Cricket 1883

9 8 CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. may 17 , 1 883. bowling one of 11.52 for 65 wickets. Though hardly quite so successful for his county in 1879 as in the previous year, he was still at the head of the batting averages, and a fair amount of success greeted him at the end of the same season during the tour of Daft’s team of English professionals in America and Canada. For the third successive year Ulyett in 1880 was at the head of the batting averages of Yorkshire, and one at least of his innings that year will be wcll- remembered—to wit, his finely-hit score of 141 at the Oval, against Surrey, as perfect a display of cricket a3 he has ever shown. During this Beason he had a nominal engagement at Lord’s, but he only played in one match of any im­ portance, and he was absent from most of the chief engagements against the Australians, owing it is said to a feeling of resentment against certain proceedings during the visit of Lord Harris’ team to Australia. In consequence of an accident he was absent from some of the Yorkshire engagements of 1881, but he made some large scores, notably his 112 for Yorkshire against Surrey, his 57 and 80 for the Players against the Gentlemen at the Oval, and his 22 for the North against the South on the same ground for Jupp’s benefit. As the most suc­ cessful professional batsman of the year, he was one of the first invited to join Shaw and Shrews­ bury’s team to visit Australia at the end of 1881, and here again his cricket was of the most brilliant kind. His 167 not out against Twenty- two of San Fransisco, and his 149 against Murdoch’s Eleven for England were the only innings of three figures made during that tour, and considering the difference of climate, not to mention the hard work incidental to the trip, his aggregate of 1,424 for forty-three completed innings, was a great achievement. A t the end of last season, for the fifth time in succession he headed the table of batting averages for his county and but for a deterioration in the laterfixtures his record would have been exceptionally fine. As it was he made some noteworthy scores, especially his 138 for Over Thirty against Under Thirty, and 120 for Yorkshire against Surrey, and again he was entitled to the distinction of the highest aggregate of the year in first-class matches. The season, too, found a marked improvement in his bowling, or the greater opportunities afforded to him by Hill’s loss of form gave him a better chance of displaying his powers. York­ shire, indeed, had in him one of its most useful trundlers in 1882, and as a fast bowler he made a decided advance last summer. At the present time there are no better all-round cricketers than the stalwart Yorkshireman, whose even­ ness of temper has won for him the soubriquet of “ Happy Jack.” Ulyett stands 5ft. lO^in. in height, and of a muscular frame, is just the pattern build for a cricketer. He is very strong and hits all round with the greatest vigour, being one of the heaviest punishers we have. His drives are exceedingly powerful, and he treats slow bowling with merciless severity. He is at times very effective as a fast round-arm bowler, and as his delivery is high and he makes full use of his height, with a ground to help him he is occasionally very dangerous. In the field he is brilliant, in the outfield particularly, as he is a sure catch and has a very effective return to the wicket. He is, too, one of the keenest cricketers to be met with anywhere, and as a consequence his popularity is not confined to his own district or county. K ilm a rn ock , in a match against Dumfries, on Saturday, were all out for 24. The highest in­ dividual score was nine. T h e smallest score ever made from the bat in New Zealand was in a match on Dec. 23 last, between the Union aud Tauranga clubs, at Tauranga. The Union eleven were out for nine, of which seven were extras. * C U R IO S IT IE S OF C R ICK E T . P art III. (Continued from page 83.) 1836. May 24, 25.—Cambridge. Under­ graduates v. Town Club. Won by the former. Mr. J. H. Kirwin, whose fast and jerky bowling was very effective about this time, bowled down Fifteen Town wickets out of twenty—a very rare and perhaps unsurpassed feat. August 22, 25.—Leicester. North v. South. Southwonby218 runs, to which result Mr. A. Mynn contributed 21 and 125, not being out either time. I l the M.C.C. v. Sussex match, at Brighton, the week before, ho had scored 45 and 92, besides taking nine wickets with his bowling. He was at this time, beyond all question, the best all-round cricketer out, and was probably better, as a bat and bowler combined, than anyone else before or since. Not without great reason did poor W. J. Prowse, now dead himself, write in his honour the best cricketing song ever composed, just after Mr. Mynn’s death in November, 1861. 1837. May 22, 23.—Petworth. East v. West Sussex. Won by the latter in one innings by 62. According to Bell’s Life (says Lillywhite), thirty orers were bowled by East Sussex for the first 5 runs, and a batsman, J. Napper, stayed in eighty minutes for 1 run. This rather taxes one’s powers of belief. June 15.—Lord’s. M.C.C. v. Wanstead Park. Unfinished. Mr. E. H. Rudd’s last match at Lord’s, his first innings having been in 1802. He tools; eight wickets, and caught a ninth, out of seventeen that fell. June 19, 20.—Lord’s. M.C.C. v. Sussex. Won by the latter by three wickets. In the first innings of Sussex, S. Redgate, one of the finest bowlers ever known, bowled nineteen overs for 10 runs and six wickets, five of them clean bowled. July 11.—SaffronWalden. Walden v. Stort­ ford. Walden had an innings of 474 that lasted the whole day, and Alfred Adams made 279, the highest score known for many years, though exceeded several times of late, and very nearly equalled, by Mr. W . G. Grace on tbe 25th and 26th of July last. It was made from 127 hits, averaging nearly 2J runs each. 1838. June 6th.—Eton. First Life Guards v. Eton. Won by Eton in an innings. The First Life Guards in their first in­ nings made 14 extras and 12 runs from the bat, scored by two men, who made 7 and 5. The other nine did not score. August 1 -6 .-—Lord’s. Curious result of the School matches. Harrow beat Win­ chester by an innings and 54. Eton beat Harrow by an innings and 30; and then, when the second victory of Eton seemed to be almost superfluously certain, Winchester beat her by an in­ nings and 34. There is not a more curious “ merry-go-rounder,” as Mr. Peggotty would have called it, in the aunals of the game. September 25. •— Emswortli, Hants. Eleven v. Twenty-two. Won by the latter. W. Hipkins went in first for the Twenty-two, and was “ not out,” after scoring 61 out of 110 runs made from the bat. • These appeared in Land and Water some yearn ago. 18J.9. June 10, 11.—Lord’s. M.C.C. v. Sussex. Won by M.C.C. Lillywhite went in first for Sussex in their first innings, aud was 1 ‘ not out ” for 42 out of 80 runs, though Cobbett and Bayley, both first-rate bowlers, were opposed to him. This was one of his two greatest bat­ ting feats, and was really no small one, as he was entirely played for his bowl­ ing, and was within a very few days of his forty-seventh birthday. He also went in first, and got 40 “ not out ” against Redgate and Mr. Mynn, in the Fast V. Slow Bowlers’ match, in June, 1841, when lie was in his fiftieth year. 1840. June 29, 30.—Lord’s. Harrow v. Win­ chester. Won by the latter by 11 runs. In Harrow’s second innings, 71 runs were scored from the bat, and 68 for extras, 44 being byes. Perhaps the worst long-stopping on record. 1841. June 17.—Rugby. M.C.C. v. Rugby. Unfinished. This is the match de­ scribed by Mr. T. Hughes in “ Tom Brown’s School-days.” Mr. Hughes scored 20 and 0. July 8.—Lords. RoyalArtillery v. Guards. Won by the latter in an innings. Mr. P. Mundy, for the R.A., saw nineteen wickets fall, and carried out his bat both times, only scoring 37 in all. July 26, 27.—Lord’s. England v. Kent. Won by Kent by 70 runs. Mr. Mynn and Hillyer bowled throughout for Kent, and disposed of a first-class eleven twice over for 69 runs from the bat in seventy-seven overs, less one ball. 1842. May 19, 20.—Cambridge. Undergradu­ ates v. M.C.C. Won by M.C.C. by three wickets. Mr. F. Ponsonby for M.C.C. made a leg-hit for nine, without an overthrow, and with a good fieldsman to return the hall. July 14.—M.C.C. v.Royal Artillery. Un­ finished; much in favour of M.C.C.. the whole of whose eleven scored double figures, added to which they made 106 for extras—byes 58, wides 48. August 1, 2, 3.—Canterbury. Kent v. England. Kent went in first and scored 278, but made only 44 in the second in­ nings, and lost by nine wickets. Six­ teen out of 20 Kent wickets were caught out. August 4.—Petworth. Midhurst v. Pet- worth. A tie match. August 4, 5, 6.—Canterbury. Gentlemen of England v. Gentlemen of Kent. Easily won by the latter. In this match 159 extras were scored. August 19, 20.—Clifton. Lansdowne v. Clifton. Won by the latter by three wickets. No less than 46 byes in an innings of 131. Extras scored very heavily about this date. On a good ground they ought not nowadays to exceed four or at most five per cent, of the whole number of runs scored. A novel cricket match was played on Monday, on the ground of the Notts Castle Club. The Sheffield Deaf and Dumb Club, and the Derby Deaf and Dumb Club supplied the contending elevens, and over a hundred deaf and dumb spectators and their friends, several having come from Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, and London,were present. Derby won by twenty-three runs. For the winners R. Danks contributed thirty-eight not out, to the total of sixty-five, and took eight of the ten Sheffield wickets. F o r the Lancashire Colts against the County Eleven at Manchester on Tuesday, R. Macfarlane took the last three wickets in first innings of Eleven with successive balls.