HLI Chronicle 1907 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE.
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NOTES - ON THE MATCH.
(By THE "OWL.")
Lieut. Eryant won the toss, and decided
to bat. Major Hill and Lieut. Bryant faced
the bowling of Fargus and Villiers. The
former fast, and the latter slow. Neither of
them seemed at all comfortable, and runs
(lame at a very slow paoe. Major Hill was
suffering from the effeots of a long railway
journey, and did not do himself justioe. Lieut.
Bryant was suffering from a chill, and he
,did not appear to play the bowling with his
usual graoe. They were in together for about
fifteen minutes, when Major Hill, in endeavouring
to make his bat hit a ball from Lieut.
Villiers, failed to do so, and it hit his off
stump; it oame in a little. Lieut. Davis
joined Lieut. Bryant, and batted e.arefully.
Lieut. Bryant was clean bowled by Villiers
Ior 15. He played very well, and had severAl
'maidens from Fargus to play, which he did
with some skill. Lieut. Davis was joined by
.Joy, who gave a feeble display (he told the
" Owl" ·after the match that he is getting
.downhearted at not making runs, and was
·nervous). Lieut. Davis made B\veral excellent
strokes, and made no mistake. Pte.
,Cammell joined him. He also gave an
egg omelet display, 1st ball; bad luck as he
has, he made several runs this year, and is a
good bat. Captain Twynam joined Lieut.
Davis, and the" Owl" thinks if he had played
back tQ the particular ball which bowled him,
instead ef playing forward to it, he would
net have been out. Parson Fargus had been
bowling very well all this time, but had got
ne wickets, so he took himself off, Lieut.
Blair relieving him. The latter ran about
100 yards before bowling every ball f · .and he
:rather· terrified some of our team, as he "Was
o -fast. Lieut. Campbell joined Lieut. Davis,
. and batted exceedingly well, playing the
bowling very carefully. Lieut. Davis played
a ball wide of the off stump on to his wicket,
.and had to retire. He had made 21 in good
. style, and had given no chance, and looked
like making runs. Lieut. Halswel1e joined
Lieut. Campbell, and gave a good display,
but he WaS only a shoIt time at the wiokets.
Lieut. Blair's running performance made him
nervous. Major Noyes came fully equipped
.for the fray-new bat, new pads, new gloves.
{The" Owl" thinks he had new flannels on.}
.He . funy justified the seleotion oommittee's
ohoice, and gave a very fine display, playing
all round the wicket with the same confidence
as he does in Company oricket. Lieut. Pringle
was worn out, he having done 80 much field
duty; his eyes failed him completely, and
he only notched two. The luncheon interval
was taken at two p.m. After lunoh the Fleet
made heavier weather, going out to field.
L.-Corpl. Welfare and Major Noyes oontinued
our innings. L.-Corpl. Welfare was clean
bowled by Lieut. Blair for four; Major Noyes
oartying his bat for a well-played thirteen.
The innings closed for 125, all out. We
ought to have done better, but we were pleased
to make so many.
The Fleet sent in Midshipman Greig and
Lieut. Sarel to the bowling of Lieut. Camp·
bell and Joy. Lieut. Campbell was not on
the top speed, although he kept an excellent
1 h. Joy was bowling extremely well,
he clean bowled Greig for ~xteen.
The fielding of the Regiment was perfeotly
appalling. Major Hill was very much off
oolour at mid-off, and let several go to the
boundary. Lieut. Campbell missed two
oatches bowling; they were not easy ones,
but he ought to have 'oaught them. Captain
Twynam missed a sitter at cover-point;
Lieut. Davis missed one in the deep. If we
had not missed all these the Fleet's soore would
have been considerably less.' .
The Naval batting was good all through,
and it was a good performance getting. them
out for so few. The match eventually reaohed
a most exciting stage, as their last man was in,
and they required 5 runs to win. They got
2 of them, and then Midshipman Godeell bit
up a very high oatch to Capt. Twynam, who
was at cover-point. The match rested on this
oatoh, but the Captain, with great presence
of mind, let the ball hit his chest, and caught
it as itbQunoed off. This was reoeived with
tremendOl'is cheers from everyone. It was a
great catch at such an exciting stage of the
match .
In the second innings we had a disastrous
start. Major Noyes and Lieut. Davis opened
the batting, and the first effect was that Lieut .
Davis ran Major Noyes out. J.ieut. Blair
from cover threw the wicket down. Lieut.
Davis never looked like stopping long, an.d
was clean bowled by Fargus. Lieut. Camp~n
tried his usual next-parish stroke, a~d. Wal
clean bowled. Major Hill only took 2, and
Lieut. Halswelle 4-5 wiokets down for 9 runs.
Lieuts. Bryant and Pringle oame to the resoue,
and treated the orowd to some really fine play.
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