Cricket 1889

AUG. 1,1889. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. SOI I t will be also of universal interest to CRiCKET-readers to learn that G. Giffen is regarded by the managers as certain to be one of the team. He promised to join if Murdoch’s help could be secured, and as this has been gained I take it that Giffen may be looked on as a certainty. H. F. Boyle, I may add, will act as manager, and no one could be found more fitted for the position, not only by reason of the experience he has had in five previous trips, but also for his general popularity with all classes of English cricketers. Boyle, who is further hopeful that Percy McDonnell will reconsider his decision to give up cricket and join his old comrades in arms, Murdoch and Giffen, has also secured promises of sup­ port fromTurner, Ferris, Trott and Black­ ham, and he is confident that during the coming Australian season he will be able to secure some very good Colts. It is not the intention of the promoters to play any preliminary games in the Colonies, or on their return from England. In the event, however, of the team being successful at home, and the Australian public wishing to see them in the field after coming back, it is possible that they may play one match each in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide, the net proceeds to be given to local charities. The secretary of the Surrey County Cricket Club has, I may add, been asked to arrange the English fixtures. A ustralian cricket has recently lost a keen supporter by the death of Mr. Thomas Nunn on the 31st of May last. In his day a good all-round player, Mr. Nunn represented New South Wales in Inter-colonial matches, and one of, if not his latest appearance for the colonies was against Shaw and Shrewsbury’s team at Sydney in January, 1885. A Kentish man by birth, Mr. Nunn paid a visit to his old home during the summer of 1885, and took part in many matches for the Surrey and other Metropolitan clubs. Just before his departure for England the members of the Carlton Club, for which he had done good service for many years, presented him with a handsome watch and chain at a farewell banquet in appre­ ciation of the work he had done for the Carlton, which has been always one of the foremost clubs of New South Wales. He had been suffering for some months before his death, the immediate cause of which was heart disease. A true sports­ man and kindly fellow in every way, he will not soon be forgotten by the many friends he made during his stay in Eng­ land. M r. Thomas P ark in , the President of the Hastings and St. Leonards C.C., has been kind enough to call my atten­ tion to an important omission in the names of the batsmen who have scoied a hundred in both innings of a match given in the report of the match between the Gentlemen of Surrey and the Gen­ tlemen of Philadelphia in last week’s C r ick b t. In that report it was [stated that only five batsman had, as far as was known, accomplished the feat. I had, however, (mea culpa!) quite overlooked the remarkable performance of Mr. K. A. A. Beresford, who on May 28 and 29 of last year was credited withwhat I fancy is in its way a unique achievement. He scored, as many Cricket readers will remember, 102 and 307, and in each case not out, forOundle Schoolv. LaxtonHouse on the school ground at Oundle. I n the banquet which is to be given to the Grand Old Man in the Foresters’ Hall at Canterbury onThursday, the Executive of the Kent Club are not only paying a kindly and just tribute to one of the best andmost popular all-round sportsmen we have ever had, but at the same time doing honour to the game in which for a quarter of a century he has been without a rival. Mr. F. A. Mackinnon, the well- known Kent amateur, and this year’s president of the Kent Club, will preside at the dinner, and it is to be hoped that the lovers of Kent cricket will show by theirpresenceinlargenumberstheirappre­ ciation of the performances of the greatest cricketer the world has ever seen. It will be twenty-three years on Tuesday (Aug. 6, 1866) since W.G. made his first appearance in the Canterbury week, and he was only twenty (Aug. 3, 1868) when he scored 130 and 102 not out for the South against the North of the Thames, on the St. Lawrence ground. It was there, too (on Aug. 10, 1876), that he did his greatest performance in big matches, his 344 for M.C.C. against Kent, which still remains the highest individual score in any fixture of importance. As the Canterbury week has been the scene of some of his most remarkable feats, there is an eminent fitness in the special honour he is to receive in that city next Thursday. A week or so ago some news of interest from Canada afforded an opportunty for congratulating the cricketers of the Do­ minion on the great development of the game in one of the most important of England’s dependencies. In thisconnec­ tion incidental reference was made to the lengthy, as well as important, programme arranged for this summer by the Toronto Club. The weather does not seem, in the early part, to have been at all favour­ able for run-getting, but, latterly, there has evidently been an improvement, to judge by the long scoring of the Toronto C.C. against Galt, on the Toronto ground some three weeks since. Seven wickets of Toronto were down for 134, but Alton and Brown punished the Galt bowling severely after a time, and the pair ran up 147 before they were separated. The partnership deserves prominent notice be­ cause it is one of the longest stands re­ corded in Canadian cricket. Singularly, too, another instance of history repeating itself, this same A. G. Brown had a share in oneofthe best performances ofthe kind, putting on, in conjunction with Mr. G. N. Morrison, 198 for the last wicket of Toronto, against the Past and Present pupils of Trinity College, Port Hope, in 1882. The total of 283 by Toronto in this match, is [the highest, so far, made on the Club’s present ground. Capt. Coe, in his interesting notes under the heading of “ Sporting Cha,t,”J in yesterday’s Star , refers to a rumour that the Earl of Coventry is likely to be appointed next year to the Governorship of either Ceylon or Bombay. Should the report prove to be well founded, which­ ever of the two places secures the Master of the Buckhounds will have as its ruler one with the greatest sympathy for sports of every ldnd. Lord Coventry has been a keen follower of cricket, as well as a liberal supporter of the game, all his life. His son, the Hon. C. Coventry, as most CRiCKET-readers know, went out to South Africa with Major Warton’s team last winter, and has, as far as I know, not as yet returned to England, A fo r t n ig h t ago I gave the names of those members of the Eton and Harrow elevens who would be up at one or other ofthe Universities next summer. Through the courtesy of the respective captains I am able to supplement the list by the addition of several other Public School cricketers leaving this year, and going into residence at either Oxford or Cam­ bridge during the winter. They are as follow:— O x f o r d .— T. B. Case, V. T. Hill, C. W. Little, E. J. Neve and G. M. Blore, all of Winchester; A. Benham, of Rugby; E. E. Lea and W. T. Gelli- brand, of Bradfield ; A. H. Delme-Radcliffe, C. D. Baker, A. F. Turner and R. A. Poore, of Sher­ borne; J. C. Miles, J. B. Kitson and E. Mason, of Shrewsbury; F. N. B. How, of Uppingham; D. Crossman, G. C. Baker, N. F. Shaw and T. S. Irvine, of Charterhouse; W. H. Brain and E. Row­ ley, of Clifton; C. J. R. Richards and J. Sparrow, of Lancing; C. C. Lempriere, of Radley ; and P. C. Cochran and R. H. Dean, of Loretto. C a m b r id g e — F. J. Nicholls, L.F.Cotton and E. F. Rutter, of Rugby; A. G. Stubbs, A. P. Snell and L. R. T. Frere, of Haileybury; W. B. Jenyns, of Bradfield; R. S. Nicholson, A. W. Pryce-Jones and C. G. Wilson, of Shrewsbury; A. D. Alderson, of Uppingham; F. R. Meade and M. H. Stanbrough, of Charterhouse; L. Mortimer, of Clifton; G.W. Gruggen, of Lancing; and N. C, Cooper and L. T. Gay, of Brighton. CHIEF FIXTURES FOR NEXT WEEK. T h u r sd a y , A u g . 1 — Blackheath, Kent v. Surrey; Hereford,Herefordshire v. Shropshire; Man­ chester, Lancashire v. Yorkshire ; Notting­ ham, Notts v. Gloucestershire; Salisbury, Wiltshire v. Devonshire; Southampton, Hampshire v. Sussex. F r id a y , A u g . 2—Lord’s, M.C.C. and G. v. Chel­ tenham College; Kennington Oval, Surrey C. and G.v. Clifton College; Southampton,Gentn. of Philadelphiav. United Services; Stockport, Cheshire v. Northamptonshire; Stoke, Staf­ fordshire v. Warwickshire. M o n d a y, A u g . 5—Kennington Oval, Surrey v. Notts; Lord’s, M.C.C. and G. v. Notts Castle; Brighton. Gentn. of Sussex v. Gentn. of Philadelphia; Bristol, Gloucestershire v- Sus­ sex ; Canterbury, Kent v. Middlesex; Leicester, Leicestershire v. Warwickshire; Leyton, Essex v. Herts; Manchester, Lancashire v. Cheshire; Norwich, Norfolk v. Northumber­ land; Sheffield, Yorkshire v. Derbyshire; Southampton, Hampshire v. Somersetshire; Stoke, Staffordshire v. Northamptonshire. W e d n e s d a y , Aug. 7 — Norwich, Norfolk v. Surrey 2nd XI.; Stoke, Staffordshire v. Cheshire; Torquay, Devonshire v. Wiltshire.