The San Francisco call., 1908-08-30
TOday'S Game May Cinch Its
Lead in Race for Cricket
Championship
By William Unmack
sTANDING oF THE CLUES


The defeat OF the Barbarans last
SUNDAY By the Paci1cs lessons their
chances Tor the ultimate possession OF
the championship. gives The Alsmedas
narrow lead and places the Pacifcs
in second position. and probably
6rst-if=
There the little word If comes
Il, and il carries great weight in the
present stage OF the championship The
Bsrbarials still have a chance II the
county team defeats both Alameda and
the PacI6cS and the Barbs win all their
remaining games. Today the Pacific
and county teams meet al Alameda.
and 4 lot depends on the game Il Pa
clEe wins L viii be placed first IN the
competition with II points 70 Ala
Ieda's -, bur the latter team still has
% meet the county team again On
rhe other hand Il the county team
Tar as the race for first place IS con-
cerle1- In fhst case Alameda would
be the winner
The Pacific team IS probably the
strongest batting team IN the c0npe-
tlriols and It's bad start al the begin
u11g OF the season has IN ali proba-
bl-l-E cost II the championship hon
crs To secure arst place now Il has
70 depend entirely OF the county team
defeating Alameda besides winning its
own 1lal game today
As was expected. the game last sun
day between the Pacific and Barb2-
riaus was one OF The most stubbornir
Lolgnt and best displays OF cricket
Earle with IS was the top scorer OF
T1e day he gave several chances. but
MS inning was 3 vigorous one Bethi,
the aew addition 70 the Bsrbs, also &C
quilted himself Well with -. He and
Earle made Z splendid stand None Of
the other Barbarians reached double
nguTes but they al added their mite
E 70 The score
Wu6ing and H f. Elliot opened for
E Tie Pacllcs. and before they we're sep
+ arared had put On At runs Wfldtngs
= vas one OF the best he has played
THIS year Fletcher Elliot was uufor-
innate II getting run out when his
score was "a
Brother Harry did not have time TO
get under way before he was dis
missed / b. " for ! This is The first
( time this year Harry Elliot has been
+ wilkes not out IS played one OF the
{ best innings OF the day His strokes
were neat and clean and his -.plsc
not out. 1lso PLAYED q careful game.
+ and with Wilkes terminated the game
( IN favor Of the Paci1cs.
re bowling On BOTH sides was good.
Wilkes with six for ~. being the
The Golden Gates made a rather
good stand against Alameda Perkins
- aoJ OUT was a excellent form for
tle city team None OF the other
( Golden Gates reached two figures
The only Berthe Bird was in one
Of his best cTickering moods and took
no time 70 register 20 runs IN his usual
+ vigorous style A Smith also did well
Two games are scheduled for today.
TIE most important one being the Pa
cihcs and San Francisco county game at
TIE Alameda grounds. Il is 10 be
hoped the Pacific men viii be able 10
! turn oLt with their full team as the
game means 50 much 10 them The
team VIII be selected from H R Elliot
4 r EAloL A. NIldIng- ". Wilkes. D
I Jameson Cassidy. Logan. Theobzld.
Howard, Lang6ale, Young. ReaGe. Tai
Pie county team is in good form
Raymond IN particular, has been per-
forming consistently OF late. Tic
sen smith. Sterling, Renwick. Ray
monds Brooks. DulfOrd, Roberts. Tiede-
man Hutchinson, Dalbesch. StrsttOn-
TIE BARBARIAN team for the match
( against Golden Gate at the stadium
VIII be strong one, and the Barbs
should not have much difficulty IN de-
1saung the park team La11ertg. Price,
+ Spencer. Earle, Lgnam. Kaufman and
Jordan VIII comprise Il
The averages OF the California
cricket association batsmeR ana bowl
ers are By nc means poor. The bowl
Ing averages, = particular, are excep-
i on account OF his failing 10 score
last Sunday. Elltot's average dropped
1z-6 points. but he is still a long way
II the lead over his nearest rival. Rem
wick OF the county team Each week
the averages have been changed. and
The moving about OF the men and the
rise and fall q the different averages
have caused great interest among foi-
lowers Of the English game
In the batting the first FIVE men
have an average OF more than %, and
their performances all through tia
season have been consistent and good.
II the bowling many Of the averages
are exceptionally good Renwfck has
taken the largest number OF wickets=
z5=al6 they have cost him only s-5
runs sach-a first class performance.
Wilkes comes next IN nuzDer Of wick
cts with 50. and Is first IN the aver
ages. with - runs each his average
Is splendid one and he seems TO be
III better form with the ball row than
ever before although former cricket
rers are or the opinion that he has lost
2 lot Of his former pace The averages
are as follows.
BATTING AVERAGES