Cricket 1883

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This is found to be necessary to meet the increasing demand on our space, and four pages extra will be printed whenever occasion requires. -H {cP 7 IYm i0N >G ^ IP ^ The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. I am given to understand that the first step has been taken in the preliminaries for a visit of another Australian team to England in 1884. From what I can hear it is by no means a certainty that the trip will come off. A b a d account has reached me of the condition of Jones, the bowler on whom Surrey had counted for much valuable aid this summer. Indeed, it is very much to be feared that his services will be altogether lost to the county for this season. While on the subject of Surrey, I may state that on the Oval as yet, the eleven have scored 1304 runs for 83 wickets, an average of close on forty runs for each batsman. Mr. W . W . Read's average for Surrey, I believe, is 62. I t seems, after all, as if Kent would not be able this year to secure the assistance of Mr. Cecil Wilson, whose batting last season was of such immense service. I am told that he has gone abroad on a tour, and that in all pro­ bability he will not be seen on an English cricket field until theScarborough festival. One would have thought it difficult for an old stager like Barlow to be caught napping. Yet, he was run out at Lord’s on Monday in ja way that calls for little sympathy. In the first over of Lan­ cashire’s first innings against M.C.C. and Ground, he hit a ball of Morley’s to mid- off, where it was fielded by Mr. Russel. There was no chance of a run, and Barlow, thinking the ball would be returned to the bowler, went beyond his crease to pat the ground. Mr. Russel then threw the ball to Sherwin, who put down the wicket. The newspaper comments on this procedure are instruc­ tive. The Daily News says “ the incident gave rise to some comment.” The Spoilsman says,“ Barlow was cleverly run out through leaving his ground while the ball was in play.” Several of the provincial papers asesrt with wonderful unanimity that he was run out by the bowler, and the Liverpool Post declares that Barlow’s wicket was thrown down by Morley, adding “ abit of sharp practice not very well received. ” But why sharp practice ? I have mvself seen a similar thing done three times in first class matches. The only wonder to me is that “ Fabius Cunctator ” should have so far forgotten his policy of caution, and lost his wicket in such an undignified as well as unsatisfactory manner. T h e following anent cricket is from last week’s Modern Society :— Comparing the cricketing scores now and formerly, a correspondent instances a carrier, who, fifty years ago, going from Tunbridge Wells to London on Monday morning, saw a man having his innings, and when he returned on Wednesday he was not out. This is quite correct. Mr. Thomas Foster, of Penhurst, and Mr. William Richardson, of Leigh, the adjoining parish, played a single wicket match on Southborough Common, near Tunbridge Wells, against Cooper and Driver, two noted players. Mr. Foster, who was the uncle of the present rector of Burwash, was in three days, as they could not get him out. He fknocked his own wicket down—perhaps, in despair, con­ spiring against himself. Th e author of the “ Cricket F ield ” tells how Small, in a match for Hamble­ don against All England, kept up his wicket for three days, and was not out after all. I can myself well remember a performance of Jupp’s in 1877, when he went in first for Surrey v. Kent at the Oval on the first day just before time, and carried out his bat on the third morning for 91 out of 264, having thus been in part of three days. A t the commencement of the season, in commenting on some improvements in conneetion with the Crystal Palace Ground, I ventured to predict that it would be the scene of some tall run- getting this season. My predictions have been soon verified, and the score of 566 made by the Crystal Palace Club against the Beckenham, is a best on record-—at least it is the biggest score ever recorded on the Palace ground.