Cricket 1890

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The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet, L e ic e s t e r s h ir e cricket has just re­ ceived a very important addition in the person of Mr. A. Lorrimer, who played such a brilliant innings against Surrey at Leicester last week. Yery few cricketers have been so favoured as to be able to claim a score of over a hundred in their first county match, as was that gentle­ man’s luck on tho occasion named, so few, indeed, that in the hurry of writing I am only able to call to mind one other instance, that of James Rickett, who went in first, and scoring 195, carried his bat through the innings for Lancashire v. Surrey, at the Oval, on May 30, 1867. Mr. L orrim er ’ s exceptional perfor­ mance on his first appearance in an im­ portant fixture will invest his future with particular interest, and some few particu­ lars of his cricket career will, I feel sure, be acceptable to C ric k e t readers. Born at Leicester in 1859, he was educated at Ockbrook School. For the last three summes he has acted as captain of the Leicester Town Club, of which he has been a member ever since its formation thirteen years ago. Last year he made several good scares, the best of which was one of 110 v. Lutterworth. This season, too, he has been making a lot of runs for his club. I understand he has been asked to play for’tho county before, but business engagements have prevented. He is with the firm of Lorrimor and Tabberer, one of the largest manufacturers of hosiery in Leicester, of which his father is a partner. Mr. L o rrim er is playing for Leicester­ shire against Derbyshire, at Leicester, on Monday next, and it will be interesting to see how far he maintains the reputation he has made by his fine performance against Surrey. Mr. T. S. Pearson, who played for Middlesex some years by resi­ dence, will make his first appearance for his native county in the same match. Indeed, I hear on the best authority that with the exception of the captain, Mr. C. E. de Trafford, all the eleven, comprising in addition to the three just named Messrs. C. Marriott, J. H. Joyce, A. E. Wright, with Pougher, Wheeler, Warren, Tomlin, and Needham, all arejLeicester- shire men by birth. T h e Hon. Edward Lyttelton, who, as most C ric k e t readers, at least all who study these hebdomodal (good word that!) “ Notes,” are aware, is the Head Master of Haileybury College, tells an apt little story in the last chapter of the Cricket volume of the “ All England ” series recently published by Messs. G. Bell and Sons. Mr. Lyttelton calls attention to the fact that for some unknown reason or another the striker who gets stumped is censured more than if he gets bowled, and the anecdote he tells is in illustration of this peculiar but none the less common doctorine, T h e reason, Mr. Lyttelton thinks, is perhaps that tradition is in favour of this view. But here is the story— Nearly thirty years ago an elderly lady was quietly sitting in her drawing-room in London, when her son, the father of a celebrated cricketer, came into the room with a look of unutterable shame and disappointment in his face. He flung himself into an arm-chair, and groaned aloud, “ I never should have thought it possible that he could have done it—he of all men in the world.” “ What do you mean ? ” asks the old lady, seriously alarmed. “ Who? W h at?” “ Charles,” was the answer, in the same grief-choked voice. “ Quick, what has he done ? ” “ Why, he ran out to a slow and got stumped.” The batsman’s grandmother, it must be confessed, was somewhat relieved to find it was no worse, and that she need not expect the family name to be dragged through the mire in the next day’s Police News.