Cricket 1888

JAN* 26, 1888. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. accorded them byEnglish cricketers every­ where, and the kindly tone which pervades “ Cricket across the Sea” will elicit ahearty response from all cricketers in the Old Country. The trip sopluckily undertaken and managed with such tact by Mr. Lindsey cannot fail to exercise an im ­ portant influence on the development of the game in tlie Dominion, and I am con­ fident that the sympathetic and genial spirit in which Messrs. Lindsey and Saunders have pourtrayed the leading incidents of the tour will not be without effect in accelerating this desirable object. The Gentlemen of Canada, I have every reason for adding, enjoyed their first visit to England thoroughly, and I believe I am not speaking without my book when I say there is every probability that the season of 1890 will see another team of Canadian amateurs disporting themselves on English ground. M r . L in d s e y ’ s venture seems indeed to have already borne fruit, for the Irish papers state that Mr. J. W. Hynes, of Trinity College, Dublin, is organising a team of Irish cricketers to visit America and Canada this autumn. The following are mentioned as likely to join the party:—J. P. Fitz­ gerald, E. Fitzgerald, Cronin, Maxwell, Kennedy, Meldon, and Hynes (all of the Trinity College Eleven), D. N. Trotter and J. H. Nunn (Phcenix Cricket Club), T. Tobin and D. Gillman (Leinster Cricket Club), W . Blacker (late Cam­ bridge University), W. D. Hamilton (late Oxford University), and probably D. N. Emerson, of last year’s University Eleven. A c c o r d in g to the Sydney Referee there seems to be a rumour abroad in that city that Mr. A. E. Stoddart intends to take up his residence in New South Wales. The Middlesex amateur, as was to be fore­ seen, has proved such a success on the run-getting wickets of Australia, that no one can be surprised if Colonial cricketers use every effort to induce him to remain in Greater Britain. Everyone here, though, will hope in the interests of English cricket that the report has no foundation, in fact, that the wish has been father to the thought. Our Southern cricket can ill afford to see so fine an all­ round cricketer, a batsman of such infinite variety, so full of power, and so bril­ liant a field withal, permanently located under the shadow of the Southern Cross. As one who may almost be said to have stood sponsor for Mr. Stoddart on his introduction into county cricket, I shall be sincerely grieved if it should prove that he is really bent on settling on Aus­ tralian soil. By the way, I may add that his 285, made, too, on a matting wicket, for Mr. Vernon’s team against Eighteen Juniors, in Melbourne, is the highest individual score ever made by an Englishman in Australia. T h e exigencies of the public service have recently removed from Oxford one of the most popular as well as the keenest cricketers the University has had H .H . Prince Christian Victor, who has been in residence for the last two years at Magdalen College, it will be news to many to learn, has already completed his University career. Ho is now entered at Sandhurst, and this summer will see him captain of the Royal Military College Eleven. I have his own authority for the statement that he intends joining the Army next September. His choice has fallen on that most popular of regiments, the GOth Rifles, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, and military cricket will thus receive a valuable as well as an influential recruit. the colonies, and there was probably never a better in England. He has a grand defence, and accommodates himself to cir­ cumstances, scoring fast on agood wicket.” In the match between Shrewsbury’s X I. and New South Wales finished on Dec. 12, at Sydney, Moses scored 146 (for once out) out of an aggregate of 314. Bates according to “ Felix” of the Australasian , considers Moses “ the most consistent batsman he has ever seen.” “ He watches ’em so,” added the dashing Yorkshireman. It will be a great disappointment if, by any chance, he should be prevented from visiting England during the coming T h is e n g r a v i n g showing the umpire’s uniforms introduced from England, and used for the first time in Australia, in the match between Mr. Vernon’s team and Victoria, begun on the ground ofthe Mel­ bourne Club, on Nov. 9,1887, is reproduced from the Melbourne Punch. The com­ ments appended are also from that paper. The latest introduc­ tion from English cricket fields seems to have furnished some little amuse­ ment to the Colonial satirists, as will be gathered from the notes to the picture. O h ! dear no. These are not the famous Christy Minstrel brothers, by any means They are Cricket Umpires in their new English Uniforms. This is the sort of thing to revive Cricket. (So near the 5th of November, too.) “ A t the present time there is probably no more ”—writes “ Mid-on ” in the Mel­ bourne Leader —“ reliable batsman in the colonies than H. Moses, the Sydney left­ hander. This season he has had five innings against the Englishmen, and has scoted 0, 77, 15 not out, 78 not out, and 68, giving an average of 79.1. Last year his scores against Shaw’s team were so consistently good that they are worth repeating. They were 31 not out—30not out, 44—5, 31—24, 28—33, 9—73. Then last year, against Victoria, hemade 10—29 and 10. Thus in two seasons he has in first-class matches batted eighteen times (4 out), and scored 595—average, 42.7. “ F u r t h e r , when it is remembered that eight inningswere played on wetwickets,his figures will show even more prominently. There is hardly any question that he is the best left-hander we have ever I ad in “ M i d - o n ,” in the Melbourne Leader, writes thusly:— Peel, the Yorkshire player, told me a good cricket story on Monday, which has the merit of being true. Some time ago “ Bobby,” single handed, was playing eleven Tykes at single wicket for a supper. In the field ■which was the scene of action there happened to be grazing a horse notorious for his vicious pro­ pensities, and “ Bobby ” had the good luck to play a ball to the spot whereon he stood. The approach of a fieldsman roused “ all the devil in the nature of the quadruped, who lashed out so vigorously with both hind feet that before he could be intimidated and driven away “ Bobby ” had run 4, and won the supper. S in g u l a r l y enough, by the same mail which brought me the above paragraph came an account of a peculiar incident something of a similar character, quite the same as far as the result went. In a match between the Ormond and Capulit Clubs, for Boyle and Scott’s Cup, played in Melbourne in the middle of last month, NEXT ISSUE, FEBRUARY 28.