Cricket 1887

264 CRICKET 5 A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, JULY 14, 1887. GRAND CRICKET MATCH KENNINGTON OVAL, J u ly 14 (T o-D ay), 15 and 16, Gentlemen v. Players A d m iss io n t o G r o u n d - ONE SHILLING J u ly 18, 19 a n d 20, S u r r e y v . E s s e x . C R IC K E T SH IR TS , The “ C L U B ” Shirt, specially prepared coarse W H IT E CANVAS With collar and pocket .................... ... ............4/6 Flannel Shirts, twice shrunk, with collar and pocket .....................5/6 do. best Saxony Flannel............10/6 W orsted Tw ill Shirts, with or without Silk Collars .............................. 12/6 Carriage Paid toany part of the TJnited Kingdom. N o t ic e . —Gentlemen are cautioned against buying so called Unshrinkable Flannels, but as in all cases our m aterials are shrunk twice in water before being made up, they will be found in after wear to shrink very little if at all. STRUTHERS & Go M a n u f a c tu r e r s , 83, Finsbury Pavement, London- CRICKET, LAWN TENNIS, &c. 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Uafrilbit The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Ham let E to n won tho great Public Scliool match of the year last week at Lord’s, though not by such a large majority as had been expected by many. Considering that they had eight old choices and Harrow only three, they began the season under such a great advantage that their success could hardly be a matter for surprise. That they were the better team in every way no one would venture to dispute for a moment. The Harro­ vians, who were below the average, none the less deserve credit for the fight they made, and all things considered, I am inclined to think the general verdict of their supporters will be that they got well out of it. The two excellent innings played by A. C. Maclaren, who I need hardly add is a son of Mr. James Maclaren, Treasurer of the Marylebone Club, and one of the Trustees of the Cricketers’ Fund, would alone have re­ deemed the Harrow cricket from insigni­ ficance. His batting was of such distinct promise that cricketers generally will look to his future with great interest. T h e following cricket anecdote, re­ produced from a recent number of the Figaro , is new to me at least. It is, too, better than a good many of those I have seen, and will no doubt amuse the majority of C r ic k e t readers :— At a match played on Jubilee Day in the park of a well-known baronet in Sussex, as there was a scarcity of available talent, it was necessary to secure the services of one of the footmen at the hall as umpire. In due course, the baronet, his master, went in, and the best village bowler was at once put on. The second time he bowled theball the baronet stopped it with his leg, and the cry of “ How’s that ? ” was at once raised. It was the footman who had to answer, and, turning to his master, the baronet, he exclaimed in a half apologetic tone: “ I am afraid I must say not at home, Sir George.” “ Not at home ! ” retorted the baronet, “ whatever do you mean, you idiot ? ” “ Well, then, Sir George,” Jeames made answer, “ if you will have it, I mean that you’r hout.” S h r e w s b u r y ’ s extraordinary perform­ ance in scoring three successive innings of over a hundred runs at L ord’s is, I should think, without a parallel, though it is difficult, in the face of Mr. W . G. Grace’s wonderful achievements, to say what is a record in the way o f batting. Shrewsbury’s scores in important fixtures this season are given below. From these it will be seen that he has made 615 runs in seven innings, which gives an average of 87.6. In these seven innings he has got into three figures four times— 1st 2nd Total N ottingham -N otts v. Surrey ... 17 5 22 Lord’s—Notts v. Middlesex ... 119 — 119 Lord’s—England v. M.C.C. & G. 152 — 152 Nottinghm—Notts v. Yorkshire 81 — 81 „ —Notts v. Lancashire 130 — 130 L ord’s—Players v. Gentlemen 111 — 111 615 “ R a p ie r ,” that most genial of Gossips, in last week’s Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News , gives a strange ex­ perience of his at the recent Inter- University match, which is good enough to bo reproduced. It was a marvellous sight at Lord’s during the University match to see the number of parsons who had collected for the occasion. Five sitting together on a bench in the best part of the ground open to the public more particularly attracted my attention ; they were evidently old friends, all deeply interested in cricket, each probably in his day having, as an athlete, done battle for his University in some form or another. I was quite sorry when the luncheon hour arrived to see the places of these five clerical gentlemen taken by five persons, each with a pipe in his mouth, of the type one usually sees outside theatres, calling cabs which are not wanted. Never again to-day will the reverend cronies have a chance of getting together so comfortably, even if they each find a seat, I thought. My sorrow, how­ ever, was turned into surprise when, on play being resumed, I saw my five ecclesiastical friends return to their former places, and the five cadgers politely make way for them. I subsequently discovered that each of the five clerics had retained the services of one of the unemployed for the day for half-a-crown and an ounce of tobacco. Then, and not till then did I realise the wiliness of priestcraft.