Cricket 1886

“ Together joined in cricket’s manly toil.”— Byron. Registered°for^ra*nsmi 9 akra Ybroad. THURSDAY, JULY 8 , 1 8 8 6 . PRICE 2d. MR. STANLEY W INCKWORTH SCOTT. F ew batsmen have scored more consistently, or shown better cricket this season than the amateur whose portrait has been specially taken to illustrate the latest addition to our biographical sketches of celebrated cricketers. Mr. Stanley Scott is the third son of the late Colonel Winck* worth Scott, Commandant of the 20th Regiment, N.I., Bombay. Born in the City of Bombay on the 24th of March, 1854, he comes of a family, several members of which were closely identified in their day with Indian Cricket. Old .Anglo-Indian players of say from twenty-five to thirty years ago will remember not only his father but more than one of his uncles. They are not likely to forget, in particular, the brothers John Guillum, now a Major-Gene­ ral retired, or Colonel Stanley Scott, now a Colonel retired, the latter a fine hitter and really good all-round cricketer who played, or was asked to play, for Surrey about a quarter of a century ago. Though by residence con­ nected with Middlesex Mr. Scott’s ealiest ties were all indeed, with Surrey cricket and cricketers. His father and two uncles before named were among the most prominent members of the old Clapham Club, long since defunct, and another uncle, Mr. Hubert Scott, a good medium pace bowler in his time, has been for many years on the Committee of the Surrey County Club, one of the keenest and most liberal sup- S orters of the game at the Oval. [r. Stanley Scott, too, picked, up his first notions of cricket on Streatham Common, where more than one player who has done good service for Surrey also re­ ceived his earliest lessons in the _ game. After remaining seven . . , years at Streatham School, he migrated in January, 1868, to Brentwood School, the nursery of several well-known cricketers —among them Messrs. C. K. Francis, the brothers S. H. and B. N. Akroyd, and G. S. Raynor, who did good service subsequently in the Winchester eleven and still later for the Cambridge University. At the outset of'his school career he was more sue* cessful as a bowler and during the thre 6 years he remained at Brentwood he was the first in the bowling statistics, to which in 1870 was added the distinction of the best batting average. Leaving Brentwood he entered the London Joint Stook Bank in 1871, a con­ nection which interfered for a time materially with his advancement as a cricketer. From this time, indeed, until the year 1876, his only day matches were on Bank Holidays, and it was not until 1877, when he went into business on the Stock Exchange, that any real opportunities for displaying his abilities as a cricketer presented tnemselves. Long before this, though, he had already made his mark in a county match. Visiting near Leominster in July, 1874, he was enlisted into the Hereford- . shire eleven to meet Shropshire in that month, at Shrewsbury. A valuable .acquisition* too, he proved, for, in addition to a "not out . innings of 138, he secured four1 or -five of the Shropshire wicket.s at a moderate cost ~ Since 1877 he has been identified mostly with the Kensington Park, Incogniti, Upper Clapton and Leatherhead Clubs, and, unless we are mistaken, it was the first- named which originally recom­ mended him to the notice of the Middlesex County Club 'as a bowler. Mr. Scott’s first appear- _ ance in connectionwith Middlesex ’ cricket was in- the-Colts* match , on May 14,1S78. Though on that occasion only able to.score eight * and three, be was soon introduced . into the County eleven, making his debut againstSurrey,atLord’s, ' on the third of the following month. Since that time although he has not been able to play regu­ larly on account of business, Mr. Scott has been a member of the Middlesex team. That he has been of late years one of its most reliable batsmen figureswillprove,. and it needonly be stated in proof of this assertion that in 1882 and 1885 he was at the head of the County’s batting averages. His first hundred for Midlesex was. against Surrey, at the Oval, irt 1882, but this is net his only innings of three figures, and among many other good perform-- ances, for the County may be specially mentioned his 135 against Gloucestershire, in 1885, and his 93 not out against Kent, in 1884, both at Lord’s. Among his feats in minor cricket not the least noteworthy will be found in the only four innings he has played on Devonshire Park at East­ bourne. On each occasion, as will be seen, he got a hundred. 1877.—KensingtonParkv. Devon­ shire Park ............................. 115 1882.—Devonshire Park v. New College .............. (retired) 101 1832,—DevonshirePark v. Eastbourne College (not out) 11G 1882.—Devonshire Park v. Clifton Ho. School 154 In the fourth of these he played the first and the last ball of the match, being caught at cover-point off the latter. In addition, he played four consecutive innings of 100 and upwards in 1893, a curiosity