Cricket 1882

JULY 27, 1882. CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 181 ^P ?IYm i0N :-G 9^ IP ^ They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of our time.— Hamlet. I a m pleased to find tliat several corre­ spondents have already taken me at my word in reference to the promise I made to record any good bowling performances, regardless of the quality of the match. Here are a few that have been sent me. On Friday, July 21, in a match between Ashford and Tun­ bridge Wells, in the first innings of the lat­ ter, C. Avery delivered 12 overs, 10 maidens, for 2 runs and eight wickets, all clean bowled. The eight wickets included those of W. Draper, Ingram, Collins, and Marten, all of whom have at times figured in the Kent eleven. On July 20, at Eastleigh (Hants), for Eastleigh v. Otterbourne, H. Misselbrook, sen., took 17 wickets (13 clean bowled) in 24 overs and 4 balls for 21 runs. On July 22, in a match at Duffield between Duffield and Little Eaton, T. Wake’s analysis for the former reads thus :—4 overs, 8 maidens, 1 run, and 7 wickets, all clean bowled. In a recent match in Kent, F. Lipscomb, son of the once well-known Kentish cricketer, “ Bob Lipscomb,” a fast bowler, who was tried for the county against Yorkshire at Sheffield, was credited with eight wickets for 7 runs. On July 15 for Anston United v. Kineton Part Colliery W. Whitfield tookseven wickets fornoruns. The bowling of Horton for Salter’s Club against Aston Unity last weekis also worthy of notice; he took nine wickets for one run. A more noteworthy feat though than any recorded of late to my mind is that of Mr. A. Causton in a twelve a-side match between Essendon, Junior, andHatfield, Junior,played at Essen­ don on May 30. In the two innings ofHatfield he took as many as nineteen wickets, and threw out a twentieth. T h e adage that it is never too late to learn is an old one. It is unpleasant for me to reflect that I have lived until I am well in the sere and yellow without being aware of the existence of such an important official as a referee at cricket. The New­ castle reporter of the only sporting daily evidently sees the necessity for such a func­ tionary, to judge from his details of the Australian innings aga;nst Northumberland on Monday. I quote his remarks in case they should ever be claimed as a precedent : — “ Garrett’ s inniugs of fifty-nine was not a faultless one, for he had not been at the creasemore than a fewminutes whenMaharba stumped him ; but the referee gave him not out, thinking that he was within bounds." There is some need for a cricket school­ master in Northumberland it would appear. What the criticmeans by “ the patient, careful, and often dashing play of Horan,” it would be difficult to tell. The distinction between a patient and careful style of batting is too subtle. A f e w items in the way of small scoring. In a match between Waltham and Warfield, played at Waltham on July 15, Warfield were dismissed for 1 and 14. On July 22 Little Eaton were dismissed by Duffield, at Duffield, for 9 (5 extras). In a Birmingham Association Cup tie on July 15, Salter’s got Wednesbury out for 11, and in the same district on Monday last, in a match between the Post Office and Britannia Works, played at Adderley Park, Barnes made all the 13 runs got from the bat in the former’s innings of 15. In a match between Barley and Great Chiswell recently, the former in their first innings made three. The first batsman scored two and there was one wide. Despite this they won by three wickets, scoring 8 and 42 for seven wickets, against complete innings of 30 and 14 by Chiswell. On July 15 Kineton Park Colliery were all dismissed by Anston United for six. I t was Dryden, if I remember right, who sings of A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, aud unthinking time. The lines occur to me as I think of the hundreds of amateur cricketers either already, or soon to be, off for their annual tours. Of a sad truth, despite the wet weather, it makes anyone like myself obliged to stay in London, envious. For the next few weeks, hardly a part of the country but will be overrun by these peripatetic brotherhoods. The club, indeed, which has not its holiday tour is nowadays very small potatoes. What hosts of imitators the I Zingari, who, in 1845, first set the example of wandering, have found, to be sure! Incogniti, Harrow Wanderers, Uppingham Hovers, Rossall Rangers, Will o ’ the Wisps, Nondescripts, Assyrians, Revellers, Free Foresters, Emeriti, and others, quos enumerare longum est. The Harrow Wanderers in the north, the Uppingham Rovers in north and south, the Incogs, and Will o ’ the Wisps in the west, the Zingari everywhere. What a festive time each will have of it. And justice, too, will be done to Ireland in spite of Land Leaguers and Captain Moonlights. On August the seventh, the Emeriti will commence a fortnight’s cam­ paign on Irish grounds. It is some years since a team of Emeriti have visited Ireland, but the cricketers of Dublin and Belfast, in each of which cities they will pass a week, are sure to give them a hearty welcome. The programme consists of six matches, the Phoenix Park Club at Plicenix Park, on August 7 and 8, Trinity College Long Vaca­ tion Club, at College Park, August 9 and 10, and the Civil Service at Phoenix Park, on 11 and 12. At Belfast they will meet the North of Ireland on 14 and 15, Ulster on 16 and 17, and the Cliftonville Club on August 18, concluding the tour. It is ex­ pected that most of the following will be able to play in one or other of the matches: F. R. Anderton, F. E . Cuming, P. H. Dore- hill, M. E . Fennessey, Hon. W . French, A. S. Hussey, H. C. John, P. M. K illion,1 E . de Lisle, M. G. McNamara, J. P.j Munster, J. J. Parfitt, A. J. Russell, G ,' O’Neil Legrave, W. F. Tempest, and F. T.: Welman. No list of the team which is likely to represent the Players against the Austra- i lians at the Oval on August 10 has as y et, been published. I think I shall be right! though in predicting that eleven out of thej following twelve will be selected :—Lock-’ wood, Ulyett, Bates, Peate, Barnes, Shrews­ bury, Morley, Sherwin, Selby, Flowers, Hall, and Read. The Lancashire match j with Gloucestershire will deprive the Players of two of their most useful men n Barlow and Midwinter. Had it not been for that fixture I should have liked to have seen Crossland in the team. T h e management at Leeds is naturally disinclined to release the Australians from their engagement on September 11, 12, and 13, and Murdoch and his men it is now understood will meet Shaw’s Australian team there on those days. In consequence there is every possibility that the match between the same sides at the Oval will be deferred until the 21st of the same month. It is a little amusing to note the flutter the advent into the Yorkshire eleven of a new bowler almost on the same lines as Peate has caused in what reporters love to call the “ County of many acres.” The presence of two slow left-handed bowlers of much the same kind hardly suits the gene­ rally accepted notions, and though Peel, Peate, and Bates were all playing at Shef­ field against Lancashire in Lockwood’s benefit match, the arrangement troubles the authorities no little. But the probabi­ lity of Peel’s future is even more perplexing to the local scribes. Already on the vaguest possible information a rumour has been industriously circulated in many of the principal sporting journals of the north that overtures have been made to Peel to identify himself with one of the southern shires. To anyone who does not know the way in which cricket news is manufactured, such a report might gain credence, but to those who do know the story is a little funny. Peel is, I understand, engaged at Oldham, and if the residential qualification is likely to be utilised at all in the matter, an eye should be kept on Lancashire, which has not shown bad judgment in the selection of its adopted sons. It is said, rightly or wrongly I know not, that Peel is likely next year to join the ground staff at Lord’s, which has received lately a promising young recruit in the person of Attewell of Notts. To what shire does the young captain of