Cricket 1884

JULY 17, 1884. CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF I'HE GAME. 285 tified with the Yorkshire Gentlemen’s Club. He rowed No. 3 in the Oxford boat of 1867, No’. 7 in that of 1868, and won both races, He was also a member of the Oxford eleven in both these years, winning in 1868 and losing in 1867. This conjunction, I may add, was quite undesigned. 1 h e a r that the captains of the Etou and Harrow elevens of this year — R. J. Lucas and H. E. Crawley— will both be up at Cambridge next summer. The latter has been un­ able to play at all this term owing to illness, and E. M. Butler has directed the cricket at Harrow in his stead. A. H. Studd, who played such steady cricket for Eton at Lord’s last year, has, I learn, returned to England and will also be in residence at Cambridge in 1885. A notheb instance of three scores of a hundred in the same innings has been recorded during the last fortnight. I have not seen the score noticed as yet in any of the sporting papers, so that as far as I know to the general cricket public it will be news. On the 8th instant at Sheffield Park Lord Sheffield’s eleven scored 536 against the Brighton Rangers Football Club. To this total Huggett contributed 155, A . Payne 108, and R. T, Ellis 105. Sheffield Park is a fruitful soil for batsmen desirous of improving their averages. doubtedly to pay Mr. Christopherson that he should be selected to play for England in only his second year of first-class cricket, but despite his un­ doubted success of late, and Flowers’ good all-round cricket, it is difficult to see how Barlow—as he has been play­ ing just recently—-can be left out of an England team. T he eleven to represent England in the second of the two matches against the Australians, to be commenced at Lord’sonMonday next is,aswas only to be expected, different to that which did duty at Manchester last week. The substitution of Lord Harris, the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, and Mr. W. W. Read for Mr. Hornby, Pilling, and Mr. O’Brien will materially strengthen the batting of the team, and certainly not—to judge by the play at Old Traf­ ford—weaken it in any way. Messrs. W. G. Grace, A. G. Steel, A. P. Lucas, Ulyett, Shrewsbury, Barnes, and Peate, who all took part in the Lancashire fixture, will also figure at Lord’s, and the last place will be filled by Mr. Christopherson or Flowers, according as the state of the ground seems likely to favour fast or slow bowling. All round the eleven is very strong and if the ground helps the bat the English players are sure to render a good account of them­ selves. It is a high compliment un“ T he rain it raineth every—Eton and Harrow—day.” It wa3 beyond a doubt very hard luck for the Harrovians this year that the rain should have stopped the game just as they seemed to have an excellent chance of pulling off the odd match. Still despite the advantageous posi­ tion in which the game was left for them at the finish, I am inclined to think that there was really not very much to choose between the two schools. Harrow on the whole had the better bowling, notwithstanding the great confidence felt by Etonians in the slow round-arm of Bromley- Martin, C. H. Dent (slow round-arm with a rather high action) kept an excellent length throughout the Eton innings, though Buxton, also slow round with high delivery, and Ramsay (fast round) were more successful. Altogether, though, tho cricket, making every allowance even for the depressing weather and the state of the ground, was not very interesting, and asfar as one could judge from this match there was certainly no bright particular star in either team. 1805 should also be expunged. The common and accepted notion is that last week’s match was the sixtieth as yet played, and that of these each School has won twenty-five, leaving the other ten drawn. T h e eleven to represent Lanca­ shire against Surrey in the match to be commenced at Liverpool to-day, will be a pretty strong one if all those who are announced play. The team advertised consists of Messrs. A. N. Hornby, A. G., D. Q., H. B. and E. E. Steel, 0 . P. Lancashire, and Watson, Barlow, Pilling, Briggs and Crossland. This will be the first time, I believe, in which tho four Steels have appeared in on 3 County match. How many otheo instances are there, I wonder, of four brothers in the same County eleven.* Surrey will be represented by Messrs. J. Shuter, W. W. Read, Diver, Roller, Bowden, Horner, Key and Abel, Wood, Barratt and Read. T he following are the principal ba( - ting averages in all county and other first-class matches of not less than ten completed innings and over 23 runs :— I n o t i c e that one paper, the Sport­ ing Life, persistently adheres to the doctrine that Eton can claim to have won one more match than its old rival. Thi3 I may add is not the usually accepted version, and the general understanding is that each School can boast the same number of victories. Some years ago the authorities at Eton obiected to the retention in the list of the match of 1857, which Harrow won by ten wickets, on the ground that it was not a real fixture between the elevens of the two Schools. It was then urged on behalf of the Harrovians that the same objection could be laid against the first game re­ corded under the title ofEton v.Harrow in 1805,when Eton won by an innings and tworuns. As this does not appear to have been even confined to actual members oftlie School its authenticity is open to the gravest doubt, and the Harrovians argued that if the match of 1857 was to be omitted from the list after its undisputed inclusion for Iseveral years the more dubious one of Cmpltd. Innings. Bans. Most in Innings. Avrg. Lord Harris . 18 766 112* 42.10 Scotton . 13 539 134 41.6 W. W. Read . 22 867 162* 39 9 A. G. Steel . 13 509 134 39.2 Barnes . 23 771 105* 33.12 W. G. Graoe . 23 813 107 32.11 W. Newham . 13 308 83 30.8 T. C. O’ Biien . 28 828 119 29.16 Shrewsbury . 19 513 209 28.11 Tester .. 16 457 80 28.9 M, C. Kemp 15 420 95 28.6 G. G. Hearne . 21 582 116 27.15 J. E. K. Studd . 13 353 82* 27.7 A. J. Webbe . 14 378 83* 27 T h e following are the highest bat­ ting averages, of not less than three completed innings, against the Aus­ tralians up to Saturday last:— Comptd. Most in Innings. Rung. Innings. Avge. Scotfcon .. .. 3 16*2 134 54 A. G. Steel....... 9 407 134 45.2 Barnes............... 7 295 105* 42.1 T .C . O’ Brien ... 5 197 93 39.2 W .G . Grace ... 9 319 107 38.7 A. N. Hornby .. 4 121 94 .30.1 Attewell . . . . 3 84 84 23 A. P. Lucas . . 3 78 24 26 Lord Harris 4 82 35 20.2 Shrewsbury . . 7 139 43 19.G A n A c c u r a t e T e n n is C o u r t .— The eye dete ta at once th e difference between Courts marked out by Proctor’s Patent Cha ‘ns,and those with a tapemeasure; the absolute accuracy of the former is strikingly evi­ dent. Box of Chains, with directious for use, price 10b. 6 d., from Frank Proctor, Patentee, Stevenage, Herts; and Wholesale Firms.— A d v t . * I know that four Hearnes played this year f or Ken 4 v. Yorkshire, at Sheffield.