Cricket 1888

S E P T . 20, 1888 ORICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 425 be seen by reference to the score of a match played at Montreal on August 29, to be found in another part of the paper (page 432), between Quebec and the Montreal Wanderers, two of Lord Stan­ ley’s sons played for Quebec. A CEICKETER’S LAMENT. Suggested by a well-known song.) A tall stalwart batsman sat growling, Because he was down in his luck, For that morning a simple slow bowler Had bowled him first ball for a “ duck.” Chorus-. Wrap me up in my old cricket jacket, And say a poor batter lies low! And burn all my bats and my cricket togs, For no more a playing I’ll go. Oh had I the skill of a Shrewsbury, Or the power and the eye of old Grace, I would always be scoring my century, And never be bagging a brace. Chorus: This tall stalwart batsman tried bowling, But could not get near to the sticks, Till at last far away o’er the boundary A small boy had hit him for six. Chorus : Oh would I could trundle like Lohmann; Or like little Briggs or like Peel! Then whenever I went on a bowling, How nervous the batsmen would feel! Chorus: My batting and bowling have failed me, But perhaps I might yet be consoled, If some runs I might save by smart fielding, And one or two catches could hold. Chorus: But alas for that tall stalwart batsman, He dropped more than one easy catch, “ Entirely through you !” said his captain, “ Our fellows are losing the match.” Chorus: C. H. D. K en tish C ricket readerswill be pleased to hear that Major Warton, who is going to personally conduct the team ot English cricketers in November to the Cape, has been able to make arrangements to include Frank Hearne, the well-known Kent professional, in the party. Hearne, as many are aware, has not been in the best of health just lately, and the trip, with the change of climate, and above all, the sea voyage, should be the means of setting him up thoroughly again. It is quite certain, too, that the all-round cricket of the team will be improved by his inclusion. T h e native cricketers from the Bombay Presidency who have been spending the last three months on a tour over our cricket-fields were, it is satisfactory to be able to state, not allowed to leave London without an expression of goodwill from some Englishmen more or less promi­ nently identified with our national game. Sensible of the duty of speeding their parting guests, a select few turned up at Victoria Station at 7.50 last Friday evening to bid farewell to Mr. P. D. Kanga and the other members of the Parsee team returning to Bombay. Messrs. Cooper and Mehta, who are staying on here for some time, as well as Messrs. Harvar and Eranee, who follow Mr. Kanga and the advance party in a few weeks, were also in evidence on the occasion and able to assist in the hearty cheer which greeted their comrades as the train left for Newhaven, Mr Kanga having chosen the London, Brighton and South Coast system via Dieppe as the route to Paris, the first stage of their rail­ way journey ending at Trieste. M r . K anga and his party all expressed themselves highly gratified with the hos­ pitable reception they had met with at the hands of the English cricketers, as well as the English public, and he was very hopeful that another Parsee team would be able to visit England in the near future, showing an improvement in their all­ round cricket to the same extent as that which had marked the tour just over in comparison with its predecessor. I see that one of the sporting papers thinks it possible that another combination of Indian cricketers may visit England next year, but I am inclined to think that such an announcement is altogether premature. I have reason, indeed, to believe that a longer period will elapse before English cricketers will have the pleasure of wel­ coming the Parsees again. It will be of interest to many who met them over here to know that the Austro-Hungarian steamer “ Poseiden,” with Mr. Kanga and his iollowers on board, left Trieste on Tuesday last for Bombay. T h e news that there is a chance of Arthur Shrewsbury being permanently lost to English cricket will be read with unfeigned regret, not only by the sup­ porters of the Notts county team, of which he has been for years the mainstay, but by every-one who values the main­ tenance of our supremacy on the cricket- field. The information that Shrewsbury may permanently settle in the colonies is this time not idle rumour, as it comes from himself. Unfortunately, too, though he had not up to the seventh of last month come to any definite decision, his state­ ment that he had a tempting offer which he was bound to consider carefully would imply, even were there not his own admission, that he is not disinclined to stay if matters can be satisfactorily arranged. A batsman of his style and extraordinary ability would beyond a doubt have a most beneficial effect in shaping the Colonial cricketers of the future, and the paragraph relative to his doubts about returning home (as it appears in yesterday’s paper) does not, one must admit, read very hopefully. It is earnestly to be hoped, though, that we shall have shortly more satisfactory intelligence, and that the cricketers of Notts will soon be able to welcome the greatest batsman that County, richsst in players as it has always been, has ever produced, once again in person. M r . P ick erin g ’ s enquiry about bowling feats in last week’s “ Gossip ” has brought me not a fewanswers Irom correspondents in various parts of England. Space for some of these will perhaps not be wasted. In 1878 at Eton, in the first innings of F. Tarver’s v. Austen-Leigh’s, a match in the first round for the House Cup, A. T. B. Dunn got the third wicket with the last ball of an over. B. H . Philipson took five in the next over, and then Dunn was credited with the other three in his next over. One run was scored in this last, so that eight wickets fell for one run, and seven in consecutive balls. J. Wallen, bowling for Ashcombe Park against Tun- stall in 1882, delivered two overs and three balls for nine wickets (eight of them with successive balls) and no runs. Five batsmen were clean bowled, two were caught, and one was lbw. In a match between Godmanchester and Willing­ ham, Cambs., played June 7, 1874, Cnarles Brawn, of Godmanchester, Hunts, took six wickets in six consecutive balls. The first was lbw, the last five clean bowled. G. Porter, for Wigan v. Eighteen of the District, on May 22,1883, also clean bowled five wickets with con­ secutive balls. I h ave received the following letter for publication from Mr. D. S. Mehta, of the Parsees, who is remaining in Eng­ land with Mr. Cooper in pursuit of their medical studies:— TO THB EDITOR OP “ CRICKET.” S ir , —We (the second Parsee team) conclu­ ded our list of engagements last week, and though our success is quite satisfactory as compared « ith the last, we hope on a future occasion to have a muoh better record than we have attained in the tour just concluded. Mr. Alcock, to whom our second visit is due, has left no stone unturned in arranging our fixtures and generally looking after our in­ terests, and his kind disinterested servioes and his untiring labour on our behalf are muoh appreciated. Nor is this all. The captain and his comrades are no way the less indebted to the secretaries of the various clubs through­ out the country for promoting the interests of Parsee cricket, which will probably produoe a very good impression in India in favour of another visit. And, lastly, before I close my letter, I may mention that we feel deeply thankful to the English public at large, and cricketers in particular, for the kind hospi­ tality and good feelings exhibited towards us in every place whioh we had the pleasure of visiting. With two exceptions the team started on the return journey to Bombay on September 14, and the captain, Mr. P. D. Kanga, not having had sufficient time at his disposal to write before leaving, I have felt it my duty to inform you of our feelings and wishes in this respect.—Yours faithfully, D. S. M bhta . M r . A . J . R obbins , o f C ardiff, has fo r­ w a rd ed us the b attin g averages o f the A u stralian team u p to S atu rday last. T h eir tou r closes w ith the S urrey m atch to com m e n ce at K en n in gton O val to-d a y . S o far th e y h a ve p la y ed th irty-n in e m atch es, o f w h ich th ey ha ve w on eigh teen , d ra w n seven , a n d lost fourteen . No. of Timas Most in inns, not out. Buns, an inns.Aver. P. S. McDonnell... 58 ... 1 ... 13J1 ... 105 ... 22.47 G. J. Bonnor........ 61 ... 3 ... 1097 ... 119 ... 18 53 H. T rott............... 01 ... 1 ... 1 83 ... 83 ... 18.3 A.C.Bannerman ... 59 ... 6 ... 884 ... 93*... 16.36 S. P. Jones ........ 20 ... 2 ... 293 ... 61 ... 16.5 C. T. B. Turner ... 57 ... 1 ... 787 ... 103 ... 14.3 J. D. Edwards ... 5) ... 12 ... 618... 5 *... 13.24 J. J. Lyons ....... 40 ... 6 ... 896 ... 83 ... 11.22 A. H. J arvis.............49 ... 3 ... S‘5 ... 39 ... 11.19 J. J. Ferris ....... 58 ... 14 ... 485 ... 37*... 11.1 J. Worrall ....... 58 ... 10 ... 520 ... 46 ... 10.40 J.McC.Blackham... 55 ... 1 ... 511 ... 96 ... 9.25 H. F. Boyle ... 29 ... 11 ... 153 ... 36 ... 8.9 S. M. J. Woods # . 10 ... 0 ... 64 ... 18 ... 5.1 NEXT ISSUE, NOVEMBER 1.