Cricket 1886

21 CKICKET: A WEEKLY EECOKD OP THE GAME, FEB. 25, 1886. FOOTBALL M ATCHES^ OVAL Feb. 27.—London v. Birmingham. Mar. 6. — Corinthians v. Queen’s Park, Glasgow. Mar. 13. — Final Tie, London Associa­ tion Cup.—Ashbumham Rovers v. Hotspur. Mar. 20.—Charity Matches, Gentlemen v. Players (Association) 2 pjn. London v. London Scottish and London Welsh, 3.45 p.m. NOW BEADY. VOL. IV. or « C R I C K E T . ” Neatly bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering P rice 7/6. (Per Parcels Post, securely packed, 9d. extra.) *DESIDES Full Scores of all Principal Matches played in 1885, and a mass of Valuable In­ formation, it contains Portraits and Biographies of the following Eminent Cricketers— M r . A. H. J arvis (Aus­ tralia) M r . A. J. W e b b b r . H . W h it f e l d M r . G . N. W y a t t R .A b e l J. B eau m on t J. B r ig g s I. G r im sh a w G . G . H e a rn b G . A. L ohm ann J. P a in t e r M . S h e r w in A. W atson W . A. W oof M r . H . W . B a in br id g e M r . M . P. 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The First of the weekly Summer Numbers will appear on THURSDAY, APRIL 15. The Twenty-four will be sent post free for 5s. The six Winter numbers will be forwarded immediately on publication for Is. 3d., to be sent to Mr. w. R. W r ig h t , Manager of C ricket , at the Office, 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Doctor’s Commons, London, E.C. U a b t l b t t (S t f s s i j j . The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet . T h e obituary column of the Times, about the middle of last month, contained the notice of the death of an Old Harro­ vian who could trace his connection with the school cricket back to the earliest days of the Eton and Harrow Match. I give the announcement sent to me by a valued correspondent, himself a well-known Old Harrovian, as it appeared in the Times: Mr. Francis Capper Brooke died suddenly at his seat, TJfford Place, Suffolk, Jan. 13, 1886, aged 75. Educated at Harrow and Oxford. At one time in the Grenadier Guards and a Magistrate for Suffolk. High Sheriff for Suf­ folk in 1869. L o r d C h a r le s R u s s e l l , in recent numbers of this paper, furnished C r ic k e t readers with some very interesting facts about the game as it was some six decades since, under the title of “ 'Tis Sixty Years Since.” Just about that time the late Mr. Brooke was a Harrow boy, and his recollections of the early days of the School Match would have been very in­ teresting. He was a contemporary of Mr. C. Harenc—of whom old William Lilly- white said, “ I bowls the best ball in Eng­ land, and Mr. Harenc the next”—and figured in the memorable Eton and Har­ row Match of 1827, which was never really finished, M.C.C. having to decide it in favour of Eton, who, owing to an error of the scorers, when the game was finished still wanted four runs to win with sixwickets to fall. He was second highest scorer for Harrow against Eton in 1828, though as he only made twenty-four in his two in­ nings, it will be gathered that the totals were not very high. At that time the fortunes of Harrow were at a low ebb, and in the following year the School only con­ tained ninety-eight boys. There was no match between Eton and Harrow that season, and, indeed, it was not until 1832 that the fixture between the two Schools was resumed. I n the score of a match played last month in Melbourne, between the St. Kilda Club and an eleven composed of members of the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and the Sydney Grammar School, I notice the name of C. E. Chapman, as one of the team repre­ senting the Combined Schools. Mr. Chap­ man, who is a Master of the Melbourne School, I take to be identical with the fast bowler who was tried occasionally for Cambridge in 1882 and 1883, and also did good service as one of the Rugby Union Football team of his University. In the second innings of St. Kilda he was credited with six of the ten wickets. I s e e that Mr. William Yardley, the once well-known cricketer, succeeded after all in landing one of the minor prizes at the recent International Pigeon Shooting Meeting at Monte Carlo. Though unable to secure one of the big plums he had some small compensation in picking up a windfall in the shape of one of the less valuable spoils—the Prix de Ligurie, during the later stages of the meeting. After an interesting competition the old Cantab found himself in the pleasant position of having to take first prize. T h e Queen, I read in a recent number of the Daily News, has been graciously pleased to confer the Companionship of the Bath on the Hon. Edward Thesiger, in recognition of his services as Secretary of Presentations to successive Lord Chancellors. The news of this distinction will be received with satisfaction by cricketers, to whom Mr. Thesiger is well- known. He was Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service Club for five years and in addition did excellent service for the club in the field. He was very successful with the bat for the Civil Service, and some C r ic k e t readers will still remember his score of 205 not out for that club against Tooting on July 22, 1868. On his retirement from the secretaryship, at a general meeting of the club, held at St. James’s Hall on May 2, 1873, he was presented with a silver cup bearing the following inscription:— “ Presented to the Hon. Edward Pierson Thesiger by the members of the Civil Service Club on his resignation of the office of Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Club, May 1, 1873.” Mr. Thesiger is also a member of I Zingari. A m on g the successful competitors at the recent meeting of the Royal Black- heath Golf Club I notice more than one name well-known at one time or other on the cricket field. Mr. P. Stokes, one of the Rugby School Eleven of 1867, who played for Kent in 1871 and represented the Gentlemen against the Players on one occasion, in 1873 at Princes, won the Next Issue March 25.