Cricket 1885

28-2 C R ICKE T ; A W E E K L Y RECORD OP. TH E GAME . w r t r t .mh . is, therefore, to be commended for no-balling Mr. Jowett if lie was not satisfied of the absolute fairness of the amateur’s delivery. A H a m p s h ir e correspondent is good enough to send me full particulars of a match played at Maybush, near Nursling, on Friday last, between two elevens of ladies, representative respectively of Southampton and the New Forest. The result was a victory for the Townswomen, who scored 40 and 68 against 24 and 22 for three wickets, by sixteen runs on the first innings. Miss A . Wynyard— (any relation of the Old Carthusian whose fine hitting was so useful to Hants a year or two ago ?)— on the New Forest side, and the Misses Duncan— another name well known in Hamp­ shire crioket— and N. White fcr Southampton, seem to have been the principal batswomen. Miss Lane Fox in the second innings of South­ ampton took six wickets at a small cost, and in the first venture of the Forest Mrs. G. Giles got two wickets with successive balls. My corre­ spondent adds: ‘ ‘ The victory of the Southampton ladies was, in a great measure, due to their good fielding.” The “ Old Buffer ” will be interested to know that there was only one extra in either innings. By the way, mention of the “ Old Buffer," the nom de plume under which Mr. F. Gale is well known to C r ic k e t readers, reminds me that I have just received from the pub­ lishers, Messrs. Sampson Low and Co., his latest book just published, “ Modern English Sports ; their use and their abuse.” I think I am right in saying that the book is an amplifi­ cation of the lecture Mr. Gale has so often and with such success de­ livered of late years under a similar title. The chapters relating to cricket are not only very readable but o f ad­ ditional interest from the accompany­ ing engravings) representing bats of all ages, the old “ Bat and B a l l H a m - bledon, and portraits of two famous old Surrey cricketers, Beldham and John Bowyer. For the benefit of the few cricketers to whom the “ Old Buffer’s ” features are unknown, an excellent photograph has been intro­ duced as a frontispiece. I iia v e to thank Mr. J. W. Blundell, the Captain of the Marylebone eleven which opposed Merchant Taylors’ School, at Charterhouse Square last week, for the following: It may interest your readers to hear of a bowling feat performed by Hay, for M.C.O. v. Merchant Taylors’ School, on Friday last. He went on to bowl for the second time with the score at about 70 for two wickets. With his first ball he bowled a batsman (well in), with the second ball he got another -wicket, with the third another, with the fifth another and with the first of the next over still another batsman. With six balls he thus clean bowled five wicketj with no run made. I ah pleased to be able to state on the best authority that the arrange­ ments with respect to the visit of a team of English Amateurs to America this autumn have just been finally concluded. The party will in all probability leave Liverpool in the steamer “ Adriatic ” on the 20th of next month, and the first match will be played in New York, it is believed on the 1st of September. The intention is, after visiting Pittsburgh, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, and, perhaps, other places, to spend a week in Philadel­ phia before returning to New York, in which city, as well as Boston, later fixtures will be made. I h a v e reason to believe that, barring accidents, the Bev. R . T. Thornton, Messrs. A. J. Thornton,W. E . Boiler, C. E . Horner, A. E . Newton, H. Bruen, T. R. Hine- Haycock, A. R. Cobb, A. J. Turner, and probably Mr. H. E . Whitby may all be expected to assist Mr. E . J Saunders, the Old Harrovian who has been arranging matters on this side. I hope presently to be able to give fuller particulars. Meanwhile it is enough to state that there is every reason to predict that the team will have a successful as they are sure to have a pleasant trip. It is most pro­ bable that they will meet the Gentle­ men of Philadelphia, who visited England last summer, at least once in that city. I t will be of interest to many C k ic k e t readers to know that Mr. T. C. O’Brien is very shortly to be married to a daughter of Sir Humphrey de Trafford, who is, if I mistake not, the owner of the ground at Old Trafford, in the possession of the Lancashire Cricket Club. The wedding is, I understand, to come off before October. It is no mere common­ place phrase to say that cricketers generally will offer Mr. O’Brien, than whom there is no keener player, the best of good wishes. T h e following are the principal batting averages in all County and important matches in not less than fifteen completed innings, compiled up to Saturday last. Names. Innings. Bans. Highest Average Score. W. W . Bead .. 28 . .1548 . .214*.. 55.8 Gunn.................. 28 ..1155 ..203 .. 41.7 W. E. Roller .. 20 .. 749 ..204 .. 37.9 Briggs .. .. 19 .. 690 ..186 .. 36. W. G. Grace .. 17 .. 605 .. 76 .. 35.10 Grimshaw.. .. 15 .. 551 . . 12 1 * .. 33.6 R e a d .................. 21 .. 667 .. 97 .. 31.6 Ulyett .. .. 20 .. 583 .. 84*.. 29.3 J. Shuter .. .. 19 .. 4^5 ..135 .. 26.1 A. N. Hornby .. 20 .. 517 .. 84 .. 25.17 K. J. Key .. ., 22 .. 548 .. 82*.. 24.20 E. J. Diver .. 24 .. 585 ..143 .. 24.9 Barnes .. . . 26 .. 632 ..1 4 0 * .. 24.8 A. J. Webbe .. 15 .. 363 .. 67 .. 24.3 Flowers .. .. 22 .. 529 .. 76 .. 24.1 H.W.Bainbridge 19 .. 440 ..101 .. 23.3 M. P. Bowden .. 16 .. 368 ..125 .. 23 Bates.................. 24 .. 546 .. 72 .. 22.18 C. W. Wright .. 22 .. 489 .. 78 .. 22.5 H a l l .................. 19 .. 403 .. 40 .. 21.4 J. H. Brain .. 22 .. 454 ..135 .. 20.14 Tester .. . . 21 .. 431 ..108 .. 20.11 Barlow . . .. 19 .. 384 .. 62 .. 20.4 S h r e w s b u r y up to Saturday had made 728 in twelve completed in­ nings, average 60.8, highest score 224 not out. Mr. F. M. Lucas in five innings (three notout)has scored 418, average 139.1 M y remarks of last week on the peculiar coincidence of the two Dafts and two Wrights, fathers and sons, batting together in the match between Wollaton and Scarborough have pro­ duced a reminder from a corres­ pondent of the single wicket match played on Mitcham Common on October 3, 1878, between Messrs. F. Gale and G. F. Gale, father and son, on tho one side, and James Souther- ton, the Surrey slow bowler, and his son William on the other. Though not a parallel case, I am pleased to recall the particulars of that match. The Gales, as some will still remem. her won by an innings and five runs, scoring thirteen in their one attempt to one and seven of the Southertons. A n instance of remarkably fast scoring recorded on Saturday last, has been sent to me. In a match between the Oakfield Club and Whitgift School, played at Croydon, in tho second innings of Oakfield, 198 runs were made for one wicket in an hour and five minutes, G. Marks not out 70, F. W. Janson not out 113. Tho hundred went up in twenty- seven minutes. Thirty-three runs were got from two overs.