Cricket 1884

460 CRICKET ; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. O ct. so ism. N O T I C E S . Complaints of irregular or non ­ delivery should be addressed to the Publisher. The five remaining Winter Monthly Issuea will appear as under:— No. 78, NOV. 27. No. 81, FEB. 26. No. 79, DEC. 25. No. 82, MAR. 26. No. 80, JAN. 29. The six Winter numbers will be forwarded immediately on publication for 1/3, to be sent to Mr. W . R. W r ig h t , Manager of C ricket , at this office. C R I C K E T . See The Q u arterly R e v ie w . No. 316, Just Published. 8vo. 6s. Contents—1, The Nature of Democracy; 2, Aristo­ phanes ; 8, France nnder Richelieu; 4,Country Life ; 5, John de W itt; 6, Cricket; 7, MasBillon ; 8, The Croker Papers; 9, The House of Lords and the Government. J ohn M urray , Albemarle Street. THE AUSTRAL IANS I N ENGLAND, A C omplete R ecord of th e L a te C ricket T our op the C olonists in th is C ou n try . Fall Reports of all Matches. Batting and Bowling Averages of the Australians, and of Englishmen who played against them. Portrait o f W. L . Murdoch. Biographies of the Team. Comparative Table of Per­ formances. Edited by C h a rle s F. P ardon . P rice O ne S h illin g , or Post free 14 stamps. London : 112, Fleet Street. E.C. Now R e a d y . S P Y B E Y ’ S NOTTS CR ICKET REGI STER F O R , 1 8 8 4 . Eighth year of Publication, and the only record of the doings of the Notts Team, published at Nottingham, Fall Scores of all Matches, Averages, &c., &c. Some new features this season. Price 6d.. by post 7d. Published by F. G. SPYBEY, 43, L ong Row, N ottingham . London: “ C r ic k e t P r e s s ,” 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Doctors’ Commons, London, E.C. RICHARD HUMPHREY, Member o f Surrey and Australian Elevens. Begs to inform the Cricket public that he has taken premises at 16, K IN G ’S RD ., BO Y CE ’S A V E N U E CLIFTON, BRISTOL, where he will commence business as a Cricket Outfitter after the necessary altera­ tions have been completed. He regrets that his acceptance of a per­ manent engagement at Clifton College will prevent his giving any instruction in Cricket aB hitherto during the winter. TSTOTICE TO FOOTBALL CLUBS.—A splendid E ig h t A cre F ie l d to b e L e t for the season, or for private matches. Terms very moderate. For fu ll particulars ajply to Mr. B ro w n , Railway Tavern, Nunhead. CEICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 41, 8T. ANDREW’S HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 18M. - > $ p ^ vm i0 N v G ^ 3 g ip ^ The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. I t is v.'itli feelings of the deepest sorrow that I have to record the death (on Sept. 25) of the Eev. A. R. Ward, for many years President of the Cambridge University Club. Mr. Ward was almost as great an institu­ tion in cricket as the late Mr. Robert Grimston, and he will in his way be quite as much missed. Indeed, the loss to Cambridge cricket in parti­ cular by his decease is really irrepar­ able. A son of the famous cricketer, Mr. William Ward, whose score of 278 in 1820 remained for years the highest innings on record, he in­ herited all the enthusiasm of his father for the game. After obtaining a place in the Cambridge eleven of 1852 he was two years later elected to the captaincy, and his connection with Cambridge cricket was really never afterwards severed. I t was mainly to his untiring exer­ tions that the University owes its present prosperity, and the care of its interests was one of the great enjoyments of the later part of his life. He was also a member of the Marylebone Committee, and when the Cambridge vacation was on there was hardly a match of any impor­ tance at Lord’s or at the Oval at which his portly form was not to be witnessed. The most kindly of men, he was too one of the most amusing companions, with an endless fund of fun and anecdote, and no cricketer who ever visited Cambridge but re­ turned with the most pleasant recol­ lections of the hospitality extended to him by the President. The work of the club over which he presided was indeed a labour oflove to him, andno detail was too trivial for his super­ vision. No work was too great which could conduce in any way to the welfare of Cambridge cricket, and much of the information respecting it which appeared in this paper came from his pen. Past and present Cantabs have indeed good reason to revere the memory of one whose chief study was to promote their interests, whosegreatest pleasure was tominister to their enjoyment. One of the most noteworthy pieces of bowling which has come before m^ notice for some time, occurred in a match played at Bangalore, in the Madras Presidency, on the 26t hApril last. The contest in question was between 8. R.A. and the A Troop of the 12th Royal Lancers. The latter scored 105, all of which were made by the first five batsmen. Bone, of the R.A., bowled all the last seven wickets with consecutive balls. His analysis altogether showed fourteen overs and two balls (seventy-two balls) for twenty-five runs and eight wickets. The score of the innings was as follows: A Troop— Beresford, b Erskine, 20; Pranked, b Erskine, 55 ; Scott, c and b Bone, 12; Price, b Bone, 17 ; Bowman, b Bone, 1 ; Keeble, b Bone, 0 ; Worrall, b Bone, 0 ; Shadwick, b Bone, 0 ; Mellor, b Bone, 0 ; Milner, b Bone, 0 ; Green, not out, 0 ; total, 105. T h e directors of the Chiswick Cricket and Lawn Tennis Company, Limited, are to be congratulated on the judicious selection they have made in their appointment of a secre­ tary. Their choice has fallen on Mr. F.B. Shadwell, an old Uppinghamian, who has been actively and promi­ nently identified with Metropolitan cricket for several years past. Though Mr. Shadwell has been most promi­ nently identified on the cricket-field with the Richmond CluK, he has done good service at times for the Maryle­ bone Club and he has also figured iu one match for his county— Surrey. M r . S h a d w e l l ’ s efficient manage­ ment of the Richmond Club during the five years he acted as its hon. sec. fit him peculiarly for the control of an organisation such as the new society at Chiswick, and as he is well-known and popular with cricketers’ in his hands it is sure to prosper. I under­ stand that the cricket-ground is now being laid by George Hearne and his two brothers — young Frank and Alick—and their names are sufficient guarantee that the work will be thoroughly well-done. U n l e s s the Sydnej Mail is in error, which is not likely, Alfred Shaw and Next issue o f Cricket Nov- 27-