Cricket 1882

JUNE 22, 1882. CEICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 10] only to allow but really to encourage lawn tennis on a ground tliat has always been considered sacred to cricket. I f cricket is to maintain its present position, it behoves all those who have the interests of the game at heart to withdraw from boys at school the temptation to desert their practising nets. There the remedy is easy, and lawn tennis should be forbidden under any circumstances whatever. With local cricket clubs the case is perhaps more difficult. The revenue derived from the subscriptions of the lawn tennis members is often too considerable to be lightly surrendered. At the same time we would point out that these societies owe a duty to cricket generally which must not be overlooked. I f lawn tennis must be endured, there should at least be a stipula­ tion that it should not be allowed during the progress of a cricket match. Tourna­ ments and sweepstakes at any period of the year should be beyond the province as well as beneath the dignity of a cricket club of any position. We think, too, that the time has now come when the M.C.C. as the responsible patron of cricket throughout the world should entirely abolish the winter and summer courts at Lord’s, and forbid the practice of lawn tennis at all on their grounds. When it is seriously proposed that so popular a cricket ground as that at the Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, should be diverted from its original use and given up entirely to lawn tennis, surely it is time that this evil should be deliberately faced, and adequate steps taken to counteract its pernicious effects. We have no right to argue against lawn tennis in the abstract, but we do protest that it has no interest in common with cricket, and we call upon secretaries of cricket clubs to discontinue its practice on their grounds. It is better to meet the difficulty while there is a chance of overcoming it, than to rest supine until it has secured a permanent hold. Otherwise irreparable damage will be done to a game which has for generations held its own as the best and most manly of our out-door sports. G entlem en J ockeys v . P rofessional J ockeys .__ Played at the Orleans Club on Tuesday. Score :— Gentlemen, 221 (E. Hughes 85), Professionals, 154 (R. I ’Anson 94). S uffolk y . E ssex . —Played at Ipswich on Monday and Tuesday. Suffolk won by 19 runs. Score :— Suffolk, 70 and 85 ; Essex, 80 and 56. L ansdowne v. T hornrury . —Played at Lans­ downe Ground, near Bath, on Tuesday. Score- Lansdowne, 133; Thornbury (Dr. W. G. Grace, 308. A ldershot D ivision v . Y orkshire G entlem en . —Played at Aldershot on Monday and Tuesday Score :—Aldershot 61 and 224 (F. J. Wintour 56.) Yorkshire Gentlemen 153 (E. Boper, 33.) B utland v . N ottingham A mateurs .— Played at Nottingham on Monday and Tuesday. Score : — Kutland 133 and 301 (J. Furley52and46), Nottimr- ham Amateurs 221, (J. Forman 72.) S core Sheets for forwarding matches to C ricket can be had at the Office, 17, Patemoster-square, ^aaaon, E .C ., price 9d. a dozen. — A dvt . They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of our time.— Hamlet. T he great burning questions of the hour. Gentlemen of England v. Australians, and Oxford v. Cambridge! “ C ricket ” was the first to publish the names of the original choices for to-day’s match, and those whose names I gave a fortnight ago all accepted. The eleventh place has been filled by Mr. W. H. Patter­ son, whose plucky innings in the Inter- University match of 1881 will still be vividly remembered. His batting at Lord’s on Whit- Monday was certainly the best in that holi­ day match, and he will undoubtedly strengthen the side materially in this department. D ifferences of opinion will be sure to exist with regard to the qualifications of some of the players selected, but it will un­ doubtedly be a very strong side. In batting there will certainly be no tail. Mr. Eamsay, who plays instead of Mr. Evans, suffering from a sore throat, will presumably go in the ninth wicket, and before him there will be Messrs. W. G. Grace, A. N. Hornby, A. P. Lucas, W . W. Read, A. G. Steel, C. F. Leslie, C. T. Studd, G. B. Studd, W . H. Patterson, and E . F. S. Tylecote. In the more recent matches some of the University players have been a little out of run-getting form, but against this it must be stated that the grounds have been in any­ thing but the best condition for batsmen, and if the wickets are hard to-day there will certainly be some long scoring. It is re­ freshing to notice that Mr. W. G. Grace has been piling on runs during the week, making 177 not out and 130 in local matches, and Mr. Hornby’s latest performance at Lord’s shows that he is in the vein for hitting. In batting and fielding the Gentlemen will be very strong, and in the latter they are un­ deniably a splendid side. T he only doubts that can exist are on the subject of their bowling. Mr. Evans, I believe, had been practising steadily, but Mr.^Ramsay will probably be quite as useful. Besides him there are Messrs. Grace, Steel, C. T. Studd, and Lucas, all of much the same pace, and it is quite a matter for consideration whether another bowler would not have been more beneficial to the side than an additional bat. T he Australian managers have no reason to choose their players until the morning of the match, and it will be rather a difficult task for them to know the two to leave out. A hot return by, if I remember rightly, Mr. Docker in the Derbyshire match, injured Boyle’s bowling hand, but it ought to 1 recovered by this time with a week’s res According to appearances the Australiai will want all the bowling they have, and may be that Bonnor and Jones will have j stand down. O pinions with regard to the Inte: university match since the commencemeij of the season, when the chances of Cambrid' were considered to be hopeless, have altero very materially, and if anything Cambridg is now the favourite. It is not in m province to enter into an analysis < the play on each side, but from the form saw at the Oval there is very little bowliii in either eleven. Mr. Ramsay may hav his day, and if so he is sure to be effectivi but there is hardly a bowler in the twl teams that one would call strictly firsi class. Still, on the form they have showl recently, Cambridge are certainly th; better eleven. Oxford, I believe, will ij precisely the same as played at the Oval, bi up to yesterday I hear that only ten of tli Cambridge team had been fixed. The eleven! I expect, will be very like the following h Oxford. — N. McLachlan (capt.), C. F. Leslie W. A. Thornton, M. C. Kemp, G. Harrisor G. E . Robinson, A. O. Whiting, E . Peak< J. G. Walker, E . D. Shaw, and W. Ij Hamilton. Cambridge .— G. B. Studd (capt.1 C. T. Studd, J. E . Studd, Hon. M. Hawkt C. W. Wright, F. E . Lacey, P. J. de Para vicini, R. C. Ramsay, F. D; Gaddum, C. A Smith, and another. L ast week I called attention to honour) gained by Mr. F. G. Lucas, a member of celebrated cricketing family, in mathematio at Cambridge University, and Monday’! papers include him as one of the Junioi Optimes in the Mathematical Tripos. It is pleasant to record distinctions gained b cricketers, and I am glad therefore to sej the names of Messrs. H. J. Ford, one ofthj well-known brotherhood of Old Reptoniang and E . 0 . Powell, who played for Surre1 last week, in the second division of tin first class in the Cambridge Classical Triposi I hope it is not a breach of confidence tl state that it is to the former of these gentlel men that “ C r i c k e t ” is indebted for th< excellent design which heads the paper. I t has already been my duty to cal attention to many instances of long scoring this year, but I question whether any oi them equals a feat performed by two Surrej amateurs last Saturday at Sandhurst. Li a match between Streatham and the Royal Military College there Messrs. W. S.’ Trollope, and N. C. Bailey, the well-known International footballer, scored as many as 160 runs in an hour. And what is still more noteworthy, all were run out. Has this ever been beaten ? The best similar performance will oblige. _ — O nly a short time ago I had occasion to'