Cricket 1884

au g . si, 1884. CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME, 365 is premature. Mr. Walker, I believe, proposes paying a visit to New Zealand during the winter. A v a lu e d correspondent writes as follows : “ Apropos of Nottingham cricket, the following deserves a pass­ ing notice. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 14, 15 and 16, Notts County defeated Middlesex by an innings and 91 runs. On Thurs­ day and Friday the Gentlemen of Notts defeated the Gentlemen of Leicestershire by an innings and 40 runs, and on Friday and Saturday, the Notts Town Club (Notts Castle) played the M.C.C. at Lord’s, and after making them follow on, beat them by one wicket. I think this must be without a parallel, viz., the County, the Gentlemen of the County, and the chief town club playing matches at the same time and winning a'l three.” T h e following are the batting aver­ ages of over 25 runs for not less than 10 completed innings in all county (first, as well as second-class) and principal matches :— Comptd. Most In Innings. Rang, Innings. Avg*. A. G. Steel .. 18 800 148 44.8 Lord Harris . . 29 1124 112* 38 22 W. G. Grace .. 33 1214 116* 36.26 W. W. Read .. 32 1122 162* 35.2 W. Newham . 20 641 85 32.1 Shrewsbury . 29 898 209 30.28 Barnes .. 34 1038 107 30 18 Bates .. 32 874 133 27.10 J .E . K. Studd .. 13 358 82* 27.7 C. T. Studd ... 15 398 141* 26.8 T. C. O’Brien .. 34 888 119 26.4 I. D. Walker .. 22 575 83 26.3 Barlow .. . 31 792 119 25.17 A. N. Hornby .. 30 759 94 25.9 Ulyett .. .. 38 958 134 25.8 M. C. Kemp .. 21 526 95 25.1 B y this time several of the Phila­ delphian team have arrived safely home, and, unless the genius of the American Press, the interviewer, for­ gets his mission, we shall soon be fur­ nished with the impressions of Eng­ lish cricket left on the minds of our right good friends, the Gentlemen of Philadelphia. The steamer “ Austral,” carrying several members of the team, reached New York safely on Sunday last at four p.m., having done the passage from Galley Head to New York in seven days, three hours, and 57 minutes. F. E. Brewster, one of the few of the Philadelphians still in England, played for the Surrey Club against Wiltshire at the Oval on Fri­ day. He leaves Liverpool on Saturday, and, as far r.s I know, C. A. Newhall, Lowry, and Scott will be the only members of the team still here. C r ic k e t in the United States is sure to receive a great impetus from the Philadelphian visit, and I learn from the American Cricketer that at least three first-class events are to come off this fall, two in Philadelphia and one in New York. These consist of a match against Shaw and Shrews­ bury’s Eleven for Australia, which is to take place in the last week in Sep­ tember, the International match with the Canadians, which will be played earlier in the same month, and the return between All Philadelphia and All New York, for the benefit of George Lane, the Nottingham player, who has been engaged for the last few seasons in America. T h e annual tour of the Upping­ ham Rovers was brought to a close on Saturday last at Glynde Park, when they had the best of a drawn game with the Southdown Club. In all, nine matches were played, and of these seven were won, one drawn, and only one lost. Their sole defeat was at the hands of the Liverpool Club and Ground, who lost eight wickets in making the 51 runs wanted to win, Mr. A. P. Lucas, owing to the death of his father, was only able to play in four matches, but some excellent batting was shown by Messrs. S. D. Maul, J. Lees, H. B. Steel, C. C. Stone, J. A. Turner, C. E. Green, and others. Mr. Maul had the best batting average, 86.6 for fifteen com­ pleted innings, and Mr. Steel made the highest score, 137, against the United Service Club at Portsmouth. Mr. H. Rotherham’s fast bowling con­ tributed greatly to the success of the tour. In all, he took 78 wickets at an average cost of under 10J runs, a very creditable performance. I t will be a source of general gratification to cricketers if the astute person who took advantage of the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton’s presence be­ hind the wicket at the Oval last week, in the match between England and Australia, to obtain his coat by false representations at his residence, has placed himselfwithin the reach of the law. At least there is some hope that the individual is now in durance' vile. Edward Lloyd, described as a porter, was brought up at Clerkenwell Police Court on Monday, on two Icharges of obtaining articles of cloth­ ing by false pretences, and Inspector Peel, of the G Division, procured a re­ mand, stating that it was believed he would be recognised as the man who obtained the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton’s coat from his residence, while that gentleman was playing against the Australian Eleven. Anyone so utterly dead to the patriotic feelings of an Englishman as to utilise Mr. Lyttelton’s absence on the cricket-field on such an important occasion de­ serves no sympathy. Indeed, he is not likely to get any. A f iv e r for the ball touching a fieldsman’s hat is, indeed, a rarity. While bowling for Middlesex against Notts on Friday, Mr. I. D. Walker’s hat slipped from his head, and Scot­ ton driving the ball straight back, they came into contact. My own ex­ perience does not furnish an instance of the kind in important fixtures. I h a v e the authority of their Cap­ tain for the statement that the Derbyshire Eleven have only won the toss twice in the last twenty matches. This is bad luck with a vengeance. In a previous paragraph I called attention to the extraordinary scoring of the Royal Engineers in their match withthe Royal Marines at Portsmouth on Friday and Saturday. Their total of 674 is still unbeaten this year, but even a better performance was re­ corded at Sheffield Park on Tuesday, when the Park e'even were credited with 665 for the loss of only five wickets. This is one of the best feats ever recorded in the way of run- getting, and the match is memorable as another instance of three hundreds in aninnings. A. Payne scored 176, W. Humphreys 156, and A, Huggett not out 124. T h e following will show the records of the nine first-class counties up to the present time this year- - Won. Lost. Drawn. 9 . . o . . 1 7 . . 3 .. 3 5 . . 4 .. 2 Middlesex ....... 4 . . 3 .. 2 5 .. 4 .. 1 Lancashire , 4 . . 4 .. 1 K ent.................. . 4 .. 5 .. 1 Gloucestershire. 1 . . 8 ,.. 1 Derbyshire 0 ... 8 .. 0 An A c c u r a te T e n n is C o u r t.— The eye detests at once the difference between Courts marked out by Proctor’sPatent Chs 'ns.and thosewith a tape measure; th e absolute accuracy of the former is strikingly evi­ dent. Box of Chains, with directions for use, price 10b. 6d., fr®m Frank Proctor, Patentee, Stevenage, Herts; and Wholesale Firms.— A d vt.