Cricket 1883

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A d d ress : RICHARD DAFT, 1, LISTER GATE, NOTTINGHAM S u rrey E l e v e n v . E igh teen C olts of C ounty . —This match will be played at the Oval on September 10 and 11. Amateurs or professionals, under twenty-five years of age, desirous of playing must communicate at once with the Secretary of the Surrey County Club, Kennington Oval, London, S .E . Secretaries of clubs in the County are invited to send in the names of any likely youngsters in the district. © r t c f e e t t A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1883. ^ P ^ Y I l £ l 0 N v 6 ^ I P ^ The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. A c o r r e s p o n d e n t has called my atten­ tion to some peculiar bowling recorded in a match between Seaton and Axminster on August G. The last five Seaton wickets fell in five consecutive balls, three (the hat trick) to A. Hallett, and two to A. S. Isaacs. In the second innings A. S. Isaacs took threewicketswithhis first three balls, making five wickets with consecu­ tive balls—the two last of the first and the three first of the second innings. The first Axminster wicket fell to the first ball, so that six wickets fell to as many balls. Modern Society tells of a cricket match played recently on Sir Hereward Wake’s place in Northamptonshire be­ tween two teams of ladies. One of the batswomen scored thirty-five in one in­ nings. The costumes were somewhat curious, it is said, but there was no diffi­ culty about some of the lady cricketers wearing pads under their costumes. “ Batswomen’ ’ is quite a new expression in cricket parlance. This is essentially, though, an age of muscular Christianity, and its apostles will not be displeased at the latest addition to its lexicography. T h e Duke of Connaught, K.G., has selected Major Viscount Downe, 2nd Life Guards, for the appointment of Aide-de- Camp on his Boyal Highness’s personal staff in India. Viscount Downe is well known as a cricketer. He was educated at Eton, and subsequently became ac­ tively associated with the Marylebone Cljib, I Zingari, and also with the York­ shire Gentlemen. He was President of the M.C.C. in 1872. W e are told that it is human to err, and I have never shown the slightest disinclination to acknowledge any of my errors. But the numerous correspondents who have hastened to challenge my state­ ment that Mr. W. W. Bead’s crack for six off Mr. H. B. Horner in the match between Surrey Club and Ground and Wiltshire a fortnight ago, is the only one hit clean out of the Oval since Mr. W. H. Game sent Spofforth to square-leg into Clayton Street in 1878, have really done me an injustice. Mr. Boiler, last Bank Holiday, did not hit Flowers out of the ground, but only over the covered stand. A v a l u e d correspondent who was a witness of the match between Uppingham Bovers and Priory Park at Chichester on Saturday-, writes thusly. “ You know Priory Park. H. Botherliam hit a ball from Jesse Hide that put anything of Thornton’s in the shade. I was sitting in a straight line with the old ruin, so could watch the ball well. It went more than twice the length of the building clean over and pitched just by the entrance gate. I thought it would have gone over those big trees just by the gates, as I could see a good space between the ball and the tops. Pearce declares that the ball was in the air a minute. It was certainly the biggest hit ever seen in these parts.” An old friend, G. H., writes— Who is the W. Goodridge mentioned at the close of the article in C r ic k e t of last week, by the author of “ The Cricket Field.” No doubt it is intended for Mr.T.C. Goodrich, an excellent slow bowler, whose biography is given in “ Cricket Scores, &c.,” volume iv., page 284. He played frequently for the Free Foresters aud Leicestershire, and in several first-class matches at Lord’s, as recorded also in“ Scores and Bio­ graphies.” G. H. is right. It was the printer who so grossly maltreated the name, and destroyed the identity of our mutual friend Goodrich. T h e s e notes have recorded many in­ stances of sensational run-getting, but none to equal that of the Hon. A. Lyttsl- ton and Mr. I. D. Walker for Middlesex, at Clifton last Thursday. In an hour and' three quarters these two batsmen made 226 runs, an extraordinary aver­ age of over two runs a minute. While they were together they added 324 to the total, and this is the largest number of runs made by two batsmen in an impor­ tant match. Last year for Orleans Club v. Bickling Green, Messrs G. F. Vernon and A. H. Trevor made 603; for M.C.C. & G. v. Leicestershire at Lord’s, also,in 1882 Barnes and Midwinter scored 454; and in 1881, for Mr. A. E. Fellowcs’ Eleven v. Huntingdonshire, Lord Throw- ley and Mr. W. F. Forbes added 404. The best previous records of the kind in first-class matches are, as far as I know, as follows :—289.—Barnes and Shrews­ bury, Notts v. Surrey, Oval, 1882 ; 288— G. F. Grace and I. D. Walker, Gentle­ men South v. Players of North, Beeston, 1870; 283—W. G. Grace and B. B. Cooper, Gentlemen v. Players of South,