Cricket 1884

JUNE 19,1884. CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 219 Emeriti, on Saturday last as without a parallel. I cannot myself recal another instance of over four hundred runs made without the loss of a wicket, and the feat of the two Surrey cricketers — Ashdown is Surrey by birth, I fancy—is, I should say, unique. Mr. Shuter gave an easy chance, I am told, when he had got 25, but after this his play was faultless. He never made a mistake during the rest of his long innings, and—good hitter as he is—he has never shown such brilliant hitting. His figures will be interesting. They con­ sisted of eight 6’s, eighteen 4’s, twenty-eight 3’s, twenty-eight 2’s, and forty-four singles. A sh d ow n and he went in at 2.40 and stumps were drawn at 6.30. The 402 runs were consequently scored in three hours and fifty minutes. This makes an average of justarunand three-quarters a minute. The match was peculiar, too, in more ways than this. Mr. M. E. Fen- nessey carried his bat through the innings for 74 out of 131, and Mr. L. A . Shuter did the “ hat-trick” for Bexley. Two other instances of fast run- getting have been brought under my notice. In the match between Bickley Park and Crystal Palace, in last week’s C b ic k e t, Mr. C . C . Parr scored 101 of the first 135 made by Bickley. Kensington Park, when playing the Nondescripts on June 2nd, wanted 110 runs to win in their second innings, and they got them in 46 minutes off 89 balls, just landing within two minutes of time. Am on g the many cases of tall scoring during the past week it is refreshing to find a few matches in which the bowlers have had the best of it. Last Saturday the Radcliffe Bridge Wesleyans were all dismissed by Ringley for one run (a bye), and the whole ten wickets were clean bowled. Gorman’s performance last Friday for Mr. Hobbs’ Eleven against the Surrey Club and Ground was ex­ traordinary. He took all the wickets in the first and the first seven wickets which fell in the second, getting in the match eighteen wickets —all of them clean bowled. 1 w u - E v r b y o n e will be glad to see the Australian captain steadily working himself into his very best form with the bat. His innings against Cam­ bridge on Monday was a very fine one, and it certainly looks as if by the time the representative matches begin the Australians will be in vastly improved form to what they showed in their earlier matches. They have, I learn, added a new fixture, with an England Eleven at Huddersfield,'on July 3, 4, and 5, to their list. M b . T. C. O ’B b ie n ’ s last six innings have been—for Middlesex v. Surrey, 47 and 41 not out; Middlesex v. Gloucestershire, 12 and 119; Oxford University v. Lancashire, 91 not out and 57. This makes an aggregate of 367 for four completed innings, or an average of over 91 runs. Mr.O’Brien is a nephew of Sir Patrick O’Brien, the Irish baronet who has for so many years represented King’s County in Parliament. I t is said that all the places in the Oxford Eleven have been definitely settled for the Inter-University match at Lords’ on the 30th inst., except two. The favoured nine are Messrs. M. C. Kemp (captain), T. B. Hine- Haycock, H. Y. Page, E. W. Bastard, T.C.O’Brien, K.J.Key, B. E. Nicholls, H. O. "Whitby, and J. H. Brain. The two doubtful players at present are Messrs. A. B. Cobb, and E. H. Buck­ land. A w e l l - k n o w n Kentish amateur writes me as follows :— A curious thing happened in a match at Beckenham last Saturday week. A batsman playing with some string round the blade of his bat played at a ball on his legs and stopped it. In some way, though, the string on the blade had become loose and got mixed up in the off-bail, which it pulled off. The batsmen had to retire as “ hit wicket.” I saw this myself and so can vouch for the truth of it. Oddly enough a precisely similar in­ cident occurred on Monday at East­ bourne in a match between One and All and Clifton House School, when T. M. Bergg, of the latter, was given out “ hit wicket ” from exactly the same cause. A correspondent Australian batting Saturday last:— has sent me the averages up to Bannerman . 22.10 Palmer . 16.6 Scott 21.7 Spofforth . 12.5 McDonnell . 20.13 Bonner . 10.14 Giffen .. . 19.11 Boyle .. . 8.4 Murdoch 19.10 Alexander . 8.0 Blackham .. 19.2 Cooper .. . 5.0 Midwinter . 16.8 CHAKLTON PARK v. LAW CLUB. Played at Charlton Park on June 11. C h a r lto n P a rk . H. C. Dent, b Beres- f o r d .......................... H. E. Lawrence, c and b S m it h .................. W. McCanlis, c J. E. Shaw, b Smith W . A. Streatfield, run out .......................... A. Zambrano, c Little- wood, b Smith O. H. Pease, run out 2 J. Hunter, b Smith .. 15 C. C. Newsom, not out 14 H. Sheppard, b Smith 4 A. J. Chipp, b Smith 0 C.J. Fuller, c H. Shaw, b Chester..................0 B 7,1 b 1, w 5 . . 1 3 T o t a l..................75 L aw C lub . C. H. W. Beresford, c Lawrence, b Streat­ field ..........................13 R. W . Burroughs, c Chipp, b McCanlis .. 0 J. E. Shaw, b Streat- fitd d ..........................8 H. D. Littlewood, b Hunter .................. 9 F. W . French, b Zam­ brano.......................... 2 H. R. Shaw,not ou t.. 33 A. H. Smith, b Hunter 2 E.F. Baynes, c Fuller, b Hunter.................. C.C. Macklin, bStreat- fie ld .......................... Chester, b Hunter .. A. N. Other, b Hunter B 3,1 b 3.................. 0 Total 74 LAW CLUB v. HAMPTON WICK C. & G\ Played at Bushey Park on June 14. H am p ton W ick . H. R. Lipscombe, c Hill, b Cooke ............... 19 E. H. Burkitt, c and b Whitehead .. . . 1 7 A. Bull, b Chester .. 27 A. Bunn, c Littlewood, b C h ester................1 H. C. Paice, c Beresford, b C hester................3 M. G. Hutchinson, I Chester ................17 L aw C lub . H. de H. Whatton, b Burkitt ................ 2 C. H. W , Beresford, c Westbrook, b Bunn 123 H. T. Twynam, c Faw- cus, b Hutchinson .. 79 W . J. Wilson, not out 12 J. Driffell, b Hill .. 0 W . Westbrook, b C h e ste r.................. R. J. Fawcus, run out 3 J. Phillips, b Hill .. 4 B 13,1 b 1 .. .. 14 Total..................119 A.Whitehead,cWilson, b Hutchinson.. .. 6 H.D.Littlewood,notout 24 L b ................................8 Total....................247 F. Hill, H. P. Cooke, F. W. French, W . E. Saunders J. E. Shaw and Chester did not bat. HAMPSTEAD v. KENSINGTON PABK. Played at Hampstead on June 10. H a m pste a d . First Innings, Second Innings. H. T. Smith, c Powell, b L o w .....................................32 c W.Shipton,bWal* ford .20 E. B. Holmes,b Low .. 22 b Walford .. . . 1 1 A.R. Parker, b W.L.Ship- t o n ....................................... 1 c Powell, b Walford 7 J. H. Walker, 1 b w, b L ow ....................................... 0 c Low, b W alford.. 11 G. W. Creaton, c sub., b H. S h ip to n ......................18 b Walford .. .. 8 E. Hall, st Powell, b H. Shipton................................7 c Powell, b Walford 4 S. Smith, c Low, b H. S hipton................................0 not o u t .........0 J. G. J. Besch, b Low .. 0 c Burton, b Walford 1 T. Spink, b H. Shipton .. l b Palmer..................10 F. A. K. Doyle, not o u t.. 16 b Palmer.................. 4 Godfrey Durlacher, 1 b w, b Walford ..................... 12 b Palmer......... 2 L b ............................... 5 B ...............2 Total. .114 Total .. . . 8 0 K en sin gton P a r k . First Innings. G. Palmer, c Besch, b W a lk e r ..........................8 ff. Powell, b Parker.. .. 0 H. Shipton, b Walker .. 4 W. L. Shipton, not out .. 11 H.F.Mackenzie, b Walker 0 A. Bird, b Parker .. .. 20 A. F . Walford, b Creaton.. 3 J. C. Low, b Parker .. .. 1 G. D. Petrie, b Walker .. 19 D. F, Buxton, b Walker.. 0 L b 2 ..........................2 Total..........................68 Second Innings. b Parker..................11 b Parker..................2 b Walker..................4 b Walker..................18 not o u t ..................10 b Walker..................12 b Walker..................13 c sub, b Walker .. 21 c Creaton, b Walker 11 B 4,1 b 2 Total .. 6 ..108