Cricket 1883

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C v t c f t c t : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1883. - ^ c p / iY m i e ^ v G W i p ^ The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. A m e m b e k of the Uppingham School Eleven of 1874 writes me as follows:— In your issue of the 21st, you mention the two innings of over 400 runs made by Tonbridge School in successive matches as being unpre­ cedented in the annals of Public School cricket. On Whit Monday, in 1874, Uppingham School scored 427 (T. R. Fleming 163, A. P. Lucas 136, and H. M. Lindsay 73) against M.C.C. and Ground, who made 120 and 154, and in the following week against an eleven brought by Mr. G. FI. Longman, then the Cambridge cap­ tain, the School scored 443, (D. Q. Steel 166, T. R. Fleming 118, and A. P. Lucas 81); Mr. Longman’s team, which included the i#llowing Light Blues, viz., F. F. J. Greenfield, G. Macan, C. Tillard, and G. Hone-Goldney, making 261 and 136 : These performances, I think, quite equalled the more recent ones of Tonbridge School. T hat was a peculiar sentence in the Radical halfpenny evening of Monday, descriptive of the downfall of one of the Cambridge wickets. “ Page resumed at 107, but at the same total, Peake, who had taken the place of Barlow, obtained the dismissal of Kemp, caught behind the wicket.” I fear this particular incident will hardly be remembered by the closest observers of Monday’s play at Lord’s. S ome kind correspondent on the other side of the big drink, has sent me a little brochure, perfectly dazzling with its cover of red, black, and gold. It is only the official publication of the Phila­ delphia Cricket Club, which, I take it, has assumed the colours well-known everywhere in the United Kingdom as those of I Zingari. A few extracts from the accompanying circular may be of interest to those cricketers who have visited Philadelphia. A new cricket ground has been secured on favourable terms, which, when properly im­ proved, will be, without exception, the finest cricket ground in the neighbourhood of Phila­ delphia. It consists of a tract of high table­ land, situate on the line of the ne^f Philadelphia Germantown and Chestnut Hill Railroad (now being built), and within three minutes walk of a proposed station at Willow Grove Avenue. This will be within 25 minutes by rail from the Pennysylvania Railroad Station at Broad and Market Streets, and but a few minutes from Chestnut Hill or Germantown. It is less than 15 minutes walk from Tedyscung Station on the present Chestnut Hill Railroad. It is believed that the total cost of all improvements necessary to complete the ground, will not ex­ ceed 6,000 dollars. The tract has been secured upon a long term of fifteen years at a nominal rent of one dollar a year and payment of taxes A cricket ground at a rent of a dollar a year, sounds particularly nice. I n o t i c e that a few days ago the historic residence, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, was put up for sale, and, if I remember right, bought in. Straw­ berry Hill has a claim on the cricket Dryasdust, as the Cricketalia mentioned in the following letter from Horace Walpole, no doubt, were really games of cricket of some kind under the fostering care of Lord John Sackville, who was about that period a great supporter of the game, as we know from the fact that in 1746 he issued a challenge on the part of Kent to play England, the first match recorded in Scores and Biographies :—• Letter from Horace Walpole to Field Marshal Conway :— Twickenham, June 8 , 1747. You perceive by my date that I am got int# a new camp and have left my tub at Windsor; it is a little plaything house that I got out of Mrs. Chevenix’s shop, and is the prettiest bau­ ble you ever saw, it is set in enamelled meadows with phillagree hedges. A small Euphrates through the place is rolled, And little fishes "wave their wings in gold. Two delightful roads, that you would call dusty, supply us continually with coaches and chaises, barges as solemn as Barons of the Exchequer move under my window. Richmond Hill and Ham Walks bound my prospects, but, thank God, the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry. Dowagers as plenty as flounders inhabit all around, and Pope’s ghost is jnst now skimming under my window by a most poetical moonlight. The Chevenix’s had tracked the cottage up for themselves. Up two pairs of stairs is what they call Mr. Chevenix’s library, furnished with three maps, one shelf, a bust of Sir Isaac Newton, and a iunar telescope without any glasses. Lord John Sackville predecessed me here and insti­ tuted certain games called Cricketalia, which have been celebrated this very evening in honor of him in a neighbouring meadow. T he Lines at Chatham have always represented to my mind the happiest of all hunting grounds for batsmen desirous of improving their averages. In days not long past the Royal Engineers have made ‘ 1 the Lines” famous by reason of some very sensational run-getting. Which of us does not remember their memorable score of 724 for eight wickets against twelve of I Zingari in 1875 ? Nor would it be difficult to enumerate many performances of the