Cricket 1882

a u g u s t 3, 1882. CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 203 of an innings A very finely-played 66 by the Hon. M. B. Hawke was the sole feature of York­ shire’s second innings, and he was the only batsman who could make any stand against the bowling of Midwinter and Mr. \V. G. Grace, the former of whom took six wickets for 50 runs. Gloucestershire had 139 to win when they went in on Tuesday night, but excepting Mr. W. G. Grace, no one offered any serious opposition to the Yorkshire bowling, and the Yorkshireinen won by 29 runs. Thus all the three Northern matches resulted in defeats for the Glou­ cestershire eleven. Score and analyses :— Y orkshire . J. W. Essery, c ButterN. Loraine, b Cooke .. .. 10 worth, b Cooke .. .. 5 Gossage, b Simond .. .. 18 H. Watts, c Butterworth, b S im o n d ..........................2 McMahon, b Simond.. .. 4 Wickham, not out .. .. 4 J. Nicoll, b Cooke .. .. 4 B 3,1 b 1 .. , , 4 P. Bovill, b SimoDd .. .. 4 — White, b Simond .. .. 0 Total .. .. Fitst Innings. Second Innings. Hall, b W. G. G r a c e .................. 7 b Midwinter .. 4 Ulyett, b Woof .......................... 45 c Cranston, b W. G. Grace .................. 9 Bates, c Bush, b Peake .. .. 7 c B'.tsh, b Midwinter . 1 ) Lockwood, c Bush, b PeaKo 18 c Woof, b Midwinter 8 Hou. M. B. Hawke, b Peake 0 c and b Midwinter .. 66 Grimshaw, c E. M. Grace, b W. G. Grace ................................. l-2 b W G. Grace .. 11 Haggas, c and b W oof.................. 1 b Midwinter .. 6 Emmett, not o u t .......................... 16 c E. M. Grace, b W. G. G race.................. 16 Peate, c E. M. Grace, b W. G. G ra c e ......................................... ii c and b Midwinter .. 7 Peel, c Woof, b Midwinter .. 1 run out.......................... 0 Hunter, c Townsend, b Mid- 2 not ont.......................... 3 B 2, w 1 .................................. 3 B 4 ,1-b 1, w 1 .. 6 Total .......................... 112 Total .. ..148 G loucestershire . First Innings. Second Innings. Mr. E. M. Grace, b Peate .. 0 b P e e l.......................... 13 Mr. W. G.'Jrace, b Peate .. .. 0 c Lockwood, b Emmett 56 Mr. W. R. Gilbert, b Peate.. 1 b E m m e tt.................. 4 Midwinter, c Bates, b Peel.. .. 46 c Emmett, b Bates .. 0 Mr. F. Townsend, b Peel .. 30 c Bates, b Emmett .. 9 Mr. W. O. Moberly, c Hunter, b Peate ......................................... 1 c Bates, b Peate.. .. 2 Mr. J. Cranston, c and b Peel .. 18 st Hanter, b Bates .. 0 Mr. A. D. Greene, run out .. 2 not out.......................... 4 Mr. E. Poake, c Ulvett, b Peel .. 13 c and b Emmett 0 Mr. J. A. Bush, b Emmett.. 0 b Ulyett .................. 0 Woof, not out.................................. 0 st Hunter, b Ulyett.. 15 B 5 , 1-b 3, w 2.......................... 9 Extras.................. 6 T o t a l ..............................123 Total .. ..109 ANALYSES OF BOWLING. Y orkshire . First Innings. Second Innings. O. M. R.W. O. M. R.W W. G. Grace .. 29 10 39 3 .......................... 33 11 52 3 Midwinter .. 25.1 IB 20 2 .......................... 51.2 30 50 6 E. Peake . . . . 19 7 218 ............................. 4 1 7 0 W oof........................10 6 202 ............................. 14 5 19 0 Peake bowled a wide. Townsend .. 3 0 12 0 W. G. Grace bowled a wide. G loucestershire . First Innings. O. M. R.W. Peate.. . . . . 8 5 11 64 4 Bates.. . .. 9 6 8 0 Emmett . . . . 1 3 10 8 1 4 Ulyett . .. 7 4 9 0 Peate and Emnutt bowled a wide. Second Innings. O. M. . . . . 24 10 .. .. 80 15 .. .. 23 10 .. .. U 7 .. .. 5.2 4 R.W. 21 1 30 4 8 1 LONDON INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE v. J. NIGOtiL’S ELEVEN. Played at Isleworth on July 19. T he C ollege . Second Innings. 31 c Watts, b Bovill not out.. ..................12 First Innings. W. M. Rorison, c Bovill, b M cM ah on ..................................7 b Watts ...................15 J. A. Burke, b White .. i . .. 23 A. Godwin, c Loraine, b M oM ahon..................................5 0. T. Cooke, b B o v ill..................83 A. Simond,b Watts ..................17 n otou t...........................16 H. R. Ladell, b B ovill..................5 W. Blake, c Gossage, b Essery 7 bB ovill.. .. .. .. o D. Barff, c sub, b Bovill .. .. 0 H. H. Batterworth, c White, b B o v ill..........................................4 W. F. Cook, b B o v ill.................. 2 F. C. Smith, not o u t ..................0 B 8 ,1-b 2, w l . . .. .. .. 6 et Loraine, b Bovill .. B .......................... Total. .113 Total , 85 N icoll ’ s E leven . JUNIOR SOUTHGATE v. ENFIELD. Played at Southgate on July 27. J unior S outhgate . First Inniugs. Second Innings. W. J. Seward, b Barber .. .. 5 W. D. White, b Barber .. .. 82 W. H. George,c Hampton,b Jones 4 b A b so lo n .................. F. F. White, b Absolon .. .. 53 N. H. Mainwaring, uot out .. 63 A. E. White, 1b w, b Barber .. 8 V. Graham-Smith, hit ball twice 7 A. Hay, h w, b J o n e s ..................0 not out.............................. 0 C. A. Wood, 1b w, b Jones.. .. 0 c Hampton, b Boswell 0 J. W. Sharp, b Absolon .. .. 2 T. S. Sidney, 1b w, b Absolon .. 0 Extras ..................................8 Extras.......................6 b A b so lo n ..................17 c Almond, b Boswell 0 not out..........................16 Total................................. 232 E nfield . Total .. 45 C. Absolon, b C. A. Wood 5 A. Jones, c J. Sharp, b F. White ..........................2 F. C. Almond, not out .. 83 A. L. Ford, c A. E. White, b F. F. White..................6 W Marshall,c W.D.White, b F. F. White..................80 Rev. C. H. Hiokling, c Seward, b Wood .. .. 0 R. Barber, st J. Sharp, b F. F. White .. .. 9 H. Hampton, c Hay, b F. F. White ..................12 G. Boswell, c F. F. White, b George ..................3 B. T. Bosanquet, b George 0 E. Fyson, c and b (ieorge 7 Extras..........................21 Total .178 W H A T DO T H E A U S T R A L IA N S TE A CH US? W e suppose most of our readers wonlcl say that cricket in England was never in a more flourishing condition than at present. The greatest batsman who ever lived has not yet lost his cunning, while the number of lesser lights in the firmament is perhaps larger than ever. The keeping of grounds has become scientific to a degree before unknown, and makes the game pleasurable where formerly it was dangerous. A great multiplication of matches throughout the country engenders a wide-spread interest in the game, so that a literature of its own has sprung into existence, and those who cannot play cricket read a great deal about it, and talk more. Add to this, the vast c<.ncourse of spectators so frequently seen on the London grounds, and we seem to have enumerated enough satisfactory symptoms to satisfy anybody. Ail this is true. But a nearer inspection will reveal some conditions whicli no one ought to be satisfied with. We have no hesitation in saying that the popularity of the game is no guarantee for its healthiness. The largest empires are exposed to the deadliest dangers ; and though the spreading of cricket in England may open out a prospect of its being played for many years to come, there is nothing to show that the best cricket is now being or will be played, or that the quality of the game is not deteriorating. We venture to think that a deterioration is going on before our eyes, and that the visits of the Colonists to the mother country are pointing it out year by year, and that if we do not look to our play, we shall smart for it at their hands, and that speedily. We must explain. The defect inherent in cricket which has long threatened its prosperity is that small mistakes in it bring ruinous consequences. The least bit of bad luck or momentary carelessness los~s a man his innings, and with it his chance of distinction in the match. It has often been pointed out with reference to this that batting is not the whole of the game, and that it is folly to con­ sider it to be so. Now this folly is more rampant than ever. We are poiuting out an old disease which to our minds is more acute than ever before; and in doing so we wish to insist on the remedy. The remedy is that bowling and fielding must be cultivated at any cost, and that without delay. Cricket is suffering from the spirit of luxury so prevalent, combined with a selfishness which is rather encouraged by the game itself. Matches are played in by different pla; ers for the sake of the score that will be attached to their names in the daily paper. The suburban railways bring down players to county matches who make every effort to get their innings, and then do not mind if their dinner-train prevents them fielding. Single-day matches are a prey to five o’clock teas. First-class matches tell something of the same story. Hundreds of amateurs have practised batting, but cannot bowl or are indifferent to fielding. A paid class of men do the bowling in order that there may be an exhibition of batting, and the fielding is left to take care of itself. Straight into the midst of such cricket come the Colonists. They landed in ’78 with not one first-class batsman among them, but with eleven fine fieldsmen and a bevy of bowlers. Their batting was sure to improve after a season of watching the best English models, and it has improved to some purpose; while by dint of that vigorous, healthy bowling and fieldirg, they have threatened our best eleven more and more seriously every year. We repeat that unless w® look to it, we cannot beat them much longer. What then is to be done ? People say bowling should be practised. This is not so. Fielding should be to any extent, but the reason so few amateurs bowl is that they have overbowled them­ selves as boys at school, and the exquisite adjust- ment of muscles in the right shoulder has been rudely and violently disturbed, never again to be restored. This is of annual occurrence, and let it be noticed, it is not the humdrum, spiritless young cricketers who do this, but the very keenest and best bred among them, who will bowl away as long as there is anything to bowl at, and in a few years all spin and precision is gone from their balls for ever. Side by side with this is the fact that they never practise fielding at all—whereas about half an hour a day devoted to stopping hard hits, and returning them, would turn out a fine fielding team. Is there a single school where these two points are attended to? We don’t believe there is one. The bowling at the Eton and Harrow match is almost always°bad, and the fielding never what it should be. For the last three or four years, indeed, the cricket has been ridiculous, and the match a fit rendezvous for gossiping dowagers and ball-room dandies. Again, what local supporters of cricket pay the least attention to the evil. Not one. Young bowlers could be so looked after, and young teams so made to work at fielding, that this stigma on English cricket would be soon removed. It would seem as if our cricket, compared with the Colonists, was suffering from senility, while theirs is in full tide of youth. We must show them by taking these steps that there is “ life in the old dog yet.” OPTIME. M.C.C. and G round y . S outh W ales C l u b .— This match was begun at Lord’s yesterday. Only one innings to each side was completed. Maryle­ bone scored 23(5 (T. C. O’Brien 113) ; South Wales 88. M.C.C. and G round v. E ssex . —Played at Lord's on Monday and Tuesday. Essex won by five w ckets. M.C.C. 191 and 118; Essex 261 (Rev. A. T. Fortescue 89) and 52 for five wickets. 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