Cricket 1887

MAY i2, 1887. CRICKET A WEEKLY EECOED OP THE GAME. 121 fold, a left-handed performer, promised well; Hutchings, 0; J. Vieusseux, Carver, and J. Makeham, all bowled fairly, but the state of the wicket quite discounted the value of the trial. I h a v e pleasure in giving publicity to the following letter on the subject of cricket in Victoria Park :— To t h e E d i t o r o f “ C r ic k e t .” S ir , — I shall be much obliged if you will allow me, through the medium of your widely- read columns, to ask the Secretaries of all Cricket Clubs regularly playing in Victoria Park to send me at once their addresses and came of club, preparatory to the convening of a meeting to consider the new regulations just introduced in the Park.—Yours truly, J. F. B ic h a r d s , 40, King Edward Road, Hackney. I h a v e received the following letter in reply to a paragraph in last week’s “ Gossip ” :— S ir — Referring to a paragraph in C r ic k e t of 5th inst. giving the score of a match played between Bexley and Kent, taken from the Sporting Magazine for October, 1805. I send you the score for the same match (apparently) played 25th of August, 1805, taken from abook in my possession published by HenryBentley, entitled “ A correct account of all cricket matches played by the Marylebone Club, and all other principal matches from the year 1786 to 1822 inclusive.” You will see that the two accounts vary considerably, although the actual score for Bexley is in the aggregate and individually the same. I believe the work from which I send this extract is considered a very reliable authority, but of course I cannot vouch for its correctness.—I am, your obedient servant, W. T a y l o r . Dartford Heath, 25th August, 1805. The Bexley Club (with Ld. Beauclerk & Hammond) against Kent. 1st Innings. K e n t. 2nd Innings. H eed 0 leg before w ick et 2 c A shdow n C raw le 1 c H am m on d 2 b J. H am pton A ylin g 1 c W in ter 12 b B eauclerk B in g 3 c H . H a m pton 5 b J. H am pton S m ith 1 c H a m m on d 2 c G illing W a rd 0 c ditto 2 b B eauclerk J. E eed 0 c B eauclerk 5 b J. H am pton N ordich 0 h it w icket G b ditto N ich olls 0 c H. H am pton 2 n ot out B rigs 0 n o t ou t 1 b B eauclerk T om k in s 0 run ou t 0 run ou t B y es 0 3 6 B e x le y W in ter B eaken H . H am pton J j d B eauclerk A shdow n G illing H am m on d J. H am pton L eigh , E sq. E llis B yes 42 C l c b . 11 st E eed 0 st ditto 9 b W ard 29 b ditto 0 run out 0 b W ard 12 b R eed 0 st N ordich 0 run out 1 n o t out 0 B ex!ey w on in one in nings and 14 runs. The season proper of the Cambridge University Club will commence to-day, when Mr. C. I. Thornton will, for the nineteenth successive] year, take a team to put the University Eleven through their paces. The following are announced as the players, and as Mr. Marchant, the Captain, will have ten new choices under his command, the game, as a trial, should be invested with additional interest:— Cambridge University: F. Marchant, Tri­ nity ; H. E. Crawley, Trinity; W. C. Bridge- man, Trinity; A. M. Sutthery, Jesus ; N. K. Stephen, Trinity; F. Meyrick-Jones, Trinity; W. Greenstock, St. John’s ; J. C. Mackinnon, Trinity Hall; H. Hale, Trinity; F. J. Ford, King’s ; and A. N. Other. England: 0 . 1, Thornton,H. W.Bainbridge, C. W. Wright, P. J, de Paravicini, J. G. Walker, A. J. Webbe, E. J. C. Studd, G. F. Vernon, Walter Humphreys, Crossland, and Mee. A n interesting event in connection with Brighton cricket will be recorded to-day in the opening of the new ground at Preston Park. The inauguratory fixture will be between the Earl of Sheffield’s Eleven and the Brighton Brunswick Club. The following are announced as the players :— Lord Sheffield’s Eleven: Bev. F. F. J. Green­ field, Messrs. A. Harcourt, H. G. Hardy, M. Turner, and B. Curteis, with Tester, J. Hide, Bean, W. Payne, A. Payne, and J. Gilbert. Brunswick: F. Bailey, A. Blackman, E. and W. Clements, W. H. Dudney, G. E. Godden, G. and W. Humphreys, F. T. Pear­ son, C. M. Parkins, and B. J. Saunders. I h e a r that the personnel of the team which is to represent the Gentlemen of Canada in England this summer has undergone some slight change. There were only three Englishmen in the original selection—Messrs. Harley, of Guelph, Boyd, of Toronto, and Bell, and these have all been obliged to give up the idea of the trip. The follow­ ing, I learn, will form the team:—G. W. Jones, St. John, N.B., W. Henry, jun., Halifax, N.S., W. C. Little, Ottawa, A. C. Allan, W. W. Jones, D. W. Saunders and W. W. Vickers, of Toronto, B. B. Ferrie and A. Gillespie, of Hamilton, Dr. E. B. Ogden, U.C.College,Toronto,andC. J. Annand, Halifax, N.S. Mr. C. N. Shanly, of Toronto, will accompany the party as umpire, and Mr. B. C. Dickson as scorer. It will be satisfactory to Canadians generally, I think, to know that a purely Canadian team will represent Canadian cricket in the old country this summer- I a m personally very pleased to learn that my good friend the A merican Cricketer has triumphed over the diffi culties that once threatened to check its career, and is able now to boast that it is not dependent on extraneous assistance for its livelihood. It says much for the enterprise of the supporters of the grand in America old game that they have been able to maintain a j ournal devoted entirely —that, by-the-way, is the boast of the con ductors of this paper—or almost entirely to matters connected with cricket, and I am sure every English cricketer will congratulate our friends over the way on the promise of an enlarged sphere of utility. The victory of the Colts of the South over the Colts of the North at Lord’s on Tuesday will be gratifying to all who take interest in Southern cricket. The Northern eleven included several players who had already been well tried, and though it must not be forgotten that they had only ten men to beat, and that the absentee, Oldfield, of Yorkshire, is re­ ported to be a cricketer of no small promise, still the Southern eleven played up well at the close and thoroughly de­ served their hard earned victory. Bur­ rows, Carlin, both of Notts, and Pointon, of Cheshire, all batted well for the North, and the last named, who went in first wicket down in the second innings and carried out his bat, got his runs by really sound cricket, a capital performance on a difficult wicket. Walter Hearne, a brother of Herbert Hearne, who is over­ medium pace, and Birch, fast, bowled with success for the South, and the wicket-keeping of Wingfield, whose stand with George Hearne at the close of the second innings contributed in no small measure to the victory of his- side, was distinctly above the average. A w e e k or so ago I announced that the Committee of the Kent County Cfcb had decided to substitute home and home fixtures with Essex for those given up by the Derbyshire Club. The first match was to have been played at Leyton on June 6, but I hear that this arrangement will not suit the authorities at Leyton owing to the Essex Agricultural Show being held at the same time, and in all probability the meeting between Kent and Essex, at Leyton, will not take place till late in the season. A n o t h e r instance of history repeating itself. An incident which occurred in the match between John’s and King’s, at Cambridge last Monday, goes to prove in a small way the correctness of the adage. Alter getting rid of John’s for 180, A . H. Studd and L. G. B. J. Ford went in to start the batting for King’s. Ford— (by the way, it was of course F. G., the Freshman, and not L. G. B. J. the Senior who got the five wickets of Queen’s in six balls, as I mentioned in. last week’s “ Gossip” )—and Studd had made 104 without the loss of a wicket when time was called, and of these 73 had been got by the former. He broke two bats, too, in obtaining his score, and when he went out for his third was met with the same salute as that which greeted his big brother W. J., on the occasion of the incident at Birkenhead Park mentioned by me last week, “ Bring him a tree.” I am glad to think that I have some faithful “ Gossip ’’-readers at Cambridge. A f r e q u e n t correspondent of mine, who on this particular occasion signs himself “ Nemo,” writes me thusly:— As the Committee of the Marylebone Club will, no doubt, shortly be settling the team to represent M.C.C. v. England, will you kindly allow me to suggest that the first six names that might most fittingly be written down by theoldClubfor theircentenary arethoseofLord Harris, Hon. A. Lyttelton, W. G. Grace, I. D. Walker, A. N. Hornby, A. G. Steel, and, further, that I. D. Walker—out of compliment to the celebrated “ Brotherhood” who have for the longest period done so much for the