Cricket 1884

364 -CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. aug. 21 , mu. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. C R I C K E T M A T C H E S at B R IG H T O N . Aug. 21st, 22nd, & 23rd, SUSSEX v. YORKSHIRE. Aug. 25th, 26th, & 27th, AUSTRALIANS v . CAM­ BRIDGE UNIVERSITY—PAST a n d PRESENT. riHEAP FIRST-CLASS DAY TICKETS t o BRIGHTON, from Victoria 10.0 a.m. Return Fare 12a. 6d., including Pullman Car. Cheap Third-Class Day Tickets, London to Brighton and back, for 4s. Cheap Saturday to Tuesday Tickets, London to Brighton and back, 7s. 6d. and 5s. Cheap Day Tickets to Brighton from Hastings, St. Leonards, Eastbourne, Tunbridge Wells, Seaford, Guildford, Horsham, Arundel,Littlehampton, Bognor, Chichester, Hayling, Portsmouth, and the Isle cf Wight. For further particulars see Bills, Time Book, or Tourist Programme. (By Order) J. P. KNIGHT, General Manager. GRAND MATCH will be P la y e d at the B a t an d B a l l C o u n ty C r ic k e t G rou n d , G ra v e s b n d , on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Aug. 28, 29, and 80, SOUTH OF ENGLAND v. AUSTRALIANS. Stands have been provided especially for this Match. Seats can be secured at the following rates : Special reserved, 5s. each day, or 10s. for the match ; reserved, 2s. 6d., or 5s. ; stand Is., or 2s. 6d. Plan can be seen and Reats booked at R. Pickering’s, Isew-road, Gravesend. J U N B R I D G E W E L L S .—SEASON ATTRACTIONS. DOG SHOW, Thursday and Friday, Aug. 21 and 22. CRICKET MATCH (Kent v. Somerset), Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, Aug. 25, 28, and 27. TUNBRIDGE WELLS—The Queen of Inland Water­ ing Places. Death rate for July, 11.0 per 1000 per annum. KENNINGTON OVAL. TO-DAY, THURSDAY : SURREY v, DERBYSHIRE. THURSDAY N EX T : S U R R E Y Kr.KV IOX 'V. E I G H T E E N C O L T S . A dmission to G round S ixpence . CRICKET : A WEEKLY BECOBD OF THE GAME. 41, ST. ANDREW’ S H ILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1884. -HcP7IYmi0pi v G ^ g l P ^ The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. No one will grudge the Notting­ hamshire eleven the honours they have fairly and honestly won this year. The championship of county cricket this summer is theirs beyond a doubt, and their record is a brilliant series of successes, such as no eleven has been able to claim, certainly of late years. I believe I am correct in my figures that the Nottinghamshire eleven scored altogether, in their ten matches, 3,268 runs for 131 wickets, or an average of just under 25 runs, and their opponents 2,832 runs for 197 wickets, which gives an average of under fourteen and a half runs. Nine easy victories, and one drawn game in their favour, represent a summary of which the supporters of the game in Nottingham have good reason to be proud. L ast week I was able to give par­ ticulars of the fixture arranged to take place at Lord’s on September 15, 16, and 17, in aid of the Cricketers’ Fund. The match is between Smokers and Non-Smokers, and, as intimated, most of the Australian teamhave promised to assist. The following have already promised to play : Lord Harris, Hon. A.Lyttelton or Blackham, McDonnell, Spofforth, Giffen, Palmer, Emmett, and W. W. Bead for the Smokers ; for the Non-Smokers W. G. Grace, A. N. Hornby, Murdoch, Scott, Bonnor, Bannerman, Barlow, T. C. O’Brien, and Pilling. Shrewsbury and Attewell, or a fast bowler, will probably complete the Non-Smokers’ eleven, and Ulyett, Alfred Shaw or Peate, and another, the Smokers. Tom Hearne, who is a non-smoker, and Willslier, a smoker, wilt umpire. The match h quite a novelty, and I hope to hear that the Fund has received substantial benefit. I may add that the umpires will be glad to receive any contributions to the fund during the match, as will Mr. V. E. Walker, to whom the arrangement of the fix­ ture is entirely due. T he following are the Australian averages up to and including the match v. England at the Oval :— B atting . oobo 0 bC Name. a 1 o •*»O <£ 8 «s S3 M <1 P S. McDonnell .. .. 43 2 961 23.18 A. C. Bannerman.. .. 41 2 757 19.16 W. L. Murdoch .. 39 4 1102 31.17 G. Giffen.................. .. 41 1 733 18.13 G. J. Bonnor 42 3 707 18.5 J. M ’O. Blackham .. 33 2 500 16.4 H. J. H. Scott .. .. 40 7 782 23.3 W. Midwinter .. 36 3 665 20.5 G .E . Palmer.. 38 8 409 13.19 H. F. Boyle : .. .. 31 10 238 11.7 F. R. Spofforth .. 36 6 297 9.27 W . H, Cooper .. 6 3 31 10.1 G. Alexander .. 4 1 17 5,2 Average per innings, 19 17. B ow lins . 8 05 M fi J. McC. Blackham .. 3 8 1 8.0 G. Alexander .. .. 18 24 2 12.0 F. R. Spofforth .. ..1117 1991 153 13 2 G. E. Palmer .. ..1081 1791 116 15.51 H. F. Boyle .. 558 903 52 17.19 .. 644 1302 62 21.0 W. Midwinter .. .. 203 356 11 32.4 H. J. H. Scott .. .. 50 134 4 33.2 W. H. Cooper .. .. 81 208 4 52.0 G. J. Bonnor .. .. 68 167 2 83.1 A. C. Binnerman .. 5 17 0 P. S. McDonnell .. 5 20 0 W . L. Murdoch .. 5 25 0 6946 407 Average per wicket, 17.29. Matches played, 2 5 ; won, 13; lost, 6 drawn, 6. T he axiom that it can never be too hot for cricket has received full con­ firmation in the evident enjoynjent of the batsmen during the generally high scoring of the past fortnight. Among the numerous instances of tall run- getting recorded just recently the best has been the performance of Lieut. Dumbleton and Capt. Young for the Boyal Engineers against the Royal Marines, at Portsmouth, on Friday and Saturday. These two batsmen became partners on the first evening with three wickets down for 109, and it was a quarter past five on Saturday afternoon before Capt. Young was stumped. The scorewas then573,so that the two Sappers during their partner­ ship had added 464. Lieut. Dumble­ ton scored 325, and Capt. Young 204. The Engineers’ total of 676 is four runs in excess of the highest innings of 1883, the 672 of Ardingly Col­ lege v. M.C.C. and Ground. The largest number of runs made by two batsmen is 603 by Messrs A. H. Trevor and G. F. Yernon for the second wicket of Orleans Club v. Rickling Green, at Bickling Green, on August 4th and 5th, 1882. A ru m o ur is in circulation that this may, probably, be Mr. I. D. Walker’s last season of first-class cricket. I am told on the best authority that the Middlesex captain has serious thoughts of giving up participation in the more important fixtures. I am, though, only repre­ senting the universal feeling of cricketers when I say that his retire­ ment will be a very serious loss to the game everywhere,but to southern cricket in particular. Everyone will hope to hear that the announcement