Cricket 1883

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Manufactory and Warehouse:— 4 and G, Newington Causeway, and 73 and74, London Road, London. K E N N I N G T O N OVAL - JULY 26th- GRAND C R I CK E T M A T C H . SURREYv YORKSHIRE. A miissiojj :— S I X P E N C E . OVAL , AUGUST 2 i :d - SURREY v- SOMERSETSHIRE. € t u d i c t : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1883. The abstract and brief chronicle of tho time.— Hamlet. A c o b b e s p o n d e n t lias sent me the score of a peculiar match played at Hors- ruonden on the 20th of June. The con­ tending teams consisted of Eleven Le Mays of London, and Eleven Lamberts of Horsmonden, and the constitution of the former side,which comprised the whole of the family of the well known hop- factors, was the more singular in that nine of the eleven were brothers. The Lamberts had an easy victory by an innings and 16 runs, scoring 130 against 83 and 29 of their opponents. Of the total made by the winners 84 were due to T. Lambert, sen. (39), and Edwin Lambert (35), and the pair added 79 runs while they were together, A f o b t n i g h t ago in commenting on a long innings of Bichard Daft, I ventured the opinion that the cricket world generally felt especial gratification in any good performances of old favourites. Some sensational run-getting has been registered this season by young as well as old cricketers, but I question much if any one can claim a record equal to that of Mr. E . M, Grace. The Doctor has already scored upwards of 2 , 000 runs this year, and among his principalinnings are 243, 193 not out. 171, two scores of 150 not out, and 117. Sis times he lias been credited with a total of over 100 runs, and his average up to last week for Thorn bury was 94. IG-18 per innings. I t has always seemed to me to be a pleasing fiction among cricketers that the decision of the umpire is indisputable. The lot of the umpire under any circum­ stances is not a happy one. He can hardly succeed in pleasing both sides, aind in a position requiring the full possession of more than one faculty, he cannot hope to avoid a mistake. As a rule, though ,his person has been regarded as sacred, and as the representative of the majesty of the law the expression of an adverse opinion even at a critical point of the game has not subjected him to assault. A case, though, tried at the Shire Hall, Nottingham, on Saturday shows that the umpire is not always inviolate. In the case referred to, Thomas Gil­ bert was the complainant and Thomas Hallam the defendant. The complainant stood umpire in a match between two local clubs, the Carlton and the Meadows United, and the agony was piled up at the close of the Carlton innings when four runs were wanting to win. At this critical period of the game an appeal for a catcli at the wicket was allowed by the complainant, and as a consequence Carlton lost. Thereupon the partis- sans of the losers surrounded the complainant, and the defendant, who was a son ofthe player given cut, struck him over the head, and broke his watch chain. A report in a daily paper describes the case as an amusing one, but I fail to see the fun. Thomas Hallam would, perhaps, have enjoyed it more, had it not mulcted him in two guineas, in addition to costs. An Incog has kindly supplied me with two incidents in connection with the recent cricket of his club, which he is justified in describing as worthy of special record. l.On Friday last at Chersington, C. E. Horner, playing for Incogniti v. Ne’er-do-Weels, took all 10 wickets in the second innings of the latter club and disposed of 16 wickets in the. match altogether at a cost of only 91 runs. 2. Hamilton Ross made two innings of 126 and 122 in euq- eessive matches forthe Incogniti, and scored four innings of over a century within ten days as fol­ lows :—On June 27 for M.C.C. & G. v. Epsom CoRege, 106 not out; July 2 and 3 for M.C.C & G. v. Ne’er-do-Weels, 120; Ju.v 4, for Incogniti v. Bickley Park, 126; July 7, for Incogniti v. Strcatham, 122.