Cricket 1884

348 CRICKET ; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. a u g . u , is84. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. C R I C K E T M A T C H E S at B R I G H T O N . Aug. 15th & 16th, GENTLEMEN or SUSSEX y. M.C.C. AND GROUND. Aug. 21st, 22nd, & 23rd, SUSSEX v. YORKSHIRE. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 41, ST. ANDREW’S H ILL, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1884. May 24, 25 and 26, 1880, when every one of the twelve Gentlemen tried'his hand with the ball.* The startling success which attended the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton when he went on with lobs after his fast round had been unsuccessful, was one of the most extraordinary incidents of a remarkable innings. Mr. W. G. Grace keeping wicket to Mr. Lyttel­ ton’s bowling, was quite a reversal of the old order of things, a combi­ nation which very few, indeed, can claim to have witnessed on the cricket-field. S ome time ago I suggested the arrangement of a fixture between the Australians and an English team, the proceeds to be devoted to the Cricketers’ Fund. I am glad to be able to state that through the active intervention of Mr. V. E. Walker a match has been fixed to take place on September 15, 16, and 17, at Lord’s, in aid of the deserving charity named. The fixture will be Smokers v. Non Smokers, and the players will include the foremostmembers of the Australian team, as well as the best of our English cricketers. It will take some time to determine the elevens, but I am able to state authoritatively that Lord Harris, and Mr. W. G. Grace, the latter of whom does not smoke, will positively play. The decision of the Australians to aid in such a deserving object, will be thoroughly appreciated by English cricketers, and every one will hope to find the fund materially benefited by the novel fixture. A H ull correspondent sends me an account of a peculiar match played in the park of Mr. W. Bethell, J.P., at Rise, on Bank Holiday. The fix­ ture was between Rise and the eleven sons of Mr. W. G. Walgate, West Hill, Aldborough. There have been several instances of teams composed of players of the same name, but very few indeed in which an eleven has been made up entirely of brothers. In this case the brotherhood was suc­ cessful, as the Walgates won after an excellent game with three wickets to fall. O nly last week and C ricket pointed out that Barlow’s 100 for Lancashire against Cheshire was the first score of three figures that Fabius Cunctator, as the Saturday Review styled him, had ever made for his County. It was therefore a little * In the second innings of Sussex, at Brighton this year, all the Kentish eleven bowled. pH E A P FIRST-CLASS DAY TICKETS t o ^ BRIGHTON, from Victoria 10.0 a.m. Return Fare 12s. 6d., including Pullman Car. Cheap Third-Class Day Tiekets, London to Brighton and back, for 4*8. 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W I L T S H I R E . MONDAY NEXT : S u r r e y v . L a n c a s h i r e . THURSDAY N EX T : S u r r e y v. D erb ysh ire . A dmission to Geotod S ixpence . An A c c u r a te Trams O o u b t.— The eye detents at once the difference between Courts marked out by Prector s PatentCho ns.and thosewith a tape measure; tbe absolute accuracy of the former is strikingly evi­ dent. Box of Chains, with directions for use, prioe 10s. 6d., from Frank Prootor, Patentee, Stevenage, HertB; and Wholesale Firms.— A d vt. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Correspondents are particularly requested in writing scores ol matches, to use only one siSie of the paper, to write all names and figures legibly, aad to draw the score out in the style adopted by this paper. -^$P7IVmi0N-:-G^IP^ The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. T he performance of the Australian team against England at the Oval on Monday is, I, believe in one re­ spect, quite unique. On no other occasion, in a first-class match have three scores of a hundred been made on the same day, and I question whether there is any previous record of an important fixture, in which over 360 runs have been made on the first day for the loss of only two wickets. I well remember the scoring on the first day of the match between Surrey and Notts at the Oval in 1882. On that evening, the Nottingham total was 352 with only two wickets down, and I have reason to believe— I am always open to correction—that the Oval record of the August Bank Holiday of 1882 is the neares, approach, certainly of late years, t the Australian feat of Monday last. 0 T alking of the Australians I see several of the papers have announced that they are to play an additional match at Portsmouth on Sept. 11, 12, and 18. A fixture was very nearly arranged to commence at Portsmouth to-day, but it fell through. The Surrey County Club has granted the use of its ground to the Australians on Sept. 11, 12 and 13 for a match, and Mur­ doch and his comrades will conse­ quently be opposing an English eleven at the Oval on those days. I am asked to say that they do not propose to play again at Derby, although a fixture for decision in Sep­ tember has been advertised until very recently. I t is not often, too, that the statis­ ticians of cricket have to record an innings, in which every member of the out side has been put on to bowl. On the contrary, such instances are of the very rarest, and the only one of the kind I can recall to mind as I write, occurred in the match between the Gentlemen of England and Cam­ bridge University at Cambridge on