Cricket 1885

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THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY. SURREYv. DERBYSHIRE- ADMISSION SIXPENCE. Aug. 10,11, & 12: S urrey v . S om ersetshire . Aug 13,14, & 15: S u r r ey v , K ent CRICKET : A W E E K L Y EEOOBD OF THE OAME. 41 8T. ANDREW’S HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1885. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time .—Hamlet Some high scoring was recorded on the Hastings cricket ground last week. On Tuesday the University School, though half their wickets were down for 83, reached a total of 359 against the Hastings Football Club, H . B. Denham (129) and E . W . Andrews (153), putting on 267 runs in two hours and forty minutes for the sixth wicket. On the following day, against Mr. Foster’s eleven, Mr. McCorm ick’s eleven secured 410, to which the Cap­ tain himself contributed 212. "While he was in runs were got at the rate of about 130 an hour, and the attain­ ment o f the total o f 410 only ocoupied a little over three hours. Only one innings took place on each day, and in the two innings twenty-one bowlers were tried. Mr. McCormick has been a little out o f luck tjiis season, and Sussex cricketers, in particular, will be glad to hear o f this performance, which, it is to be hoped, is only the prelude to a period o f better luck. Ckicket has ju st sustained another severe loss in the death o f Mr. Edm ond W ilder, who died on Monday week in his sixty-ninth year. Mr. Wilder, who was educated at Eton and Cambridge, in his time rowed in the Cambridge eight. H e was a liberal patron o f the game, and, as I have reason to know of my personal knowledge, a warm - hearted and generous friend to all who had to earn a livelihood at our national sport. He was, indeed, in truth a friend in need to professional players, and I can myself vouch that no appeal has been made in connection with cricket for many years which did not seeure his ready assistance. He had been president o f the Cricketers’ Fund from its institution, and took the keenest interest in its welfare. “ R .T ,” who umpired the m a tch , writes me thusly :— To get the “ specs ” or bag a brace of round ones is the most depressing event that can happen to a batsman. To go in, though, with the “ specs” on and “ bring off” over a century, must be reckoned a rare good performance, and this feat was accomplished last week by the Rev. R. T. Thornton and D. D. Pontifex, both of whom wear spectacles. They went in first for the Incogniti v. Gentlemen of Sussex, at Brighton on Friday, and were not separated until they had scored 222, which, as far as can be ascertained from local authorities, is the highest score ever made for the first wicket on the present Sussex County Ground. Mr. Thornton contributed 116, Mr. Pontifex 123 to the Incogs’ total. A few more scores like these,and spectacles will be at a premium J u s t recently I have had occa ­ sion to notice several instances of exceptionally high scoring on different cricket grounds. Last week at Scar­ borough the local Club in two innings amassed the huge aggregate o f 886 runs for twenty w ickets, or an average of 44.6 per wicket. I do not know of any record, though, to beat that o f the Beckenham ground in the last four matches played up to August 1. In these four fixtures the elevens representing the Beckenham Club secured as many as 1,318 runs for the loss o f only twenty-seven w ickets. This gives an average o f nearly forty- nine runs, a high testimony to the excellence o f the wickets prepared by E . Tate, the groundman of the Beckenham Club. T h e Beckenham ground at least can claim the distinction o f a best on record in the performance o f Messrs. Leslie W ilson and W . G. W yld, on Saturday last. Up to this season the highest number of runs made without the loss of a wicket was the 404 of Messrs. J. Shuter and T. Ashdown, for Bexley against the Emeriti, at Bexley, on June 14, 1884. This achievement was altogether beaten by Messrs. W ilson and W yld for Beckenham, on Saturday, and it is a little curious that Bexley should have been identi­ fied in one way or the other with the two best feats of the kind. T iie Beckenham innings was com ­ menced by Messrs. W yld and W ilson at 2.30, after the Bexley team, which