Cricket 1883

“ Together joined in cricket’s manly toil.”— B y r o n . Regiflteredfor'TransmiseiQii Abroad. THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 13, 1883. PRICE 2d. MR. G. B. STUDD. T h e second o! the three brothers who have made the family name famous on the cricket fields of bothEngland and Australia, Mr. George B.Studd,occupiesapositioninpublicopiniononly inferior to 0. T., the youngest of thetrio, whose careerwas sketched in these columns three weeks ago. The eldest, J. E. K., was amember of the Eton College eleven in 1876, and, in the following year, G. B. and C. ‘T. helped mainly towards the easy victory of Eton over Winchester. The former con­ tributed 54 on that occasion to the long total of 390 made by Eton, and in the great match of the year against Harrow also did good service with two useful scores of 32 and 23. The season of 1878 found him less successful in the more important matches of the Etonians. Against Winchester he was credited with a good first in­ nings of 30, but at Lord’s he had to be content with 2 and 18, and his ill-success in these two contests was the more noticeable from the consistently good batting he had been showing in minor matches. After two summers in tbe Eton Eleven he went to Cam­ bridge, andtheUniversityCaptain, deemed him worthy of a place in his team during the first year of his residence, 1879. Only very moderate success attended him in the Freshmen’s Match, and the brilliance of his fielding no doubt mainly conduced to his early attainment of his blue. It was not until the match with Surrey, at the Oval, that he was tried in the eleven, and in the three innings he played in the threeLon­ don fixtures of the University he was only credited with 13 runs, seven of them against Oxford. The Oval also witnessed his debut for jMiddlesex, with which county the family has long been identified by resi­ dence, but his two innings of 13 and 19 against Surrey were the only ones he played for that shire in 1879. In the earlier trials of 1880 he was not very successful for Cambridge, but he was in excellent form in the great struggle of the season, and his was the dis­ tinction of the highest aggregate against Oxford. In the first innings 86 runs were made while he was at the wickets, and his two scores of 38 and 40 in a great measure con­ tributed to the victory of theCantabs by 116 runs. The Middlesex Captain was able to secure nis services in three of the Metropolitan matches of 1880, but his aggregate for four innings was only 26. The Cambridge Eleven of 1881 were under the captaincy of G. B. Studd, and, though the season was not so very successful, and the best contest of the year ended in a reverse, the best feature in the season’s cricket was the brilliant batting of the captain and his two brothers. G-.B. 's best scorewas his 106 not out against Lancashire, at Liverpool, and his perform­ ance in going in first and carry­ ing out his bat for 106 in the first innings without a chance on a very difficult wicket was one of the best batting feats of the season. He was singularly unfortunate in the Inter - University Match, wherein he only scored five runs but his aggregate was the best of the Cambridge Eleven, and in 12 completed innings he made 533 runs for anaverage of 46. On the three days following the Oxford and Cambridge Match he madehis debutfor thegentlemen againstthe Players at the Oval, but in the only innings he had he was dismissed without scoring, going in last. Though hardly, on the whole, so successful last yearjas in 1881, his batting was at times verybrilliant, and on two occasions his batting was of great service to Cam­ bridge. His scores of 42 and 48, in conjunction with the fine bat­ ting of his two brothers, helped to give the University its memorable victory over the Australians at Cambridge, and his determined batting against Oxford will not soon be forgotten. His score of 120 in that match is the highest, except Mr. Yardley’s 180 for Cambridge in 1872, ever made in the Inter-University Match, and it was, though not faultless, a fine display of resolute batting. His 84 for Middlesex against Gloucestershire was also a capital performance, and in first-class matches for 36 innings he had an aggregate of 819 runs for an average of close on 33. During his tour with the Hon. Ivo Bligh’s team in Australia last winter, though he failed to come up to expectations with the