Cricket 1887

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The Crystal Palace Club brought a week of exceptional run-getting to a suc­ cessful conclusion on Saturday last. During the last two or three years the wickets provided at the Palace have had no superiors, and their excellence was fully confirmed on Saturday by one of if not the most remarkable performances in the way of scoring recorded so far this summer. The occasion was the last fixture of the Crystal Palace Week, and the Hamp­ stead Club, who lost the toss, had such a day’s leather hunting as they are not likely to forget for some time. Only seven of the Crystal Palace team had a chance of batting, and though, as the fol­ lowing score will show, one of them failed to score and another had to be content with six, the result of the day’s cricket was a huge total of 656 with only half the wickets down. C r y s t a l P ax , a o e . W.F. Noakes, c and b Dollar .............. 34 F.W.Janson,c Braith- waite, b Bishop ...252 A .J .I j Payne,cBraith- waite, b Bishop ... 22 C. J. M. Fox, not out 237 F. Lazenby, b Besch 0 S. Shorter, c Turber- ville, b Dollar ... 6 F. tarry,not out ...62 B 19, lb 5, w 12, nb 1 37 Total ...650 A. W. Dorman, C. 1,. Dorman, W. F. Umney, and T. S. Welch did not bat. I t took, it will be interesting to know, just six hours to make the 650 runs, so that the average rate of run-getting was 108 an hour throughout the day. The wickets fell as under :— 1 2 3 4 78 153 484 491 Fox gave one almost impossible chance when he had passed his hundred, but this was his only mistake. His last six innings for the Crystal Palace Club, I may add, have been:— June 21—v. United Hospitals, 66. June 25—v. Beigate Priory, 54. June 27—v. Incogniti, 58. June 30—v. Surrey C. &G ,|177* July 1—y. Gipsies, 65. July 2.—v. Hampstead, 243* This gives an aggregate of 643 for four completed innings. I have just heard that Mr. Fox sup­ plemented his brilliant performances above mentioned with a splendid innings of 185 not out on Monday at Littlebury, so that this brings his record to 828 for four innings, or an average of 207. Though his interest in cricket was not perhaps generally known, there were few keener followers of our national game than the late Mr. J. B. Welch, the distinguished professor of the Guildhall School of Music, whose death took place last week. He was a constant attendant at the principal fixtures of the Metropolitan season, and never failed to show up when the Nottinghamshire eleven, to all of whom he was well known, were engaged. His partiality for cricket, too, has descended to his son, Mr. C. C. Welch, who figured in the Middlesex Colts’ match at Lord’s early this season, and, though he only made nine, had the satisfaction of knowing he was the highest scorer on the side, M etrop olitan CRicxET-readers will hardly need to be reminded that Mr. Ernest Baggallay, who has vacated his seat as Member for the Brixton Division of Lambeth to accept the West Ham Stipendiaryship, is or was only a very short time ago an active cricketer. Mr. Baggallay, who is a son of the Lord Justice of that name, both at Marlborough and subsequently at Caius College, Cam­ bridge, showed himself to be an adept at our national game, and was in fact at Cambridge well known as a keen cricketer. In his new position Mr. Baggallay will at least be in congenial company, for Major Banes, a Conservative too, by-the-way, one ofthe sitting members for West Ham, as I can vouch of my own personal knowledge, and as those who remember the South Essex Club some fifteen years ago can corroborate, was in his day a very fair exponent of, and is still a great supporter of, cricket. The Marquis of Carmarthen,