Cricket 1889

10 CRICKET: A WEEKLY EECOED OF THE GAME. JAN. 24,1889. Festival of 1889 will be as successful and as enjoyable as was its immediate prede­ cessor. S urely the Australian papers as well as the English sporting journals which reproduced the error are under a mistake in claiming for the throw of J. Crane, at Melbourne on Jan. 5, the distinction of a world’s record. In reply to a chal­ lenge issued by Mr. A. G. Spalding, the promoter of the baseball tour, to test the powers of three of his party against three of Australia, at throwing the cricket ball, Messrs. Crane, Williamson, and Pfeiffer entered representing the latter. The first-named won easily with a throw of 128 yards 10finches, Williamson coming next three yards two inches behind. It is claimed for Crane’s performance that it beats the world’s record by two yards seven inches, but this, as I have said already, must, I fancy, be an error. I was under the impression that Mr. W . F. Forbes, then eighteen years of age, threw the cricket ball 132 yards in the Eton College Athletic Sports, on March 26, 1876. This feat is at least duly chronicled in the Sporting L ife , giving an account of that meeting, and Mr. Forbes has always had, as far as I, at least, know, the credit of the best authenticated record. M essrs . W. H. M ilton and C. H. Yintcent, who have been very successful against the English cricketers in South Africa, will be both of them well known to a number of C ricket readers. Mr. Milton was in the Marlborough College eleven of 1871 and 1872, and, to judge by the reports of the first match at Cape Town, still retains much of the great powers of hitting which distinguished him at school. He was also a prominent Rugby Union foot­ baller, representing England against Scotland in the International of 1874. Mr. Vintcent, who was the crack bowler of the Gharterhouse School Eleven of 1883, has been singularly successful during the last few years in South African cricket. He is, or was at school, a medium pace bowler, with a good leg-break. He can hit too, as the score of the match be­ tween Kimberley and De Beers, last month, which appears in another part of the paper will show. CRICKET IN SOUTH AFRICA. 6 th ROYAL IRISH DRAGOONS v. BAND OF THE 1st BATT., ROYAL SCOTS. Played at Entonjaneni, Zululand,on Nov. 14, 1888. T he R oyal S cots . First Innings. Priv. Simkins, run out ... Priv.Anderson, b Fulker... PrivAV.Birchfleld, not out Priv. Beech, st Amos Priv. H. Birchfield, c Mitchell, b Am os......... Corp. Thorn, b Amos Priv. Blake, b Painter ... Priv. Smith, run out......... Priv. White, b Fulker Corp. Suggett.b Fulker ... Priv. Hamlin, b Painter... Extras...................... Total ............... Second Innings. 13 b Fulker ... ... 5 0 b Painter ... ... 3 20 not out ... 26 17 b Painter ... ... 4 2 b Painter ... ... 4 0 b Painter ... ... 0 12 c A m o s , b Painter ... ... 0 6 b Fulker ... ... 2 1 b Amos ... ... 8 run out ... 0 1 b Amos ... 2 11 86 Total ... 54 6 th R.I. D ragoons . First Innings. Second Innings. Trooper Fulker, run out... 0 b Beech ........ 2 Trooper Amos, c I horn, b Beech............................ 1 run out ........ 0 Trooper Stead, run out ... 15 b Beech ........ 1 Trooper Lund, b Thorn ... 0 b Thorn ........ 0 Trooper Mitchell,c Smith, b Thorn ...................... 2 b Thorn ........ 0 Trooper Koplis, c and b Thorn............................ 0 b Beech ....... 3 Trooper Burberry,bBeech 2 not out ........ 0 Corp. Painter, run out ... 1 b Thorn ........ 0 Trooper Evans.c Simkins, bBeech ......................10 run out ........ 1 Trooper Scott, not out ... 1 b Thorn ........ 1 Trooper Carter, bBeech... 1 bBeech ........ 3 Extras...................... 3 Extras......... 2 Total ................36 Total ... 13 In the Dragoons’ second innings, Beech took 4 wickets for 3 runs and Corp. Thorn 4 wickets for 7 runs. WESTERN PROVINCE v. CAPE TOWN Played on November ‘24. Frank Hearne played, it will be seen, for the Western Province. If not successful with the bat, he came off with the ball, taking five wickets in Cape Town’s first innings for eight runs. W estern P rovince . W. H. Richards, b J. Forde......................10 W. H. Milton, b J. Forde...................... 2 Dr. Young, b J. Forde 23 J. Dean, b Ashley ... 39 Frank Hearne, b J. Forde...................... 1 E. J. Stradling, c Munnik, b II. Forde........................39 J. B. Van Benen, b J. Forde ............... 15 J.Richards.c Ashley, b J. Forde .........12 C. L. Van der Byl, b Ashley ...............13 R. Myburgh, not out 12 8 . Giddy, b J. Forde 3 Extras............... 10 Total , ...179 C ape T own . First Innings. E. Bndler, c V. Renen, b Milton............................ 4 J. Forde, c Giddy, b Hearne ...................... 7 W. Tindall, run o u t......... 2 Sergt. - Major Risk, b Hearne ...................... 0 L. Smuts, c and b Hearne 1 H. Ford, c Young, b Hearne ...................... 7 F. le Sueur,c J. Richards,b Milton............................ 0 J. B. Munnik, b Heaine ... 6 S. Hofmeyr, not out......... 1 W. V. Simkins, b Milton... 0 W. H. A6hley, b Milton ... 0 Extras...................... 4 T otal............... 32 Second Innings. b Giddy ......... i b Milton ......... I b Giddy ......... I c Hearne, Milton ... b Giddy b Giddy run out b Stradling run out b Myburgh not out Extras... Total ... 74 BOWLING ANALYSIS. W estern ! P rovince . O. M. R W. W.H.Ashley 26 6 62 2 J. Forde ... 26 3 72 7 F.Le Sueur 5 0 17 0 L. Smuts... 4 0 10 0 O. M. R. W. Sergt.-Major Risk ... 2 0 7 0 H. Ford... 2 0 4 1 C>. pe T own . First Innings. Second Inn'ngs. O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. 5 S. Giddy 12 4 Frank Hearne 11 W.H M’lton . 11 22 4 2 20 4 .........’ 12 3 22 2 E J. Stradling...4 0 16 1 R. My.urgh ... 4 a 6 1 KIMBERLEY v. DE BEERS. The Kimberley eleven did some tall scoring in this match, concluded at Kimberley on Dec. 1. Two of the De Beers eleven were absent in the second innings, and Kimberley were able to claim a most decisive victory by an innings and 379 runs. The Kimberley total of 569 is the largest recorded up to the present time in South Africa. C. H. Vintcent, the Old Carthusian, it will be seen, had a hand in the dismissal of nine of the seventeen wickets which fell to the Kimberley bowlers. H, Tindall, c Calkin, 8 b Burton ......... Chapman, c Calkin, b Craig ......... .. G. Hill, not out A. Hill, b Lovell B 18,1 b 5 .. 57 ... 27 ... 23 K imberley C lub . C. Perring, c Calkin, b Burton..................30 Seccull, b Shields ... 60 Hickson, st Allkins, b Shields .................Ill Fred. Smith, b Bur­ ton ........................ 20 Dr. Fuller, b Lovell... 18 * J. Vigne, h w ..........146 C. H. Vintcent, b Burton .................. 41 The wickets in the above innings fell as follows —One for 49, two for 157, three for 194, five for 281, six for 335, seven for 364, eight for 505, nine for 521, ten for 569. * Wrongly given out by the umpire. D e B eers . Total.........569 First Innings. Lovell, b Vintcent Burton, run out... , Smith, b F. Smith . Allkins, b Vintcent . Calkin, c Chapman, b Vintcent .........................14 Craig, c Fuller, b Smith... 2 Newton, b Vintcent......... 1 Second Innings. b Vintcent......... 3 b Vintcent.........25 absent............... 0 c G. Hill, b Vintcent......... 3 Drew, b Vintcent ... 28 Dinsdale, c Tindall, b Perring ...................... 9 Carsons, b Vintcent.........13 M’Donald, not out .......... 0 Extras . 27 b Chapman not out ... . c Smith, b l H ill......... , c Chpman, Fuller ... , absent............. b A. Hill ... . c Chapman, Vintcent .. . Extras... . 10 0 Total Total ... 70 MOTHER COUNTRYv. COLONIAL BORN. This match, which always gives rise to con­ siderable interest in the Cape Colony, was played at Cape Town on December 8. The Mother Country were the first to bat and Cox and Young made a good start, scoring 41 for the first wicket. Cox and Dean added 54 before the former, who had played an excellent innings of 57, was out lbw. Three wickets were then down for 95, but the remaining bats­ men, among whom was Frank Hearne, did not maintain the promise of their predecessors, and when the tenth wicket fell the total was only 169. Ashley got seven batsmen at a cost of 66 runs. The Colonials sent in Budler and W. H. Richards to oppose the bowling of W. H. Milton, the old Marlburian, and Frank Hearne. All the first seven batsmen got into doubles and as at the end of the day the in-side were 59 ahead with one wicket still in hand, they had an easy victory. M other C ountry . A. E. Cox, lbw, b Ashley ............... 57 S. Young, lbw, b Theunissen .........12 C. R. Vaughan, b Theunissen ......... 0 J. Dean, b Ashley ... 24 E. J. Stradling, b Ashley ............... 12 Hearne, c H. Ford, b Theunissen ......... 7 W. H. Jklilton, b Ashley ............... 1 C olonial .B orn . Major Bathurst, c Steytler, b Ashley 4 Guimer Smith, D Ashley .................. 22 Q.-M. Sergt. Risk, not out ............... 14 Lance-Corp. Purser, b Ashley............... 6 Extras.................. 10 Extras.........169 E. Budler, c Young, b Hearne ............... 13 W. H. Richards, b Hearne ............... 24 E. S. Steytler, st Bathurst, b Milton 22 H. Ford, b Risk ... 36 J. Richards, c and b Milton ............... 57 J. B. van Eenen, c Bathurst, b Hearne 23 E. Bisset did not bat. BOWLING ANALYSIS. M other C ountry . A. Halkett, b Milton 28 N. Theunissen, c and b Hearne............... J. Forde, c and b Milton ..................11 W. H. Ashley, not out ...................... 2 Extras................. 12 T otal.........228 O. M. R. W. O. M. R. w. N.Theunis- W.H.Ash­ sen.........30 8 49 3 ley ... 26 5 66 7 A. Halkett 9 0 22 0 J. Forde 5 1 20 0 C olonial B orn . O. M. R. W. O. M. R. W. Hearne ...54 19 78 4 Cox ... 11 1 20 0 W.H.Milton 31 12 53 4 Risk ... 12 2 32 1 Purser.........5 0 13 0 Smith... 7 1 20 0 NEXT ISSUE, FEBRUARY 21.