Cricket 1884

284 CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. r o w ir, ism . C 1HISWICK CRICKET a n d LAW N TENNIS ^ COMPANY L im it e d . The spacious GROUNDS of this Company, fituate ■within two minutes* v a’k of the Cbirwick station (London and South-Western Railway), and ten minutes* walk of the Ac ton Green station (District Line), wi'l be OPENED for Lawn Tennis on Satur­ day, the 28th of June. About 4 acres are devoted to Tenni* purposes, and additional aspha'.te courts will shortly be provided. A spacious Lawn Tennis pavilion, with ev*ry accommodation for ladies and gentlemen, has been erected. The cricket ground w.ll be in rea'iin-s^ by next season, and suitable cricket pavilions built. The grounds altogether comprise about 14 acr?s. Subscriptions are as follow : F o r P l a y in g M e m b e r s . Gentlemen .........£1 11 6 su^seri tionperann. 0 10 6 entrance fee. Ladies .................. 0 15 0 subscription per ann. _ ........................... 0 10 6 entrance fee* Children under 12 0 5 0 per annum. F o r H o n o r a r y M e m b e r s . Gentlemen and Ladies. £1 la. per annum. Members ot the same family re -iding in the samo house will be charged an annual subscription of £1 11 s. 6 d. each. Except on reserved days (not exceeding six in each year), subscribers will be admitted free of gat°- money. No charge for courts will be made to sub­ scribers. Subscribers elected according to the rules, who send in their names on or before July 31,1884, will be exempted from paving the entrapce fee. Copies of the rules, &c , may be had on application to the SECRETARY, at the Company’s Offices. 19, Surrey-street. St) an 1, W .C .; or at the Chiswick Park Club, Chiswick. / ’ 1 HISWICK CRICKET and LAWN TENNIS COM- ^ PANY, LIMITED.—A LAWN-TENNIS TOUR­ NAMENT will beheld on the G ioundsof the above Company on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs­ day, Frid*v, and Saturday, July 28 to Aug. 2,1884.— Under the patronage of his Grace the Duke of Devon­ shire, K.G. C o m m it t e e o f M a n a g e m e n t — R av. G. Raynor, R. F. Finnis, Esq , F. S. Watts, Esq., J. H. Lewis, Esq., E. W . Lewis, Esq., P. Boville, Esq. R e f e r e e — B. C. Evelegh, Esq. S e c r e t a r y — E. W. Wyld, Esq., Chiswick Park Club, Chiswick. Prizes are open for competition in the following events :— GENTLEMEN’ S SINGLES.—First p ize, ’£15; second prize, £ 5 ; third prize, £3. Entry, 10s. 6 d. GENTLEMEN’S DOUBLE 8 .—First Prize, £10 (in two £5 prizes); second prize, £5 (in two £2 10*. prizes). Entry, 15s. LADIES’ SINGLES.—First prize, £1 10s.; second prize, £3: third pnze, £ 2 . Entry, 7s. 6 d. CHISWICK PARK CLUB LOCAL CHAMPION­ SHIP, open to Inhabitants of Chiswick and the ad­ joining Perishes of Hammersmith, Shepherd’s Bush, Acton, Ealing, Brentwood, Kew, Mortlake, andBarnea. —First prize, £7; seoond prize, £ 3 ; third prize, £ 2 . Entry, 5s. LADIES’ an I GENTLEMEN’S DOUBLES.—First prize, £6 (in two £3 prizes); second prize, £4 (in two £2 prizes). Entry, 10s. Prizes willalso be given for Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s Singles, confined to members of Chiswick Park Club. Entries close Friday morning, July 25. For Programmes, with full particulars, apply to E. W. WYLDE, Esq,. Sec. Chisw'.ck Park Club, Chiswick. k e n n i n g t o n o v a l . SURREY GENTLEMEN PHILADELPHIANS. THIS DAY & FRIDAY. A dm ission to G round - SIXPENCE, JULY 31, and Two Following Days AUSTRALIANS PLAYERS OF‘ ENGLAND. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Correspondents are particularly requested in writing scores of matches, to use only one side of the paper, to write all names and figures legibly, and to draw the score out in the style adopted by this paper. CRICKET MATCHES AT BRIGHTON. 18 th JULY—GENTLEMEN or SUSSEX v. INCOG­ NITI. 21 st JULY ( GENTLEMEN OF SUSSEX 22 nd JULY I GENTLEMEN OF PHILADELPHIA. 24 t h , 25 t h , & 26 th JULY—SUSSEX v. AUSTRA­ LIANS. /"I HEAP FIRST CLASS DAY TICKETS TO ^ BRIGHTON, from Victoria 10.0 a.m. Return Fare 12s. 6 d., including Pullman Car. Cheap Third Class Day Tickets, London to Brighton and back, for Four Shillings. Cheap Saturday to Tuesday Tickets, London to Brighton and back, 7s. 6 d. and 5. Cheap Day Tickets to Brighton from Hasting*, St. Leonards, Eastbourne, Tunbridge Wells, Seaford, Guildford, Horsham, Arundel, Littlehamptou, Bognor Chichestei, Hayling, Portsmouth, and the Isle of Wight. For further particulars see Bills, Time Book, or Tourist Programme. (By Order) J. P. KNIGHT, General Manager. CEICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF TBE GAME. 4 1, ST. ANDREW ’ S H ILL, LONDON, E.C . THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1884. - M c P ^ Y I I i I 0 I i v 6 8 ^ g I P ^ The abstract and briefchronicle of the time.— Hamlet. A L i v e r p o o l correspondent has called my attention to some extra­ ordinary scoring in thematcli between the Liverpool and Sefton Clubs, at Sefton Park, on the 9th inst. The following details,sent me by the Liver­ pool Secretary, will be of interest:— Nine runs were got, and then rain came on. At 4-25 p.m. play was reoommenced, and at 6'43 397 were on the telegraph board, so that 388 runs had been got in 138 minutes, or nearly equal to 3 runs a minute. D. Q. Steel made 226, in which were 47 fours (all boundary hits) ; H. B. Steel 100, in which were 18 fours; E. H. Porter 68, in which were 11 fours. The Steels, who were in to­ gether, nearly tied in the rapidity of their run-getting, being 86 all and 97 all. In all 84 overs of 5 balls each, or 440 balls, were bowled, and off these 450 runs were made from the bat with only 5 wickets down, extras contributing 28. This performance of the Liverpool team in scoring 388 runs in two hours and eighteen minutes is about as fast run-getting as has ever been recorded. A C o r r e s p o n d e n t , to whom I have been very much indebted at different times for information, calls my at­ tention to a peculiar occurrence in a match of which he was recently a witness. On June 24 the Sefton Club played Iiirkby Lonsdale, on the ground ofthe latter, and thewicket was hit four times (twice in one over) by the bowlers without the bails being removed. “ D i f f e r i n g judgments serve but to declare, the truth lies somewhere if we knew but where.” Last week I pointed out on the authority of one of the very best read and most experi­ enced judges of the game, an acknow­ ledged arbiter on all matters of cricket dispute, that only two players, Mr. T. A. Anson (Cambridge) and Rev: S. C. Youles (Oxford), had taken part in four winning Inter - University matches. My informant seems to have overlooked a contemporary of Mr. Anson, Mr. W. de St. Croix. He was in the winning Cambridge elevens of 1839-40-41-42, and in the last year made his mark very decisively by taking eleven Oxford wickets, seven of them bowled. A nother correspondent calls my at­ tention to the fact that W. Mills also played in the Cambridge elevens of 1889-40-41-42, with T. A . Anson, and that C. 1). Marsham, who represented Oxford five years in all, was in the victorious Oxford elevens of 1854-55-57-58. The Oxonians lost by three wickets in 1856. The same kind friend has discovered that only two Inter - University players have played in four losing games, to wit—Messrs. E. D. Balfour and G. H. Tuck, who were in the defeated Cambridge elevens from 1863 to 1866. W hile on tho subject of Inter- University players, I may mention a peculiar coincidence recently related to me by a well-known clerical sup­ porter of the game. On June the 11th, at a celebration of the Holy Com­ munion in the church of the Bev. E. S. Carter, St. Michael-le-Belfry, York, in connection with the Yorkshire Evangelical Conference, three clergy­ men took part in the service, all of whom had rowed in their University crew, and two of whom had played in their University eleven as well. The three were the Eevd. Joseph McCor­ mick, D.D., vicar of Hull, Eural Dean, Canon of York Minster, who rowed No. 6 in the Cambridge boat, and was in both the victorious Eight and Eleven of 1856; the Eevd. H. G. Hopkins, vicar of Clifton, York, who rowed No. 7 in the Oxford boat and won in 1861; and the Eevd. E. S. Carter, vicar of St. Michael-le-Belfry, York, vicar choral of York Minster. Mr. Carter, who is one of the keenest supporters of the game,as many know, has played for Yorkshire on several occasions, and is still actively iden