Cricket 1883

MAY 10, 1883. CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, 89 I A c o r r e s p o n d e n t calls my attention to an enactment in force at Marlborough College, which he thinks worthy of notice in C r i c k e t . According to the school regulations, Lawn Tennis is only allowed three hours a week at times when it cannot interfere with cricket. My in­ formant adds that in consequence it hardly exists at all at Marlborough. Many would be glad to see such salutary pro­ visions in force on other grounds which ought to be sacred to cricket. E ven Homer was sometimes wont to nod, so we are told. “ Mistakes will occur in the best regulated families ” is another axiom which is not easy of refu­ tation. Thebest informed papers, too, fall into errors which are altogether difficult of explanation. As a rule cricket in the Standard is so well done that any lapse or defect is the more conspicuous. How was it then that the writer of the leaderette in th eEvening Standard of Friday treated his readers to the following : “ Mr. I. D. Walker, a prominent member of a well-known family of cricketers, and now Secretar, to the M.C.C. ? ” Mr. H. Perkins is the Secretary of the Marylebone Club, as every cricketer knows. I t looks as if New Zealand was imbued with the laudable ambition of rivalling some of the prodigies of the Australian cricket fields. Only a few weeks ago I called attention to a feat of scoring per­ formed by the two last batsmen in a match in New Zealand. And now Can­ terbury of that colony is big with apiece of batting performed there in March last. six balls. For Married v. Single of Crystal Palace Club on Saturday, Percy Currey (slow under-hand) achieved the hat trick, as did E , W . Bastard for Oxford Eleven v. Sixteen Freshmen on Monday. Bastard, who is an old Shirburnian, in that innings took eleven wickets for thirty- seven runs. On Saturday, for the Lorne Club against Mostyn, W . Wood, one of this year’s Surrey Colts, bowled five overs for one run and seven wickets. It is reported that the Hon. M. B. Hawke, of the Cambridge University Eleven, will have charge of the Yorkshire County team in the matches in which he takes part. According to the same informant, Emmett is to be deputy captain. A n o t h e r of the band of dusky braves who visited England in 1868, really the pioneers of colonial cricket, has gone to his rest. Many will remember Twopenny, the fast bowler of the Aboriginal team, who came here under Lawrence’s care fifteen years ago. He was after Mullagh and Cozens the best all round player of that party, and one of his feats here, in the match against East Hamp­ shire when he got all ten wickets, wa s very noteworthy. He was one of the New South Wales bowlers in the Inter­ colonial match withVictoria in February, 1870, but though well tried did not take a wicket. He died at West Maitland on March 12. The Aboriginal players were taken, it will be remembered,in their rude state from Lake Wallace, and underwent active and persistent cricket training for fifteen months for the tour. - ^ c P 7 I Y I M 0 ]^ vG 0 3 $ I P : H - The abstract and brief chro licle of the time.— Hamlet. As one who has never ceased to agitate in favour of some action in discourage­ ment of the very dubious character of much of the bowling of recent introduc­ tion, I can fairly congratulate cricketers generally on the first step towards a judicial settlement of a question that has been doing some injury to the game. The official notice issued by the Secretary of the Marylebone Club can hardly be mis­ understood :— The Committee of tbe M.O.C. have called befora them the umpires of that club to impress upon them their determination to put an end to the present unsatisfactory working of Law X., and have instructed them to carry out in the most stringent manner the spirit as well as the letter of that law. They have further impressed upon them that it is their duty to “ no-ball ” any bowler as to the fairness of whose delivery they entertain any doubt. T he decision of the Marylebone au­ thorities, though rather tardy, will meet with the approval of every class of cricketers, and as the co-operation of the county clubs ought to be assured, the evil of unfair bowling should be materially checked, if not soon entirely removed. Letters on this subject from the Earl of Bessborough and Lord Harris will be found in our correspondence columns. T h e instances of a cricketer represent­ ing three counties in turn, are, at least of late years, of the rarest. Soutlierton, “ the man of many counties,” played for Surrey, Hampshire, and Sussex. If I am not mistaken, Mr. C. E . Green at different times helped Essex, Middlesex, and Sussex, and Mr. George Strachan was seen in the Gloucestershire, Middle­ sex, and Surrey Elevens. The latest cricketer to claim the triple crown is Mr. G. N. Wyatt, who after assisting Glouces­ tershire and Surrey, made his first appearance for Sussex at Lord’s on Monday. A c h a n g e of some consequence has recently been made in the list of county fixtures for the season. The return match between Yorkshire and Derbyshire was originally fixed for August 27, 28, and 29, and all arrangements had been made for those days. It has been found though that the races at Derby begin on August 30, and as it requires a week to prepare the ground for thatmeeting,theexecutive of the Derbyshire county club have had no alternative but to find another date. The match will now have to be played at Derby on July 19, 20, and 21. In a local match a player named Lloyd scored 49 runs in three overs on Hagley Park. Off thefirst over (six balls) he scored 14 runs, besides a run which was called short by the umpire; off the second 9, and from the third no less than 26, after which he lost his wicket. Lloyd had all the bowling while he was in, and his partner did nothing but run for his (Lloyd’s) hits. The last over was made up of two sixes, three fours, and a two. On March 10, on Lancaster Park Ground, a player named Bush, in a second-rate match in the same colony, made 61 runs in about three-quarters of an hour. His score included one hit for 9 clean run out, and several sixes. Bonnor must really look to this. A f e w odd scraps of successful bowling. For the Colts of North against the Colts of South, Harrison, of Yorkshire, a fast round-arm bowler, took five wickets in I t is feared that alter all Morley’s re­ appearance in the Nottingham eleven is doubtful, at least for a long time this season. E . Mills will take his place against Surrey at Nottingham, and S. Kimberley is also to have a trial in the same match. I h a v e seen it stated that Shilton, the bowler who figured in the Colts match at Lord’s last week with some success, and was stated on the card to be a Northum­ brian, is, in reality, a Yorkhireman. Whether the report is correct I know not. T he Sportsman of yesterday contains the account of a bowlingperformance at Stockbridge on Saturday, which is quite a curiosity. In a match between the Stockbridge and Abbott’s Ann clubs, tbe whole of the twenty wickets of the latter are said to have been taken by a bowler named Martin.