New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-06-18
CRICKET AT THE PARKS
Contests Between Elevens II
Second Section Interesting.


The Metropolitan League contest second
section. between Brooklyn and Prospect
Park, at the Parade Grounds, resulted in
a close game. Brooklyn being returned the
winner by a margin of IA runs. Steady
batting by f. X. Walter at a critical stage
of the game was mainly responsible for
the victory. Walter ran up 3s out of So,
and the only other double figure scorer on
the side was T. Il. Walter with 10. F. A.
Corbin and O. Smith, however. We're on the
spot with the ball. Corbn taking wick
cts for 10. while Smith captured for D..
r. l.. Mainwaring and w West did the
best batting on the losing side. the for
mer batting a not out innings for p and
the later adding 10 w h. Ellis and II.
Clarke shared the bowling honors with /
wickets apiece The totals were; Brooklyn
So; Prospect Park. u.
The Danish West Indians were defeated
by an eleven Of the West Indian Cluo at
Prospect Park by the narrow margin Oh
. runs with totals of o. 10 81 on the
winning side a. Gage took wickets Tor
% runs, r. Cook ran up 10 and j. Hol-
ingsworth followed with 10. For the losers
Nugent batted well for 10, A. Thomas was
responsible for 10, while Simmonson ana
Hilbert bowled excellenuy. capturing o
for 81 and 8 for 32 respectively. 49,
The Colonial Is team was defeated ny the
Danish West Indian Is team at Prospect
Park by i9 runs, with totals OF lOO 10 Oh.
Hill did the best batting on the WlllllIns
side while w. Often was the star peIloI III
or for the losers. with % at the bat ana
. Wickets captured at small cost WIN
At Bay Ridge the New York and New
Jersey championship MIXTURE between Iliee
Crescent Athletic Club and the hlcII III on,
County teams resulted in favor OF ken
mond County by margin oil IS runs anu '
wickets Batting first, the CrescehtS Put vi
IS. of which w. Bonnar scored 20 =. OWL
end II and II. J. CharlwOod ~ Richmond
County was reinforced by f. HaWley, WHO
made the record score of lS9 recently re
made 90 but the feature OF the innings WaS
a fine stand between }. n EscopdI anu =,
RicnaU who nut on 124 for the thlrd WICK,
Of Escohal tailed % and Bignall staYed
until he had SO TO his credit. Nhen UNI M
was called Richmond County mao IeI fol
the loss of wickets. kaGioro, VIZ T,rt,iiie
Is: Hawley, with for 81, ana III VIZ s',
with for 70. did the pest po"HhS i''
Richmond County.
With ten cricket games beng conteS'eu
At one time. the field at Van Cortlandt farh
presented busy scene, four games pelhs
in the championship series of the van OoI'-
landt Park League and three in the series
If the Manhattan Association, although the
feature of the park games was century
scored bV +. Outerbrldge IN an eAhlpllioh
pamo between the Bermuda team ana the
Yopkers St. George second eleven OuteI-
bridge retired when he had scored an even
hundred of the total of 1873 run up by the
bermuda team 20 their opponents total
OF 80. ,e.., ,,o,,,r,hia
oval with totals of 50 TO "a. Inc feature
Of the same was the bowling of H. welsh,
who captured eight wickets for 10 runs.
and performed the hat trick Top score
Of the match was made by j. Sinclair with
"a for Cameron. VI.
Bronx United defeated the New York
Adult school by rs runs, with totals OF Luz
10 IS. r. Hobson scored 2S for the Aduit
tesm. while for the winners G. Porter con
trlbuted IS, a. Thomas 10, T. Mlcndelaushi
/" and i CritchloW 10. the iaSt named
was most successful at bowling, securing
five wckets for runs. On
Disposing of the ST George team Tor 81
rms the Vernon Lodge team ran w 10 for
.iyo vickets. winning by runs with 1--WE
v.ickets TO spare. g. Hewitt, ;. Johnson
and H. O. BrttOn were the pest patsmeh
for their respective teams.
An easv victory was scored by the Ion-
kers 81. George team, VINO declared tIei1
innings closed when they had scored III
for the loss of seven Wlckets. ana theh put
out the Britannia for 90 .-
4 lie resulted in the Manhattan Assocla-
tion championship games between the 81
Thomas and Wanderers teams, each Sue
scoring 81. -,
The match between Yorkville and New
York County proved very exciting, the re-
suit not being decided until the last over
az the game the latter winning by the mar
row margin of 3 runs, with totals of SO
70 so.