Cricket 1884

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MAY 22, 23, & 24. Admission to Ground - - S ix p en ce . MAY 28, 27, and 28— Surrey v. Leicestershire- Next Week's Number will contain a Portrait and Biography of H. J. H. SCOTT, of the Australian Team. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 41, ST. ANDREW ’S H IL L , LON DON , E .O . THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1884. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet A v a lu e d correspondent, who occu­ pies a prominent position in American cricket, writes me that the final pre­ parations in anticipation of the de­ parture of the Philadelphian amateurs for England are progressing most satisfactorily. The weather, when my letter left, on the 5th of May, was delightful—very warm for the season —and the team had been for a fort­ night hard at work practising on the grounds of the Young America Cricket Club, at Stenton, near Philadelphia. G e o r g e L a n e , the well-known Not­ tingham player, and Handford, the professional of the Young America Club, had been busy in getting the team into form, and the former is of opinion that they will meet with suc­ cess over here. Great disappoint­ ment is felt at the inability of Mr. Dan Newhall, who is Secretary’s As­ sistant of the Pennsylvania Railroad, to make the trip, and I learn that a petition, signed by a large number of influential men, was presented to the railway authorities to obtain him leave of absence for the tour, but without success. Mr. D. Newhall would have been of great use to the team as Captain, as I can testify from my own personal knowledge. His brother, Mr. R. S. Newhall will, as I have announced before, take his place. T h e Philadelphians were to play one preliminary match (twelve a side) against a picked team of New York, at Nicetown, on the 9th, 10th a^d 11th inst., and five ladies from each of the five Clubs, the Philadelphia, Germantown, Young America,Merion and Belmont, had consented to act as patronesses to assist in making the match a success. Mr. Cyril Wilson, who played a few years ago for Somersetshire, Marylebone, Surrey and Prince’s Clubs, was to Captain the New Yorkers, and the team was also to include Mr. H. J. Lambkin, who played several years ago for the County of Cork, and three profes­ sionals, W. Brewster, H. Cleverley and G. Lane. Two members of the team, I notice, opened the season well for the Phila­ delphian Zingari, against the Pitts­ burgh Club, at Pittsburgh, on May 1. Mr. J. Allison Scott, of the Belmont Club, scored 145 without anything like a chance, and Mr. Sutherland Law, of the Merion Club, also made 120 without a mistake. Our old friend, Mr. A. H. Stratford, the curly bowler, who did some service for Mid­ dlesex a year or twa ago, was also in run-getting form on the other side. When he had only got five the um­ pire wrongly give him in to an appeal for a catch at the wicket, and this error cost I Z. dear, as he put on 119 without a mistake. The Phila­ delphian Team left New York on the Anchor steam ship “ City of Rome,” on Saturday. They are to play their first match on June 2, at Dublin, against the University. I sh o u ld like to know how long it is since the last Surrey wicket added over a hundred runs. The feat ac­ complished by Jones and Barratt, who put on 105 at the close of the first innings of Surrey v. Essex, at the Oval on Friday last, has not been equalled, unless I am mistaken, for many years. I remember that Julius Cfesar and Caffyn added 121 for the last wicket of Surrey v. Sixteen of Oxford University at the Oval in 1861. The best performance of the kind, though, that I can myself recall was that of Southerton and Street, when they increased the score of Surrey against Middlesex, at the Oval in 1873, from 144 to 224. “ T h e G u v ’ n o r , ” as Abel has been facetiously termed by some of his admirers at the Oval, was altogether in form in the match against the Australians on the classic soil of Kennington on Monday and Tuesday. His scores of thirty-five and twelve