Cricket 1885

26 CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. ™ b . 26 , u ss. 10th inst., when he was seized with a fit of coughing, and, rupturing a blood vessel, died almost immediately. At the time of his death he was Lieut.- Colonel of the Hallamshire Bifl.es. His younger brother, C. H. Prest, who also played for Yorkshire and the Gentlemen of the North, and was, too, a good short distance runner, died just ten years ago. D r . B utler , the Head Master ofHar­ row School, has accepted the Deanery of Gloucester, vacant on the elevation of the Bev. E . H. Bickersteth to the Bishopric of London. The Dean elect, as I stated in my “ Gossip ” of last month, was in the Harrow Eleven of 1851, so that another will be added to the list of cricketers holding high offices in the Church, though the recent changes which have led to Dr. Butler’s appointment had reduced the number by the retirement of Dr. Christopher Wordsworth from the See of Lincoln. Dr. Butler’s head-mas- tership of Harrow, which, unless my memory plays me false, commenced in 1859, has been a very successful one, and the regret at his departure will be universal. At the same time Har­ rovians, past and present, know full well that his capacities as a scholar, as well as administrator, will be of great service in the new sphere he has elected to occupy, while his earnest and affectionate labours for the good of the old school will ever be remem­ bered with feelings of gratitude and sympathy. T he Adelaide Observer of Jan. 3, gives particulars of a hit for thirteen, made by one B. Furnell in December, in a Club match in South Australia. It was really only worth two, but the throwing-in seems to have lacked the accuracy which has been one of the chief characteristics of Australian teams in this country, and before the ball had been safely landed the couple had been increased by wild returns into a baker’s dozen. A l a k g e number of Cricketers, more particularly old Harrovians and Cambridge men, will be interested in the following announcement: —•“ Feb. 14, at Ashtead Church, by the Yen. Archdeacon Parrer, D.D,, assisted by the Bev. W . H. Churchill, Frederick Eustace Beade Fryer, Esq., of Moul­ ton Paddocks, Newmarket, to Mary Alice, youngest daughter of Thomas Lucas, Esq,, of Ashtead Park.” Mr. Fryer made his first appearance at Lord’s for Harrow against Eton in 1867, in company with W. B. Money, W. H. Hadow, S. W. Gore and W . Law, and was subsequently for four years in the Cambridge Eleven, which he captained in 1873. H e more than once represented the Gentlemen against the Players at the Oval, and scored heavily, on occasions, for the Gentlemen of the South against the Players of the South on the same ground, notably in 1871 and 74, when he made 76 and 72 respectively. When at his best he had few superiors as a batsman, playing sound cricket with a fine upright style, and having, in addition, good hitting powers. Of late years, though, he has only been rarely seen on the cricket field. Mr. P. E . Crutchley, one of the Harrow Eleven of 1873 —whose brother, Capt. C. Crutchley, of the Scots Guards, by the way, is, I am glad to see from Sunday’s papers, pronounced out of danger from the severe wound he re­ ceived at Abu Klea— acted as Mr. Fryer’s best man. S h o u l d all have gone well, the P. and 0 . steamer “ Kaiser-i-liind,” with three well known Eton Cricketers, Messrs. C. T. Studd and the brothers C. and A. T. Polhill-Turner, on board, ought to reach Colombo to day. This trio of Old Etonians, as many C kicket readers are aware, have gone out to preach the Gospel in China, under the auspices of the China Inland Mission. It was my privilege, in company with several cricketers, to see them off from Victoria Station just three weeks ago, and one old Oxford Captain went down in the train to Dover to see the last of them on English soil. I understand that the party, which also includes Mr. Stanley Smith, the Cambridge stroke of 1882, are to start from Colombo to morrow in the “ Yerona,” which is due at Hong Kong on March 15, Shanghai five days later. It will be of interest to many, no doubt, to know that communications addressed to the care of the China Inland Mis­ sion at Shanghai will reach them safely. They will carry the best wishes of cricketers in their good work. The brothers Polhill-Turner were both in the cricket eleven at Eton, and both, too, keepers of the field, a double distinction very rarely won. L ie u t .- C o l o n e l t h e H o n . N e v il l e L y t t e l t o n , of the Bifle Brigade, Secretary to Sir John Adye, Governor of Gibraltar, I notice has been se­ lected for duty in a similar capacity on the staff of Lord Beay, the newly appointed Governor of Bombay. Col. Lyttelton was one of the Eton Eleven which defeated Harrow in 1862, after a long series of reverses. He went, subsequently to Cambridge, but did not get into the Eleven, though he took part in the Inter-University Ath­ letic Sports in three successive years, 1872-3-4. O ne of the most peculiar instances of small scoring I can remember, is recorded in the Melbourne Leader, of Jan. 3. It occurred in a match played in Allansioci, in the Western District of Victoria, and, curiously, had for its promoter Frank Allan, “ the bowler of a century,” who visited England in 1878, with the First Australian Team. The game in question was between the Gillear and Allansford State Schools, ten on each side. Allansford, in their one innings, made 25, and this was enough to give them a victory by an innings and 15 runs. Gillear’s totals were 9 and 1, and, as of the first six were “ extras,” in two innings they only got four runs from the bat, the score showing seventeen ciphers. The Allansford bowlers, who worked such destruction, were Haworth and Anderson, and the former had a double distinction in being the high­ est scorer in the match with five runs. T he Australasian, of Jan. 3, has the following among its answers to Cor­ respondents :— “ We are not aware that any negotiations have been opened for an Australian Team to visit England during 1886, the Colo­ nial exhibition year, but it has been suggested that the two Associations should select thirteen or fourteen men to go. ” A letter just received from an English amateur now in the Colonies, I may add, confirms the statement, and, indeed, he is of opinion that there is every likelihood of another visit of Australian Cricketers in 1886. I h a v e , as most Cricket readers know well, always been a warm advocate of an interchange of visits between English and Australian cricketers on higher grounds than that of mere sport. I fear, though, that the recent refusal of several of Murdoch’s Team Next issue of Cricket March 26.