Cricket 1888

AUG. SO, 1888. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 377 une 12th. E. H. Coltman, of the same school, had also a good bowling summary of 61 wickets for 286 runs, giving an average of 4.68 per wicket. Me. T. P adw ick , of Bedhill, has kindly answered tlie inquiry of “ E.G.,” through “ Pavilion Gossip ” in C ricket of August 16th, as to the date at which the second bail was introduced, with the following card.—“ C. Box's ‘ Theory and Practice of Cricket,’ 1868, pp. 108-9. ‘ In 1818 the standard (of the wickets) was 2V inches by 8, and a second bail was introduced, so that the wicket of the period was identical with that of the present day.’ ” A cr ick et enthusiast has kindly sent mo an instance of two scores of a hundred by a batsman in the same match, which has, as far as I know, never been mentioned by any one in an enumeration of the records of this feat. The history of the game presents so very few cases of the kind that it will be well, perhaps, if I give the full score of the match, of which my correspondent has sent me a copy. It was between the Southgate and Tottenham Vacation Clubs, played at Southgate on August 30th, 1873, and that no time was lost is shown by the fact that as many as 628 runs were totalled during the day. A. Taworski, it may be of interest to state, was a school boy at Bruce Castle, and his per­ formance against the bowling of Caffyn and the brothers R. D. and I. D. Walker was one of great merit. S outhgate . W.Earle.c and b Daw­ son . ... ... 7 S. Turner.b Taworski 14 I. Walker, b Taworski 12 Caffyn, not o u t...........129 E. D. Walker, b Lampte r....................50 I. D. Walker, b Ta­ worski ....................46 Rev. J. Bradley, run out ...........................10 W.Farquhar.b Lang- h am ........................10 O. E. Walker, b A. H i l l ........................ 0 A. Balls, b B. Hill ... 0 A. Balls, jun., run out ........................ 1 B 30, lb 18, w 11 59 Total ...338 T o t t e n h a m . First Innings. A. Hill, b Caffyn................. 0 G.Dawson,bB.D.Walker 0 N. Langham, b B. D. Walker ........................ 2- L. Lampter, b Caffyn ... 0 E. Baker, b Caffyn .......... 0 B. Hill, b Caffyn................. 0 A. Manns, c Balls, b Caffyn 2 A. Taworski, not out ...113 A. Dumas, b Caffyn.......... 6 L. Hums, b B. D. Walker 4 M. Kdwin, b Caffyn.......... 2 B................................ 2 Total..................131 Second Innings, b B. D. Walker 0 b Caffyn .......... 0 run out .......... b R. D. Walker... b Caffyn .......... b Caffyn .......... b Caffyn run out ..........112 not out .......... b Caffyn ... .« b I. D. Walker... 7 B ................. 4 Total ...149 “ B.T.”—who has again “ been on the job,” writes me— Blackham was in full form in the Gloucester­ shire match last week at Cheltenham, wherein he brought off another of his sparkling per­ formances—oft done before—of not permitting a single bye to be added to the score, in either innings; a feat that takes some accomplishing, when done without the safety valve, the long- stop. The way in which he snapped up the ball, frisked off a bail and downed the wicket, for the catch, stump, and run out, was indeed most brilliant. And when it is remembered that “ Jack,” as he is familiarly called, has been a perfect barricade to “ Spoff,” George Palmer, Tommy Garrett and others for fourteen years, and is now taking in the rearer-up Turner, in all his wonted form, there are few but what will admit that if he is not voted one of the very best—that he certainly has never been surpassed as a snapper or “ looker after the ball ” on the cricket field. T h e eight principal Counties have com­ pleted their engagements for the year, and so far as what are termed first-class Inter-county matches are concerned, the season is at an end. Surrey has still to meet Derbyshire and Essex, but these meetings do not come under the category of first-class matches as generally under­ stood. The results of the season for the eight leaders of County cricket are given below. Played. Won. Lost. Drawn. Surrey.............. .. It ... 12 ... 1 ... 1 Yorkshire .......... 14 .. 6 .... 4 .... 4 Kent ................. 11 .. 7 .. 5 ... 2 Gloucestershire 14 .. 5 .. 5 .. 4 Lancashire.......... 14 .. 4 .. 5 .. 5 Notts ................. 14 .. 3 ... 6 5 Middlesex .......... 12 .. 4 .. 7 .. 1 S ussex................. 12 .. 1 9 .. 2 A L A M E N T . T he ’88 Season is waning, A Season of pitiless wet, We give ourselves up to complaining And then settle down to forget; To hope that the year that is coming W ill bring something better than rain, W ill hasten our wanderer’s footsteps And bring him to England again. Oh! where are the timing and pacing? Oh 1 where is the splendid defence ? The best of our bowling when facing, A science in every sense. Oh I where are those scores of three figures ? That once we rejoiced so to see. A Star shining scarcely less brightly Than the Planet of W .G. And o h ! on those slow sticky wickets. Where Turner, the Terror, was king, And a journey towards the Pavilion Was quite the most orthodox thing ; It was then that we shook our heads sadly, (For surely the outlook was black); “ Things wouldn’t be going so badly If we had our Shrewsbury baok ! ” Come back to the old Mother Country, From the land that lies over the foam, For Cricketing England is waiting, Impatient to welcome you home. Impatient once more to be reading, In the lists of the great roll of Fame, The record of honour and glory Appended to Shrewsbury’s name! M aud R eid . August, 1888. I have just heard from the manager of the Australian team that he has definitely fixed to play the return match against Shrewsbury’s team which visited the Colonies last winter, at Manchester, on the 13th of September and two following days. From Manchester Percy McDonnell and his men will have to journey south­ ward to Hastings and thence to the Oval, where the last fixture of the tour is to commence on the 20th. I hear that on the Tuesday following the Surrey match, the team are to be entertained at a dinner at Bailey’s Hotel, Kensington, by Mr. F. H . Dangar, the president of the New South Wales Cricket Association, who has also invited several notabilities in English cricket. I n their first three fixtures, at least, the team of Irish amateur cricketers who are now hard at work on the other side of the big drink have, it is satisfactory to note, comported themselves with credit, their record in Canada up to Tuesday night showing three victories. In the first match, at Kingston (Ontario) against a team of the District, they won by ten wickets; in the second, against Fifteen of Ottawa, they had an innings and 52 runs to spare, making 150 against two innings of 38 and 60; and in the third, finished on Tuesday night at Orillia, against Fifteen of the Northern Counties, they won on the first innings by 23, scoring 144 and 283 for nine wickets to 121 of the local team. C oming events cast their shadows before, and the close of August is an un- mistakeable proof that the cricket season is beginning to drag its slow length along with only a very short space to traverse before its task is accomplished. C r ic k e t - readers and I, in spite of discomfort and sore tribulation in the shape of execrable weather, have, I am hopeful enough to think, spent some pleasant hours together during what can only by the most palpable of euphemisms be called “ this summer,” and to me, at least, it is fraught with regret that the intervals of communica­ tion between us will soon be con­ siderably lengthened by the completion of the summer numbers of 1888. To be precise, this day three weeks will bring the series of weekly issues to a close for the year, and C ricket will, as usual, put on its winter garb of a monthly attire, in which it has, to judge by results, always presented a pleasing aspect. To those whom it may concern, I may state that space will be found in the three remaining numbers for the results of the principal clubs, as in previous years, provided they are forwarded in good time for the different issues. PRINCIPAL MATCHES FOR NEXT WEEK. T hu rsda y , Aug. 30;— Kennington Oval—Surrey v. Esser. Lord’s—M.C.C. & G. v. London and Suburba-i Association. Manchester—England v Australia. Scarborough—Gentn. of England v. I Zingari. F rid a y , Auo. 31: — Bridlington—Gentlemen of District v.Parsees. M o n d a y , S e p t . 3 :— Kennington Oval —Surrey v. Derbyshire. Harrogate—An England Eleven v. Australians. Scarborough—Yorkshire v. M.C.C. & Or. T u e s d a y , S e p t . 4 :— Birmingham —Gentlemen of Warwickshire v. Parsees.