Cricket 1890

NOV, 2?, 1890. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 458 Aug. 23—Crayford, Ashford v. Crayford. W . H. Beaney took altogether twelve Crayford wickets, bowling three men with successive balls in the first innings, and four with suc­ cessive balls in the second. Aug. 25— St. Leonard’s, Saxons v. Crystal Palace. Rev. J .C . Crawford carried his bat through the form er’s innings for 101. This was his third con­ secutive performance of the same kind on the South Saxons’ Ground. Aug. 27— Southampton, Surrey v. Hampshire. Ayres carried his bat through first innings of form er for 53. In the match he scored 65 runs without being once out, this being his first appearance in an inter - county match. A ug 28 —Kennington Oval, Kent v. Surrey. F or former, in first innings, F. Martin performed the “ hat trick,” getting Abel, Maurice Read, and Mr. K ey with successive balls. Strangely enough, these were the only wickets he took, though he bowled throughout the innings. Aug. 29—Tonbridge, Tonbridge v. Crystal Palace. Tonbridge scored 511 for seven wickets. Aug. 30—East A cton, Hampstead Nondes­ cripts v. Pallingswick. Hampstead scored 298 for one wicket (J. S. H aycraft 122 not out, H. W ade 147, extras 29), Pallingswick 54. Sept 4, 5, 0—Scarborough, Australians v. Lord Londesborough’s X I. In the first innings of form er, Briggs took 9 wickets for 31 runs, the remaining batsman being run out. Sept. 6 —Exeter, Rev. J.H . Copleston’s Eleven v. Old Malvernians. Four members of the Copleston fam ily were playing two on each side, and they took all the wickets that fell in the match. As W . J. W ippell was also run out by a combination of E .L . and Bev. J. H . Copleston, the coincidence was complete. Sept. 8 , 9 —Lord’ s, M.C.C. & G .v . Australian'1. For former, Chatterton (51) and Gunn (118) scored 109 for the second wicket, Mr. T. C. O’ Brien (105) and Gunn added 159 for the fifth. In first innings of Australia, J. J. Lyons made 99 out of 117 in an hour and a quarter. Sept. 15—Hastings, South of E ngland v. Australians. I)r. W . G. Grace and A bel scored 140 for second wicket of former. Sept. 17 —Gavvler Assistants v. W illaston (South Australia). For former, E. H. Coombe took 8 wickets for no runs. W illaston scored 5 runs. Sept, 18--Manchester, Australians v. an England Eleven. F or former, J. E- Barrett scored 170 for once out, his innings being 97 and 73 (not out). Going in first each tim e, he was in during the entire period that the Australian were batting—viz : five hours and forty minutes in the first, tw o hours and*a half in the second BATES' BENEFIT. We have received the following letter from Mr. H. W. Hedley (“ Mid-on” of the Melbourne Leader), who was over here with the Australian team of 1880. I have just been shown a copy of the Huddersfield Chronicle of July 26th, giving officially the result of subscriptions for poor B illy Bates and his family. The report says— “ Neither has anything been received from Australia, although it was in that country that Bates was injured whilst playing cricket.” This is evidently an accidental mis statement, and one which Australians will very much deplore, for I m ight almost go the length of saying that Bates was the m ost generally popular English cricketer that ever vi 3 ited Australia, and that is saying bomething. Universal comm iseration was felt here at his terrible affliction, and Mr. B. J. W ardill forwarded to Mr. G. F. Vernon a draft for £'250 (receipt of which was acknow­ ledged on 28th of June, 1888), the result of Melbourne subscriptions. That sum included £147 proceeds of a football match played betw een the Carlton and Port Melbourne Clubs, £41 collected by Mr. John Dougharty, 10 guineas each from Melbourne Cricket Club and South Melbourne Football Club, and £5 each from the Melbourne Theatre Royal and from Boyle and Scott. In addition to this £*250, Mr. Vernon, who personally interested him ­ self greatly on poor Bates’s behalf, collected, I believe, something like £80 for the same object before he left Melbourne. I am sure you would not like the British Public to believe that Australians forgot or neglected to help an old favourite in distress, and I would therefore ask you to give publicity in C r ic k e t to the fact that so far from subscribing nothing, the people here acted so prom ptly that their action is apparently old enough to be forgotten or overlooked. I may add that Mr. Vernon was asked to invest this sum of £250 for the benefit of Bates’s fam ily, which may account for it not having com e under the notice of the Bates Fund Committee in Y ork­ shire. Should the remark referred to have come under Mr. Vernon’s notice, I have no doubt that he has already seen justice done to Australian sympathy. M ID D LE SE X COUN TY CLUB. The members of this Club held their Annual Meeting on the 18th inst., at the Charing Cross Hotel, Mr. Y. E . W alker presiding:— Amongst those present were Messrs. P. M. Thornton (hon. sec.), I. D . Walker, J. G. Walker, A. J. Webbe, T. C. O’Brien, and J. Robertson. The balance sheet for 1890, which was brought forward and adopted, showed the following state of affairs :— R e c e ipt s . s. d Balance from last y e a r ........................ 3 3 19 10 Nett Balance from all county matches after pajinsr expenses, and those connected with out matches........... 337 18 3 Subscriptions ................................ 17 15 0 Year s dividend on £X0, 2f Consol* ... 33 8 4 7G3 I 5 E x p e n d it u r e . Charing cross Hotel meeting room ... 1 A ssistant secretary ............................. £0 Prize bats ............................................. 1 W est, w icket-keeping gloves ................ l B. Reeder, luncheons .. ............. 40 Police A ccount (V. Australians, £25 : 16 : G) 54 J. S. Murdoch, cricket bal s ............. 7 Rowen and 8on, posters........................ 5 Whittman and Cole, p rinters............. 7 Postage,stationery,telegrams and sundries 5 Curtis, roping ground ............._ ... 2 Marylebone Cricket Club, donation ... 300 Kssex County Cricket Clah, donation 25 County Cricket Counci', sucscription 1 B alance.................................. 491 1 0 0 0 19 0 17 0 5 10 12 0 JO 0 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 763 1 5 It was staged that the experiment of a County match iu August had proved highly successful, and it was decided to invest £200 of the balance in “ Goschens” 2J, making £700 in all. It was also resolved to extend the match-list in 1891, Sussex and (if possible) Somersetshire being each met twice. T >“ » Iira” d IS A B S O L U T E L Y T H E B E S I The following officers for 1891 were appointed;—President, the Earl of Strafford; vice-presidents, Lord G. Ham ilton, M .P. and Mr. V . E . W alker; hon. treasurer, Mr. W . N icholson; hon. sec., Mr. P. M. Thornton; assistant sec,, Mr. J. M. Murdoch. The Committee, w ith the excep­ tion of Messrs. J. W . Dale and G. B . Studcl, were re-elected. Votes of thanks to Mr. A. J. W ebbe (for captaining the team), to the Hon. Sec , and Chairman, terminated the meeting. THE COUNTY CRICKET COUNCIL. AGEND A F O R TH E ANNU A L MEETING . The following is the agenda for the annua meeting, to be held at L ord’s on Monday, December 8 , at 2 p.m. : 1. Read minutes of last meeting. 2. Pass accounts for the year. 3. Motion, proposed by Warwickshire, to amend scheme passed by the Cricket Council on August 11, 1890, as un der: In II. ( b ) to om it the clause :—“ These three to include the Champion County in the second class for the previous year.” To strike out IV. and V ., and substitute the following : IV. That at the end of each season, in the month of August or September, the lowest county in the first-clas3 shall play the highest of the second-class for right of place. One game only shall be played, and upon neutral ground, to a finish, the winner being placed in the superior class and the loser in the class below for the following year. Note (a). In the event of two counties being equal at the top or bottom of either class, the question of their superiority shall first be decided on neutral ground, played to a finish, and followed imm e­ diately by the match for right of place in the superior class for the next year. Note {b ) . In the event of three counties being equal, either at the bottom of the first or top of the second class, the matter shall retrain in abeyance for that year. V. Should the trial matches fail to define the positions of the competing counties, the Cricket Council itself shall undertake the classification for the following year. Note (c). This scheme shall apply also to the lowest of the second and the highest of the third-class counties. 4. Election of officers. 5. Applications for affiliation from Glam or­ ganshire, Monmouthshire, and Lincolnshire. Below will be found the recommendations of the sub-comm ittee appointed to deal w ith the question of county classification, as amended at the meeting of the Council, held at Kennington Oval on August 11. I.—That for the season of 1891 the counties be divided into three classes, the first class to comprise the follow ing counties:—Notts, Lancashire, Surrey, Kent, Middlesex, Gloucestershire, Yorkshire, Sussex. The second class — Warwickshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Somersetshire, Hampshire, Essex, Staffordshire, Cheshire. The third class — Hertfordshire, Northamptonshire, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, D u r­ ham, Glamorganshire, Devonshire. II.— As to number of matches required to be played by each county. (а) That every first-class county be required to play two matches with at least six other first-class counties, these six to include the Champion county of previous year. ( б ) That every second-class county play two matches with at least three other second-class counties, these three to include Champion county in the second-class for previous year. (c) That every third-class county play two matches with at least three other third-class counties. NEXT ISSUE, DECEMBER 27.