Cricket 1889

JULY 4, 1889. CRICKET A WEEKLY EE CORD OF THE GAME. 285 football. They have five in their posses­ sion at the present time— to wit, those for Rugby football, crioket, shooting, rowing and cross country. I may add that the score of thirteen goals and six tries against Middlesex in the final for the Inter-Hospital Football Cup in the spring is also a record. The Inter-Hos­ pital Athletic Challenge Shield is held by Bart.’s. I t will be of interest to many C r ick e t readers to learn that the Eoyal Family has furnished another active follower of the game in the person of Prince George of Wales. The young Sailor Prince took part in a match at Portsmouth on Friday between the Junior and Senior Officers studying torpedo practice on board Her Majesty’s ships “ Excellent ” and “ Ver­ non.” Prince George contributed ten, (including, the chronicler adds, a cut to the boundary for four, and three hits for two), to the total of 231 for five wickets made by the Juniors. The young Prince has, I may add, generally displayed a sympathetic interest in cricket matters. If I remember rightly, some years ago while in Australia with his elder brother he laid the foundation-stone of the pavi­ lion—or was it the grand stand—on the ground of the Melbourne Club. T h ou gh the requirements of training have prevented his participation in the game to any great extent this summer, cricketers have reason to be pleased that they can claim as one of their fraternity Mr. H. C. L. Tindall, of the Cambridge UniversityAthleticClub,whotooka double first in the Amateur Championship Sports at Stamford Bridge on Saturday last, just failing to secure a world’s record in the QuarterMile by a quarter of a second, while credited with the fastest time in the Championships for the Half. Mr. Tindall, as is known co many C b ick et readers, is an all round cricketer de­ cidedly above the average. He has been best known in connection with the Peripatetics andUpper Tooting Clubs, for both of which, if I remember rightly, he did good service last year. “ E. T.” thus expresses himself on the subject of the recent match between Eton and Winchester :—“ Sensational cricket happily occurs, from time to time, for ’tis that which keeps up the glory of the game ; and the wind-up of the 1889 Eton and Winchester match will long be remembered and handed down as his­ torical. With two hours only left for Eton to keep up their wickets, and with a capital team, comprising reliable bats­ men who can play by the hour, no person present and conversant with the game could have anticipated anything but a draw. But the fates this time ruled otherwise, and had something startling in store ■ for after forty minutes’ play, seven Etonians had been dismissed, with the telegraph bearing the weight of only 12 runs; and although the last wickets batted carefully and confidently, yet all was soon over with a win for Winchester, entirely due to grand fielding. “ W in c h e s te r has for years been pro­ verbial for its fielding, but the way in which, on this particular occasion, the batsmen were bagged and snapped up from hard hits and sharp snicks, high and low, was a caution; and it may be safely added—as will be endorsed by some of the very best and keenest judges of the game who witnessed it, as also by my brother Umpire, J. West—that nothing in the way of brilliant catching and decisive fielding has ever surpassed this show, on a cricket field. Good fortune has not too often attended Winchester—and it was most pleasing to notice the genial and sportsmanlike congratulations that Etonians, one and all, showeredontheWykehamists, fortheir brilliant though unlooked for victory.” Mb. F e lix F ie ld in g , in whom Surrey has been fortunate to find a thoroughly capable understudy for Wood at the wicket, is, it will be news to many C r ic k e t readers to know, an old Mal- vernian. He went to Malvern College in 1872, and acted as stumper for the School eleven two years later. Since he left Malvern he has played principally for the Crystal Palace, Ne’er do-Weels, Richmond and Incogniti Clubs. On some few occasions he has also assisted M.C.C., and all last . summer he kept wicket for the Gentlemen of Devonshire. Though he only took up golf in October he won the De Worms Challenge Cup over the Brighton Links in December. As he was, though, making his debut for Surrey v. Derbyshire in the cricket-field last month, when the second competition for that trophy took place, it has passed out of his possession. M r. E. B. M ann ing, the present Secretary of the East Melbourne Cricket Club, like the genial Major who directs the premier Club of Australia, the Melbourne C.C., is, it may interest C r ick e t readers here as well as in Greater Britain to know, only a Colonist by adoption. He was at Cheltenham College from 1867 to 1873, and therefore a pupil of the late Jim Lillywhite, so many years coach to the Cheltonians. He was subsequently well known as a prominent player for the Cheltenham TownClub, butwhen lawntennis came into fashion, devoted most of his time to that game, and is the holder of a trophy, won in a open tournament, in which he beat E. Renshaw, so long the Champion. On leaving Cheltenham for the Stage and taking up cricket again, he captained D’Oyly Carte’s Co. for four years, and will be well remembered in the Provinces for his many long innings. Mr. Manning was also winner of the United Thespian trophy in London for the highest score. Leaving England for Australia with the Brough and Boucicault Co. in 1886, he soon became prominent, making over a hundred in an innings, besides four scores of over fifty in the following season. Since then he has played very little, but is still a devoted upholder of the game, and as Secretary of the last Melbourne Club plays an important part in Victorian cricket. T h e following are the chief batting averages in principal matches up to Saturday last. No batsman is included who has not played eight completed innings:— Completed Highest Inns. Runs. Score. Aver. K. J. Key .. 8 ... 493 .. 176* ... 61.5 Barnes ......... ... 14 .. 721 ... 102 ... 51.7 H all............... ... 9 .. 428 ... 85* ... 48.6 J. Cranston ... .. 8 .. 306 .. 130 ... 38.2 A. E. Stoddart ... 9 .. 3-29 ... 78* ... 36.5 Read............... ... 15 .. 640 ... 186 ... 36 Gunn............... ... 14 .. 504 ... 118 ... 36 Abel................ .. 12 .. 427 ... 138 ... 35.7 F eel............... .. 11 .. 379 .. 158 ... 34.5 W. G. Grace ... .. 12 ... 405 .. 101 ... 33.9 A.. W ard ......... ... 11 .. 366 ... 62* ... 33.3 E. A. Nepean... .. 13 ... 427 .. 64* ... 82.11 F. G. J. Ford... .. 9 ... 269 .. 123 ... 29.8 W. Newham ... .. 15 ... 436 .. 110 ... 29.1 G. F. Vernon... .. 14 ... 819 .. 58 ... 22.11 C. P. Foley ... .. 12 .. 272 .. 113 ... 2-3.8 A. J. Webbe ... ... 14 .. 309 ... 83 ... 22.1 A. K. Watson... ... 13 .. 286 ... 89 .. 22 F. H. Sugg ... ... 13 .. 282 ... 69 ... 21.9 Major ......... .. 14 ... 301 .. 106 ... 21.7 Henderson ... ... 11 .. 237 ... 63* ... 21.6 H. J. Mordaunt ... 9 .. 186 ... 78 ... 20.6 Quaife ......... .. 16 ... 322 .. 107 ... 20.2 W. W. Read ... ... 13 .. 262 ... 91 ... 20.2 Jesse Hide ... ... 13 .. 260 ... 49 .. 20 A lth o u g h Lord George Scott, having had four summers at Oxford, cannot help his university a fourth time, he will have the satisfaction of a remarkable record for the three years in which he has opposed Cambridge at Lord’s. In five innings, with one not out, he has an aggregate of 244 runs, giving an average of 61. Moreover, in each of the first four innings hewas the chief scorer for Oxford, a curiosity of itself. Another singular performance on the other side is that of Mr. Gosling, who in the last two years has had three innings (29, 18 and 22) without being once out. It may be of use to some cricket statisticians to know that Mr. Mordaunt’s 127 has only twice been beaten in these matches, by Mr. Key (143 for Oxford) in 1886, and Mr. Yardley (130 for Cambridge) in 1872. Cambridge’s 300 is, I believe, the sixth highest innings. A co r r e s p o n d e n t politely points out that I was wrong last week in describing the 1,295 in the match between Middlesex and Yorkshire recently as the largest aggregate in important fixtures. He points out that in the Inter-colonial be­ tween Victoria and New South Wales in February, 1882, 1,411 runs were got for thirty wickets. Peccavi! It is human to err, and in this case I erred. My fault was, indeed, one of omission. T h r e e scores of a hundred in an inn- ngs are bo far between that the Streatham