Cricket 1884

FEB. 28, 1884. CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 29 A F E W A U S T R A L IA N MEM S. P almer and Boyle did a good bowling per­ formance for the Melbourne Club on Dec. 12. They got Fifteen of Rupertswood out for 37, and equally divided the fourteen ■wickets, Palmer’s seven costing 13, Boyle’s 20 runs. F oe an Eleven of the Melbourne Club against the Scotch College, on Dec. 8, Pierce took eight wickets for 22 runs, four -with successive balls. B onnor made 72 for Single v. Married of Melbourne Club, on Dec. 8. A ccording to the Australasian of Dec. 15, a bowler, named Kinsella, belonging to the Woodend Club, had recently been distinguishing himself. Playing for Wood­ end against Malmsbury, he took seven wickets for 4 runs, and for Woodend against Macedon he, in the two innings, secured sixteen wickets for 4 runs, making an aggre­ gate of twenty-three wickets for 8 runs. T he Melbourne Cricket Club have ap­ pointed a special committee to consider the laws of cricket as revised by the Marylebone Club. M urdoch and McDonnell scored 204 runs while together for the Fourth Australian Team, in their first match against a Com­ bined Team of the Colonies, begun at Mel­ bourne on Jan. 1. K endall did a good bowling performance for North v. South of Tasmania, on Dee. 24. In the two innings ha delivered 343 balls, 18 maidens, for 78 runs and eleven wiekets. H oran and Scott, in the first innings of Victoria v. New South Wales, raised the score from 148 for four, to 309 for five wickets. A laughable incident occurred when Bon­ nor was put on in the first inning3 of New South Wales v. Victoria, The giant started to bowl, and slipping, did not deliver the ball. He had, however, gone clean over the crease, and Fletcher, the umpire, thinking the ball was going on its journey sang out loudly “ no ball.” Everybody roared with laughter, and the umpire himself had to join in. I n a match between ChristchurchWanderers and an Auckland Eleven, at Auckland (N.Z.), Secretan scored 119 out of 227 for the former. In the first innings Auckland only scored 15, Wilding taking eight wiokets for eleven runs. A uckland won the New Zealand Inter- Provincial match against Canterbury, at Auckland, on Dec. 31, by four wickets. D. Ashby, who played in one match for Surrey in 1873, scored 5 and 39 for the losers, and took three wickets. F or Christchurch Wanderers v. Auck­ land Eighteen, Jan. 2, Millton scored 117 out of 278, for seven wickets. I n a match between the Clare and Ken­ sington Clubs in South Australia, Bright carried his bat through the Clare innings for 81 out of 205. O n Jan. 9, Dyer scored 141 out of 275, at Sydney, for South Australian Junior Team v. Carthonas and Osborne Clubs. M urdoch won the batting prizes presented by the Victorian Cricketers Association for the highest individual score in the inter­ colonial match. Midwinter won the Asso­ ciation prize for best bowling average, and also a prize of ten guineas given by Judge Williams. Special prizes were also given to Horan and Scott, of Victoria, for their batting. S outh Melbourne beat M#lbourne in Dec. by an innings and 82 runs. Walters scored 132 (not out) of the South’s total of 257, and caught out five Melbourne batsmen in two innings. NOTICES. T he fir3t summer number for 1884 will be published on Thursday, April 17. Soores of matches muBt reach us by first delivery on Tuesday morning, or they will have to wait till the following week. I f payment has not been made for the season’s scores in advance every score, to secure insertion, must be accompanied with a postal order for one shilling. I mmediate publication of scores can only be guaranteed to clubs arranging for the insertion of their matches throughout the season, although every effort will be made to publish at once all soores forwarded to this paper. T he Nottinghamshire Colts’ match will be played at Nottingham on Easter Monday and Tuesday, April 14 and 35. In answer to Harry Burnett, 24, Wilson Street, York Road, Wandsworth, The Cricket Field is published at the office of C ricket . It is now being re-printed, and will be ready at the end of March or early in April. C ricket at C ambridqe U niversity .— The following bowlers have been engaged for the University ground at Cambridge for 1884 :—J. C. Shaw, W . Attewell, F. Wild, J. Mee, and W. Wright, Notts; W. Slinn, Joe Brooks, and C. R. Young, Yorkshire; W. A. Woof, Gloucestershire ; J. Parnham, Leicester; E. Barratt and W. Carney, Sur­ rey; T. Alley, Northampton; C. Walker, Southampton; and A. Thomas, Middlesex. T h e annual meeting of the Chelmsford Club was held last week. Mr. C. E. Ridley was re-elected captain, Mr. Tomlinson treasurer, Mr. E. Copland was elected sub­ captain, and Mr. C. A. Copland hon. sec. T he Gloucestershire Colts’ match will be played on Easter Monday and Tuesday, April 14 and 15, on the Bedminster Club ground, Bristol. The colts will be captained by Dr. W. G. Grace. A ssociated C hicket C hallenge C up .— The following is the result of the first draw for the above Cup, and the dates are as fixed by the committee—viz., first round, May 17; second, June 1 4 ; third, July 5 ; and final, July 19. Unity v. Holborn C., Borough Albion v. Grove House, Kensing­ ton v. Tottenham H., Victoria v. Kildare, West End v. Quadrant, Waterloo v. Cla­ rence, Cavendish v. Commerce H. I t has been decided to form a second County Eleven for Kent next season, with Mr. Philip Hilton as captain. W . W hittam ’ s “ M odern C ricket and other S ports . ” —A copy of this book, just issued, for the second year has been for­ warded to us. It contains 95 pages of matter of various kinds, intended for the amusement and instruction of cricketers. It is published at sixpence, and can be had in London, of Wright and Co., 17, Pater­ noster Square. R eading C ases — (cloth boards) for holding four numbers of C ricket , 2 s ., can be had at the office, 17, Paternoster Square, E.C. C U R IO S IT I E S OF CR ICKET . (Continued from Vol. II, page 98.) 1843. May 4, 5, 11.—Cambridge. An un­ dergraduate match. Extras made 183, perhaps the largest number on record. No less than 90 byes and 19 wides out of 280 runs were made off Mr. Marcon’s very fast bowling in a match at Oxford a few days later. June 24.—Harrow. Haileybury v. Harrow. Won by Haileybury by 9 wickets. In the first innings Harrow scored 6 runs from the bat and 4 extras, 10 in all. Eight out of the eleven failed to score. July 9.—Manchester. Liverpool v. Manchester. Manchester won by an innings and 264 runs, scoring 313 against 30 and 19. It would perhaps be difficult to find a more one-sided game than this. August 15.—Shillinglee- An eleven chosen by Lord Winterton beat 37 labourers by 5 wickets. On August 23rd, 1846, a similar eleven played a draw with, and would probably have beaten, if the match had been finished, 56 labourers, but the players engaged were men of no ability in the game,and tho victories were not worth winning.A large field stops run-getting if the fieldsmen are individually good, but if they are bad they only get in each other’s way and miss catches by trying for them two or three at once. Lord Winterton’s very bad example does not seem to have ever been followed anywhere else. August 17, 18.—Cranbrook, Kent. England v. Kent. Won by Kent by 99 runs. In the second innings of England Mr. Alfred Mynn bowled 54 balls for 11 runs and 6 very good wickets. October 2, 3, 4.— Sheffield. T. Hunt beat G. Chatterton at single wicket by 143, scoring 165 in his second innings. 1844. July 1, 2, 3.—Lord’s. Kent v. Eng­ land. Won by Kent by 16 runs. Towards the end of the second innings of Kent, Sir F. Bathurst went on to bowl. He bowled two overs for four wickets and no run— a wonderful feat in a first-class matoh, at least equal to Mr. Cob- den’s three wickets in three consec­ utive balls in the Oxford and Cam­ bridge match at Lord’s, in 1870. August 1, 2.—Lord’s. Winchester v. Harrow. Won by Winchester by three wickets. In the first innings of Winchester nine wickets fell for 70, and the tenth for 169. August 5, 6, 7.—Bath. West of Eng­ land v. M.C.C. Won by the former by 81 runs. S. Dakin bowled 34 balls for three runs and four wickets. (To be continued.) 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