Cricket 1888

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The action of Mr. Boydell Gibson, the Torquay captain, in declaring the innings closed after the fourth wicket fell, and sending in South Devon to bat, seems to have caused the Newtonians some surprise, which can only beaccounted for by thefact that they are not acquainted with this year's rule • of cricket. One of the most important additions to the rules by the M.C.C. this year was that a captain could close his innings directly he should think that sufficient number of runs had been compiled , and send his opponents to thewickets. The rule is most useful in one-day matches as it generally prevents a matoh from being drawn. Rarely has the advantage offered by the rule been made use of, but the astonished Newtonians may rest assured that Mr. Gibson's act was perfectly legal. The italics are of course my own. The Torquay captain is perhaps merely antici­ pating history, and no doubt his only fault is that he is, like other men ofgenius before him, a little ahead of the time. It is due to the Newtonians, though, to saythat their surprise was not without justification. As a matter of fact the proposals, as C ricket readers know full well, for alterations in the laws, of which that giving a captain the power to terminate his innings when he feels so disposed was one, brought before the general meeting of the Mary­ lebone Club in May, were not passed, but deferred for future consideration. I J a b i l f r m : & m t $ . The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. C ricket news seems to take a consider able time to percolate to some parts of Devonshire, to judge from the following remarkable paragraphs which appeared in the Torquay Times of the 15th of this month, under the heading of “ Sports and Pastimes ” :— The Torquay Oricket Club showed very good form on Saturday in their match with South T h e non-acceptance of the proposals emanating from the Committee of M.C.C. and of this alteration in particular, seems to have caused trouble, or, at least, vexa­ tion of spirit acroi s the sea, too. A case not unlike that, the match between Surrey and Notts at Nottingham last year, which was, no doubt, the cause of the recom­ mendation of the Committee of M.C.C. this spring, occurred in the match between the University of Pennsylvania and Haverford College at Ardmore on June the 8th. The captain of the former team, none other than Mr. J. A. Scott, the crack batsman of the Philadelphian team which visited England in 1884, find­ ing that his only chance of winning was for his side to get out, adopted the samo tactics so successfully carried out by Mr. John Shuter, the Surrey captain, in 1887, and with the same happy results. M r . S cott seems to have thought with the captain of the Torquay Club. His first impression, says the American Cricketer, was to declare the innings at an end, but as, upon consulting the records, it was discovered that this could not be done, he determined to let his men get out as fast as possibl* or retire. The latter alternative was the more fancied, for in addition to the captain, four other members of the eleven figure on the score sheets as “ retired.” T h e American Cricketer’s comments on the case will not be uninteresting:— This is probably the first instance in the history of Amerioan crioket of a side being