Cricket 1890

38Q!8 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. AUG. 14,1890. ' America to England next summer. He had an opportunity of taking tlie opinions of"ftKe secretaries of several of the prin­ cipal County Clubs on Monday, and the feeling of the meeting o f the Council was certainly favourable to the project. Mr. Crowhurst states that he is confident of securing a team fully repre­ sentative of America, and it will be part of the scheme to try conclusions with the pick of English cricketers. Though some may be of opinion that it would have been better if the visit could have been deferred for a year, there is no doubt that if it should be decided to send a team from America, they will have a cordial recep­ tion. Mr. Crowhurst says he can count on the following:—Gr. L. Patterson, W. C. Morgan, W. Brockie, jun., B. D. Brown, P. E. Brewster, Prank Bohlen (German­ town C.C.), D. P. Stoever, A. M. Wood, J. A. Scott (Belmont C.C.), N. Etting, Harry P. Bailey (Merion C.C.), J. Roberts (New York), M. B. Cobb (Manhattan), W . J. Wood (King’s County, Brooklyn), Walter Scott (Pittsburgh), E. B. Ogden, J. G. Davis (Chicago), J. Tunstall-Smith (Baltimore), George Wright (Boston), and J. Turner (Detroit). It will be of interest to know the opinions of Ameri­ can cricketers on tho proposal, may add that I pointed out some weeks ago, that the Parsees contemplated sending a third combination over here in 1891, and that they were confident enough, in the faee of the recent improve­ ments in their all-round cricket, to wish to try conclusions . with the principal Counties. the hitters at the same time ? and does the fanny little man bending down behind the wickets with those leather things strapped round his legs tell them both when to run ? ” T he following will show the positions of the eight leading Counties this year, up to date. Played. Won. Lost. Dwn. Points. Aver. Surrey ... 10 ... 7 ... 1 ... 2 ... 6 ... 0.600 Kent ... 11 ... 5 ... 2 ... 4 ... 3 ... 0.272 LancaihirelO ... 4 ... 2 ... 4 ... 2 ... 0.200 Notts ... 12 ... 5 ... 3 ... 4 ... 2 ... 0.166 Yorkshire 11 ... 4 ... 3 ... 4 ... 1 ... 0.090 Gloucester­ shire ... 12 ... 3 ... 6 ... 3 ... - 3 ... - 0.250 Middlesex 10 ... 3 ... 6 ... 1 ... - 8... - 0.300 Sussex ... 10 ... 1 ... 9 ... 0 ... -8 ...-0 .8 0 0 The County Council has decided that the losses shall be deducted from the wins and drawn games not counted. A corresponden t calls my attention to a bowling performance of no small merit on Tuesday last. It occurred in a match between Chiswick Park and the South Saxons at St. Leonard’s, and S. Farr, a well-known member of the former club, was tho hero. In the first innings of the South Saxons, he took seven wickets for 30, in the second nine for 35, or in the match six­ teen wickets for an average of just over 4 runs. He took the last four wickets in thirteen balls for no runs. He was also credited with the hat trick in the early'part of the second innings. No less an important personage than the Lord Chief Justice, unless my in­ formant is having a game along o’ me, is sponsor for the following story. Some years ago alady of his acquaintance, during the course of an interesting match, was vaunting her knowledge of the game andits details. She had been twice at Lord’s, the same number of times at the Oval, and onao at Prince’s. What more evidence could be required to show that she under stood the game thoroughly ? Some few minutes afterwards, too, she proved her intimate acquaintance with the game. “ Let me see, Willy,” she said to an old Eton cricketer, “ there are, though, two little points which do not appear to me to be quite intelligible.” “ What are they? ” was the natural reply. “ Why, these : Can the thrower ”—she was re­ ferring to the long-stop—“ throw out both “ I n a village match,” writes a corres­ pondent, “ on the border line between Surrey and Sussex, a thorough old yokel was umpiring at one end. A new bowler being put on bowled a ball down by the Bide of the wicket before commencing. The umpire was not used to this kind of thing, and put both hands up and called ‘ wide ’ loudly, quite sure there was no mistake about it that time. This happened last Monday in a match in which I was playing.” I t will interest Surrey’s many friends to know that Mr. E. C. Streatfeild, of the Cambridge eleven, will assist the County in its last three first-class fixtures of the season, that is, against Lancashire and Yorkshire at the Oval next week, and against Kent on the 28th and two following days, also on the Surrey ground. The addition of such an ex­ cellent all round cricketer will, it goes without saying, strengthen the Surrey team materially, and every one will welcome his appearance in County Cricket. Mr. Streatfeild, I may add, was born in Surrey. A glance at the scores of the London Ramblers in their recent tour in the South Coast will furnish conclusive proof that there is one veteran who, like the Grand Old Man, does not “ lag super­ fluous on the stage ” of cricket. I refer to one of the most popular of cricket parsons, the Rev. J. C. Crawford, who, as most C ric k e t readers need not to be informed, has the spiritual care of the occupants of Cane Hill Asylum. Though just in the forties, Mr. Crawford has not lost a whit of his keenness for the game, certainly none of hie physical powers, as the bowlers who visit Purley know to their cost. Mr. Crawford’s latest performance out of the ordinary was for the London Ramblers against the Bolvenden, at Rolvenden, at the end of last week. In the match named, he scored 118 in the second innings, and at the finish, when Rolvenden went in to play out time, helped materially to win the game for the Ramblers by taking three wickets with successive balls. J u dging by the news that has just reached me there seems to be still an, out­ side chance that, although the proposal fot the Australian team to visit South Afrifea on their homeward journey has been de­ clined, the cricketers out there may have to welcome an English team. The hon. sec. of the South African Cricket Associa­ tion, at least, has received an inquiry from James Lillywhite, acting on behalf of Lohmann, as to whether a sum of three thousand pounds can be guaranteed by some of the chief cricket centres to­ wards the expenses of an English team for a tour through South Africa. The suggestion is that the party should leave England in September and remain till the end of March if there were sufficient cricket to pay for stopping. Lillywhite adds, in his letter, that Lohmann would defer his visit till the autumn of 1891, were it not for the probability that an English team will visit Australia during that winter. PR IN C IPA L M A T CH E S F O R N E X T W E E K . T h u rsd a y , A ug . 14.— Lord’s, Middlesex v. Surrey ; Clifton, Gloucestershire v. Notts; Brighton, Sussex v. Lancashire; Portsmouth, Austra­ lians v. Past and Present of Oxford and Cam­ bridge Universities; Beckenham, Kent v. Warwickshire; Taunton, Somersetshire v. Hampshire. F rid a y , A u g . 15.— Huddersfield, Yorkshire v. Leicestershire; Northampton, Northampton­ shire v. Hertfordshire; Hereford, Hereford­ shire v. Worcestershire. M onday , A u g. 18. —Lord’s, M.C.C. and G. Cheshire; Cheltenham, Gloucestershire v. Middlesex ; Oval, Surrey v. Lancashire ; Not­ tingham, Australians y. N otts; Sheffield, Yorkshire v. Derbyshire ; Taunton. Somerset­ shire v. Warwickshire ; Sleaford, Lincolnshire v. Northumberland; Exeter, Devonshire v. Hampshire. W ednesday , A ug . 20.—Lord’s, M.C.C. and G. v. Lincolnshire; Hitchin, Hertfordshire v. Northumberland. BUCKHU R ST H IL L v. SOUTH WOODFORD . Played at Buckhurst H ill on August 2. B uckhcest H il l . W. J. Phillips, c W. W. Tween, c Eng­ land, b Chapman... 36 G. McE-wen, b E. D. E ngland....................10 W. H. Charlesworth, c Dobson, b Lowe... 14 R. L. Aliport, not out 100 0. Charlesworth, b Dobson ....................30 H. G. Nicoll, E. W . Muir, and T. S. Barwell did not bat (innings declared finished). Buck, b Dobson ... 13 W. Sworder, b G. England................. 5 G. Palmer, notout... 15 B 18, lb 2, w 1 ... 21 Total ...244 S outh 'W oodford . 37 Chapman, b Tween 0 Bryan, not out.. G. England, not out... 18 B 3,w 2 Lowe, c Allport, b Palmer ................. 0 Total E. D. England, e McEwen, b Palmer 0 Hobbs. Spicer, Buck, J, England, D. Bind, and Dobson did not bat. T h e Australians were in, and W . G. Grace, W alter Read and M acgregor marched out of the Pavilion to field. “ That,” said the Abbot of St. Dunstan’s, “ I consider the poetry of cricket.’ ’ “ W hat on earth do you mean ? ” asked the assembled Prelates, not know ing whether he was drunk or mad, or both. “ W hy, the rest are all pro’s .”—Sporting Times. Cucektb&s.—Best < C G l K g G oodb bear this M ark .— Advt.