Cricket 1890

136 CRICKET: A WEEKLY EECOED OP THE GAME. MAY 22, 1890 IF YOU WANT SOME G O O D B A T S For coming season, you can­ not buy better than J.DAVENPORT'S ALL-CANE HANDLE (W ARRAN TED) AT 10/6 EACH IMETT CASH. 38, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. NEW PRICE LIST NOW READY. p R IC K E T , FO OTBALL, & TENN IS GROUNDS ^ (all thoroughly drained, O ctober, 1888), TO L E T at Hyde Farm , Balham , for Season, Day, or Saturdays, close to Railway Station. Special reduced return railway fares from Victoria. 5d. London Bridge 7d.— Apply H. B enham (Proprietor), 104. Rossiter R oad, Balham. [N.B.—Splendid Cinder Track Ready in March.] p R IC K E T PITCHES to LE T, adjoining Raynes ^ Park Station, L. & S.W .R. Pitches from f 'O ; half pitches fr''m £5 5s. Fares, return W aterloo and Vauxhall, 8 d .; Clapham Junction, 6d.—Apply, T. H a sk in g s, 28, Ravenswood Road, Balham , S.W. TX7ANTED.—The Manager of C r ic k e t is desirous Yv of procuring the following book s: “ W isden’s A lm anack” for 1866, ’68, ’69, ’71, and ’75; VoJs. III., XI., and XIII. of “ Scores and Biographies ” ; Vol. I. of C r ic k e t , and “ Canterbury Cricket W eek.” —Address, Manager of C r ic k e t , 41, bt. Andrew's Bill. Londou, E C. p R IC K E T , FO OTBALL & TENN IS GROUNDS. ^ South London Clubs desiring Grounds can be accom m odated in the neighbourhood of Catford Bridge, close to the M id-Kent Railway Station, and accessible in half an hour from the City.— Apply to M e ssrs. F r e r e F o r s t e r & Co., 28, L in ­ coln’s Inn Fields, W .C. W A N T E D —9R E E N L IL L Y WHITE for ’63 to v v ’67, ’70, ’71, ’81; W ISD EN ’S. ’68, ’69, ’74, ’75 : SCORES AND BIOGRAPH IES, Vols. VII., VIII. IX.j. X.—Address D.,” 33, Mall Road, Hammer­ sm ith. ACC IDENTS in the CR I CKET F I ELD. 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The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Samlet, T h e Lyric Club opened its season in a very satisfactory style at St. Ann’s, Barnes, on Saturday last, with an easy victory over Hounslow Garrison. The Military team, too, was by no means weak, including as it did among others, E. Crawley, of last year’s Cambridge Eleven, and Major Graham. During the winter the ground at Barnes has been levelled and the portion devoted to cricket considerably enlarged, so that it now exceeds the area for play at Lord’s. As every possible arrangement, too, has been made for the comfort of cricketers and spectators alike, the Lyric ground promises to be one of the most popular in the neighbourhood of London. a first-class match, has produced one instance of a similar kind, though it hardly satisfies the exact requirements of my question. A correspondent (Mr. B. J. Parker) reminds me that J. Nash, the left-handed bowler, was credited with precisely the same performance for Lancashire against Somersetshire, in June, 1882, at Manchester. This, though, according to the definition at present in force, can hardly be strictly called a first-class match. Nash’s analysis, in the first innings of Somerset­ shire, on the occasion referred to, was a remarkable one. In sixty-three balls he got eight wickets, at a cost of only 14 runs. There were seven ciphers in the innings, which only realised an aggregate of 29. M y enquiry in last week’s “ Gossip ” as to whether Jesse Hide’s feat of taking four wickets in four successive balls for Sussex against Notts, at Trent Bridge, a fortnight ago, has ever had a parallel in “ H ID E ” AND SEEK. [W it h a po l o g ie s to J e sse H id e .] Shrewsbury, not o u t...............................161 Gunn, not out .................................. 152 N O T T S v . S U S S E X , M a y 15. To prove th e ir s k ill in tyin g (k) Notts Seek Sussex apt occasion, A s o’er T re n t B rid g e each p layer tro ts, N o r hides an ticip atio n . B u t G unn and Sh rew sb u ry, a ll unscotched, T h e knotty p oin t decided, F o r not less su rely points were notohei A n d every bow ler hided. Oh ! Nott out batsm en,— Sussex cried— R elin q u ish you r endeavour, O r we m ust, w ith so tanned a hide, B e leather h u n ters ever. P a r is . A ny practical hints from such a master as Mr. W. G. Grace must be of use to cricketers. His advice on the subject of the selection of a bat for young players, in the last weekly instalment of “ Forty Years of Cricket,” is of such importance that it is worth reproduction in fu ll:— V e ry fo rtunately, at th is period of m y life I w as given a bat to su it m y streng th. I say fortunately, for m y uncle and b rother H e n ry te ll me a m istake had been made w ith regard to E .M . in th at respect. W ho was to blam e, I know n o t; but E . M ., long before he reached manhood’s years, w as in the h ab it of using a fu ll- sized bat, and to th a t they attrib u te in some m easure h is cross-hitting. A little thought w ill show there is a great deal of reason in th e ir statem ent. It is possible for a boy to handle a bat a little b it over h is w eight, and even p lay straig ht w ith i t ; but it is im possible for h im to do so w hen it is inches too long. T h a t is a point th a t cannot be considered too care fu lly in coaching a boy, if a correct style and freedom be aim ed at. Good players can be reckoned b y the score, who w ill tell you th at a m istake of th at kin d w as made w ith them in th e ir e arly days, and th at th ey never got thoroughly over it. W. G., too, is strongly in favour of re­ ducing the regulation distance between the wickets for young bowlers, as the fol­ lowing remarks will show :— A year or two ago there was some tali of training boys to begin bowling at a shorter distance than twenty-two yards, With that