Cricket 1883

324 1 CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. AUGUST 16, 1883. K E N N I N G T O N O Y A L . AUGUST 23rd, 1883. GRAND CR I C K E T M A T C H . SURREY v. LANCASHIRE A d m ission : - S I X P E N C E . AUGUST 27th, OVAL— S U R R E Y v. K EN T . THE U CR I C K E T i BATS, BA L LS , & C . , U THE L AWN « T E N N I S 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 R f V C A T H L E T I C _ V v H n U 0 w a r e h o u s e ; H E C KM O N DW IK E , YORKSH IRE . C R I C K E T ! L A W N T E N N I S ! ! F O O T B A L L ! ! ! F irst P r ize M edal at M elbourne E xhibition , 1880. JAMES L I L L YW H I T E , F R O W D d C o . Manufacturers of all articles used in the above and other Athletic Sport3. Specialite for the 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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C r ick e t will be.forwarded byfirstposton Thursday morning to any address in Great Britain , on receipt of a Postal Order (not Stamps) for the amount of the subscription (Is. 61. for 5 numbers, up to September 22nd, or up to Apt ilnext, including six Winter Numbers for 2s. 9i., with present issue). Post Offi.ce Orders and Cheques can be made payable to W . R. W rig h t, at the head office,and crossed "London and County, Holborn.” C r ick e t is registered for transmission abroad and can be sent,postfree, at the regularnewspaper rates ofvostage to any part of the world. A few copies of Vol. I. are to be had bound, price 7*. 6 d. It contains Portraits and Biogrphies of all the membeis of the Australian Team of 1882, “ Cricketers ofmy Time,” by John N yren , and a uumber ofinterest­ ing articles by the best writers on the Game, C t n d t c t t A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1883. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. T h e r e seems a glorious uncertainty about the dates of, as well as the fixtures to form, the annual cricket festival—that is the official designation of the gather­ ing—at Scarborough. So many corres­ pondents have written to me for definite information, that I feel it my duty to relieve the public mind. An attempt was made to arrange a meeting on Sept. 3, 4, and 5, between theHon. Ivo Bligh’s Australian Team and an Eleven of England, but this has been found im­ practicable. “ The Festival ” will begin on Monday, August 27, with a match between the Yorkshire Gentlemen and the Scarborough Club, and this will be followed by Yorkshire Gentlemen v. M.C.C. and Ground on the three last days of the week. Monday, Sept. 3, and two succeeding days will be devoted to the third and final fixture, England v. Notts and Lancashire. T h a t was a peculiar match on the Bat and Ball Ground yesterday week between Gravesend and Bromley. The bowling of Bromley must have been very weak, for Gravesend in three hours and ten minutes scored 397 runs for sevenwickets. Of these Mr. K. J. Key, the Surrey ama­ teur, contributed 216, and the scoring throughout must have been at the rate of 125 runs an hour. An over delivered by one of the Bromley bowlers—wild horses would not drag from me his name—de­ serves undying record. It consisted oi fourteen balls and nine of these produced ten wides, the other five twelve from the bat. I myself recently in a minor match at the Oval counted an over prolonged by wides from five to fifteen balls. “ S u c c e s s it is that makes the man,the want of it the villain.” It has been the fashion among a certain class of critics with whom this is the ruling principle to take every opportunity of descrying Hampshire cricket. The want of unity has, I must admit, tended of late years sadly to reduce the fame of the county which can claim to have been the nursery of the game. Yet, with the men it has placed into the field this year and several others of itsnative cricketers acclimatised in other shires, among them Mr. "W. A. Betteswortl?, Hampshire would be able even now to show abold front. W h ile on the subject of Hampshire cricket I may mention some peculiar scoring by the last wicket in the three latest matches on the County Ground, at Southampton. For the Gentlemen of Hants v. Old Cliftonians W . C. Blaker and H. Armstrong put on 55 runs for the last wicket; for Somersetshire v. Hants E . W . Bastard and Fothergill added 74; and for Hants v.UppinghamBovers Major Fellowes, of the Royal Engineers-^a few years ago identified with Kent — and Young, made 60 runs forthe tenth wicket. C . E. C o t t r e l l , the Middlesex Amateur, seems to be in pretty good bowling form just now. On August 4, for Esher v. Leatherhead, he secured three wickets with successive balls, and on Thursday last, for Broadwater v. Crowthorne, lie was credited with eleven wickets at a cost of only the same number of runs. A u s e f u l colt—M. P. Bowden—for Surrey. His scores up to the present are :—Surrey v. Somersetshire, 38 ; Surrey v. Notts, 42; Surrey Club and Ground v. Wiltshire, 53; Surrey v. Leicestershire, 42 not out. Some of the sporting papers persist in declaring, on what they assert to be the best authority, that the visit of another Australian team in 1884 is asjured. I am able to repeat most positively that up to July 2, the time of the despatch of the last mail, nothing had been decided in Australia. On the contrary I have rea­ son to believe that it is extremely doubt­ ful whether the result of the meeting of English county secretaries,which had then just reached the Colonies, will not produce the abandonment of the trip. S o much for the Australian side. In England no­ thing more has transpired since the con­ ference referred to. A c c o r d in g to reliable sources it seems that the paragraphs which appeared in the English papers some time since, that the last team from Australia netted £700 aman in England, were altogether incor­ rect. The average, my informant adds, was not more than £250, in fact their short tour in the Australian colonies was the more renumerative. ■