Cricket 1890

SEPT. 4, 1890* CRICKET: A WEEKLY EE COED OF THE GAME. 877 LEADING NOTTS CR ICKETERS . The portraits are reproduced from photographs by Hawkins dt Co., of 108, King's Boad, Brighton. Surrey by one run. No further details are given. I find, however, from a copy of Lloyd's Evening Posty published Sept. 25,1871, that the fixture was between the Hambledon Club and the Gentlemen of Chertsey, the totals being—Hambledon 218, Gentlemen of Chert­ sey 217. Again, I find results of many matches played between 1728 and 1746. A great cricket match was played on Kenning­ ton Common in 1729, and the London Even­ ing Post of August 7,1729, records the fixture as follows : “ On Tuesday was played a great Cricket Match on Kennington Common, be­ tween the Londoners and the Dartford Men, for a considerable sum of money, Wager, and JBetts; and the latter beat the former very much." The London Evening Post of Sept. 14,1731, relates : “ Yesterday a great Cricket Match was played at Moulsey Hurst, near Hampton Court, between the Kingston Men and the County of Surrey for 25 guineas a-side, which were won by the latter. Some thou­ sands of persons of both sexes were present on this ocoasion.” Yet another great cricket matoh was played on Kennington Common, Sept. 20, 1736, as the following particulars taken from the ARTHUR SHREWSBURY. London Evening Post of Sept. 21, 1736, testify— “ Yesterday the great cricket match was played on Kennington Common between Gen­ tlemen of Kent and Surrey, the gamesters were admirably good and to a man performed their parts. The Kentish men went in first and got 41 notches, the Surrey men 71; at the second hands the Kentish men got 53, and the Surrey men had but 23 to get, which they acquir’d by ease and had two wickets to spare* A great deal of money was won and lost upon the occasion.” I have taken the trouble to give these matches, as in Dr. Montgomery’s exoellent book on “ Old Cricket and Cricketers,” and in the first vol. of *•Scores and Biographies,” by Fred Lillywhite, no mention is made of the same. w . GUNN. W . BARNES. played at Melbourne on Dec. 29 and 31,1877, and Jan. 1, 1878. The Eleven had only two runs to get to win, and had four wickets to fall in the second innings. The matoh, amidst great excitement, however, ended in a tie, four of the best bats in the oolonies at that time going down for one run; and that solitary run was a bye. Mr. A. J. G aston also sends me some interesting remarks on the subject of early crioket. In Vol. I. of Fred Lillywhite’s “ Soores and Biographies ” there is, as many students of cricket literature have observed, a consider­ able break so far as any record of cricket is given—viz., from 1746 to 1771. It is stated in Lillywhite’s “ Scores,” and also in the first edition of Nyren, that a match was played on the Laleham Burway ground, near Chertsey, on Sept. 23, 1771, between the Hambledon Club and Surrey, when the former beat against Hampshire, you say “ It was his first trial in a County match, and I should fancy the instances of a similar achievement under the same circumstances were few indeed.” Mr. R. T. Ellis’ debut for Sussex v. Gloucester, at Clifton, on the 28th of August, 1877, is the only instance I can recall to mind. The Field of Sept. 1,1877, contains a report of this match, and from it I gather that Mr. Ellis was in before a run had been scored, and that he carried his bat for 73 out of 131, against the bowling of W. G., E. M., Midwinter and R. F. Miles. The report reads thus:—“ Sussex won the toss, and sent in Mr. Greenfield and H. Phillips . . . , the Sussex wicket-keeper fell to the first ball he received. Mr. Ellis followed.” W.G. was at the top of the bowling averages in 1877, so this must be about the best first appearance on record, I should think. w. a tt e w e ll. A correspondent sends me the following: Referring to the performance of Ayres in carrying his bat through Surrey’s innings M, sherwin .