Cricket 1885

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ANDREW’S HILL, LONDON, E.O. THUBSDAY, JULY 9, 1885. AN SW ERS to CORRESPONDENTS H.M.R.—You will see their averages in “ Pavilion Gossip.” Scrutator.— As the error va« not discovered before another ball was delivered, the score cannot be altered. Geo. Fordham.— -It was not a no-ball, and the bats­ man was out. G.W.—1. It was a noball,bnt as the umpire did not call it, the run ih this instancegoes toa bye. 2. Surrey, chocolate ; Yorkshire, dark blue with white rose. C.G.—It is not usual. T. H. Solomon (Putney Institute).—St. Kitts won by 28 runs on firsl innings. E. J. (Rhayader).—Ulyett appeared on May 17,1883, Bates, May 8 , 1883, Hall, Sept. 20, l£89, Emmett, Sept. 18,1884, Peate, May 3l, 1888. Griirshaw has not been published yet. G. H.—1. Strictly speaking it should count as an innings. 2. A maiden over is one in which no runs are made from the bat. J. W. T.—It is a no-ball if the foot is not behind the bowling orease. J. C. Sykes.— W. W . Read 29, E. J. Diver 21, J. Sbuter 80, Beaumont 29, Bowley 28, Lohmann 20, Wood 80, W . E. Roller 27, C. E. Horner 28. We believe they both stand over six-feet. A. H. T.—A batsman knocking down the wickets as he is running is not out. J. L.—The over should be finished. G eoroe Hays.— Only one run is scored and that for the hit; if no ran is made from the bat one is scored for the no-ball. H. D. P. (Maidstone).—If the umpire was of opinion that the ball would have hit the wicket he was right, otherwise his decisionwas wrong. The abstract and briefchronicle of tho time .— H u m id I am pleased to learn that arrange­ ments are already in progress for the annual visit o f English cricketers to Amsterdam, the Hague, Utrecht and Haarlem. Our national game seems to have taken firm root in the Nether­ lands, and the better class of Dutch­ men have generally thrown them­ selves into the sport with great enthu­ siasm. Clubs are now established in every town and village of importance in Holland, and I can imagine no more pleasant field for a cricket tour than a country teeming with historic associations, and so full of interest for ah intelligent traveller. The party of cricketers who went over last season were highly pleased with the hospi­ table reception they met everywhere, and I should advise those clubs or in ­ dividuals who have any idea o f going this summer to apply to Mr. F . W . Hetherington, 331, Strand, who is acting as agent for the Dutch and English teams as in previous years. Two decidedly noteworthy perform­ ances in connection with Merchant Taylors’ cricket, recently, have been brought under my notice. On June 27, at Charterhouse Square, for M. T. S. against Bedford Grammar School. R. S. Lucas, who was credited with 123, with H . Rankin (50) succeeded in raising the total from 109 to 226, the pair adding 117 runs while together. On the following Wednesday, July 1, at Blackheath, the same two batsmen were even more successful, the score during their partnership being in­ creased from 68 to 239. On this occasion all the Blaokheath eleven bowled, and when play ceased Mer­ chant Taylors’ , for the loss of only five wickets, had made 310, to which Lucas contributed 130 and Rankin 108. Two such records, and by the same players, within tlie space of four days, deserve prominent mention. Previous to June 27 a hundred had been unknown in the history of Mer­ chant Taylors’ School, and it is not a littlo singular that immediately the spell was broken three “ centuries ” should have been registered in suc­ cessive matches. A c o r r e s p o n d e n t who signs himself “ Shy ” writes me thusly:— In C r ic k e t of June 11 I notice with interest an answer of yours to a ooi re­ spondent (B.C.) with reference to his ques­ tion as to a bowler, when aboi't to deliver the ball.throwing at the batsman’s wicket on the chance of running him out. You rule that this is a no-ball; that the batsman could neither be caught, stumped, nor bowled— in fact, that in every way it would be treated as an ordinary no-ball. Now, sir, a no-ball can only be declared as such by the umpire, and, supposing that the umpire failed to call 11no baill ” when the bowler threw at the batsman's wicket, and that the result of this throw was to upset the batsman’s wicket, or get him caught. In that cage, would not the batsman be out ? [Yes.] A case of this kind might easily occur with country umpires, and I remember playing in a match when this actually happened. The bowler threw down the batsman’s wicket, and the latter being out of his ground was declared “ run o u t” by the umpire at his (the batsman’s) end. Am I not right in supposing that the whole case diptnls on whether the umpire at the bowler’s end calls “ no ball ” or not ? Yes ! Of course, if the umpire did nut call “ No ba ll” there would be no penalty. I n o tic e in yesterday’s papers that the Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Earl of Coventry to be captain of her Gentlemen-at-Arms. Lord Coventry was in his day a very fair all round player, and, though