Cricket 1890

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ST. ANDREW'S HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, J U N E 6 th , 1890. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— .____ __________ __________________________ Hamit t A n o t h e r cricket record was “ cut ” on Saturday last, when Mr. C. I. Thornton, playing for the Lyric Club v. Green Jackets, scored 138 runs in fifty-eight minutes. The telegraph showed 180 as the total for the first hour’s play— an average o f 3 runs per minute. This achievement is the more remarkable when it is remembered that the ground at St. Ann’s is by no means a small one, the area for play being larger than at L ord’s. I t is not a little singular that in both their matches with the Granville Club this season the Crystal Palace declared their innings closed and succeeded in win­ ning both games. On May 3rd, at the Palace, the home team won the toss and declared the innings at a close when they had scored 234 for seven wickets, and dismissed Granville for 88. On May 31st at Lee, they ran up 252 for three wickets and dismissed their opponents for 97. It may be of interest, while on the subject of the Crystal Palace C.C., to give C. J. M. P ox’s scores for the club so far this season :— M ay 3 v . B la c k h e a th ......................... 87 „ 17 v . H ornsey ........................ 102* ,, 31 v . G ran ville .........................126* “ Many Brightonians,” writes Mr. A. J. Gaston, of Brighton, “ even now have a vivid recollection o f Wells, the Kent colt, capturing four Sussex wickets in con­ secutive balls on Box’s Ground, H ove, in 1862, as the first five Sussex wickets went down for thirteen runs only. One of the nearest approaches to this feat, singularly, occurred at the Oval in the following year, 1863, in the great match Surrey v. England, when in one over from George Bennett immediately after the luncheon interval four batsmen were got rid of, ‘ old B e ll ’ describing the feat as ‘ the greatest slaughter on record.’ From the first ball H. H . Stephenson was stumped, second Caffyn splendidly rim out by Mr. G. M. Kelson, the third (a real beauty) bowled Mr. Dowson, while the fourth Griffith placed in the hands of Mr, E. M. Grace at point. Prior to that memorable match Surrey had met England on eleven occasions, winning four, viz., in 1849, 1852, 1858, and 1861, three being lost, and four drawn.” The editor of the Am erican Cricketer calls my attention to a slight error (not mine) on page 105 of C rick e t for May 8, which, he thinks, it might be worth while to correct in the interest of historical accuracy. An epitome o f the chief inci­ dents in the early history o f cricket from “ Forty Years o f Cricket ” contains the following — “ The first English team visited Canada and the United States in 1861.” The correct date is 1859, in which year Parr’s X I.— composed of Caffyn, Lockyer, Stephenson and Caesar o f Surrey; W isden and Lillywhite of Sussex; Parr, Grundy, and Jackson of N otts; and Carpenter, Diver, and Hayward o f Cam­ bridgeshire — visited America. They played 22 o f the CJ.S. at Camac’s Woods, Philadelphia, October 10—13, 1859, the score being: English XI., 126 and 29 for three wickets; U .S. XXII., 94 and 60, the Eleven winning by seven wickets. Apropos of an amusing incident which appeared in “ Gossip ” a long time since, in which the late John Lillywhite