Cricket 1885

136 CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. may 21 , mot. KENN I NGTON OVAL. THIS DAY (THURSDAY.) SURREY^ MIDDLESEX, A dm ission SIXPENCE. J une 1, 2 & 3— GENTLEMEN v. PLAYERS OF SOUTH. flR A N D CRICKET MATCH at SHEFFIELD ^ PARK, MAY 21, 22, and 23-L ord Sheffield's XI. v. A . Shaw’s Australian Team.—A SPECIAL TRAIN (1st, 2nd, and 3rd class) will leave LONDON BRIDGE 9.15 a.m. each aay for Sheffield Park, via the Croydon, Oxted, and Ea6t Orinstead New Direct Line, calling at East Crojdon, Sanderstead, Upper Warlingham, Oxted, Lingfield, Dormans, East Grinstead, &c. Returning from Sheffield Park 7.10 p.m. A Special Train (1st, 2nd, and 3rd class) will leave Brighton 10.0 a.m. Returning from Sheffield Park 7.1o p.m. (By order) J. P. KNIGHT, General Manager. W . J. ~PTT j "FT! (L ate GANN & CO.) ATHLETIC OUTFITTER AND CLUB TAILOK, 171, f e n c h u r c h s t r e e t . Clubs supplied ■with every requisite. Q u ality G ood . P bices Low. SHRUNK FLANNEL TROUSERS, 10/6, 12/6, 14/6. SHRUNK FLANNEL SHIRTS, 7/6 and 9/6, O U R O W N M A K E . RICHARD HUMPHREY, Member o f Surrey and Australian Elevens. 16, K IN G ’ S RD ., BO YCE ’ S A V E N U E CLIFTON, BRISTOL, Every article in connection with C R I C K E T And other Sports supplied, of the Best Quality and at Reasonable Prices. CRICKET I CRICKET! CRICKET ! T T r r v v p n r e g i s t e r e d c h a r t f o r I j Y I I \ N ANALYSING THE BATTING J L iA V y l.1 U & BOWLING OF A CRICKET CLUB. Reg. No. 21,042.] [Ent. Stat. Hall. B y using Lyon’s Chart the Batting and Bowling Averages of any Member can be seen at a glance any time during the season. It acts as a check on the scoring book, and should the scoring book get lost the aveiages are still pro erved. Lyon’s Charts can be had from the following whole­ sale Agents:— M essrs . W rght & Co., 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, London. M r . J. H. L yon , Cosham, Hants. M r . E. J. R ilf . y , 33, Abbey Street, Accrington. M r . R. G. B arlow , 385, Stretford Road, Manchester. M r . E. P eate , 8, Upper Head Row, Leeds. Mr. E. Lockwood, 18, West Parade, Huddersfield. M essrs. Shaw & Shrewsbury, Carrington Street Bridge, Nottingham. M r. W. F. P ilch , 18, York Street, Sheffield. Mu. L. H all (Capt. Yorkshire C.C.), Battey. M r . P. K ino , 64 b & 54c, Lothiar Street, Edinburgh M essrs . W. W ilkinson &S on , 30, BuU Green, Halifax. Price of Chart Three Shillings Each. Wholesale Agents wanted in districts other than the above, apply to— CHARLES LYON, G ildsasome , N ear L eeds . CRICKET : A WEEKLY BEOOBD OF TEE GAM E 41 ST. ANDREW’S HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1885. The abstract and brief chroniclo of the time .—Hamlet N ew s has just reached me by the last Australian mail of some very high scoring by an eleven of the Melbourne club, in a match played on their ground on April 1. Their opponents were Fifteen of the Broad- meadows, who were treated to such a continuance of leather hunting as is very rare with fifteen in the field. The Melbourne players were, indeed, at the wickets all day, and when time was up had scored 628 runs for the loss of only seven wickets. Of this large sum Noale contributed 152 not out, Lawler 109, and Mcllwraith 83. This was a very extraordinary per­ formance against odds. The best records of a similar character that I can remember are the 576 for six wickets by Shaw’s Team against Eighteen of Bendigo, at Sandhurst on Dec. 23 and 24 last, and the 675 by the South of England Eleven v. Twenty-two of Grimsby, at Grimsby, in 1876. As a contrast to the high scoring on this occasion, it will be interesting to instance another match in which the Melbourne Club participated only four days before. The Marylebone Club of Australia on March 28, did an equally noteworthy performance against an eleven of Carlton, though in quite another way. The Melbourne team, which included Blackham and Bruce among other players, succeeded in getting their opponents all out for an aggregate of five runs. One batsman was credited with three runs and two with a single each, so that nine of the eleven failed to get a notch. Bruce took five wickets for two, Duffy four for three runs. A nother curiosity in the shape of small scoring has just been recorded, this time in English cricket. In a match between the Birkenhead Victoria and Egremont Clubs, played at Egremont on Saturday, the home team, in their second innings, did not score a run from the bat. The total was 2, represented by one wide and one leg-bye. M r. L . C. D o ck e r, the Derbyshire amateur, in an account the other night to the members of the Junior Liberal Club at Birmingham of his dehxit in first class cricket, gave rather a humorous version of the experiences of a young player under such trying circumstances. It was in a match at Lord’s, against a crack team of tbe M .C.C.; and Mr. Docker’s side, losing the toss, had to run about tho field all day, while the opposition scored close upon 310. At five o’clock the dispirited leather-hunters went in to bat, and Mr. Docker, to his horror, had to receive the first over. •*I batted three balls,” he said laconically, with a broad grin. “ You see, I was so nervous that I could neither see nor speak. I took a block of my own ; I couldn’t ask the umpire to give me the true block. The first ball struck me in the ribs ; the next one broke my fingers ; and I don’t know where the third went, but I fancy it was pomewhere in the lips, and then they told me I had been caught out. Mr. Docker’s description reminds me forcibly of the colloquy in Punch some years 'ago, between two village cricketers. It was entitled “ Cricket— The Pride of the Village,” and ran thus: “ Good match, old fe llow ?” “ Oh yes ! Awfully jolly.” “ "What did you d o ? ” “ I ’ad a hover of Jackson ; the first ball ’it me on the ’and, the second ’ad me on the knee, the third was in my eye, and the fourth bowled me out.” (Jolly game.) F rom all I can hear the Middlesex Colts, who figured at Lord’s last week, seem to have been decidedly above the average. I learn, too, that Thoms has secured a trial for some of the youngsters as opportunity permits. Indeed, it is, I believe, certain that Dunckley, a fast left-handed bowler, West, a most promising all round cricketer, and Mr. J. S. Haycraft, a youth not yet out of his teens, who showed capital form with the bat against M.C.C. & G., will represent Middlesex against Surrey at the Oval to-day. I u n d e r s t a n d that Mr. F. Gale, who will be well known to C r i c k e t r e fe r s under his m oot de phone of “ The Old Buffer,” is about to publish the lecture on “ Modern Sports,” which has been given several times of late in various parts of the country and with great suc­ cess. The book, which will be entitled “ Modern English Sports—Their Use and Their Abuse,” is dedicated by special permission to Professor Buskin. It will be published early in June, by Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston & Co., and will be illustrated with several woodcuts, in addition to a portrait of the author.