Cricket 1885

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WRIGHT & Co., 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, E.C. CRICKET : A W EEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 41 8T. ANDREW’S HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1885. AN SW ERS to CORRESPONDENTS F. S. S p I nks (Ipswich).—1. No, if in the opinion of the umpire it was done unintentionally, and only for protection. 2. No, not legally. C E.P.—Yes, certainly. F. C lark .— 1, Mr. A. L, Watson, the Winchester Cap­ tain, goes to Cambridge, 2. He goes to Oxford, we believe, 8, Either Mr, J. A. Turner or Mr. H. W, BaiDbridge. 4. 1877, 1878,1879. Australian team of 1878, 1880. Daft’s American team, R. S. S.—Yes, in the An nua l of 1882. H. H. T ruman .— He was born on July 18,1848, W. M. Cox (Stoorbridge).—No. J. R. C avk (Calatock).—1. If the Captain selected the e’even, no one elt>e had a right to supersede any member of the team as you state the case, 2, When the winning hit is made, the match is over The abstract and brief chronicle of the time .— H am let Ne sutor ultra crepidam is an axiom which might often be applied to the ordinary class of paragraphists, who indulge in cricket criticism. The writer of the following remarks in the Essex Standard of August 25th, anent the match between Essex and Lanca­ shire at Leyton, has, I am afraid, much to learn before he can treat on matters cricketical with eyen a show of authority. Essex got well beaten by Lancashire on Monday and Tuesday, and there can be no doubt that the Lancashire eleven made a fine display of cricket. At the same time it must not be overlooked that they were reinforced by no less than seven profes­ sionals, who did very nearly all the batting, and the whole of the bowling for them. On the other hand, Essex had only three pro­ fessionals, who did scarcely anything at all in the way of batting, and only about one- third of the bowling. The rage for pro­ fessional players may be of excellent service in improving the game of cricket; but to outsiders it seems rather a farce to speak of “ county matches ” in which counties are represented almost entirely by professionals, who will play fo r one county one week and fo r another the next. In the match last week between Surrey and Lancashire, six men on each side were professionals. An eastern potentate once expressed his won­ derment, in an English ball-room, that the English should take the trouble to dance for themselves when they could pay persons to dance for them. A foreign observer in Eng­ land might with more reason wonder why (whilst they are about it), some of our English counties do not pay the whole of their cricket elevens to play the “ national game” for them. A c o r r e s p o n d e n t , a well - known cricketer, asks my opinion on the following case, which occurred in a match played recently in the West of England. “ The last man was in and the match a tie ; the bowler bowled a no-ball which the batsman hit and ran, his partner being run out.” What, he asks, was the result ? Directly the no-ball was called the match was over and the game won. A p o p u la r umpire, particularly well-known to C r ic k e t readers, re­ cently asked by a batsman how it was bowled, explained it in the following unanswerable fashion, “ over her, late for her, across her.” This reminds one of J. C. Shaw’s explanation for his dismissal. “ The ball coom back a bit and my bat war’nt levvil." A n Adelaide correspondent writes me that a young South Australian Amateur of considerable promise, Mr. C. vV. Hayward, is now in Eng­ land, with a view to studying at