Cricket 1890

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PILE, Outfitter by appointment to the C.T.C., London Athletic Club (L.A.C.), London Rowing Club (L.R.C), Blackheath Harriers, and other leading Clubs. Send for price list to 171, Fenchurch Street, or 71 and 73, Park Street, Regent’s Park N.W. Cvicket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 41, ST. ANDREW'S H ILL, LONDON, E.O . THUESDAY, JULY 1 7th , 1890. Th* ftbstraot and brief chronicle of the time.— _________ Hamlet,, T h e following announcement, taken from the first number of [The Gentle­ woman, will be read with general interest by C r ic k e t readers, for the reason that both the contracting parties have figured, though in different ways, in the columns of this paper. As an all-round cricketer Mr. E. A. Nepean has not many superiors at the present time. Miss Beid, too, is an ardent follower of the grand old game, and readers of C r ic k e t will, no doubt, remember her as the contributor of some tuneful verses which appeared in this paper a year or two ago. Her father, I may add, is as keen an all-round sports­ man as it would be possible to find. An Old Harrovian, and in his day a good cricketer as well as footballer, he is rarely absent from Lord’s or the Oval when an important match is on. The matches at the Node, when he lived there, were amongst the most enjoyable cricket out­ ings within the Metropolitan circuit. The engagement of Mr. Evan Alcock, eldest son of Mr. E. C. Nepean, O.B., of 54, St. George’s Boad, Eccleston Square, to Miss Evelyn Maud Beid is announced. Miss Beid' is the elder daughter of Mr. Cecil Beid, of 30, Collingliam Gardens, South Kensington. Mr. J. M. Y a t e s , |who has been recently selected the Conservative candidate for the North Division of Manchester, was, if I mistake not, a contemporary of Mr. Cecil Beid’s as a footballer in the old days when the "Wanderers—the only Wanderers—were a power in the land. Jimmy Yates—who is, I learn from the Athletic Neivs, Becorder of Salford—if I remember rightly, is an Old Westminster and subsequently graduated at Cambridge. He was a good Association player when the Association game was in its infancy, and also above the average as an all­ round cricketer. He still plays occasion­ ally, I gather from the paper mentioned above, for the Western Club. M r . H . G. O w en , the well-known Essex cricketer, was the principal actor in a by no means uneventful match the other day between Trent College and Tibshelf. He achieved a very rare feat in carrying his bat through both innings of the College, for 27 in the first, and 4G in the second. Curiously enough each side scored 49 in the first innings. L a d ie s ’ matches seem to have found a new, and, I may add, unexpected sup­ porter in Lord Harris, if the following extract from the letter of a Mahableshwur correspondent to a Bombay paper is to be taken as a fact. Still it requires some­ thing of an effort, if it be true, to picture the Governor of Bombay actively asso­ ciated with cricket of such a light and frivolous character. We are all feeling quite exhausted with laughing. Lady Harris had a team of thirteen ladies against her husband’s eleven, the latter playing left-handed and with a stick. The excitement was intense. The ladies were most dreadfully in earnest, but so nervous. They went out for 22 runs in the first innings to 64 for their opponents, but warmed up after­ wards, and got 64 to eight wickets down when it grew dark. Every run, every ball, led to a comical situation—their nervousness at run­ ning, the way they met in the middle from each wicket and consulted as to whether it was safe to go on, and finally each would run back to her own wicket—the way they threw the selves on the ball in fielding and had to make a search in their petticoats for it. They are all mad about cricket now, and in the ra iD s a Poona and a Bombay ladies’ match is come off.