQNC SLIP. Mr Reese, the well-known Christohitreh cricketer, was in town for a few days last week, and in the course of con-veraation mentioned that the district scheme in Canterbury had noli received a thorough trial. When' it did, he thought it would prove the value of the system.

! Mr Harry Siedeberg, the Carisbrook cricketer, who has been suffering from an attack of rheumatic fever, is recovering* slowly, and anticipates being out and about again in the course of a few days. The suggestion amongst certain local cricketers to play one-day matches is a step in the right direction. Something nvust be done to avoid the fceditrm of the present system, and to attract the public. Thesuggestion of playing one-day matches will go as near achieving the desired end as anything else that might be proposed. In the match Players v. Gentlemen of England Tom Hay ward, for the Flayers, "carried his bat" for 146Thompson, the Northampton professional, who was a member of the team that toured New Zealand under xhe caip*aincy of P. i\ Warner, bowled successfully against the South Africans in their first innings against Northamptonshire. His record was eijt wickets for 41 runs. It b stated that a team of Fijian cricketers will tour Australia next seasonTarrant. the ex-Australian cricketer, who is now playing Cor Middlesex, has scored 1000 runs and taken 100 wickets. He is the first to accomplish the feat this season. The M.C.C. and Leicester shire played a tie at Lord's on June 1, the club scoring 371 md 69> and the county 239 and 201, L. C. Braund making 137 and 19 for the former, and Coe\loo and 66 for the latter, the pair top-scoring in each innings. Ten runs were required when the last batsman went m for Leicestershire. In the Kent v. Northamptonshire match, when: C. Blythe secured 10 for 30 and seven for 18, Northamptonshire lost the first seven wickets in the first innings for four runs, two of which were extras. The innings, however, realised 60; but in the follow-on the side made only 39. As Kent bad compiled 254 (Hardinge 73 and Hutchings 52), the champion county won by an innings and 155 runs* A batsman in New Zealand (says Cricket; was dismissed in a peculiar manner. He wa* running for a hit, and, in order to escape being- hit by the ball, which was thrown- in sharply, he jumped just as he 1 waa reaching the crease. By the time that the ball hit the wickefc he had passed it in hie flight, but the umpire ruled that he was oft 5 his ground, and he had to retiro. At Newmarket, in 1844, a batsman was stumped whilst "jumping for joy," and was given out, althougih at the end ©I the jump he alighted in his ground; whilst in the previous year, in a match at Kingscofce between Wootton-under-Edge and ELingscote. a player hatl been given out stumped for not havincT his bat on the ground although he himself was well behind the crease! The last-mentioned incident reminds one that it takes, a strong eleven to play a side with a- twelfth man. G. N. Foster, the youngest of the famous brotherhood, shone conspicuously in tbe match between Oxford University and M.C.C. Neither side exceeded 120 in the first innings; but when he went in a second time, Foster hit brilliantly for two hours and a-half. His faultless contribution was 163; but, as the next best score was 37, the combined effort did not realise more than 303. The olub, by means of sound batting, got home witih. two wickets to spare. L. P. Collins led with 82, and other* who assisted w-ere P. F. Warner (42) and F. A. Tarrant (44 not out). Tarrant's bowling secured him 10 wickets for 156 run*. Playing for Lancashire J. T. Tyldesley managed to piav a magnificent innings for 209. He made "them in 245 minutes, and gave no chance. The Warwickshire bowlers suffered severely, as, in addition to this huge contribution, J. Sharp rattled up 174 not out in even time. The consequence was that Lancashire closed at 493 for seven wickets ; but what is described as a "deluge" prevented Warwickshire from completing the first innings. This is Tyldealey's ninth score of 200 or more, and his fiftieth century in first-class cricket. j The dismissal of Derbyshire for 61 in the second innings, after having a lead of 26 over Sussex, enabled the southerners to win by eight wickets. G Cox (eight for 58 and five for 29) had much to do with the victory, and at the critical time K. 0. Goldie hit up 73 not out. Yorkshire defeated Cambridge University : by an innings and 26 runs. G. H. . Hirst j did some remarkable bowling. In the first j innings he 6ent down I 7£ overs for 26 runs , and six wickets, and in the second" Ifr overs for 4 runs. Haigh (six for 45) and Rhodes (seven, for 79) were the other wicket-takers. The Gloueestershire-Kbrthants match was noteworthy for some remarkable bowling. On a sodden wicket the western team was dismissed for 60, Thompson taking five for 29 and East five for 26. Then North&zrts batted with, the wicket at its wont, and Dennett made such use of if that in 40 minutes the innings had closed for 12 — the smallest aggregate ever recorded in a first-class inter-courrty match. Dennett, after being- hit for 6 run'j without meeting with any success, took eight wickets for 3. his analysis for the innings being therefore eight for 9. He kept a good length, and made the ball turn considerably, but the

F batting was very weak. Gloucester put up j 83 in their second innings, East securing j seven wickets for 30 runs. On going in i again Northans lost seven batsmen for 40. This time Dennett took all the wickets at a cost of only 12 runs. Unfortunately the rain prevented Gloucestershire from oon- : verting an extraordinary match into a vie* tary. In Norman. E. Brookes, the tennis champion of the world (writes .the Melbouznecorrespohdent of the Referee), there has perhaps been lost the international bowler that all Australia has been fondly expecting without «,v»il. Norman Brookes, who has practically been bred on the tennis couri— a very fine one being aiteched to his resi- - 'dence at Brookwood, St. KiJda road — was • a member of the Melbourne Grammar School cricket eleven in the early nineties, i and earned fame as s medium-paced lefrI handed trundler, with a most exceptional' ', length and spin. With & beautifully easy • action, not unlike that of Wilfred Rhodes, ; he was undoubtedly the most promising^ j bowler of the last 15 years in the public 1 schools. Against the Melbourne schools he : achieved some very fine performances on good wickets, notably seven for 26 against Scotch College m December, 189f . In the same month- of that year 'against a- strong _ Sydney Grammar team at Buehoutters' Bay ' Oval he got exactly the same analysis again' on a. perfect wicket, and bowled most destructively against King's School, Parra- ' m*tta. He made one appearance in senior cricket in Melbourne while still in his teens. , He played for St. Kilda agaiast a strong" i South Melbourne sicte, and .entirely without practice his bowling figures on a fkst-class wicket were 160 balls, 35 runs; 5 wickets. But thst was bis only^ appearance, lot alter that tennis claimed ham for its own. Tall, resolute, cool as ice, he was easily the most likely Victorian bowler that I have eve* seen m my time. A London cable advises .that Yorkshire defeated Warwickshire. Haigh took •«■ wickets for 27 runs and seven for 13. TT» crowd becoming incensed «t Lord's- owinjr to there being: no play for the day in- the ■ match Middlesex v. Lancashire, due to the* wetness of the ground, started hooting m front of the pavilion «nd demanded their money back. They then invaded the wicket and damaged it so seriously that Maclaren (the Lancashire 3kipper) refused to continue the match, and it was abandoned. } A London cable dated July 25 states that • Notts and Middlesex (undefeated) headed the list for the- county criefcet champwmship. Worcester and Yorkshire had oaci lost two matches, Surrey and Lancashireeach three, Essex four, and Kent, the- winners of the championship last year, six matches. The latest aews is to the effect ' that Notts defeated Middlesex by 15 runsTn the cricket match Gloucester v. Susse* Jessop made 250 not out in 200 minutes. I Pcinoe Rahjitsinhji, though probably lost ! to Sussex cricket for ever, has given practical proof that he retains his interest in his old county. It was stated at Brighton that he has offered a donatiott of 200 guineas to the Sussex County Club, to be followed! by an annual donation of a hundred! guineas. Needless fa> say his munificent^ offer has been accepted, and he has beeni made a patron of the olub. j At a meeting of .the Canterbury Cricket ; Association the question of th« policy ofr ' continuing the district scheme was discuese* •at considerable length, the weigh* o& • opinion being that the system had not ye* I really had. a. fair triaL Eventually it wat- ; decided to- take a vote of Jast season* i players as to whether, the scheme should i be continued for another season or not.