Cricket 1885

JULY 16, 1885. CRIOKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 265 The latter and McNutt, too, each took eight wickets of the New Yorkers, McNutt for 68, Clark for 100 runs. T he future movements of Public School cricketers are always of interest, and the following particulars will be news to most C r ic k e t readers. Of the Eton Eleven F. Thomas, and T. H. Barnard go to Cambridge, H. Philipson, E . G. Bromley-Martin, H. W. Forster, and possibly Lord G; Scott, to Oxford. A. L. Watson, the Winchester captain, who has a fine average of 42 runs this year, is bound for Cambridge ; C. H. Nicholls, J. S. Watney, and M. A. Teale, also of the Winchester Eleven, for Oxford. G. M. Jones will be the Wykehamist captain in 1885, and there will be five other old choices left—H. Lyon, F. H . Gresson, Hon. F. J. N. Thesiger, B . Gibson, and Y . F. Leese. E . M. Butler (the Harrow captain) goes to Cambridge, and pro­ bably also E. Crawley, A. D. Ramsay, and Sanderson, though these are not certain. A. K, Watson, I hear, will in all probability go up to Oxford. I can hardly remember an instance in Public Schools, of late years certainly, of athletic skill combined in such a marked degree with mental ability as in the person of Mr. E . M. Butler, the Harrow captain, to wlios§ pluck at the crisis the victory of the Harrovians at Lord’s on Saturday night was essentially due. History repeats itself, for it is twenty-four years ago since his father, the retiring Head Master of Harrow, and now Dean of Gloucester, scored 42 in the same match, which Harrow won, too, by eight wickets. In addi­ tion to the cricket captaincy, Mr. Butler is also captain of the school football eleven, and, with Mr. E . Crawley, another hero of last week’s match, in April last won for Harrow the permanent possession o f the Public Schools Racquet Cup. In the Athletic Sports he won the School Hundred, Two Hundred, and Hurdle Races, besides assisting to win for his House and Form the Fives Champion­ ships. In 1884 he was elected to the Gregory Scholarship, the Harrow equivalent to the “ Newcastle,” and in the same year also carried off the prize for English Essay, second prize for Modern History and English Literature, and firstprize for Grammar and Philology. R obert T homs , who watched the extraordinary, innings of Mr. J. S. Carrick for the West o f Scotland Club against Priory Park at Chichester, has kindly sent me a few particulars of an unprecedented feat. Mr. Car- riek’s off-driving and leg-hitting were quite the best ever seen on the Priory Park Ground. Although the ball more than once fell near a fields­ man it never came to hand, and he only gave two real chances, one at deep mid-on, the other at the wicket. He was batting altogether for eleven hours and a quarter during the two days, and up to the last seemed to be little fatigued. Among his hits were one eight to square leg, two sixes, two fives, thirty fours, and thirty-four threes. His score of 419 not out is the highest ever recorded, and, in ­ deed, there are only two other in­ stances in which four hundred runs have been made in an innings—Mr. W . N. Roe’s 415 not out, for Em ­ manuel L . Y . C. v. Caius L . V . C., at Cambridge in 1881 ; Mr. W . G. Grace’s 400, not out, for United South of England Eleven v. Twenty- two of Worsley Club, at Grimsby in 1876. T he West of Scotland eleven were at the wickets all the two days, and, as will be seen, made 745 for the loss of only four wickets :— W est op S cotland , A. Thompson, c Henley, b Comber .. . . 112 J. S. Carrick, not o u t ...............................419 C. Craig, e and b Heasman........................81 J. Carrick, Jan., b H en ley........................15 A. Campbell, o Comber, b Lillywhite .. 69 J. Andrews, not out ................................49 B 38,1 b 6 , w 6 ........................50 Total ...............................745 1 2 3 4 326 398 436 600 Thompson. Craig. J. Carriok, Jan. Campbell. The 745 runs were got from 1,306 balls (336.2 overs), and the ten bowlers were James Lillywhite, the old Sussex professional, Andrews, Henley, Com­ ber, Heasman, Farr, Austin, Norris, Hooper, and Cochrane. I t is said that some eight or nine years ago over 1,238 runs were made in a match in Sydney between the Ulster and Macquarie Clubs. The best fully established record, though, is the 920 by the Orleans Club against Rickling Green, at Rickling Green, on Aug. 3, 4, and 5, 1882, when Messrs. G. F. Vernon and A. H. Trevor put on 605 runs— the best feat of tlie kind— for the second wicket. By a stupid slip of the pen last week, I erroneously stated that Eton had won 25 and Harrow 24 of the 60 matches played prior to last week. As a matter of fact, while some claim the first fixture in 1805 as a win for Eton, they reject that of 1857, won by Harrow, on the ground that it was between Etonians and Harrovians under twenty, and not a regular meeting between the schools. By a parity of reasoning, though, the original game of 1805 must be dis­ puted as not in any way a bona fide contest between representative elevens. Indeed, as was shown in last week’s C r ic k e t , it was a “ pick up,” Lord Byron, who was not in the eleven at all, apparently being the moving spirit on the Harrow side, while several of the players were not members of either school. Iu reality the Harrovians can now claim, omitting the two disputed matches, 25 wins to 24 of Eton, while ten have been unfinished. H e r e w i t h will be found, I believe, a correct list of Mr. W . W . Read’s scores in important matches so far this year. He has been playing, it will bo seen, continuously since May 11, and it is noteworthy that he has not yet failed to score. MR. W. W. READ’S SCORES IN COUNTV AND IMPORTANT MATCHES, May 11, at Oval, for Surrey v. Essex .................143 May 14, at Oval, for Surrey v. Hants ................ 13 May 18, at Oval, for Surrey v. Leicester................94 May 21, at Oval, for Surrey v. Middlesex .. .. 8 May 25, at Nottingham, for Surrey v. Notti .. .. 10 ,, i, ii . . . . 56 May 23, at Derby, for Surrey v. Derbyshire .. .. 123 Juno 1, at Oval, for Gentlemen of South v. Players of S o u th ...............................................................18 Juno 1, at Oval, for Gentlemen of South v. Players of S o u th ................................................................... 1 June 4, at Oxford, for Surrey v. Oxford...............65 June 8 , at Lord’s, for Surrey v. Middlesex .. .. 45 it «i i» • 1 June 11, at Oval, for Surrey v. Gloucester .. .. 73 .. .. 10 June 15, at Leyton, for Surrey v. Essex (not out).. 214 June 18, at Oval, for Surrey v. Cam ridge Univ. .. 83 .. 27 June 22, at Oval, for Surrey v. Oxford University.. 19 June 25, at Oval, for South v. North ................ 2 „ „ „ ........... 21 June 29, at Oval, for Surrey v. S u ssex..............163 July 2, at Oval, fjr Gentlemen v. Players .. .. 1 „ n it . . . . 159 July 6 , at Southampton, for Surroy v. Hampshire 50 July 9, at Manchester, for South v. North .. .. 12 ti ii i» . . . . 36 July 13, at Brighton, for Surrey v. Sussex .. . .101 Total 1497 for 26 completed innings. Average 57.15 I c a n hardly at the moment recal such a day of heavy scoring, particu­ larly in first-class cricket, as was re­ corded on Monday last. I well re­ member some extraordinary run- getting, in which the brothers Grace were the principal actors, several years ago, though I forget the exact details. It will take something, though, to beat Monday’s aggregate in the matches at Lord’s, Brighton, and Nottingham. At Lord’s 430 runs were totalled for thirteen, at Brighton