Cricket 1890

VKMJUNB 5, 1890, CR ICK ET : A W E E K L Y RECORD OP THE GAME . 169 and Tom Lockyer were the principal actors, “ Lector ” sends me the follow­ ing— Tom Lockyer’s cool readiness for a joke was in evidence on m ore occasions than one. I re­ collect a match played at Broadwater, Godal- m ing, in 1867, between the United South of England Eleven and, I believe, Eighteen of E aling. The late Julius Ctesar was playing for England,and Lockyer made him a bet that he would not get m ore than 40 runs. Several of the cricket cognoscenti were in the secret, the 40 runs were got, and the crisis had arrived. W hat was to be done? Native wit was equal to the occasion. The next ball passed the batsman, and the w icket­ keeper took it. Turning hastily round to Jupp, who was at longstop, Tom shouted, “ N ow then, Juppy !” im plving that the ball had gone to that famous field. The foot w ith­ in the crease was raised in the act of “ trying ” for the bye, and, as usual, the bails were whipped off with alacrity. The bet, as was the case w ith the cocoanut m atch, was won. So many communications have reached me enquiring in what papers Mr. W. G. Grace’s serial articles “ Forty Years of Cricket,” which commenced on April 5th and are published every Saturday, are ap­ pearing that I have applied to head­ quarters for information which will satisfy my correspondents. It will interest them to know that they are running in the following journals in this country, as well as in three Australian and two Indian papers— Tim es and M irror, B ristol; Advertiser > Leicester; W eekly M ercury , Birmingham ; D aily Guardian , N ottingham ; E vening Citizen , Glasgow ; The H erald , Ashton-under L yn e; South Wales D aily N ews , Cardiff; The Observer , Rochdale ; Edinburgh Evening News, Edinburgh; B elfast News L etter, B elfa st; W estern M orning N ew s , Plym outh : Preston Herald, P reston; D aily E xpress, D u blin ; N orth W ales Guardian , W rexham ; Bradford.Observer, Bradford, Yorks ; Evening Telegraph, D undee; E xam iner and Times, Manchester; Leeds D a ily News, Leeds; H ereford Tim es, H ereford; W eekly F ree Tress , Aberdeen. “ R. T.” writes— C r ic k e t so duly records the advancement of cricketers that it will be glad to notify the additional distinction conferred on Mr. A. W . L. H emm ing, of the Colonial Office—who in the Queen's B irthday Gazette is now Sir A .W . L. H emm ing, K.l .M.G. The news to his friends and members of the Incogniti must, indeed, be m ost gratifying; for in his capacity of bon. secretary to that club he has raised it, by his untiring energy and devotion, from small beginnings to the position of one of the m ost prom inent of the roving clubs of E n g ­ land. A ll “ In co g s/’ also, must have been pleased to read in last week’s “ Gossip ” how Mr. J. S. Udal, in his high appointm ent at F iji, is working up the game. A ll those who personally know what an energetic cricketer he is can well im agine that he will keep the “ F ijis” moving, and who can foretell, in these advancing days, but what another “ Incog ” m ay in the distant future be consigned with an appointm ent to the “ A ztecs ” with the re­ sult of hom e and hom e matches between them and the above named Islanders. Yerily, cricket is the best of civilizers, and a grand m ission to cultivate, certainly a much better and m ore soothing game than the old one of tomahawks and scalping knives. L. H.C. P a l a ir e t , the Freshman whose all-round cricket has proved of such good service to Oxford this summer, it is un­ necessary to remind the majority of C ric k e t readers, was the captain of the Repton Eleven last year. He was born at Grange-over-Sands, in Lancashire, on May 27th, 1870. He lives, however, near Bath, and played last year for Somerset­ shire against M.C.C. and Ground, at Lord’s, under the residential qualification. Slight in build, he stands nearly six feet. A good field and safe catch anywhere, he is in addition a very useful bowler. When in form he is, too, areally good bat, driving very well both to the off and on. His weakest point as a batsman is that he is rather apt to be caught at the wicket. BOWLING. Balls. Mdos. Runs. Wkts. Aver. Turner ... 1866 . . 160 .. 626 .. 54 .. 11.32 Ferris ... 1813 . . 149 .. 683 .. 56 .. 11.47 Lyons ... 281 . . 19 .. 130 .. 11 .. 11.9 Charlton. 264 ... 28 .. 98 .. 7 .. 14 Trumble. 270 . . 19 . . 129 .. 6 .. 21.3 Trott ... 90 2 .. 66 .. 1 .. 66 A ge cannot be said to wither the infinite variety of the Hearnes. Certainly custom does not stale it, and, indeed, the different branches of the family bid fair to furnish good material for one or other of the southern counties for all time, if cricket goes by descent, as there are so many in­ stances to prove. The Hearnes, though, mostly hark back to Chalfont, in Bucks, and J. T. of that name—the youngster who bowled with such success for Mid­ dlesex against Notts last week—is a native of Chalfont St. Giles in that county. He is a son of William Hearne, who, I may add, is first cousin to Tom Hearne, the superintendent of the ground bowlers at Lord’s, the veteran who first made the name of Hearne famous on the cricket- field. Some of the critics wrote as if this was J. T.’s first appearance for Middlesex. As a matter of fact he had represented the county once before, at Lord’s in 1888, against the Australians. On that occa­ sion he delivered eleven overs for nineteen runs and two wickets. T he occasions in which three scores of a hundred are made in the same innings are so infrequent that any occurrence of the kind merits prominent notice. As far as I know, only one instance was re­ corded in English cricket last summer, when Messrs. Brann, Pontifex, and C. L. Morgan contributed to give the Streatham Club the distinction of a rare achieve­ ment. Though the present season is quite young, still the United Service Ground, at Portsmouth, can claim the credit of the triple hundred. The latest case occurred in a match between the Corinthians and the United Services on Monday last. The former were in nearly the whole day, and 602 were recorded before the tenth wicket fell. To this big sum,*P. J. T. Henery, o f Middlesex, con­ tributed 128, Major Bethune 126, and H. T. Hewett, the Somersetshire captain,117. T he following averages of the Australian team have been taken from the official scorebook, and may therefore be accepted as strictly accurate— BATTING. Times Most in Inns, not out. Runs, an inns. Aver. G. H. S. Trott... 13 ... 1 ...803 ... 61 ...25 2 J. J. Lyons ...13 ... 0 ...267 ... 31 ...20.7 S. E. Gregory... 12 ... 3 ...185 ... 59* ... 2'.5 W. L. Murdoch. 13 ... 1 ... 242 ... 93 ... 20.2 J. McC. Black­ ham ........ 9 ... 1 ... 147 ... 75 ... 18 3 C. T. B. Turner 12 ... 0 ... 214 ... 59 ... 17.10 F. H. Walters... 12 ... 1 ... 172 ... 53* ... 15 7 J. J. Ferris ... 12 ... 4 ... 123 ... 35 ... 15.3 H. Trumble ... 7 ... 3 ... 43 ... 31 ... 10.3 P. C. Charlton 5 ... 0 ... 48 ... 41 ... 9 3 J. E. Barrett ... 10 ... 0 ... 83 ... 87 ... 8.3 S. P. Jones ... 12 ... 0 ... 82 ... 37 ... 6.10 K. E. Burn ... 6 ... 0 ... 37 ... 35 ... 0.1 “ R. T.” again— Saturday last was a busy day in the scftring department on the capital ground of the Kensington Park Club, in their match v. U x­ bridge. W ith the goodly total of 226 set them by the visitors, and only two hours and a half to get them , it was no mean perform ­ ance for M r.II.R eynolds— a rare good all-round perform er—to knock up 105 runs in an hour and four minutes, and the club to w in with a total of 326 for 8 wickets. B y-the-bye, Kensington Park reminds me that it was there I spotted tw o of m y Colts—Messrs. Stanley Scott and T im othy O’Brien—now batting and helping to win matches for M id­ dlesex. It is pleasing to add that the K . P. is now one of the m ost prosperous of subur­ ban clubs, thanks to the nursm g and hand­ ling it has received from the united efforts of Messrs. A. H . Browne and O. D ’Oyly Brooks. P R IN C IP A L E V E N T S FO R N E X T W E E K . T h u r s d a y , J u n e 5.—Lord’s, Middlesexv. Glouces­ tershire ; Cambridge, C a m b r id g e U n iv . v . A u s t r a l ia n s ; Gravesend, Kent v. N otts; Leicester, Leicestershire v. Surrey. F r id a y , J une 6.— Stoke, Staffordshire v. Yorks. M onday , J une 9.— Lords, M id d l e s e x v . A u stra ­ l ia n s ; Brighton, Sussex v. Notts; Leyton, Essex v. Warwickshire; Lincoln,Lincolnshire v. Staffordshire; Manchester, Lancashire v. Surrey; York, Yorkshire v. Kent. S T R E A T H A M v. U P P E R TOO TING Played at Streatham on May 26. U p p e r T o o t in g . N.Morice, lbw, b C.L. Morgan ................. F. G. Thorne, c Higson, b O. L. Morg n ................. N. Roberts, c Scott, b C.L. Morgan D. Watney, c Bailey, b C. L. Morgan ... W.S. Sawyer, c Bird, b Bambridge.......... B. M. Harvey, run out T. W . Hemmerde. c fligson, b Bam­ bridge ................. 3) D. C. Bartley, b Bambridge .......... 0 E. Strode, b C. L. M organ....................11 S. H. Gregory, b C.L. Morgan ................... 11 W. H. Du Buisson. c Bailey,bBambridge 15 E. T. Noyes, not out ......................... 1 B 8, lb 2, w 3 ...13 T otal...........177 S t r e a t h a m . A. C. Broadfcnt, c Watney, b Sawyer 0 H. H. Scott, b Strode 85 H. M. Leaf, b Sawyer 0 C. L. Morgan, c Thorne, bSawyer... 55 W. S. Trollope, run out ........................16 W. Bird, c N.Roberts, b Harvey................. 1 T.Docker, st Thorne, b Watney.......... ... 20 W. R. Higson, st Thorne, b Bartley 6 E. O. Bambridge, c Sawyer, b Harvey 1 N. C. Bailey, b Rove rts .................30 J. A. Druce, b Roberts................. 11 C. Morgan, not out 1 B 16, lb 4, w 1 ... 21 Total ..219 U i p e r C l a p t o n C l u b have Friday, July 11, open for a day m atch in their week’s cricket. Address H on. Sec., 21, Clapton Square, N.E. I n a thirteen a-side m atch between Tutbury Town and the local Popular Entertainment Society, on May 26, the form er scored 71 in each innings. M r . H. W . F orster , the captain of the H ampshire Eleven, was married on Tuesday last at Stv Peter’s, Eastbourne, to the H on. R achel Scott Montague, only daughter of Lord Montague.