Cricket 1886

482 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. DEC. 30,1836, too, he was a fine field at point or short slip.” He was a good all-round sports­ man, and an ardent supporter of inanly exercises of all kinds. He did much for Victorian sport, and his popularity among all classes of its followers was only a fitting tribute to his efforts on its behalf. His grave is not far from that of the celebrated wicket-keeper, George Mar­ shall, who was associated with Mr. Hammersley in the early days of Victorian cricket. I t will interest C r i c k e t readers who had the personal acquaintance of the Captain of the First Australian Team, D. W . Gregory, to know that he has a nephew who bids fair to maintain tho cricket reputation of the family for at least another generation. “ Felix,” in a recent number of the Australasian, speaks very highly of an innings of 73 not out by Sid Gregory, a boy only fifteen years of age, for the Oriental against the Carthona Club in Sydney. He adds that tho youngster bowls even better than he bats. Charles Lawrence, the old Surrey player, who settled in Australia on his arrival there with Stephenson’s English Team at the end of 18G1, and subse­ quently reappeared in England for tho summer of 1868 as Captain o f the Aboriginal Eleven, has also a son of no small ability as a cricketer. T h e arrival of Messrs. Spofforth, Mcllwraith, and Garrett in the “ Orizaba” at Melbourne, on Nov. 7th, seems to have formed the occasion for some good- humoured chaff by the crowd at the small success of the last Australian team. The following day Mcllwraith was off again to Hobart to meet the rest of the party homeward bound hy way of New Zealand, but Spofforth and Garrett were unable to get their luggage from the “ Orizaba” in time to accompany him. They left two days later direct for New Zealand to take part in the following fixtures ar­ ranged to be played by the Australians before the last stage of then' homeward journey : Otago District, at Dunedin, on Nov. ‘22, 23, 24 ; Canterbury District, at Christchurch, on Nov. 20, 2 7 ,2 9 ; W el­ lington, on Dec. 1, 2, 3 ; Auckland, Dee. 7, 8, and 9. On tho termination of this last match the M.C.C. team were to leave for Sydney by one of the San Fran­ cisco mail boats. I t is rarely, indeod, that a cricketer is able to claim such a record as Mr. J. Dunn could boast last summer, of four­ teen innings of three figures during the season. I have been fortunate enough to secure a complete list of the scores made by Mr. Dunn, who, I may add, after figuring in the Harrow Eleven, played once or twice for Surrey some ten years since, and give them below, hoping that they will be interesting to C r i c k e t readers. May was a very bad month in Ireland, and Mr. Dunn lost a fortnight’s crieket through having to go to Belfast on duty during the time o f the riots. I n a d d it io n th r e e m a t c h e s la t e in S e p t ­ e m b e r fe ll t h r o u g h , o r it is c e r t a in th a t t h e O ld H a r r o v ia n ’ s a g g r e g a te w o u ld h a v e b e a t e n t h a t o f M r . A. E. S t o d d a r t . I h a d h o p e d t o b e in a p o s it io n t o g iv e t h e la t t e r ’s fu ll s c o r e s , b u t u n fo r t u n a t e ly s o m e o f t h e p a r t ic u la r s a re w a n t in g . I a m a b le ,th o u g h , t o g iv e t h e e x a c t n u m ­ b e r o f r u n s h e g o t a lt o g e t h e r , i.e., 3,007 r u n s in s ix t y in n in g s , a n a v e r a g e o f 50.07. M r . D u n n ’s fig u r e s w e r e 1st. 2nd. M ay 1- -8 th R egt. v. L ein ster ................ 7 — M ay 7—G arrison v.ltoyal& lU chm ond Bks. 11 — M ay 10—G arrison v. U niversity (D ublin) 37 — M ay 21—8tli R est. v. 55th R eg t..................... ‘21 — M ay 31—Phcenix v. U niversity ................12 — June 3—C ork C ounty v. Phcenix ................28 — June 4, 5—C ork C ounty v. L einster ...1 1 7 June 7, 8—G arrison v. U niversity ... ...100 42 June 10—8th R egt. v. U niversity 2nd X I. 8 0 June 12—8th R egt. v. C ivil Service ... 65 — June 18,19—M ilitary o f Ireland v. U ni­ versity .......................................................174 — June 21— 8th R egt. v. I'Jth R eg t...................... 144 — June 22, 23—Phoenix v. U n iversity................51 70. June 26— A rm y v. B ar (Ireland) ................40 — ■Tune 28, 29 -P hoonix v. C atholic S ch ools...107 — July 2, 3 —Phoenix v. C urragh lirigade ...1< 8 8 July 8—K ilbogget v. U niversity ................30 — July 9, 10-G a rriso n v. L einster ................123 —• July 13, 14—8th R egt. V. 24th R egt. ... 5 141* July 16,17—Phoenix v. L ein ster ..................16 4 July 2a—Phoenix v. 102nd R eg t........................ 28* — July ^3, 24— G arrison v. Phoenix ................ 9 119* .1u ly 27—8th R egt. v. 10th R e g t..........................74 — July 29—8th R egt. v. R .I. C onstabulary ...159 — July 31, 31—L . A . Shuter’s v. K ilboggel ... 13 5 Aug. 2, 3, 4—G arrison v. L . A . Shuter’s ... 92 ;i78 A ug. 5—8th R egt. v. R I. C onstabulary ... 2 — A ug. 6, 7—Phoenix v. L einster ................ 24 52 A ug. 12,13—B elfast G arrison v. N orth of Ireland ... ..........................................173* — A ug. 20— N orth o f Ireland v. U lster ... 44 — Aug. 25,26—Phoenix v. In cogn iti ..................22 8 Aug. 28—Phoenix v. P em broke .................171 — Sept. 3—G arrison v. M unster ... ... 35 — Sept. 8—8th R egt. v. 14th Regfc....................... 1 33 — Sept. 11—Phoenix v. W ork in g M en ... 40 — Sept. 15—8th R egt. v. 14th R egt.....................63 — S ept. 16— Phoenix v. G S. & w . R ailw ay ...119 — M atches 37—Inns. 49—n ot out 4 — R uns 2968— H ighest Score 178—Avge. 65.43. B ow led in 32 m atches and.took 81 w ickets. " * N ot out. I R un out. T he Bromley Club (Kent), I liear on trustworthy authority, has played its last match on the old historic ground at the back of the “ White Hart Hotel.” The Committee have leased a field of ten acres in Widmore Lane and are spending some lour hundred pounds in lovelling it and erecting a good pavilion. It may be news to some C ricket readers, if not to those identified with Kent'cricket, to know that the field the Bromley Club is leaving was some half a century ago the scone of some very memorable contests. A m o n g s t others I may instance that between Kent and England in Sept., 1840, when the latter won by 189 runs, though the County in the following year had full revenge in beating England by an innings and 10 runs. A third meeting took place in 1842 and the result was another victory for England, this time by ten wickets. But perhaps the most note­ worthy of all the fixtures decided on the ground was the single-wicket match be­ tween Alfred Mvnn and Felix on Sept. 29 and B0, 1846. This was the return match for the championship of England, and won like the first by Mynn us the follow­ ing score will show.— B alls h its no-hits B alls hits no-hits Felix 65 24 18 b M ynn 1 19L 51 48 b M ynn 0 W id e s ............................. 2 W 8, n o c s l............ 9 3 9 B alls h its no-hits B alls hits nC-hit * M ynn 31 28 0 b F elix 4 21 20 0 n ot out 9 TH E P R IN C IP A L CLU B S IN 1837. LIST OF SECRETARIES. THE COUNTIES. C heshire —James Horner, Stockport. C umberland —L. G. B. Dykes, Dovenby Hall, Carlisle, D erbyshire —Arthur "Wilson, Melbourne, near Derby, and S. Richardson, 1, Babington Lane, Derby. D urham — T. E. Main, 22, Regent Terrace, Gateshead-on-Tyne. E ssex —T. Ratliff, 105,Leadenhall St.,London, E.C. G loucestershire —Dr. E. M. Grace, Thorn- bury, Gloucestershire. H am pshire —Lieut.-Col. J. FeUowes, R.E. Ordnance Survey, Southampton. H ertfo rd sh ire —C. Pigg, 24, Green Street, Cambridge. K e n t —J. A. J. Lancaster, 59, St. George's St., Canterbury. L an cash ire —S. H. Swire, 26, Barton Arcade, Manchester. L eicestersh ire —T. Burdett, Aylestone, Leicester. M iddlesex —P. M . Thornton, United Univer­ sities Club, Suffolk St., London, \V. N orfolk —A. W. Jarvis, Middleton Towers, Kings Lynn, and Sir Ii. Kemp, Bart., Mer- gate Hall, Norwich. N ortham ptonshire —T. H.Vialls, Billing Rd., Northampton. N ottingham —W. H. C. Oates, Langford Hall, Newark-on-Trent. N orthumberland — Aleck Peters, 30, South Front, Brandling Park, Newcastle-on- Tyne. R utland —Rev. P. H. Fernandez, Uppingham. S om ersetshire —T. Murray Anderdon, Hem- lade House, Taunton. S taffordshire —A. H. Heath,Madeley Manor, Newcastle-on-Trent. S urrey —C. W. Alcock, Surrey Cricket Ground, Kennington Oval, London, S.E. S ussex —G. Goldsmith, 11, Prince Albert St., Brighton. W arw ickshire — W . Ansell, 78, Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham. W orcestershire —H. O. Jobson, Dudley, and P. H. Foley, Prestwood, Stourbridge. THE UNIVERSITIES (Captains). C am bridge —F. Marchant, Trinity College, Cambridge. O xford —J. H. Brain, Oriel College, Oxford. METROPOLITAN CLUBS. A ddiscombe — G. Frisch, 40, Clyde Road, A d ­ discombe, Surrey. iEoLiANS—O. Jones, 7, Whitehall Gardens, S.W. B arnes —A.G.H.Stevens,Kenastel, Castelnau, Barnes, S.W. B attersea — L. Finding, 105, Castle Street, Battersea, S.W. B lackheath —F. S. Ireland, The Hollies, Blackheath Park, S.E. B eckenham —A. M. Inglis, Binfield, Becken­ ham. B ickley P ark — W. B. Pattison, Graylings, Beckenham. B rixton W anderers —H. L. Puckle, 20, The Grove, Denmark Hill, S.E. B roadwater —Murray Marshall, Godalming. B uckhurst H il l —J. Conquest, Granville Lodge, Buckhurst Hill. B romley (Kent)—J. Arnaud, 29, Freeland’s Road, and J. Weeks, Bromley, Kent. B rookwood —T. A. J. Shepherd, Brookwood Asylum, Woking. B yfleet — G. A. Jones, Byfleet, Weybridge. B uxton —J. H. Lofthouse, 44, Herne Hill Road, S.E. C harlton P ark — C. H. Pease, 45, Maryon Road, Charlton, S.E. C hiswick P ark —F. B. Shadwell, Chiswick Park, S.W. C ivil S ervice —Walter Langley (Foreign Office) Lee. C lapton —G. Head, 89, Gresham Street, E .C . C roydon —H. R. Groom, Pitside, Brigstock Road, New Thornton Heath, Surrey. Next Issue January 27