Cricket 1889

74 1 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. APRIL 2 ,1689, a ranch higher class, as Ferris and Charlton, who bowled for the Belvideres, got the side out, with one absentee, for 35, in which there was only one double figure. T. W. Garrett, well known of the earlier Australian teams (274), and Lee (128), were mainly instrumental in attain­ ing the big total of the University just referred to, and these two batsmen on the first afternoon made 347 for one wicket, the best performance recorded in the Colonies in a Senior Club match. Lee, too, was only dismissed as it was in an unfortunate manner, as in playing the ball fell from his bat on to his foot, and thence rolled against the off stump just dislodging the bail. A n ew athletic paper, bearing the title of Amateur Sport, has just been issued under the auspices of an experienced and well-qualified conductor, Mr. Jamse W. Arrowsmith, of Bristol, the publisher of the Arrowsmith Library. The first number of Amateur Sport, which ap­ peared yesterday, contains a plan of the new ground of the Gloucestershire County Club. Among the contributors to the new paper, which deals with athletic matters affecting Bristol and the district, it will interest cricketers to know, is Mr. W. G. Grace, jun., the eldest son of the G.O.M. I t will please cricketers to know that the services rendered to Surrey by the late Henry Jupp are not likely to be for­ gotten by the Committee of the Surrey County Club now that the once great batsman’s innings is at an end. I am given to understand that the annual report to be presented at the General Meeting, to be held at Kennington Oval on May 9, contains the following announcement : “ It is proposed to take steps to erect a suitable memorial over his grave in recognition of his invaluable services to the County, and also, if deemed advisable, to present a sum of money to his only son to start him in business.” I am assured that no one holding any official position in connection with the Surrey County Club had any knowledge even that poor Jupp was ill, and the Secretary, who only returned to England yesterday after an absence of nearly a month, did not know of his death until many days afterwards. T h e return of that once most useful of left-handed batsmen, Mr. J. Cranston, to the Gloucestershire eleven, after an absence of some years, during the course of which he qualified and played for "Warwickshire, will, if he should play up to his old form, be of great service to the County team. I notice he opened the season in promising style on Saturday last, scoring 51 out of 127 from the bat, for Westbury against the Bohemians, at Westbury. A n account of an interview with G. Giffen, given in another part of the paper, shows that, in the event of the for­ mation of an Australian team to visit England next year, there is every pos­ sibility of the best all-round cricketer in the Colonies joining theparty, that is, if the combination to represent Australia should be quite representative. “ Felix,” the critic of tho Australasian newspaper, seems to think, though, that it will not be so easy to secure the strongest team. “ As Percy M'Donnell has retired,” he writes, “ and as it is unlikely that Turner and Ferris will be graited another twelve months’ leave by th 3Joint Stock Bank, I am disposed to tlimk there will be a diffi­ culty in getting together the best thirteen in Australia.” S ome of the fastest run-getting that has come under my notice for a very long time was recorded in a match played on the Oval at Adelaide at the end of February, between the Norwood and Hindmarsh Clubs. The heat is said to have been oppressive, and the bowlers, as is general under such circumstances, were the sufferers. J. J. Lyons, who only proved his capabilities as a batsman when the tour of the Australian Cricketers in England last summer was almost over, and W. F. Giffen opened the bat­ ting for Norwood, and when the former was out the score was 151, of which he had contributed 100. His figures included two fives and fifteen fours, and at one time during the partnership 60 runs were made in fifteen minutes, of which Lyons was responsible for 50. ■ Me. W. F. H isso n has succeeded to the secretaryship of the Streatham Club on the resignation of Mr. J. A. Druce, who did good service in that capacity for several years. All communications should be addressed to the new secretary, Ambleside Avenue, Streatham, SW . L ord B obartes , the Daily News states, has promised to preside at the annual festival of the Royal Blind Pension Society, at Willis’ Booms, on the 13th of next month. Lord Robartes has always been a liberal supporter of the game, and there are few prettier grounds in the West of England than that of which he takes such care at his seat in Cornwall. A recen t number of the Tasmanian Mail gives particulars of a good batting performance in a match played between the Derwent and Lefroy Clubs. The hero was J. Watt, who carried his bat through the first innings of Derwent, and was not out with 75 of 138 scored for the loss of one wicket in the second. The second total of 138 was, I may add, scored in seventy minutes. F rom what I can hear, there is every chance that Kent, the only one of the important counties which has not a per­ manent home at the present time, will very soon, at least, have the opportunity of securing a ground it can actually call its own. Mr. J. Winch, an Alderman of the Kent County Council, a keen supporter of all kinds of sports, is enlarg­ ing a field adjoining his residence at Hol­ combe, on the Maidstone Road, Chat­ ham, and preparing a pitch in the hope that it will after this year be of use to the County Cricket Club for im­ portant fixtures. A part of the field, which hasbeen fencedin, has already beenutilised for. some of the later ties in the competi­ tion for the Challenge Cup of the Kentish Football Association, and as, at the last of these, upwards of five thousand persons paid for admission to* the ground, it will be seen that there is every chance of strong support close at hand. T he prediction of Mr. C. W. Beal, the Manager, on the arrival of the Sixth Aus­ tralian team in England twelve months since, that H. Trott would prove to be quite at the top of the batting averages at the end of the tour, was as everyone will remember thoroughly verified. Trott proved, indeed, to be the most consistent and reliable batsman in the team, and it would be difficult to name his superior in Australia at the present time. Justlately he was the chief contributor in the run- getting match between Melbourne and South Melbourne Clubs, which- was still unfinished on March 16, after having occupied already four afternoons. Trott’s share of the total of 488 made by South Melbourne was 216, but the scoring was not confined to that one Club, as after reaching 268 in their first innings, in the follow-on Melbourne scored no less than 220 for the loss of only two batsmen, so that they were then just level with their opponents. W. Bruce, who was over here with the Fifth Australian team in 1886, and F. M. Walters, whose portrait was given in C ric k e t of Sept. 10,1885, put on 101 runs for the first wicket, and the latter showed to particular advantage, having made 126 out of 268 in the first innings. Up to the close of the fourth day 976 runs had been scored with only twenty wickets down, giving an average of over 44 runs for each batsman; A lto g e th er , Walters, b a ttin g in this m a tch m u st h a ve b een o f a v e r y h ig h ord er an d it is g ra tify in g to th in k that his m erits as a b atsm a n w ere g iv e n the greatest possib le p rom in en ce in this paper o v e r three years ago. The Argus co m ­ m en ts on his first in n in gs th u sly :— Walters forced the scoring in a way that exasperated the local “ barrackers,” but d e­ cidedly pleased his side, whose only fear was that it was too good to last. W hen he had ot to 87 there were inoluded in it eight oundary hits, and then he got hold of one from Kemp, and, in the teeth of a strong wind, lifted the ball in amongst a group of astonished bowlers on the grsen beyond the rink—a hit good enough to nave gone right outside the ground with the wind. W hen the stumps were drawn at six o’elook the result was 175