Cricket 1883

158 CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. j u n e i , mss. very effective yesterday when the game seemed to be in favour of Sussex. A young amateur named Hazleton m-’.do a promising debut for Hampshire,playing good cricket in each innings. Sussex were beaten by 31 runs. H ampshire . First Innings. Mr. A. Duncan, 1 b w,b A. H ide..........................................0 Mr. R. Thorne, b J. Ilido .. 2 Mr. EL Hazleton, b A. Hide 50 Sccond Innings. Mr. F. E. Lacey, c J.Pliillipp, b H um p hreys....................20 Mr. A. H. Wood, run out .. 2 Mr. R. Bencraft, 1b w, b Humphreys.............................0 Mr. T. E. Underdown, run out.............................................. 5 Mr. E. Tooker, c Wyatt, b Juniper ............................. 4 Young, not out .................... 11 Mr. H. Armstrong, b A. Hide 4 Dible, et H. Philips, bJ.Hide 0 13 12 c H. Phillips,b A.Hido 26 b J. Hide .................... q c Willocks, b Hum­ phreys .....................18 lb w, b Humphreys.. 55 b A. H i d e ....................0 c Willock, b Juniper 33 c II. Phillips, b Hum­ phreys ....................5 b A. H i d e ....................7 b A. H i d e .....................18 n otou t............................9 c Wyatt, b Hum­ phreys .....................0 B .................... 0 Total. .110 Tefal .180 S ussex . First Innings. Rev.F.F.J.Greenfield,cDible, b Armstrong .................13 Tester, b Armstrong .. .. 0 Huggett,b Young...........................2 J . Hide, c Armstrong: b Young .. ... .. . . . . 4 W . Humphreys, b Young .. 5 J. Phillips, b Young .. .. 1 Mr. G. N. Wyatt, b Dible .. 20 H . Phillips, c Young, b Dible 22 A. Hide, b D ib le ................... 0 Juniper, bDible .................11 Mr. C. J. Willock, not ou t.. 8 B .......................... 8 Second Innings. b Lacey ....................27 b Dible.............................55 bDible........................ 0 c Bencraft, b Lacey .. 7 c Wood, b Dihle ... 4 b Dible...........................0 b Lacey.............................8 run out: ....................47 not out .................... 4 c and ,b Diblo .. bD ible.. ....................6 B 6, 1 b 1 .. Total 94 Total ..165 BOWLING ANALYSIS. A. Hide . J. Hide ., Juniper . Willock .. Humphreys . Tester .. . H a m psh ir e . First Innings. O. M. R.W. .. .. 23 15 20 3 .. 21.3 8 30 2 Second Innings. O. M. R.W. 21 10 7 28 1 7 5 0 5 16 2 0 4 0 44 26 45 87 20 40 13 5 31 3 6 24 2 9 12 45 0 8 Armstrong Young Lacey Dible S ussex . First Innings. O. M. R.W 23 16 17 2 22 .. 10 .. 19.1 7 39 4 4 14 0 8 16 4 Second Innings. O. M. R.W. . .. 8 I 2 18 0 . .. 17 6 36 0 . .. 24 8 54 3 . . . 30.3 12 50 6 HAMPSTEAD v. CHRIST COLLEGE, FINCHLEY. Played at Hampstead on Wednesday, May 30, and won by Hampstead. C hrist C ollege . First Innings. Second Innings. F. G. Hartley, c Cutler, b Parker ............................. 0 c Shackel, b Parker 11 H. 13. D. Goss, b Parker.. 9 b Parker.................... 2 P. E. Tuckwell, c Hill, b S h ack el............................. 1 b Shackel.................... 3 F. C. Cousins, b Parker .. 2 run o u t .................... 0 F. J. Rawlinson, c Fairless, b Parker ............................. 15 c Shackel, b Parker 2 J. B. Sayer, b Shackel .. 0 17 F. W. Andrew, c G. Creaton, b Shackel............................. 3 b Parker .................... 8 W . P. Carpmnel, b Fairless 7 b Parker .................... 4 C. II. Cleveland, not ou t.. . 37 b Parker.................... 2 R. Lonsdale, b G. Creaton 0 not out .................... 0 T. II. Hitch, b Marshall.. 3 b Parker ..................... 8 B 3 ,1-b 1 .......................... 4 T o ta l.............................81 H ampstead . Total .. . . 57 R. S. CreaPton, b LonsR. W . D. Hill, b Lons- dale ............................. 0 dale .. .. .. 2 H. B. Phillips, c Saycr, J. W . Cutler, not out .. 31 b Cleveland.................... 12 E. B. Holmes, b Lons- W . R . Marshall, 1b w, b dale .. .. .. 4 L o n sd a le .................... 21 S. D. Fairless, b Lons­ n . T. Shackel, b Lonsdale .. . . . . 1 4 dale ............................. 0 B 1 ,1-b 2.. P. Dollar, b Cleveland.. 1 — A. R. Parker, b CleveTotal .. ..119 land ............................. 11 G. W. Creaton,c Andrew, b Lonsdale.................... 20 CASTLE v. ORMOND. Played at New Eton and Middlesex on Sat- uiday, June 2. Cornell, for the Castle, did the hat O rmond . i * 0 Evans, b George.. .. 33 Pitman, b Cornell.. .. 5 Brockinton, st Hutley, b Carter.............................13 Stevens, b Carter .. .. 1 WhittiDgton, b Carter 1 Cobden, sen., c Hollyer, b Cornell ....................26 Rev. E. Pricc, b Cornell 25 C astle . \V. R. Symonds, c Brockinton, b Jones.. 13 C. Carter,,b Evans .. 11 J. H. Beaumont, b Fvans .. ....................0 C. Hutley, b Jones .. 1 S. Cornell, c Csbden, b Jones.............................10 W . Guy, run out .. .. 4 C. Witt, not out .. . . 1 1 Jones,b Cornell .. .. Cobden, jun., c Hutley, b Cornell ....................0 Row, not o tit....................5 Collins, b Beaumont .. 1 B 10,1 b 8, w 7 .. 25 Tetal. .135 A. George, b Whitting­ ton ............................. C. M. Hollyer, b Jones.. W. H. Sutton, b Jones R.A. Page, b Whitting­ ton ................ ..................... £ 3,1'b 1, w 1 .. .. Total....................59 * H 3 O T O $ P 0 P E N C E > Wa are not responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents. No communications can be inserted un­ less tbey bear the name and address of the writer, as a proof of good faith, not necessarily for publication. REMOVING AN OLD LANDMARK. To th e E ditor of “ C r ick e t . ” S ir , —Nothing is more pleasant than to have one’s knuckles good-naturedly rapped, as I have bad mine rapped by Mr. Keyworth, except having them rapped by a lady with her fan, but that, alas, is a privilege which belongs to younger men than myself. I don’t want to remove my neighbours’ land­ mark, but 1 won’t swallow Mr. Timbs or Lisle Bowles, but shall shelter myself under my friend, Mr. Pycroft’s suggestion, that Mr. Bowles spoke typically of games in general, when he allnded to Bishop Ken playing cricket at W in­ chester. Beyond the legend that a ship’s crew landed and played “ Krycket ” at Antioch, temp : Charles II., I can find nothing earlier than the early part of the 18th century, and nothing older in prints or pictures than the celebrated picture at Lord’s, dated 1743, which was engraved, and called “ Cricket.” But I have no doubt but that in principle Mr. Key- worth and I thoroughly agree. On searching out the story of old sports, I feel convinced that polo comes from an old Persian and Tartar sport of hockey on horseback, which is pre-historic (here you commence with club or bat and ball), that fives, tennis, and all kindred games of ball, came from the Greeks and Romans. Vide Horace’s Sat: lib. 1 Sat v. Lusum it Moeceuas, dormitum ego Virgiliusque ; Namque pilalippis inimicum, et ludere crudis. And again—Sat: lib. 11: Sat 11. vel si Romana fatigat Militia assuetum Greecari, seu pilavelox, Molliter austerum studio falleute laborem, Seu te discus agit— I am not going to quote the Latin notes, but if your correspondent will turn to an old Del- phin Horace (mine is dated 1727), and read the notes to those passages, he will find all about ball play : about the small ball which they returned first bound, the air ball which was struck back, tho smaller with the fist, the larger with the arm (the Pallone of the Romans, the Tennis of to-day r) the ball which was thrown from one to another by three people standing in a triangle and caught by right hand or left hand running in or running out to it : and it is also noted that women played at ball. In the games above noted you have striking a ball with a club, throwing, catching and fielding, and their games drifted westward with civilization, and took root in England at dif­ ferent times, and began to build up cricket. I quite believe in the old legends of “ hand in ” and “ hand out,” hockey, rounders, club- ball, stool-ball—which I saw in Kent as a little boy—women’s cricket with abattledore for a bat, a tennis ball and small tables or stools for wickets, and I heard old women say what players they, and their mothers were, of course ‘ much better than those girl*” And now I confess my creed. I believe wholly in Mr. Bolland’s theory that cricket is a grand mon­ grel, and that it came last from tip cat, for he ran it to earth as a game of tip-cat, which was played by two parties, with eleven a side, and a notcher, and it was called “ cross wicket,” and they ran across where the cat was stiuck away, and his theory is that tho ball was sub­ stituted for the “ cat,” and by corruption of cross-wicket, the game was called “ Cricket.” I am by birth a cross between a Hampshire hog and a Wiltshire moonraker, the most obstinate, pigheaded breed known, and I will never ne—ver give in, as I believe that Cricket, as cricket , began in the earlier part of the last century, and I “ plump ” for Mr. Bolland. If it had existed as Cricket in the days of Bishop Ken, I think Pepys would have said something about it in his diary, for he chattered of everything moral and immoral. Be that as it may, I can find no print earlier than that of the old picture at Lord’s, and after that date I can find numbers, including one of a match between womei, by Rowlandson. The fact of that picture being the first painted in oils, proves that the game was becoming of import­ ance, and the fact that tho game was well abused in the Gentlemen's Mayazincot that date confirms the first fact. So I set my foot against the old picture at Lord’s as the best keystone known of early cricket, and the later picture at Lord’s of the game with two stumps 22in. by Gin. and eleven in, with the field in jockey caps standing round, carefully studied with the light thrown on it by the Rev. Mr. Cotton, in his admirable poem of 1775, discloses to mo the concrete foundations of the home in which real English cricketers live, and I hope to Heaven the bowlers of England, Amateurs and Professionals, won’t throw the game away. One word more about the pre-Bowles era. My great-uncle, l)r. Goddard, who was a Win­ chester boy 1770-1, and who left in 1776, and who, immediately after taking his degree at Oxford, came back as tutor at Winchester, and remained there until 1810, having been second, and afterwards head master, lived to the age of eighty-seven, and died in 1845, three years after I came to London. And I suppose ho knew as much of the School as most men. He was always at his town-house during the season, and having no children was very kind to me, and drew me out very naturally, about the old school whickl had just left as a youngster of nineteen, and which practically had been his home for forty years of his life. I went to see him one evening after the School matches at Lord’s, and he got upon cricket, and told me that when he was a boy there was not much cricket at Winchester—a few big boys played it, but it was not a game which monopolised the interest of the Schtol, and it was not until the beginning of this century that it became a School institution. I specially remember this visit in 1842, as he gave me the first five pound note I ever had to amuse myself with, and there is no doubt that I did so. All cricketers should be much obliged to Mr. Keyworth for reminding them that the well of enquiry is not dry, and I shall be delighted to go on a hunting expedi­ tion with him to the British Museum, after any facts, provided there is a reasonable scent.— Yours &c. F. G. Bow and B ro m l e y I n stitu te v . H ounslow .— Played at Forest Gate on Thursday, May 31, nd won by the Institute by 97 runs. Scores :— . and B . I., 129 (W. Levis 68). Hounslow 32.