Cricket 1884

TOLY 3,1881. CRICKET; A ■WEEKLY RECOED OE THE GAME. 253 Players to be commenced at the Oval to-day. Gentlemen—W. Gr. Grace, A. P. Lucas, W. W. Eead, T. C. O’Brien, H. Y. Page, H. 0. Whitby, E. J. Diver, J. Robertson, J, Shuter, T. E. Hine - Haycock,, and F. T. Welman. Players—Ulyett, Barnes, Bates, Flowers, Shrewsbury, Briggs, Hall, Peate, Pilling, Barlow, and Read The match between Kent and Sussex, at Brighton, takes Lord Harris and Messrs. Kemp and Christopherson, and Messrs A. G. Steel and C. T. Studd are also un­ able to play. “ T h e Guv’nor,” to use the title now familiarly given to Abel, is fast recovering from his recent illness, and there is every chance that he will be able to take his place again in the Surrey eleven in their next match with Sussex, at Brighton, on the 10th inst. An invitation was sent to him to form one of the eleven to meet the Australians at Huddersfield to-day, but acting on the doctor’s advice he had with great reluctance to decline the offer. Mb'. F. G a le contributes an article to the July number of Fores' Sporting Notes and Sketches under the title of “ About a Tune on an Old Fiddle.” The magazine also contains a sketch of the late Hon. Robert Grimston. T h a t was a peculiar incident in the second innings of the Gentlemen at the Oval on Saturday, when Mr. 0. T. Studd put a ball into the hands of Bonnor at short slip. The giant caught it low down, but by some means or other it went out of his hands and behind him. Opinions differed materially as to whether the ball had been held long enough to determine the catch, but while some thought it had, others were equally confident that the fieldsman attempting to throwit up before he had got fair hold the ball had slipped to the ground. Farrands, the umpire at the bowler’s end, not being certain on the point properly gave the batsman the benefit of the doubt, and it is said that Willsher, the other umpire, had an appeal been made to him, would have given a similar verdict, M essbs. E. Hawkins & Co. (late Hennali and Kent), the well-known photographers of 108, Kings-road, Brighton, photographed by special appointment the Gentlemen of Eng­ land at the Oval on Friday last. The same firm photographed the Austra­ lians and Lord Sheffield’s Eleven at Sheffield Park, on May 12. W . R a s h l e i g h played a very fine innings of 203 last Saturday for Ton­ bridge School against Dulwich College, giving only one hard chance to the wicket-keeper. The soundness of his defence and the severity and judgment of his batting were remark­ able in a batsman just seventeen years old, and he is likely to be of great use in the future to Kent—the couuty of his birth. His hits com­ prised three 6’s all run out, four 5’s, and eighteen 4’s, and he was batting just three hours-and-a-half. Three times in the last month he has scored over 100 for his School, and he now has an average of 68 runs for ten com­ pleted innings- A b u r l e s q u e by Mr. William Yardley, the well known old Rugby and Cambridge cricketer, of thq dramatised version of Mr. Hugh Con­ way’s popular story “ Called Back,” is in rehearsal at the Novelty. Its title is “ Scalded Back.” T h e absence of Barnes, Flowers, and Shrewsbury from the eleven which represented the Players against the Australians at Sheffield this week, has evoked much comment, and cer­ tainly not generally of a kind favour­ able to the three professors. Under any circumstances their action would have been ill advised, but in this par­ ticular case, always assuming the statement that they refused to play for the ordinary pay of the profession­ als in the match between the Gentle­ men and Players—ten pounds, to wit — to be correct, the course they have taken will be universally re­ garded as singularly ill - timed. Cricket is not a source of personal benefit to thosewho guide the destinies ofthe leading clubs, and it is altogether unlike business where capital is mostly dependent on paid skill and labour. Cricketers of all kinds have been hitherto united by the common link of good fellowship, and it will be a bad day for the game when the tie between the clubs and those they employ is loosened, as is sure to be the case by any combination such as that of the Nottingham players. Every well-wisher of the sport will regret the attitude they have thought fit to take, and it is to be hoped that some explanation will ease the ten­ sion sure to be created. The following are the averages of the Australian Eleven up to and including the match v. Gentlemen of England :— B atting . Name. «c "3o CD 9 60 a 'I o(5 a p « ® >< W. L. Murdoch .. 22 2 535 26.15 A. C. Bannerman.. .. 25 0 521 20.21 J. M ’C. Blackham .. 23 1 434 19.16 P. S. McDonnell .. .. 25 0 466 18.16 H. J. H. Scott .. .. 25 6 355 18.13 W. Midwinter .. 20 2 337 18.13 1 415 17.7 G .E . Palmer.. 23 5 293 16.5 F. B. Spofforth .. 21 4 195 11.8 G. J. Bonner , 24 1 252 10.22 H. F. Boyle .. 17 7 104 10.4 G. Alexander .. .. 3 1 16 8.0 VV. H, Cooper .. 3 1 13 6.1 B owling . n a ©60 Name. nE 2 -a a a> > § tZ 9>■ O F <3 F. B. Spofforth .. . 556 1011 82 32.£7 H. F. Boyle . 276 433 20 14.13 G. E. Palmer .. 583 1029 71 14.35 G. G if fe n ................ . 388 764 17 16.12 H. J. H. Scott .. . 19 48 2 24.0 W. Midwinter .. 31 87 1 87.0 W. H. Cooper .. 45 133 1 133 0 G. J. Bonnor .. 22 52 0 A. C. Bannerman . 5 17 0 Matches played, 14; won, 9; drawn, I ; lost, 4. THE LINDEN'S (3T. LEONARDS-ON- SEA) v. SOUTH SAXONS. Played on Bopeep Ground on Juue 23. T h e L in den s . H. Pigg. c Papillon, b R. Hawkcs, c Ebden, 72 b Papillon .. 13 O.Wynne,1b w,bLeigh- W. Trench, c Papillon, Smith ................... 46 b Leigh-Smith 0 M.Kirk, b Leigh-Smith 3 W. Whittaker, c Cap*. J. C. Wilson, b Leigh- Mackenzie, b Ltigh- Smith ................... 20 Smith .................. 1 Capt. Robertson, b D. A. Cuninghame,not Leigh-Smith .. 8 o u t .......................... 2 R. L. Newman,bLeigh- B12, l b f , w 8 .. 26 Srait'n .................. 21 — T Faulkner, c Beagley, 220 b Papillon.................. 8 S ou th S axons . Capt. ’ Mackenzie, c P. Papillon, c Trench, Capt, Robertson, b b Wynn©.................. •! P ig g .......................... 48 W. Beagley, run ou t.. 7 A. C. Coles, c and b S. Blake, c Wynne, b P ig g .......................... 0 p ig g .................. .. 15 W. Leigh - Smith, b C. Ebden, not out 2 Wynne .................. 9 F. O. Hume, b Wynne 2 F.Langham, c Trench, B 6 ,w 1 .................. 7 20 — A. W. Osborne, c Capt. T o t a l.................. 110 Robertson, b Wynne 7 II. Mann did cot bat. 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