Cricket 1890

AtJG. 21, 1890, CRICKET: A WEEKLY EE COED OP THE GAME. 845 M B. J. SH U TEB (C A P T A IN ). L E A D I N G S U R R E Y C R I C K E T E R S . The portraits are reproduced from photographs by Bawlcins & Co., of 103, King's Iload, Brighton, seventeen 4’s. As usual, I comm enced the batting for the South. I played what I thought a brilliant 77, and nearly every one of the eleven said so; but after I. D. W alker scored 179 and Fred carried out his bat for 189 ,1 could not get a single sonl to say a kind word about m y performance. M y lot, however, was not quite so unhappy a one as Mr. G. Strachan’s. F or six hours he sat patiently with the pads on, waiting for I. D . or Fred to come out, and when his turn came he had to be content with two balls : the first he hit for 2, the second he was c and b H ornby. I ought to have said that Fred hit thirty-four 4’s in his big score; I. D . W alker, one 5 and twenty- five 4’s ; and that the other eight batsmen soored 19 runs amongst them. If I remember rightly, Mr. Strachan had his pads on for a greater part of the second and a short time of the third day. In all 1,114 runs were soored in the match for thirty-one wickets. M B. W . W . B E A D . W. G. in his “ Forty Years of Cricket,” gives a brief description of his share in a very memorable match in which his younger brother Fred was the chief actor, and in which Mr. George Strachan, whilom captain of the Surrey Eleven, also participated, though in a very dif­ ferent way— A v e ry good matoh [says W . G.] was played at Beeston, Nottingham, on Aug. 18,19, and 20, 1870, between the Gentlemen of the North and the Gentlemen of the South, which showed Messrs. A . N . H ornby, I. D . Walker, and m y brother F red at their best. The North batted first, and scored 287; M r. H ornby’s contribu­ tion being 103, in which there were one 8 and M e n tio n of Surrey reminds me of another distinction, though in a very different way, the outcome of the match with Lancashire completed at the Oval yesterday. As the score will show, Frank Ward was unable to get a rim in either innings, and as he was equally unfor­ tunate in the first fixture of the season at Manchester, it will be seen that he has batted four times against the Surrey Eleven this summer without getting a notch. R. Tebay, the young Sussex pro­ fessional, I may add, was equally unfor-. tunate in the two matches in which he represented his county against Surrey in 1890. G, A. EOHMANN. I t does not fall very often to the lot of a cricketer to mark his appearance in county matches with a wicket the very first ball he delivers. This distinction, though, fell yesterday to the young Cantab, Mr. E. C. Streatfeild, who was lucky enough at the Oval with tho first ball he sent down for Surrey to dismiss Watson, who played on. Altogether Mr. Streatfeild’s debut in county cricket was a singularly successful one. In the two innings of Lan­ cashire he was credited with eight wickets at a cost of fifty-foiir runs. Surrey’s many friends will be heartily pleased that the eleven have received such a valuable addi­ tion to their strength. His all-round cricket cannot fail to be of very great assistance, and his future performances, it goes with­ out saying, will be followed with the greatest interest. j , W . SH ARPE,