Cricket 1883

3 0 8 CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. ; a u g u s t 9, m s. K E N N I N G T O N O Y A L . AUGUST 13th, 1883. GRAND CRICKET MATCH. Surey v. Leicestershire. A dm ission S I X I j ETVOJE2. AUGUST 13rd, GVAL— SURREY V- LANCASHIRE. THE V I CRICKET A i L i BATS, BALLS, &C., U THE LAWN i TENNIS GOODS Are 'undoubtedly the best and cheapest in the market, and can only be obtained at WARD’S. Price List with full particulars sent free upon applying at W A D I V O a t h l e t e c vVnf iU u w a r e h o u s e , HECKMONDWIKE, YORKSHIRE. C R I C K E T I L A W N T E N N I S ! ! F O O T B A L L I !! F irst P riz e M e d a l a t M e lb o u rn e E x h ib ition , 1880. JAMES LILLYWHITE, FROWDdCo. Manufacturers of all articles used in the above and other Athletic Sports. Specialite for tho highest class Goods. Bats specially seasoned for hot climates. Price lists and all particulars may be had post free. Shippers supplied at wholesale prices. J. 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THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1883. -M c P ^ Y I M 0 ] S [ v G ^ I P ^ The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. T h e news of the sudden death of John James Boys, better known as Musician Boys, from lieart-disease, will be received with deep regret by hundreds of cricketers, particularly those in the neighbourhood of London, by whom he was well-known. He was born at Titckfield in Hampshire in 1856, but figured as one of the Kent Colts in 1875, and played for the County more than once. He was a musician in the band of the Boyal Artillery, which he entered in 1872. As he was about to take breakfast on Wednesday week he appeared as if choking, and before as­ sistance could be procured life was ex­ tinct. He was to have been married on the day of his death. The deceased was a good all-round athlete. T h e Surrey Eleven, it will be univer­ sally admitted, have been doing some exceptional feats this season. I question, though , if a County ever did such an extra­ ordinary performance as that with which a sporting paper credits them in its issue of Saturday. I quote the two opening lines of the journal’s report of the con­ clusion of the match between Surrey and Somersetshire at the Oval. “ A remark­ ably easy victory was achieved by Surrey over their victors at the Oval yesterday.” No wonder after such an exploit that there was a big gate at the Oval on Monday. Som e weeks ago I announced in these columns a new departure of importance in Canadian cricket, to wit, the first appointment of a professional coach in the Dominion. The Trinity College School, of Port Hope, with which Norley is engaged, has just (July 21) completed its annual tour. The Trinity College Rovers, as the team designate them­ selves, played nine matches against the strongest clubs in Canada, and of these they won five and lost four. -Their defeats my correspondent attributes to the fact that they were “ played out,” but none the less, he describes the tour as the most successful ever taken in Canada. The Rovers seem to have en­ joyed some peculiar umpiring. Norley was given out in one innings because after completing a run, although standing inside the crease, his bat had not touched the ground. In the seoond innings he was given out 1-b-w by the same umpire, because when hitting to leg, the ball, after hitting his left leg well wide of the wickets, bounded on to his right leg, which was in front of the stumps. The curiosities of tha season will hardly, I fancy, be ableto show anything more strange thanthebattingperformance of Walter Wright in the match between Notts and Gloucestershire at Nottingham at the end of last week. Had the Not­ tingham eleven not been compelled to go in close at the end of the opening day, Wright would never have gone in first, and his achievement of almost an un­ equalled exploit would never have been recorded. As it was, for a player who has secured his place in tlie County eleven mainly by his bowling, and has usually been tenth in the order of going in, his innings was extraor­ dinary. He went in first at 6.15 on Thursday night, and was not out at the close of the innings at 2.55 p.m. oil Saturday with 127 runs to his credit in a total of 371, having been batting in all 6 hours and 55 minutes. The only instance I can recall of a batsman in a County match being i n on each of the three days was when Jupp performed the feat for Surrev v. Kent in 1877, at the Oval. I h a v e had, at different times, to re­ cord some extraordinary scoring in various forms. Last season it was my good fortune to register some very rapid run-getting by Messrs. W. S. Trollope and N. C. Bailey for the Streatham club at Sandhurst. Now, I have to chronicle some tall batting on the new ground of the Streatham club, between Streatliam and the MarlboroughBlues, in which Mr. Trollope was again a conspicuous figure. The Blues,who went in first on a perfect wicket, made 431, of which E. H. Buck- land, of this year’s Marlborough eleven, contributed 236 by splendid cricket. He was missed before scoring, gave an easy chance when he had made 70, and again when he had reached 100, but it was a very good performance. In the long score of 431, there were only five extras, which speaks well for Mr. Betts behind the sticks. Eleven bowlers were tried. On Streathamgoing in, 100 runs were made for the first wicket, and Mr. W. S. Trollope, the Surrey amateur, played a free innings of 104, not out. The total at the close was 180 for one wicket, so that during the day, 611 runs were made for the loss of only eleven wickets.