Cricket 1883

JULY 26, 1883. CEICKET ; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 277 ing of the County club, that one of the home fixtures should be played at Liver­ pool. Every preparation was made for the match with Gloucestershire, which should have been begun at Aigburth to­ day, but unfortunately, the heavy rains have affected that ground so much, that the Liverpool public has again had to suffer a disappointment, and the venue of the Gloucestershire match has had, after all, to be transferred to Old Traf­ ford. L ast week I stated that K. J. Key, of Clifton College, who played for Surrey last year, will be in residence at Oxford by next cricket season. A Scottish cor­ respondent informs me that A. S. Blair, of Loretto School, has just matriculated at Brasenose and will also be at the dis­ posal of the Oxford Captain in 1884 Blair, a few weeks ago, got five wickets of the Uppingham School team for forty- one ruus, and he is said to be one of the best all round players Loretto has turned out. This is no small praise in a school that has produced such cricketers as J. G. Walker, Tristram, Asher, McLach- lan and others. Blair is certainly above the average of public school bowlers, as well as a good bat. He is well known in Scotland from having the Scotch record for|440 yards on grass, (52j seconds) at the West of Scotland games. The Ballarat Courier publishes a pecu liar bicycle-cum-cricket performance on a Saturday during May:— Mr. C. Manion, who rode from Melbourne on his bicycle, played for the Emerald Hill Domain Club against the B.U.C.C. He left Melbourne on Friday at 1.30 p.m., and with two or three trifling stoppages on the road, arrived in Sand­ hurst at 11.15 on Saturday morning. At half­ past 3 o’clock in the afternoon he went in first for his club, and carried out his bat for 68, ob tained by excellent cricket. In Australian first-class matches of 1881- 82, Mr. Manion had an average of 85 for seven innings. I s e e the renowned Smith family has been contributing its share to the cricket curiosities of the season. At least, one of the vast fraternity did a notable per­ formance recently for Handsworth Woodhouse, taking all the ten wickets of Hallam for 15 runs. More than one of these particular feats has been recorded during the last ten days. For the Trinity College Cambridge Long Vacation Club last week, H. M. Leaf, the Marlborough slow bowler of 1881 got all ten wickets— five bowled, three caught, and two stumped. For the second eleven of the StaveleyWorks Club against Seymour, J. Henshaw secured all the ten wickets, and all clean bowled, for two runs out of a total of eleven. And ye a fourth case, though not one of the same kind. For Huntingdonshire against the Cambridge Long Vacation Club,Hutchins had a hand in the downfall of all ten wickets, nine of these were from his bowling, and the tenth he caught. I t is with regret that I have to an­ nounce the death of Mr. George Moir Crawford,'a painstakingcontributor to the cricket literature of the day. Mr. Craw­ ford was the author of the exhaustive articles on cricket and cricketers, which have for many years appeared in the Sporting Life, under the title of “ Cricket Notes and Notabilities ” by “ Gemse.” He was a member of the Surrey County Club, and a keen sup­ porter of county as of every kind of cricket. Mr. Crawford, who was in the War Office, died on Thursday last. T here were seven “ ducks ” in Surrey’s first innings at Holbeck on Monday. Mr. W. W. Read’s attainment of the dreaded “ specs” is a noteworthy event afterhis extraordinarily high scoring this season. I h a v e more than once had to note the bowling of F.Shacklock, this year’s Notts Colt. On Saturday last he again took the whole of the 10 wickets, clean bowled. On a former occasion, when playing against Edinboro’ University (12 a side), he took the 11 wickets, all clean bowled, for 27 runs, 8 with consecutive balls. This makes the third match of the season in which he has taken the whole of the wickets in one innings. He has also done good service with the bat, having made over 60 runs 4 times. He is engaged with the Lasswade Club, Scotland. The following are the averages of the most successful batsmen of the season. They are compiled from County and other important matches, and calculated up to Saturday last No bastmen are inserted who have played in less than eighteen innings :— VV. W . Read . Completed Innings. . . . 23 Runs. 1119 Highest Score. 168 Average. 48.15 Ulyett.............. . . . . 2 9 1031 80 35.16 C. T. Studd .. , , 24 855 175* 3 5.15 664 97 33.4 Shrewsbury . .. ,18 590 85 32.14 W. G. Grace . . . . . 19 607 89 31.18 Hall.................. 20 621 82* 3 1 1 Lord Harris .. . . . . 1 8 482 118 26.14 M. Bead ........ . . . . 2 7 714 113* 26.12 J. Shuter . . . 547 108* 26.1 Barlow ........ 22 559 71 25.9 I. D. Walker , 19 482 102 25.7 Barnes............ . . . . 2 4 603 76 25.3 A. N. Hornby. . . . . 2 6 629 96 24.5 liockwood . . . . 2 3 536 60 23.7 Flowers .......... 28 622 131 22.6 Bates ............ 25 509 79 20.9 Abel................ . . . . 2 2 432 83 19.14 Hon. M. B. Hawke 19 364 141 19.3 HIGHGATE SCHOOL v. M.C.C. Played at Highgate on July 4. Score:— H ig h g a t e S chool . G. W . Powers, b Flowers .. 6c Flowers, b Scotton 1 H. F. Jacob, c and b Scotton 12 c and b Flowers W . R. Mason, b Flowers .. 1 J. B. Lloyd, 1b w, b Scotton 0 G. Hannaford, c Sainsbury, b Flowers .............................9 W . L. B. Hayter, b Scotton 0 2 b S c o tto n ....................1 b F lo w e rs....................2 A. Wilmer, not out A. E. Bell, c Sherwiu, Flowers .................... D. Cator, b 8cotton H. B. French, c Seotton, Flowers ..................... H. H. Ford, run out . . 27 c Sainsbury, b Scotton o C. N. Coster, b Scot­ ton ............................. c Batten, b Flowers .. 1b w, b Scotton.. .. 6 b F lo w ers.................... 2 not out.............................6 run out.............................2 B .............................1 Total.............................68 M.C.C. & G. Total Flowers, o French.b Wil­ mer ............................. Scotton, o Powers, b Wilmer .................... E. Sainsbury, 1 b w, b Wilmer .................... H. G. Jeaferson, o Mascn, b Powers Sherwin, c Ford, b Powers............................. 68 C. B. Palmer, run ou t.. 12 B. C. Aspinall, b Wilmer 2 A. A. Coster, b Wilnier 10 C. N. Coster, b Powers 0 C. Q. Roberts, c and b Powers.............................8 H. H. Batten, not ou t.. 0 B 2, 1 b 8....................5 Total ..123 HIGHGATE SCHOOL v. MASTERS. Played at Highgate, on July 19, and resulted in a victory for the Masters, by twenty-five runs on the first innings. H ig h g a t e S chool . First Innings. D. Cator, not out.. .. 36 H. B. French, b Panter 14 A. H. Ford, c Raynor, b Newton ............ 6 H. L. Perry, st Ogg, b Bodkin............................ 4 B 2,1 b 2, w 4 .. .. 8 A. Wilmer, c Panter, b Bodkin............................ 15 H. E. Hughes,c Newton, b B o d k in ....................8 W .L .B . Hayter, runout 22 W . R. Mason, b Newton 0 G. W . Powers, st Ogg, b Bodkin............................ 12 A. E. Bell, b Newton .. 2 J. B. Lloyd, st Ogg, b Bodkin.............................11 In the Second Inning* H. E. Hughes scored (not out) 14, W . L. B. Hayter (b Raynor) 12, D. Cator (retired hurt) 0, b 1, w 1; total 28. M astfr s . Total ..188 S. C. Newton, b Lloyd.. 91 G. T. Atkinson, c Ford, b Cator .................16 Panter, run out .. .. 7 W. D. Grant, b Cator.. 0 Rev. S. E. Raynor, c and b Lloyd .................31 Rer. R. Fayrer, b Lloyd 0 Rev. W . D. Bodkin, h w, b W ilraer.................13 Rev. C. II. Griffith, b Lloyd ............................. Rev. R. L. Morris, c Powers, b Wilmer .. E. L. Roy, b Lloyd G. S. Ogg, not out B 2 ............................. Total ..163 HIGHGATE SCHOOL v. HIGHGATE WANDERERS. Played at Highgate on July 21, and resulted in an easy victory for the School. H ig h g ate S chool . D. Cator, o Fletcher, b Sharp A. E. Bell, b Lake .. H. B. French, run out.. A. H. Ford, not out B 5,1 b 3, w 1 .. .. H. E. Hughes, b Reid .. 39 W . R. Mason, run out.. 7 W . L. B. Hayter, o Howard, b Allen .. 16 G. W . Powers, b Allen 6 H. F. Jacob, c Howard, b Sharp ....................15 A. Wilmer, b Sharp .. 20 J. B. Lloyd, c Lofts, b A lle n .............................28 H ig h g a te W a n d erers . H. F. Lofts,b Powers . 8 ----------- " Total....................156 J. V. Bartlett, st Ford, b W ilm e r .................... W . Fletchcr, st Ford, b Wilmer .................... H. Lake, st Ford, b Powers .. i . A. Reid, c Lloyd, b Wilmtr .................... W . Maude, b Powers .. W . Howard, b Power*.. T. P. M. Sharp, itFord, b W ilm e r .................... B. M. Allen, c French, b Wilmer .................... J. B. Dyne, not out .. W . Scrimgeour, c and b Wilmer .................... Total 81 T h e Manager of C ricket is desirous of pur­ chasing Lillywhite’s Guide for 1853, to com­ plete a set.