Cricket 1883

JULY s, 1883. CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 225 mans :— “ In the Pavilion Gossip of June 28, you speak of George Freeman, once ‘ the king of bowlers,’ as playing for Retford against Grantham. This is a very natural and pardonable mistake, arising from the fact that there are two George Freemans. Some of your readers may recollect a young man who about three years ago played for the Colts of England against M.C.C. at Lord’s, and bowled very well, getting ‘ the big wicket ’ amongst others. This was George Freeman of Retford, a fast left hand bowler of great merit, who has been several times asked to play for Notting­ hamshire, but finds it impossible to do so on account of his business engage­ ments. The other and greater George Freeman, as you say, still retains much of his old power. Not only that, but he says himself, and all his friends up here agree with him, that on his day he is as unplayable as ever, and we should very much like next year to see him playing for the Gentlemen against the Players'. A c o r r e s p o n d e n t lias sent us the fol lowing curiosity in a match played at Kenley recently between Kenley and the Croydon Cricket Clubs. “ A batsman played a ball on to his off stump ; the click was heard by several in the field but the bails did not fa ll; upon examining the wicket to ascertain the cause we found that the end of the middle and leg bail had cocked up and overlapped by about an inch the end of the off bail, just over the top of the middle stump, and then rested. It is curious the ball hitting the off stump should have disarranged the leg bail in this way, whilst the off bail remained in situ. It is needless to add that the man was not out.” Ip the proposal of the Australian manager with respect to the conditions on which another colonial team is to visit England next year, is to be con­ sidered definite and unalterable, I fear there is small chance of us seeing Murdoch, Spofforth, Bannerman, and the rest of the confederacy here next summer. An influential meeting, consisting of delegates of all the leading county clubs and |the two Universities, was held at the Oval on Friday, and the decision arrived at was not to accept the terms suggested, i.e., to give the Aus­ tralians one half of the gross takings at the stands as well as tho gates. This determination, I may state, is final, but should the Colonial managers re­ solve to send a team again on the same terms as before, viz., their receipt of one half of the gross receipts at the gate only, there will be no difficulty in the arrange­ ment of a full and excellent programme. Two very strong teams are down for the annual match between Gentlemen and Players at Lord’s, commencing on Monday next. Perhaps the most notice­ able feature in the names of the contend­ ing sides is the appearance in the Players’ list of Harrison, the Yorkshire Colt. Considering that he made his first ap­ pearance in a match of any importance for the Northern Colts at Lord’s in May, this is a great distinction, and every one will wish him success. The names an­ nounced are :—Gentlemen : Lord Harris, Messrs. W. G. Grace, A. G. Steel, A. P. Lucas, C. T. Studd, A; N. Hornby, A. W. Ridley, W . F. Forbes, E . F. S. Tyle­ cote, C. W . Wright, and H. Rotherham. Players: Ulyett, Barlow, Shrewsbury, Hall, Bates, Lockwood, Barnes, Flowers, Pilling, Peate, and Harrison. T he testimonial to Capt. Holden, the late Hon. Sec. of the Notts County Cricket Club, was presented at the George Hotel, Nottingham, on Tuesday night. It consisted of a silver candelabra and candlesticks, subscribed for by members of the County Club, and a Cup, presented by members of the County eleven. During the nine years that the Captain held office the position of the County Club was materially improved, and no one can say that he had not the interest of Nottingham cricket at heart. One of the latest acts with which he was identi­ fied, was the acquisition of the Trent Bridge Ground by the County Club. A f e w good bowling feats have come under my notice during the week. On Saturday last in a match played at Croydon between the Oakfield and Oat­ lands Clubs, H. A. Roper (slow round- arm) took the whole ten wickets of the latter. On Monday, June 25, for the Oaks against Bletchingley at Clapham, R. Lenton, a slow left-handed bowler, in second innings of Bletchingley twice achieved the hat trick, clean bowling three wickets in the first, bowling one and having two caught in the second case. For Elvaston v. Spondon Rovers on Saturday last at Elvaston Road, A. R. Goldie took four wickets for no runs, and J. Hall six for three runs. In a recent twelve a side match between the Lass- wade Club and Edinburgh University, F. Shaddock, the Nottingham Colt, per­ formed the extraordinary feat of taking the whole of the eleven wickets of the University, all clean bowled. In a previous match he delivered nine ove rs for five runs and eight wickets. W . S taley (professional), bowling re­ cently for the Cheltenham Club against an eleven of the Royal Agricultural C ol- lege, Cirencester, in the two innings took fifteen wickets for 16 runs. Else­ where attention called to a good piece of bowling by a youngster, McConnell, who took for Wigan four wickets of Stonyhurst with successive balls. On Saturday last I see he got three Southport wickets also with suc­ cessive balls. There must have been some good bowling too, in thematch on Satur­ day, between the Alvaston and Weston Clubs at Weston, which is about six miles from Derby. In the first innings of the Alvaston team , among whom were some fair cricketers, not one of the eleven got a run, and the only score was one bye. The Basford Harlington Eleven were also dismissed on June 16 by Clarence Club at Nottingham for one run from the bat. B a t t in g Averages in first - class matches this year up to date:— Completed HigheBt Innings. Runs. Score. Average. W . W. Read ....1 5 734 168 48.14 C. T. Studd , ..19 720 175* 37-17 19 054 79* 34.8 .. . .16 539 113* 33.11 Hall .............. . . . . 1 1 350 82* 31.6 A. P. Lucas .. 16 502 97 31.9 W . G. Grace , 14 398 89 28.6 A. N. Hornby ....1 9 517 96 27.4 * Not out. NORTHBROOK v. LAUSANNE. Played at Dulwich, on June 30. L ausanne . 86 H. Hyslop, b Smith M. T. La Thangue, Smith, b A. H. Spring- thorpe.............................5 J. Walker, b A. H. Springthcrpe .. .. 4 Faulkner, b Pearse .. 5 Hutchinson, c Pearse, b S m ith ............................ 20 P.Kyder, c Pearse, b A. H. Springthorpo .. 8 N orthbrook , H. Hodder, b Smith .. Johnstone, b A. Springthorpe .. Asprey, c Nicolson, b Sm ith............................. A. J. Greenop, not out Marsden, c Coates, b Extras Total .. 91 C. Pearse, b Greenop .. W . J. Smith, b Hutchin­ son .............................20 A. E. Coates, b Marsden 29 J. W . Knowles, b Hyslop 83 W . F. Wall, b Hyslop .. 6 W . Nicolson, run out 0 R. Burroughs, b Hyslop 0 A. H. Springthorpe, b Hyslop .....................12 E. Loxley, b Hyslop .. 11 F. G. Springthorpe, not out .. ....................2 J. Crowther, c Ryder, b Hyslop.............................0 E x t r a s ....................12 Total ..131 MERCHANT TAYLORS’ SCHOOL v. CHELMSFORD. Played at Chelmsford on Jane 27. C helmsford . First Innings. Second Innings. C. E. Ridley, b Fripp .. . . 3 c Gunnery, b Scott .. 10 C. Pedley, c Buck, b Fripp .. 25 c Whittington, bScott 16 E.Copelund, c Steele, b Hem­ merde 11 b Fripp ......................8 J. Waller, b Hemmerde .. 2 notout............................. 22 J. Dixon, b F rip p ..................0 b Fripp ............................0 A. Barnard, b Hemmerde .. O b Scott.............................0 C. A. Copeland, not out .. 17 b Scott ...........................> T. Joyce, b Fripp..................O b Fripp ...........................i J. Crick, c Scott, b Umney .. 7 b Fripp ......................22 H. Haylock, b Umney .. . . 0 b Fripp ......................0 C. A. Longman, run out . . 0 c Buck, b Scott .. 4 B 1,1 b 1, w 2 ....................4 B 12,1b 2 .. . . 1 4 Total.............................69 Total M erchant T aylors ’ S chool . , Cave, c Waller, b ..106 Dixon .. A. D. Fripp, b Dixon .. W. A. Buck, b Joyce .. W . J. Scott, run out .. W. K. Steele, b Joyce .. T. W. Hemmerde, l b w, b Pedley .................... R. W . Whittington, not out ............................. P. D. Chater, c Crick, b D ix o n ............................. R. S. Lucas, c Ridley, b Joyce .................... W . F. Umney, b Dixon.. E. H. Gunnery, b Joyce B 4,1 b 5.................... Total ..156