Cricket 1890

4 0 8 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. SEPT. 18,1890, FOOTBALLS are the BEST Match Size, 5/6, 6/6, 7/6, 8/6, 9/6. Football Shirts, from 61- each, 66/- per doz. Knicks, 2/-, 2/6, 3/-, 3/6, 4/-, 51- per pair. Navy Knicks, 31- per pair. Shin Guards, 9d., 10d., 1/-, 1/3, 1/6, 1/9 Especially good line) 2/'-, 2/6, 8/- Football Boots, 7/6, 8/6, 9/6, 10/6. Please send for Price List of Shirts, Shin Guards, Goals, &c. 38, Finsbury Pavement LONDON, E.C. OARR I AGE PA I D ON AL L BALL S. piBICKBT, FOOTBALL, * TENNIS GROUNDS ^ (all thoroughly drained, October, 1888), TO LE T at Hyde Farm, Balham, for Season, Day, or Saturdays, close to Railway Station. Special reduced return railway fares from Victoria, 6d. London Bridge 7d.—ApplyH. B en h am (Proprietor), 104, Rossiter Road, Balham. [N.B.—Splendid Cinder Track Ready in March.] pR IC K E T , FOOTBALL & TENNIS GROUNDS. South London Clubs desiring Grounds can be accommodated in the neighbourhood of Catford Bridge, close to the Mid-Kent Railway Station, and accessible in half an hour from the City.— Apply to M e s s r s . F r e r e F o r s t e b & Co., 28, Lin­ coln’s Inn Fields, W.C. TXTANTED, in North of London, a GROUND, to share with another Cluo, for new*y-formed Cricket Club.—Terms, &<*., 14B.,” care of Cricket Press. " 0 0 0 TBALL, 1890-91—FOOTBALL GROUNDS for SeasoD, also accommodation for any special matches; five minutes’ from station.— B. Y ou n g m a n , Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow. N e w E d it io n . R e v is e d t o D a t e , 1848 t o 1889. W n o n A n r “ A BIOGRAPHY by I I I l KA I i r w. M. B r o w n l e e ; I U I U I I f f U L l with a Portrait, and TREATISE ON CRICKET by W . G. G r a c e . Price 1/-; post free 1/2. London: I l if f e & S o n , 3, S t . B r id e S t r e e t , E.C C O B B E T T ’S Cricket Bat Company, Limited, Beg to Inform their Customers that all BATS will In future be NUMBERED, in order to enable the COMPANY TO TRACE THOSE OP THEIR OWN MANUFACTURE. Factory .■66. Oapland-itreat, Marylebon*. NEW VOLUME OP THE ALL ENGLAND SERIES Now Ready, small 8vo, cloth cover, 1«. CRICKET. BY THE HON. AND REV. E. LY T T E LTO N . CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELEVEN, 1875*8. Headmaster of Haileybury College. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. Contents—CRICKET IN SCHOOLS—BOWLING —FIELDING — BATTING — STALENESS — M.C.C. LAWS OF CRICKET. “ Very interesting and suggestive.”—Times. “ One of the most useful and attractive of the All England Series.”— Morning Post. “ For Mr. Lyttelton’s book on Cricket I have nothing but praise.”— Globe. “ It is stored with excellent counsel .”—Saturday Review. _________________________ London: GEORGE BELL & SONS, fork Street, Covent Garden. ACC I DENTS In the C R I C K E T F I ELD. 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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. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Results of the SeasoD and Averages of the Prin­ cipal Clubs will be inserted in C r ic k e t of next Thursday, as well as in the earlier Winter numbers, at the rate of 8/6 a column, with a minimum charge of 2/6. To ensure insertion in the following number, particulars must be received not later than the Saturday previous to day of publication. Next Thursday’s C r ic k e t will be the last of the weekly Summer numbers for this year. The Winter monthly issues will appear, as here­ tofore, on the last Thursday of each month from November to April inclusive, commencing with October 30, with the exception of those for December and January, which will appear on the 27th of each of those months. The dates will be :— No. 257—THURSDAY, OCT. 30. No. 258—THURSDAY, NOV. 27. No. 259—SATURDAY, DEC. 27. No. 260—TUESDAY, JAN. 27. No. 261—THURSDAY, FEB. 26. No. 262—THURSDAY, MARCH 26. The six winter numbers will be forwarded im­ mediately on publication for Is. 3d. The amount must be sent to M r . W . R. W r ig h t , Manager of C r ic k e t , at the office, 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Doctors’ Commons, London, E.C. C r ick e t: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 41, 8T. ANDREW’S HILL, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 th , 1890. Dairilimt The abstract and brief ohronlol. of the time.— ________________________ BamUU S om e weeks ago I h a d occasion to call attention to a remarkable sequence of high scoring by C. Mitchell for the Crystal Palace Club. Now that the season is over, it will be of interest if I give particulars of his principal innings, which give an aggregate altogether out of the ordinary run. Altogether he made 1,663 runs for the Palace this year, as the fol­ lowing figures will show. Inns. Not out. Total Runs. Aver. 28 ... 5 ... 1C63 ... 72.7 In home matches, i.e., those played on the Crystal Palace ground alone, how­ ever, his record was even more extra­ ordinary. This runs— Inns. Not out. Total Runs. Aver. 14 ... 5 ... 1191 ... 132.3 This, I may add, is a long way the best performance for the Crystal Palace Club, and eclipses the most successful season of C. J. M. Fox when in the height of his run-getting. Mitchell’s principal scores this season have been as under :— July 26—v. Clapham Wanderers .. 170 Sept. 6—v. Farningham .. .. 160 Aug. 22—v. United Servioes .. .. 148 Sept. 13—v. Oriental Bank .. .. 128* July 31—v. Charlton Park .. .. 116 Aug. 8—v. Uppingham Sohool .. 96 July 24—v. Hampstead .. .. 93 Aug. 2—v. Bickley Park .. .. 92* July 14—v. Beckenham .. .. 89* July 10—v. Brighton College.. .. 86 June 19—v. In oogn iti........................79* May 3—v. G ra n v ille ........................ 78* T hose who remember the last stage of the memorable match between England and Australia at the Oval in 1882, when the Australians won by seven runs, will be able to appreciate the force of W. G.’s description ofPeate’s share in that finish, which few can recall even now without a shudder. W. G., in his “ Forty Years of Cricket,” gives Peate’s version of the ending:— Peate was not a good field, and did not trouble himself muoh about his batting average; but he made rather an amusing re­ mark in the memorable and sensational match England v. Australia, in 1882, when nearly everyone was slaughtered by Spofforth in the second innings of England. Mr. C. T. Studd, rather strangely, was down on the list as tenth man, and Peate was eleventh. Ten runs were wanted to win, and it was not considered an impossible task if Peate could only keep up his wicket or allow Mr. Studd to have the bowling. However, Peate hit out at the first or second ball and made two runs off it ; he then tried it again off the next ball, and was clean bowled. On being remonstrated with for his rashness and want of judgment, he said, “ Very sorry, gentlemen, but I could not trust Mr. Studd.” Not a bad remark, considering that Mr. Studd had made a hundred runs against the same bowling a month or so before! “ T he Master,” in his recent sketchesof “ Cricketers I Have Met,” in chapter 23 of the book referred to, also pays a de­ servedly high compliment to Mr. John Shuter’s unwearying zeal in the cause of county cricket. As a public school boy he acquired a great reputation, and before he had oompleted his twentieth year he had played in the Kent Eleven by right of residence. But it was in 1877 that he identifiedhimself with the county of his birth, and began to establish his posi­ tion amongst first-class cricketers. Surrey has had no warmer supporter and few more brilliant batsmen and fieldsmen. He is safe