Cricket 1885

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THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1885. ^ P / I Y m i 0 F i v 6 R g g I P : H - The abstract «nd brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. T h e erroneous measurement of the ground which necessitated a recom­ mencement of the match between Mr. C. I. Thornton’s Eleven and Cam­ bridge University, at Cambridge last week, is, a valued correspondent points out, certainly not the only case of the kind. In a match between Eleven Players of Surrey and Fourteen Gentlemen of the Surrey Club, played at the Oval on May 13 and 14, 1861, four wickets had fallen in the first innings of the latter, when it was dis­ covered by Mr. John Walker, that the match was being played on wickets pitched four feet short. In this case, after the mistake had been rectified, the game proceeded. In another match, between the All-England Eleven and Twenty-two of Middles- borough, on July 4, 5, and 6, 1870, where the wicket was too long by nearly three feet, it was agreed to finish an innings each before the ground was altered to the regulation length. I f in d also on reference to “ Wyke- hamical Scores,” for which I am indebted to Mr. F. Gale, full par­ ticulars of a match in which “ the Old Buffer ’ ’ himself took part, wherein there was another instance of in­ correct pitch. It was in a Winchester College match in 1841 between the Lord’s Eleven and the next Twenty with Moberley and Coker, senr. On that occasion it was found after some twenty runs had been scored that the distance between the wickets was a yard and a half short. Mainly, I believe, through the instrumentality of Charles Wordsworth, the present Bishop o f St. Andrews, who was then a master at Winchester, it was re­ solved that the game should be com­ menced afresh. There was really, therefore, a precedent for the decision which, I think, the two captains of Cambridge very properly came to last week. A n idea for a new book which, I fancy, could not fail to be popular among all classes of cricketers, has recently occurred to me— ‘ ‘ How they Got Out: by themselves.’’ Up to tho present time I have not registered this title, and like a true philanthropist make the suggestion solely in tin public interest. I do not know any kind of Pavilion Gossip which is so really instructive as the ingenuity of batsmen in explaining the causes of their downfall. How really funny some of these confessions would look when exposed to the light of print. Should such a work ever appear, I fancy the umpires will have rather a bad time of it. T he non-appearance of Mr. T . C. O’Brien in the Oxford University eleven so far this season has given rise, as was only natural, to a great deal of speculation. An unexpected call to Ireland to perform necessary duties in connection with the regiment of Militia to which he belongs, is, I believe, really the reason of tho absence of the Middlesex amateur from the Oxford matches which have as yet been decided. I understand that he will shortly be prepared to resume his place in the University team. T he marriage of the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton to Miss Laura Tennant, daughter of Mr. Charles Tennant, M.P. for Peebles, attracted a large and distinguished company to St. George’s, Hanover-square, on Thurs­ day last. The Prime Minister and Mr;j. Gladstone were present, as were the Duke and Duchess of Westminster, Duke and Duchess of Buckingham and Chandos, the Earl and Countess of Rosebery, the Earl and Countess of Cork and Lord Tennyson. C r ic k e t , too, was worthily repre­ sented by Lord Harris, Lord Lyttelton, the Hon. Ivo Bligh and the Hon. and Bevd. Edward Lyttelton, the elder el-— / h ‘ s j rcotonpaper. 1 B