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Ireland International Matches
Philadelphia beat Ireland by an innings and 66 runs
3 Day, Manheim, 24 September 1909
Scorecard
Derek Scott

In between these two matches against Philadelphia a drawn game was played against 16 Colts of Philadelphia. WP Hone made 70, Read 58 and Harrington took seven wickets. Then came this second debacle against the full strength of Philadelphia. Ireland could only make 78 and 68 against King and Hordern but managed to restrict the Philadelphian total to just over 200. This was King's seventh match against Ireland. He bowled in six of these and took 58 wickets for 471 runs, at an average of 8.12! This match was played on the Manheim ground, the ground of the Germanstown Cricket Club. If anything this ground was better appointed than the Haverford ground. It rained for 36 hours before the match and the first day's play was washed out but it was agreed to extend played to a fourth day. This, needless to say, proved unnecessary. When play did begin on the second day a new wicket had to be cut and the start was not made until after 12 noon.

Both sides make changes from the first match. For Ireland Lynch dropped out and WL Coffey came in. Philadelphia made four changes. Morris, who could not play, Winter, Haynes and Wood dropped out and Le Roy, Newhall, Graham and Jordan came in. Le Roy was selected but could not play in the first match and Newhall and Jordan, wicket-keeper, had both toured in England with the 1908 Philadelphian tourists.

The first day was rather like the first day of the first match. Ireland batted badly and made only 78 but recovered to take seven Philadelphian wickets for 103. Browning won the toss and hesitated before deciding to bat. Eventually he decided to do so thinking that the very soft wicket would not suit King and Hordern. He was wrong! King proved a terror with the ball particularly after lunch when he took five of the remaining six wickets for nine runs. Morrow was again a tower of strength to the Irish. He opened with Magee against King and Clark. About 200 people were present at the start but considerably more came along in the afternoon. Morrow quickly got three fours off King. With 17 scored King made a sensational one handed catch at short leg to dismiss Magee. At 23 Clark bowled Hone for 0 with a ball which kicked slightly. At 30 King changed his pace to deceive Andrews and had him stumped.

Aston also got a duck, King bowling him at 32. Read and Morrow then made the only stand of the innings and put up 50 after an hour. Hordern and Graham came on to bowl but by lunchtime, 1:30 p.m., the score was 61-4 with Morrow 35 and Read 13. Blue skies and a brisk Autumn wind greeted the afternoon crowd. Ireland only added a further 17 runs for their last six wickets. Disaster struck at once when King bowled the splendid Morrow before a run was added. He had batted in confident style for 35 made in 80 minutes. Mooney came in and saw Graham miss Read. A moment later Read gave him another chance off King which was accepted. Browning was next but Mooney was out with the score unchanged, Hordern taking a good catch at short square leg. King mowed down Harrington's wicket at 70. Coffey and Browning took the score to 78 when Jordan stumped Coffey off King and in the next over Jordan caught Browning behind the wicket off Hordern. Browning batted at number eight in this innings but failed again, he had now made six runs in his three innings against Philadelphia on this tour. King's 7-48 was taken in 15 overs.

At 3:40 p.m. White and Graham came out for Philadelphia to face Harrington and Napper. Graham foolishly ran himself out at 16 and at 24 Mooney got under a skyscraper of Whites off Napper. White had played well for his 14. Le Roy joined Patton. They scored 18 quickly but luckily. At 42 Patton was caught at deep extra cover by Hone off Napper. Evans came in and he and Le Roy added 50 to give Philadelphia the lead. Le Roy gave two difficult stumping chances to Browning and an easy one to Aston at slip. After an hour Ireland's total was passed. Then Ireland hit a good patch taking four wickets for nine runs just before close of play. Coffey bowled the patient Evans, 19, at 92 and two runs later had Le Roy neatly stumped by Browning for 42 made in an hour. Clark joined Newhall and Napper came on instead of Morrow. At 97 Mooney caught another high in the outfield to dismiss Newhall off Napper. King joined his captain and 100 came up. At 101 Clark tried to put one of Napper's slow ones out of the ground and was caught at long off by Morrow. King and Hordern added two before close of play which came with the score on 103-7.

At noon on Monday the wicket had dried out but it was not very hard. King played the best innings of the match and Hordern hit well on the leg side. The stand put on 65. Hordern was caught off Morrow for 28 at 166. Mooney took his third catch at 177 when he dismissed Graham. Jordan came in and played well, in fact the last wicket added 35. King reached 50 and was 54 not out when Harrington bowled Jordan for 15 at 202. King was missed three times, once when he was 39 and twice just before the end of the innings.

When Ireland's second innings began wickets started to fall and continued until Ireland were all out for 68 after being 66-4. It was a dismal melancholy effort and everyone was pleased when it was over. Magee and Morrow opened to Graham and Le Roy, both slow medium bowlers. Graham bowled Magee was a good one at 7. Morrow and Hone made a stand of 36 but it was painfully slow cricket. Graham bowled eight overs for six runs and gave way to King at 42. At once Hone was caught for 12 and Andrews was bowled two runs later also by King. Worst of all Hordern bowled Morrow for 22 at the same score of 45. Aston and Read took the score to 66. At 66 two wickets fell and the last four all fell with the score at 68, so that, in fact, the last six wickets fell for two runs! Hordern bowled extremely well and took 5-16 while King took 4-12. Browning, again batting at number eight, was left one not out at the close of the match, his last for Ireland. This was only his second not out innings in 64 for Ireland. He first played for Ireland in 1888 and in 39 matches he scored 1322 runs in 64 innings, twice not out, at an average of 21.32. His highest score was 94. In the field he caught 33 and stumped 22. In 1905 he had become the first player to score 1000 runs for Ireland. Napper, Magee, Coffey and Andrews also bade farewell to international cricket in this match.

On Wednesday, September 29 the team sailed from New York on the S.S.Oceanic.