Cricket 1886

SEPT. 23,1886. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. In m y scrap book I have an engraving taken from the Illustrated London News of Aug. 26, 1854, showing a game at Cricket on the Goodwins on the 10th of that month. As the description may be of nterest I have reproduced it in full. The Goodwins,whichhave been fromtime im­ memorial associatedwith peril and destruction, have just been the scene of exhilarating sport. It appears that on the 10th inst. a party—got up by Mr. Morris Thompson, Mr. Hammond, andothers, atWalmer—visited the Sandsforthe purpose of playing agame of cricket. Captain Pearson and a picked crew of the Spartan, one of thefinestluggersonDealBeach,were selected for the occasion. The day was beautifully calm, and the party (twenty-four in number) arrived, and were safely landed on the Sands at five in the evening. After walking about a quarter of a mile, a place sufficiently high and dry was found; when the match oommenced and con­ tinued until nearly sunset, the winning party obtaining fifty-seven runs. The Sands were intersected in every direction with narrow but deep gullies, or, as they are termed by the sailors, “ swatches,’’with swiftrunning streams, into which it is dangerous to step. A sad association of ideas crowded the mind on look­ ing over this awfully melancholy plaoe. Here thousands of gallant fellows hare been en­ tombed—here millions of property have been engulphed; and here was apicture contrasting vividly with the present scene of pastime. The party returned home safely about ten at night. The evening was fine, and the ripples on the surface of the sea as the lugger ploughed home­ ward, were most beautifully illuminated with phosphorescent light. T he sad accident of Saturday, which resulted in the death of the young Earl of Dalkeith, deprives cricket of a keen follower and withal a most generous supporter. Educated at Eton, he subse­ quently identified himself actively with cricket at Oxford, as Lord Eskdaill, acting as hon. sec. of the Christ Church Club in 1881. During the last few years he had taken great interest in the development of Scotch cricket, and, indeed, he will be a great loss to the game on the other side of the border. As a cricketer he was well known in Dalkeith, for which club he did good service both with bat and ball. In the early part, of the season he did some remarkable bowling performances for the County Club, and his average gave him sixteen wickets at a cost of 4.4 per wicket. Last year, with the Hon. J. C. Maxwell Scott, of Abbotsford, and Mr. J. G. Walker, his lordship was mainly respon­ sible for a visit of the M.C.C. to Scotland, and as before said he will be a great loss to Scotch cricket. During the last two years he acted as Master of the Buccleuch Hunt. T he details of the accident have already been fully given. It appears that Lord Dalkeith was running down a steep hill in pursuit of a stag which he had already hit. Having re-loaded the barrel he had emptied he slipped on his descent, and the rifle striking a rock he received the contents in his left arm a little below the shoulder. There was a terrible wound, and though every attempt was made to check the bleeding he quickly sank. The young Earl, who was heir to the Dukedom of Buccleuch, was only in his twenty-sixth year. L ast week’s C ricket contained the score of a match, one played annually, in which eleven Christophersons opposed the Blackheath Club. This has been, though, quite outdone by a contest o f a similar kind at Ealing on Friday and Saturday last, in which twelve Heames were pitted against the same number of the local club. It will be of interest if I give the names of the Hearnes with their relationship. They were Thomas Hearne, the head of the ground staff at L ord's; his two sons, Thomas A. and George E. Hearne, the pavilion clerk at Lord’s; George Hearne, the ground-keeper at Catford Bridge, and younger brother of Tom H eam e; his four sons, George Gibbons, Frank and Aleck Hearne, the three Kent professionals, and Randolph Hearne ; with Herbert, Walter, William, and John, all sons of William Hearne, of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks, and first cousin of the brothers Thomas and George. In the match of last week G. G. Hearne, who has been in brilliant form with the bat this summer, did another fine per­ formance. After carrying his bat through the first innings for 84 out of 178, he con­ tributed 160 to the second total of 374. T he remaining fixtures of the Austra­ lian programme are both to be two- day matches, and against mixed elevens. Friday and Saturday will see them at Birmingham in opposition to a combina­ tion consisting of seven Warwickshire players, Messrs. C. W . Bock, H . 0. Whitby, and J. Cranston, with Shilton, Collishaw, Grundy, and Pallett, assisted by Messrs. W . G. Grace, W . W . Bead, 0 . G. Radcliffe, and L. C. Docker. The eleven to meet the Australians at Harro­ gate next week will be Mr. W . W . Read (captain), Abel, Diver, Watson, Pilling, G. G. Hearne, Ulyett, Emmett, Hall, Grimshaw, and Preston. T he twelve English professionals who are to hybernate in the Colonies duly left Plymouth in the Orient steamer Cuzco on Saturday afternoon at half-past one o’clock. As I said last week, they should reach Adelaide at the end of next month, and their first match will be played there. Mr. J. P. Tennent, of the Melbourne Club, has, I believe, been acting as their agent in that city, and Mr. Sydney Cohen will officiate in the same capacity in Sydney. There is an intention, I believe, to have three matches if possible with the Australian Team now here, but so far as I know no definite arrangements have been made with Major Wardill. T he averages o f the twelve members of the team in first-class matches this summer will, I think, bear reproduction : BATTING AVERAGES. Most in Times Inns. Runs, aninns, notout. Aver. Shrewsbury 38 ... 1404 ., 227* ... 5 ... 42.18 M. Bead 43 ... 1364 .,.. 186 ... 4 ... 34.38 Gunn ........ 31 ... 752 .. 83 ... 3 ... 26.24 Scotton 39 .... 979 .... 110* ... 2 ... 26.17 Barnes........ 34 ... 784 .. 156 ... 2 .... 24.16 Bates ........ 44 ... 1018 ... 136 .. . 1 . ... 23.29 Lohmann ... 36 ... 728 .. 107 ... 5 ... 23.15 Flowers 36 ... 606 .,,. 93 ... 8 ... 21.18 Briggs........ Barlow 41 ... 722 .. 107 ... 4 ... 19.19 43 ... 679 .. 113 ... 5 ... 17.33 Shaw ........ 15 ... 88 .,.. 15* ... 5 ... 88 Shecwin 22 ... 84 .,,. 25 ... 6 .. . 5 4 B O W L IN G A V E E A G E S . Overs. M dns. E uns. W kts. Aver. B arnes ... 744 ... 367 .. 936 ... 67 ... 13 G 5 B arlow ... 1238.1... 653 ... 1525 ... 105 14 51 L oh m an n 1715 ... 809 ... 2425 ... 160 1525 Shaw ............ 630.2... 371 ... 523 ... 33 1529 Briggs ... 1176 ... 612 ... 1471... 92 ... 15.91 Flowers ...1046.1... 556 ...1137 ... 69 .. 16.33 Bates ... 826 ... 420 ... 1079... 65 ... 16.39 M. Read ... 68.2... 34 ... 102 6 17 Gunn........ 47 ... 26 ... 59... 2 .” 29.1 S cotton b ow led in tw o innings—16 overs, 9 m aidens, 21 runs, no w icket. T he English Amateurs now in America are, unless any alteration should havo taken place in their programme, to com ­ mence the great match of the tour— against the Gentlemen of Philadelphia, on the ground of the Germantown Club at Nicetown, Philadelphia— to day. Tho selection committee, according to the last advices from America, had, in view of the contest, chosen the following fifteen, from which the eleven to oppose the English­ men would be finally selected :—William Brockie, jun., H. W . Brown, W . J. During, W .C . Morgan, jun., George S. Patterson, and Frank W . Ralston, jun., of the Ger­ mantown Club; F. E . Brewster, E . W . Clark, jun., Howard MacNutt, C. A. Newhall, and R. S. Newhall, of the Young America Club; J. B. Thayer, jun., and William C. Lowry, of the Merion Club; and J. A. Scot at nd Walter Scott, o f the Belmont Club. Of this fifteen, eleven— to wit: Messrs. Brockie, Brown, Morgan, Brewster, Clark, McNutt, the two Newhalls, Thayer, Lowry, and J. A. Scott—were over here with the Philadel­ phian Team in 1884. I notice that the cricket fraternity ij fairly well represented in the competition for the Amateur Golf Championship now in course of progress on the St. Andrews Links. Scotland, indeed, furnishes three good players in Messrs, J. E. LindJny and Leslie M. Balfour, of the Boyal and Ancient Golf, and H. F. Caldwell, ox Liefhess; while among the names of English cricketers I see those of Messrs. John Penn and C. M. Smith, the old Etonian, unless I am mistaken, who re­ spectively represent the Blackheath and Royal Wimbledon Golf Clubs. I have had occasion this season to notice so many good performances of Mr. A. E. Stoddart in connection with th0 Hampstead Club that it is certainly n0