Cricket 1883

“ Together joined in cricket’s manly toil.”— Byron. H e r i t o r I 4 1 S A b r o a d . T H U R S D A Y , A U G U S T 9 , 1 8 8 3 .p r i c e ad. nings in all was only of six hours duration, he jfollowing year saw him duly installed in the must have scored himself at the rate of sixty- seven an hour. The component items of this huge total were one seven, five fives, twenty-one Oxford UniversityEleven. His first appearance for Oxford against Cambridge (in 1869) was not very successful, but, although on this important fours, thirty-nine threes, forty-two twos, and occasion he was only able tomake six and three, eighty-seven singles, and it is also worthy of Ihis batting during the earlier matches of the University was very creditable, and for eleven innings he had an aggre­ gate of 231 runs, only third in the team to his old fellow Kensing- tonian, B. Pauneefote, and F. H. Hill. Though dwarfedby the extra­ ordinary scoring of Messrs. Paunce- fote and Ottaway, in 1870, Mr. Tylecote batted consistently well for Oxford, and in addition to two useful scores of 25 and 29, against Cambridge, he was again third in the University batting averages. Mr. Tjlecote’s Captaincy of the Ox­ ford Eleven in 1871 was a fortunate one, more especially in the Inter- University Match, which was mem­ orable for the unprecedentedbowling feat of Mr. S. E. Butler in taking all ten Cambridge wickets in the first innings. Mr. Butler’s bowling and the excellent batting of Messrs. Pauncefote and Tylecote mainly contributed to the victory of Oxford by eight wickets, though the Dark Blues, amongst whom were also Lord Harris, Messrs. C. J. Ottaway, W. H. Hadow, C. Marriott, and C. K. Francis, were all-round a strong eleven. Mr. Tylecote, who had succeeded Mr. W . A. Stewart as “ stumper” at Oxford, impressed the Marylebone and Surrey authorities so muchwithhis abilities as awicket­ keeper that he was selected to repre­ sent the Gentlemen against the Players both at Lord’s and the Oval, in 1871, and at the former ground he was very successful, stumping threebatsmenandcatchingoneinthe only innings of the Players. In the record that, with the exception of one hit of his jfollowing year his name doesnot figureinthelist for four out of the field, he ran all the runs jof the Gentlemen in eithermatch, but in 1874 he made by his side. This unparalleled innings, was the highest scorer in their second innings, the highest ever recorded, as already stated, |and since that timeuntil the present season, with until the year 1877, made Mr. Tylecote’s name [the one exception of 1879, he has always figured a household word among cricketers, and the Iin the greatest contest of the year on the Surrey E. F. S. TYLECOTE. T h ou gh professional duties have not permitted his participation in somuch first-class cricket as many of the more favoured amateurs of the present day, few cricketers canclaima morehon­ ourable record than Mr. Edmund Ferdinando Sutton Tylecote. Men­ tion has been made in previous numbers of the youthful promise of Messrs. W. G. Grace, A. P. Lucas, C. T. Studd, Bead, and A. G. Steel, but only one of these can after all, perhaps, boast so early a commence­ ment of a public career as the sub­ ject of this sketch. Mr. Tylecote was born at Marston Rectory, Arnp- thill, Bedfordshire, on June 23,1849. He received his first instruction in cricketat theKensingtonProprietary School, and singularly enough a con­ temporary of his there was the late Mr. Bernard Pauncefote, who was subsequently a member of the same Oxford Eleven. Mr. Pauncefote left Kensington for Rugby, but Mr. Tyle­ cote, following the example of his elder brother, betook himself to CliftonCollege, and his name figures for the first time in the Eleven of that School, in 1864, before he had yet completed his fifteenth year. His association with Clifton cricket was a'lengthy one, and for five sea­ sons (from 1864 to 1808) he was in the Clifton College Eleven. His captaincy, during the summer of 1868, was eventful by reason of some sensational scoring. Three innings of- 100, 131, and 118 not out, were recorded to him during the course of his last year at Clifton; and the summary of his batting was extra­ ordinary, showing 19 innings for 1,125 runs, with an average of 70. His School cricket in 1868 was al­ togetherabove the ordinary standard, and it was during this season that he achieved a feat which, until 1877, stood unrivalled. In a match between Modern and Classical, at Clifton College, he went in first and carried out his bat for 404, out of a total of 630. The game was played on three afternoons, and, as his in-