Cricket 1885

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I nquisitive .— He is certainly out if tlie ball pitches on the wicket without touching the ground. F. R oberts .— It was Mr. O’Brien. A lbert B ritland (Cromford, Derbyshire.)—During a match between the Cromford and Brimington teams, on May 80, one of the Cromford batsmen in striking at the ball loosed his hold of the bat, which flew upwards in a vertical direction, and fell upon the stumps, removing the bails. The umpire paid “ out,” but some p’ayers thought that the bat must be in the batsman’s hands for “ hit wickst.”— (He is out hit wicket.) H.C.C.—1. A batsman is not out for hitting the wicket in running. 2. The umpire was totally ignorant of the rules. It is not necessary for tbe ball to touch the ground first. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. GRAND CRICKET MATCH. NORTHvSOUTH. (Richard Humphrey’s Benefit.) JUNE 25, 26 & 27, 1885. A dm ission . . . O ne S h illin g . Mk. P e r c y M. T h o r n t o n , in an interesting chapter on Harrow cricket in his excellent work, “ Harrow School and Its Surroundings,” tells a capital anecdote of the reverence in which F. 0 . Cobden—who made history in the Inter-University match of 1870, by getting the last three wickets of Oxford with successive balls, and thus giving Cambridge a quite unexpected victory by 2 runs— was held by young Harrovians, The story goes that a small Harrow boy, talking of F. 0 . Cobden, was asked by his parents what relationship his hero claimed to the great Cobden. The lad indignantly replied, “ He is the great Cobden! ” “CHAMPION SCORE BOOKS,” The Cheapest and Best Score Books to be had are “ The Champion.” No. 1 for 12 matches in marble covers - 1 „ 2 18 ,, cloth „ - 2 24 18 30 50 strongly bound large post „ „ superior S en t post-free on rece ip t o f am ount. WRIGHT & C o. (C rick et P r e ss ,) 41, S t . A ndrew ’ s H il l , D octors ’ C ommons . r"\LD REPTONIANS.—The T riennial D inner will w take place at L immer ’ s H otel , Gforge Street, Hanover Square, on Monday, June 29.—Information to be obtained from Mr. F. Tweedie, 5, Lincoln’s-inn- fields, London, W. C. QHATHAM HOUSE.—The OLD BOYS’ MATCH will be played at R amsgate , on S aturday June 27. Members desirous of playing are requested to forward their names to the Hon. Sec., F rank C lemrnce , 89, Alfred Place West, South Kensington, T h e recollection of Frank Cobden’s celebrated over came vividly before my mind a few days ago in reading a good performance of his just recently. Saturday last was a red letter day for Free Traders as the occasion of the anniversary of the Cobden Club, founded in memory of the great Richard Cobden. It will be interest­ ing to many C e i o k e t readers, who, like myself, have the most pleasant remembrances of the old Cantab, to know that last week was also marked with an event of some importance in the cricket history of the great Frank Cobden: P l a y i n g for Radnorshire against Breconshire on the 8th and 9th instant, he went in first and cariied out his bat for 160 out of a total of 208,orl93 from the bat. In the second innings he was also not out, having scored40 out of 47 for one wicket, so that altogether he contributed 200 out of 253 runs without being out. In addition, he was credited with nine of tlie twenty wickets of Breconshire. The compiler of “ Scores and Biographies,” commenting on Cobden’s bowling for Harrow against Eton in 1866, remarks that of the 220 balls he bowled not one was a wide, and that in the second innings only one 2 and eight singles were got from the 88 balls he delivered. T h o u g h they seem to be handi­ capped considerably by the want of a capable wicket-keeper, Richard Hum­ phrey appears to have got together a strong eleven at Clifton College this year. Two performances of theirs, in particular, just recently merit conspicuous notice in these columns. On Saturday last, in a match against Horsfield Garrison, Messrs. Cuyler and Campbell, on the conclusion of the Garrison’ s innings, went in first for Clifton, and were both not out at the finish, having made 177 without the loss of a wicket. A day or two before, against an eleven captained by the Rev, P . H. Hattersley-Smith, who scored 245, the same pair also went in first, and made 48 without the loss of a wicket. A double achievement of this kind within a week is quite a rarity, and indeed is a record of which the two young Cliftonians have good reason to be proud. In the same match against the Horfield Garrison, I notice that G. Fowler, the captain of the Clifton College Eleven, did a gcod bowling performance. He was credited altogether with seven wickets, at a cost of only 25 runs, an excellent result, particularly on such an easy ground as that at Clifton. Mr. Fowler is a younger brother of Messrs. W. H. Fowler, the big hitter of Somerset­ shire, andH. Fowler, who was in the Oxford Eleven a few years ago, and also occupied a prominent position among Rugby Union footballers. The Clifton captain, like his two brothers, was, I believe, born in Essex, and will probably be of use to the county in the future. M en tion of Richard Humphrey reminds me that his benefit match (North v. South) is to be played at the Oval on Thursday next and two