Cricket 1889

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Hobbs’ Eleven against M.C.C. and Ground, at Norbury, on Wednesday of last week, is the third son of the Mayor of Croydon, who has been, as most C ricket readers are aware, an active member of the Surrey Committee for some years. Mr. Mayor is a keen lover as well as liberal supporter of the game and its exponents, as many of the principal Surrey professionals have had abundant and substantial proofs during the last few years. W . E . H ., who is still, I believe, at the City of London School, can boast a distinguished record there as an athlete. In the sports he was first in the hundred yards, long jump, putting the shot, hurdles, kicking the football, throwing the cricket ball, had a walk over in the pole jump, and was second in the 250 yards race and the high jump. He also secured permanent possession of the Championship Challenge Cup by three successive wins, and is champion at fives as well as captain of both the cricket and football teams. "W ith respect to the four one innings’ victories gained by Notts this season, it may interest C r ic k e t readers [writes Mr. E.G. Spybey, of Nottingham] to give the occasions when the four counties were each defeated more decisively by their victors than thoseunder notice. To begin with, Surrey, who were defeated by an innings and 153 runs. On one other occasion only has Notts exceeded that, viz., at the Oval, August 7, 1882, when Surrey lost by an innings and 189 rims. Middlesex lost that year by an innings and 7 runs. The other occasions when the defeat has been more severe were at Trent Bridge, August 14,1884, when they lost by an innings and 91 runs, and at Lord’s, when Notts beat them by an innings and 154 runs. Turning to Lan­ cashire, who have just been defeated by an innings and 59 runs, we must go back to their first contest with Notts on May 28,1868, whenthe countyPalatine suffered a defeat by an innings and 74 runs; the next instance was at Trent Bridge, on June 3, 1886, when Notts won by an innings and 83 runs; and again at Trent Bridge, June 30, 1887, by an innings and 86 rims. Lastly, we come to Sussex, who have been twice defeated this year, on May 20, 1889, by an innings and 42 runs, and last week, at Brighton, by aninnings and 28 runs. There are, though, no less thannine other occasions onwhich Sussex has been sobeaten. They are as follows : At Trent Bridge, June 1, 1865, by an innings and86 runs. At Brighton, August 24,1865, by an innings and 50 runs. At Trent Bridge, July 9, 1874, by an innings and 110 runs. At Trent Bridge, May 26,1881, by an innings and 71 runs. At Trent Bridge, May 15,1884, by an innings and 151 runs. At Brighton, July 20,1885, by an innings and 98 runs. At Brighton, July 21, 1887, by an innings and 289 runs. At Trent Bridge, August 25, 1887, by an innings and 294 runs. At Trent Bridge, May 14,1888, by an innings and 74 runs. I f for nothing else the victory of St. Thomas’s in the final tie of the Inter- Hospital Challenge Cup atChiswickPark, last week, would be specially noteworthy from the fact that the match created a double record. In the first place the total of 408 by St. Thomas’s is the highest ever made in the Competition; in the second, the 201 not out of P. Northcote, who played last year, if I remember rightly, for Middlesex, and has this season represented Kent once, is the largest individual score in Hospital cricket. Thomas’s just now can furnish a particu­ larly strong all-round combination in athletics, as its representatives hold all the Inter-Hospital Cups with the excep­ tion of those for tennis and Association