Cricket 1886

SEPT. 2,1886. CEICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 889 on matters cricketioal. The O.B., as the following lines will show, has not gone yet, in fact ho is evidently seeking higher flights, as he appends the signature of “ Tennyson, Poet Laureate ” to his rhymes. CAMBRIDGE v. AUSTRALIA. A W ail from L eyton . Sons of the reedy Cam! Jolly old Kangaroos! You make the Old Buffer d——,* And shake in his gouty shoes. Barring G. Giffen’s score, A very good one I trow, No single batsman made more Than “ Extras,” which bossed the show! * Q uery: Subaudi " D a n c e ? ” T he instances of a batsman making a hundred twice i n the same match are of the rarest, and for this reason Mr. F. W . Maude’s two scores of 146 and 143 for M.C.C. and Ground against Wiltshire, at Lord’s, last week, deserve a very con­ spicuous place in the curiosities of the year. For years and years Lambert, the old Surrey player, was the only cricketer who enjoyed this special distinction. I n o t ic e an anouncement in the daily papers of Monday, that Prince Christian Victor o f Schleswig Holstein has been nominated for a lieutenanoy m the First Volunteer Battalion of the Boyal Berk­ shire Regiment, of whioh his father is Honorary Colonel, and Colonel Lord Wan­ tage, K.C.B., is commanding officer. By the way, his younger brother, who is now unless I am mistaken, at Charterhouse School, is quite as keen a cricketer as is Prince Christian Victor himself. “ D ie d on the 25th inst., at Brighton, Reginald, eldest surviving son of the late Thomas Hankey, Esq., aged 53.” Many C r ic k e t readers will recognise in the subject of this announcement Reginald Hankey, who was a contemporary of the Hon. E . Chandos Leigh in the Harrow Eleven in 1849. He played a few times for Surrey, but his best performance as a bat was at Lord's in 1857, when he scored seventy runs in an hour and three-quarters for the Gentlemen against the Players, hitting all the professional bowlers, Wis- den, Willsher, Jackson, C a ffy n , H . H. Stephenson, and Parr, with the greatest freedom. He was a good field and bowled slow round arm. Owing to business he only figured for a short time in important matches, and his career as a cricketer was but a brief one. M r. C h a r l e s I n o l is T h o r n t o n has in his time done some very big things in the way of hitting. I have personal recol­ lections of his mighty heaves, notably one for Eton against Harrow at Lord’s, and another for Kent v. Surrey at the Oval. I question, though, whether he has ever outdone his performance on Tues­ day at Scarborough. He made 107 out o f 183 in an hour and twenty minutes— to start with, a rate of run-getting altogether out of the common. Among his figures, too, were seven hits out of the ground, another curiosity. The public will after this regret the more that Mr. Thornton does not more often gave them a taste of his marvellous hitting powers. A c r ic k e t e r , well known in his day and a keen supporter of all sorts of sports withal, passed away on the 23rd of last month at Moulton Grange, Northampton­ shire, in the person of Mr. Henry Osmond Nethercote. Mr. Nethercote was a con­ temporary of Mr. R. Broughton in the Harrow eleven and played against Eton in 1835 and 1836, being unable to go to Lord’s for the Eton match in 1837, though he appeared against Winchester. He sub­ sequently represented Oxford in 1840 and 1841, and in the former year did good service with the ball, Mr. Lowth and he each clean bowling five wickets in the second innings of Cambridge. He also played several M.C.C. and I Zingari matches. He was a pretty forward bats­ man in style. He was in his sixty- seventh year. A l is t o f the batsmen who have made scores of a hundred and more this season in matches between the following Counties — Notts, Surrey, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Kent, Sussex, Middlesex, Gloucestershire and Derbyshire will be of interest. No Derbyshire cricketer though, I may state, has got into three figures this summer:— F o r N ottingham shire—S hrew sbury, 227 n ot o u t ; Barnes, 156; and S cotton, 110 n ot out. F or Surrey— Mr. W . W . B ead, 120 and 115; A bel, 110; L ohm ann, 107; and M r. W , E . H oller, 102 n ot out. F o r L ancashire— Mr. A. N. H orn by, 161; and B riggs, 107. F or Y orkshire—H on. M . B . H aw ke, 144; Bates, 136 and 106; and G rim shaw , 122 n ot out. F or K ent— G . G . H earne, 126 and 117; F. H eam e, 142; Mr. O. W ilson, 127; and M r. W . H . P atter­ son, 124. F or Sussex—J . H ide, 173; T ester, 130; M r. F. M. L u ca s, 121; and B ean, 108. F or M iddlesex— Mr. A. E . Stoddart, 116; and Mr. A. J. W eb be, 103. F or G loucestershire—M r. F . T ow n send, 106; and M r. O. G . R adcliffe, 104 n ot out. A w e l l - k n o w n umpire in a recent County matoh somewhere in the North— it is best not to be too precise in matters of this kind—in reply to an appeal for what was palpably not a catch at short slip, gave vent to his feelings in the fol­ lowing expressive fashion: “ They are not usually out first bound, they are not usually out off the elbow, and you don’t bustle me. N o t O u t ! ” T h e following table will show the average of each wicket for and against in the same matches:— T o ta l W kts. T otal W kts. runs. lost. Aver, m s agst. tkn. Ayer. N otts ............ 3865 178 21.127 ... 3793 238 15.223 S u r r e y ............ 5400 24621.134 ... 4882 289 16.258 L an cash ire... 3331 211 15.166 ... 3186 221 14.92 Yorkshire ... 5397 295 18.87 ... 4136 256 16.40 K ent .............. 4852 241 20.32 ... 4808 245 19.153 M iddlesex ... 3542 168 21.14 ... 3863 158 24.71 Sussex ............ 3760 21117.173 ... 4264 206 20.144 G loueestersh. 4004 22417.196 ... 4603 199 23.23 D erb ysh ire... 1971 175 11.46 ...2587 137 18.121 T he appended figures show the result of the matches between the nine Chief Counties this season:— Matches played. Won. Lost. Drawn Notts .. .. 14 7 . . 0 .. 7 Surrey.. . • 16 12 . 3 . . 1 Lancashire.. 14 5 . 5 .. 4 Yorkshire .. 16 4 . 6 .. 7 Kent . . . . 14 . 5 . . 6 .. 3 Middlesex . . 1 0 8 . 4 .. 3 Sussex .. 12 4 . 6 .. 2 Gloucestersh. 13 3 . . 6 .. 4 Derbyshire . . 9 0 . 8 . . 1 GLOUCESTERSHIRE v. LANCASHIRE. The Gloucestershire eleven completed their programme at Clifton, on Saturday, in very satisfactory fashion, gaining a very creditable victory over Lancashire with thirty-one runs to spare. Though the wicket was in excellent condition the scoring was much below the average of the Clifton College ground, and in the first hands Mr. Haigh’s 51 not out was the only individual contribution over thirty runs. Gloucestershire, who went in fiist, were in a minority of 66 runs at the completion of an innings, being all dismissed for 116, a result due to the good bowling of Barlow and Briggs, who were unchanged. When they went in again, Mr. Brain hit in brilliant style, and his stand with Mr. Radcliffe, who helped to add 87 runs in an hour for the third wicket, was the feature of the innings. Mr. Radcliffe had more than one life, but Mr. Brain has rarely, if ever, been seen to better advantage. He was only in an hour and forty minutes, during which time he made 69 (in which were nir;e fours) out of 143 runs. Lancashire on Saturday went in with 161 runs to win, not at all a difficult task on such a wicket. Woof, though, bowled with such remarkable success that seven batsmen were out with the total only 52, Woof having so far delivered nineteen overs for twenty runs and fivewickets. Robinson and Yates made a good stand, but the latter was dismissed immediately after lunch. When Watson was out 75 were still wanted to win with only one wicket to fall. The last two batsmen, Pilling and Robinson, were,however, not so easily separated, the latter, though missed when he made 31, playing capital cricket. Atlast at 129Mr. Page bowled Pilling and the match was over, Robinson taking out his bat for a most creditable 53. Woof’s bowl' ■ ing was the best feature of the match. He took seven wickets at the close at acost of 62 runs, a performance so much appreciated by the spec­ tators that over £7 was collected on his behalf GLOWJESTER8HIRE F irst Innings. S econd Innings. D r. W . G . G race, b Bar- low ...................................... 23 c W atson , b D r. E .M . G race, c and b B riggs ............ 4 B arlow ............................. 26 c E . H ornby, b B arlow ............ 0 Mr. J. H. Brain, b B riggs 1 c R oyle, b E. Mr. O. G. R adcliffe, lbw , b H o r n b y ............ 69 B rig g s............................. ... Mr. W . O. M oberly, b 12 b W a tson ............ 43 B rig g s...................................... Mr. F. T ow nsend, b B ar- 12 b Briggs ............ 16 low ...................................... 12 c Y ates, b W a t­ son .................... 2d Mr. H . V. P age, c P illing, b B arlow ...................................... 16 run ou t ............ 19 P ainter, b Briggs ............ 4 b W a t s o n ............ 0 Mr. H . H ale, b B riggs ... 0 n ot ou t ............ 19 W oof, c E. H ornby, b B arlow ............................. 0 c B arlow , b W a ts o n ............ 12 Mr. J. A. B ush, n ot ou t ... 2 b B riggs ............ 7 B 6, lb 2 ............................. 8 E xtra s............ 8 Total ............... 116 Total.........22J