Cricket 1883

j u l y 12,1883. CEICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 259 Hon. A. B . Parker in the first innings of Harrow, I am strongly of opinion that the Bowling on both sides was below the average. The Etonians were very good in the field, but if Harrow were not quite up to the mark of some previous years in this respect, no match of late has produced such promising 1 batting as that of Marchant, of Eton, and Greatorex, of Harrow. Marchant’s hitting was all round brilliant, but to my mind the best cricket was shown by the Harrovian, and it is a long time since such sound batting has been seen in any boys’ match. On the whole, though, it may fairly be argued that the batting of both sides was above the ordinary run. Both Marchant and Greatorex go up to Cambridge, but I believe that A. H. Studd, who played such a useful defensive innings of 64 for Eton, will not follow the example of his three elder brothers and go up to that University, and the Hon. A. E . Parker I also understand will not have his name down at either Oxford or Cambridge. W hile on the subject of Cambridge cricket,it looks as if the University eleven would be very strong next year. Of this season’s players only C. T. Studd, Henery, and Eoe will no longer be avail­ able, so that there will be, barring acci­ dents, only three vacancies to be filled, As I have already stated, Marchant and Greatorex are both bound for Cambridge, and if it be true that there is a chance of Nicholls, the Winchester bowler, in the absence of any chance of getting his name down at Oxford, also going there, the Cantabs will have some likely Freshmen next year. I hear that Swayne, who bowled so well against Eton, remains at Winchester for 1884. H, J. Key, who has been scoring consis­ tently for Clifton College this summer, will, I believe, be at Oxford by next cricket season. C o n v e r s a t io n overboard during the course of the Eton and Harrow mateli:— Fond mamma of one of the young heroes in whose honour is celebrated the great cricket show of the season, on learning from a critical friend who had just re­ corded the downfall of his wicket, that he did not play with a straight bat— “ How very annoying ! And so thoughtless of him too to buy a crooked one, when he knew that I would not have grudged him any extra expense for a straight one.” Modern Society is responsible for an announcement of the marriage of the Hon. Thomas Henry William Pelham to Miss Louisa Keith Bruce, second daughter of the late William Bruce, of Kennet, N.B., at St. Jude’s, South Ken­ sington , on Thursday next. Mr. Pelham, who comes of a cricketing family, was in the Eton Eleven of 1866. The name of his father, the Earl of Chichester, is to be found in several minor matches about the year 1827, and his eldest brother, the Hon. Francis Godolphin Pelham, after representing Eton, was Captain of the Cambridge eleven in 1876-77, and played occasionally for Sussex. I r e g r e t to have to record the death of a well - known Irish cricketer Dr. Thomas Cox, of the Army Medical Department, better known to Irishmen as“ Tom Cox of the Leinster.’ ’For several years he has held a prominent place among the players of “ Ould Oire and,” and many will still remember the fine innings of fifty he played against the All England Eleven. Last year he was ordered out to India, but his health gave way, and returning to Netley on sick leave, died there last week, at the early age of thirty. M essrs . G. B. S tudd and G. F. V er­ non, the latest of the Hon. Ivo Bligh’s team to return from Australia, reached England on Thursday last, just in time to witness the Eton and Harrow match. They came home via New Zealand and America, and while in New York took part in a scratch match on the Staten Island Grounds. The two amateurs have, since their return, been assiduously practising at Lord’s, and Mr. Studd makes his reappearance in public there to-day, for Middlesex v. Notts; On Tuesday, the Sevenoaks Vine, in their second innings against the Boyal Artillery at Woolwich, totalled 847 for the loss of only three wickets. Of these Mr. A. C. Lucas, who, like Mr. A. P., of the same name, has played for both Surrey and Middlesex, contri­ buted 168 not out. Some of the most consistent scoring of this season has been recorded to M. P. Bowden, of the Dul­ wich College Eleven. In thirteen com­ pleted innings he has obtained 666 runs for an average of 51. He makes his first appearance in Surrey cricket for the Gentlemen of Surrey against Beigate and District, at Reigate, on the 30th of this month. A few small items in the shape of run- getting. On Monday for an eleven of Notts Amateurs v. Ruddington, on the Trent College Ground, C. Parrott, who was ultimately run out for 117, scored 100 while his partner was making 14. He hit the ball out of the ground threetimes,twice in one over,and from this over he scoredl 8 runs, I remember well Mr. P . Q. Steel at the Oval, for Cambridge University v. Surrey a few years ago, scoring seven­ teen runs fromone over of Mr.G.N.Wyatt, who is now helping Sussex,and curiously enough that was the only over that gen­ tleman ever bowled for Surrey. T h e following are the averages of the seven­ teen most successful batsmen of the season. They are compiled from County and other important matches, and calculated up to Satur­ day last:— Completed Highest Innings. Runs. Score. Average. W. W. Read.............20 929 168 46.9 C. T. S tud d.............22 820 175* 37.6 U lyett........................ 26 921 80 35.11 A. P. L u cas.............18 635 97 35.5 Shrewsbury .............17 548 85 32.4 W. G. Grace.............19 607 89 31.18 Hall.............................17 495 82* 29.2 M. Read.....................23 620 113* 26.22 J. Shuter .................17 439 10S* 25.14 I. D. Walker............ 16 414 102 25.14 A. N. H orn b y___ 24 611 96 25.11 Barlow .....................20 498 71 24.18 W. R. G ilbert___ 12 289 73 24.1 Lockwood .................21 503 60 23.20 Barnes........................ 23 517 76 22.11 Abel.............................19 415 83 21.16 Bates.......................23 489 79 21.6 * Not out. THE OVER - EAT ING AND ’ARRY M ATCH ; OR, W H A T IT IS COMING TO. The Scene represents the interior of a well-known resort during the progress of a popular annual fete. Carriages full of loudly and over-dressed people, opening hampers, clattering knives and forks, munching cold chickens and salad, and drinking champagne- cup, are discovered jammed together fifteen deep, and surrounded by a seething crowd, rendering locomotion impossible in every direction. In the centre, somewhere out of sight, a few schoolboys—unnoticed by the general throng, who are indulging in gossip, scandal, flirting, small talk, shouting, plate handing, amidstpeals of laughter—are doing their best to sustain the interest of a good old-fashioned English game, supported by occasional cheers from their more immediate partisans and sympathisers. Enter an, Old Etonian, accompanied by an Un­ sophisticated Friend. Old Etonian (picking his way through the gate, enthusiastically), you’ll see now if it isn’t one of the freshest, healthiest, and prettiest sights you’ve ever set eyes upon. And so manly, too, I can tell you, to watch the boys play out a fine innings pluckily! It’s eight-and- twenty years since I saw the last match here, and I remember we had only one more wicket to go down when------ (Slips over a sandwich- paper, and falls heavily.) Confound it ! what’s that? [Endeavours to assist liimself on to his legs by clutching at a pile of dirty plates. They fall with a crash. ' Military - looking Youth (with crVel collar, standing on step of a drag, good temperedly). How’s that, Sir? (Alluding to the number of broken plates, in same pleasant vein.) Three to slip, eh ? [He passes a jug of claret-cup to another •military-looking youth, also with a cruel collar, and laughs long and loud. Old Etonian (recovering himself, but knocking his head against an unobserved car- riage-spring in the process). Bother 1- but, bless me, what’shappened to the place ? Why,