Cricket 1884

j u l y io, 1884. CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 269 D u rin g the season some big innings were made by the Melbourne Club, not­ ably 635 for eight wickets against Hot- ham, 461 for six wickets against St. Kilda, 413 for nine wickets against 18 of Prahran Trades,292 for four wickets against 18 of County of Bourke, and 269 for four wickets against Bohe­ mians. The East Melbourne team scored421 for ninewickets againstMel­ bourne in the first match, but at the end of the season the latter retorted, making 200 for four wickets. The East Melbourne Club played 23 matches, of which thirteen were won, eight drawn, one lost, and one tied, Midwinter averaged 63.66 for three completed innings, P. Lewis, 60-5 for ten, T. A. Groube, 56.5 for eight, and H. J. Scott, 41.8 for ten. H. F- Boyle took 44 wickets for 204 runs, or an average of 4.64 runs. A v e r y interesting match, a Wor­ cester correspondent informs me, took place yesterday week at the Blind College, in that city, under the title of Oxford and Cambridge. Cambridge eventually won by one wicket on the first innings, as time would not per­ mit two to be played out. Constable, for Cambridge, took eight wickets at a cost of only 15 runs. The game is played with a wicker-work ball which contains a bell, so that the batsmen and fielders are guided by the sound, whilst the wicket keeper 'claps his hands to intimate to the bowler where the wickets are. The blind are only able to play single wicket matches, on account of the collisions that might occur in the case of a run. The blind boys, my informant states, are passionately fond of the game and take quite as much interest in it as those who are blessed with sight. 1 u n d e r s t a n d that the Tonbridge Bovers have arranged to play a two- days match at the Haag, on August the 4th and 5th, against Eleven Dutchmen, and to follow up the tournament on the 7th and 8th at Harlem. It is expected that another English Eleven will meet the Bovers on the 6th, and applica­ tions from amateurs to form this second team are invited. It is anti­ cipated that matches will be played in Belgium—aud other towns in Ho1- land—providing a sufficient number of English amateur cricketers can be got together. Mr. P. W. Hethering- ton, of 334, Strand, London, who in­ troduced the game into Holland some three years ago, is interesting himself in the forthcoming matches. I am pleased to learn that the Dutchmen have taken a decided liking to our national game, and since their defeat by the Uxbridge Eleven, made considerable progress. There are now about twenty-five clubs, each possessing some tolerably good players. These have been en­ rolled in one association or “ pool ” (as they prefer to call it), and it is decided that they shall compete for the championship of Holland during the last week in August. Medals and prizes of considerable value have been subscribed for, and will be pre­ sented to those clubs who make the highest scores during the six days’ competition. The arrangements for this national meeting have also been entrusted to Mr. F. W. Hetherington, who has undertaken the management with a fair prospect of success. How history repeats itself [even in cricket. Last year Lord Lewisham scored a hundred for the Opposition against the Government, and on Satur­ day last he even outdid this perform­ ance, punishing the weak bowling of the Government to the tune of 109- Nor was this the only point of simi­ larity. The member for Colchester can also claim to have accomplished the same featlast week as was credited to him in 1883. He was very merciful to the Opposition,for he failed to score in either year. The Govern­ ment can certainly not claim to have a working majority on the cricket field. T h e Committee of the Marylebone Club at their meeting on Monday last passed the following resolution : — “ That the Committee of the M.C.C. having learnt with regret that Barnes and Flowers, two professionals en­ gaged on their staff at Lord’s, refused to play for the Players of England v. The Australian Eleven, at Sheffield, on June 30—one of the representa­ tive matches—do by this resolution express their strong disapproval of their want of public spirit.” I am given to understand on the best authority that the members of the North of England team which beat the Australians at Manchester, received only ten pounds each, and the statement that they had a bonus of two pounds for winning is, there­ fore, incorrect. T h e news of the death of Lord Petre, on Friday last, will recall to many, like the writer, memories of pleasant days spent on the pretty cricket ground attached to his resi­ dence in Essex. His eldest son, who succeeds to the title, the Honourable and Reverend Monsignor William •Joseph Petre, a priest in the Church of Rome, was a few years ago a fair cricketer, and is still much attached to the game. Unless I am mistaken, he is the principal of the Roman Catholic School at Woburn Park, near Weybridge. I am officially informed that tho e'even to oppose the Australians in the first of the three representative matches to be commenced at Man­ chester to-day will consist of Messrs. W. G. Grace, Hornby, A. G. Steel, O’Brien, A. P. Lucas, with Peate, Barnes, Ulyett, Shrewsbury, Pilling, and Bar’.ow or Crossland. The eleventh place will be filled by one of the two last-named, and the selection will depend on the weather this morn­ ing. Lord Harris will not play, I believe, on account of certain dubious bowling, and the presence of the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton and Mr. C. T. Studd would have considerably strengthened the English eleven. As it is it cer­ tainly cannot be called a thoroughly representative one. I do not think it is generally known that the Bishop of the new diocese of Liverpool—the Right Reverend J. C. Ryle—is an “ old Blue.” He played for Oxford against Cambridge iu both 1836 and 1838—there was no match in 1837. There are at the present time only two other bishops who have figured in Inter -University contests. These are—Henry L. Jenner, brother of Herbert Jenner the celebrated wicket-keeper, who played for Cam­ bridge in 1841, now Bishop of Dune­ din ; and tho scholarly Bishop of St. Andrew’s, Charles Wordsworth, who represented Oxford in the first re­ corded Inter - University match at Lord’s in 1827, and got two ducks in the second, played on the Magdalen Ground at Oxford in 18^9. T he sixtieth match between Eton and Harrow is to be commcnced at Lord’s to-morrow at eleven o’clock. The Harrow Eleven consist of E. M. Butler, F. H. Oates, C.D. Buxton, A. R. Cox, W. A. R. Young, C. H. Dent, W. H. Dent, A. D. Ramsay, A. K. Watson, C. E. Kindersley, and M. J. Dauglisli. H. E. Crawley, the cap­ tain, has not been able to play at ail