Cricket 1891

156 C K IC K E T : A W E E K L Y E E COED OP T H E GAME . ju n e 4 , 1891 If Lord Sheffield’s team oome, it may be, [Felix -writes] that Phillips will umpire for them during their tour. Should he be employed as umpire by Lord Sheffield, Jim’s travelling will not extend further than from the M.C.O. pavilion to the pitch, for if Jim be not in the Victorian team, the English­ men will be at the wickets during the few months of their sojourn in these parts. Altogether, indeed, if the following fore­ cast is of any real value, which Grace (W. G. I mean) forbid, the English team to visit Melbourne next winter will not have a very hard time of it. Our present dearth of good bowling is truly lamentable. Indeed, in the past twenty years I do not remember a time when we were as badly off as now in this important department. If we were to meet a first-class English team, we would not stand the ghost of a show. They would get as many runs as they liked against us on a fast wicket, and they would get our batsmen out for a very few. I say in all seriousness, that if you look round Victoria and try to pick out men who would be worth choosing in a first-olas Australian Eleven, you could not name more than three or four players who would be considered class enough as batsmen, and I do not think you could name one man who would be considered class enough as a bowler. W hen it is remembered that the his­ tory of cricket is only able to point to some dozen or so instances of important matches completed in one day, the significance of the exceedingly poor per­ formance of the eleven which represented Notts against M.C.O. and Ground last Monday will be fully understood. Under certain conditions Lord's, it goes without saying, is practically unplayable, but in the present case, no thoroughly satisfac­ tory explanation can be given to account for the moderate show of Notts in face of the comparatively slight difficulty the Marylebone batsmen ex­ perienced in the wicket. It is along time since a side bearing such a high reputa­ tion as Notts was dismissed as its eleven was on Thursday in the first innings, for fifteen runs from the bat, and for the sake of the game it is to be hoped that it will remain as the one record of the kind for this season at least. The last occa­ sion on which a match of any importance was begun and finished on the same day was on May 12, 1890, when Surrey beat Leicestershire at the Oval. But in this case it is worthy of remark that the play, which began twenty minutes late, was prolonged a quarter of an hour over the usual time to prevent the useless exten­ sion of the game into the second day. B u n g ettin g under the unfavourable conditions which attended cricketers last month has been a matter of such obvious difficulty, that it is positively refreshing to have to record anything in this direction out of the ordinary. A total of over six hundred stands out in bold relief among the many small scores, and in the long list of short innings and uncompleted matches which have been the rule rather than the exception as yet this—I had almost written summer— season. The ground of the United Service Cricket Club at Portsmouth has been the scene of such sensational per­ formances with the bat at different times, that it is quite in the fitness of things to find it establishing the record of the first month of the cricket year. The Hamp­ shire Rovers, who were the sufferers on this occasion, had to field out for the United Services all last Friday and so much of the following day that they had only themselves a chance of making sixty-eight runs at the end of the second afternoon. The United Services had twelve men to bat and only one (Sir G. Cuyler, who did not get a notch) failed to get double figures. The score was 611 before the last wicket fell, and considering the length of the outing it said well for the Hampshire Bovers that they only gave seventeen extras. The principal contributors to this huge score, I may add, were Hon. B. F. Boyle (B.A.) with 164, Capt. Hamilton (B.E.) with 92, and Bevd. F. C. Stebbing (B.N.) with 78. I t will give gratification to many old friends of one of the keenest cricketers the Army has ever had, to know that Major Benny-Tailyour, of the Boyal Engineers, has lost little if any of his old powers as a batsman. A correspon­ dent has been good enough to send me a score of a match played at Gibraltar on the 26th of last month, between the officers of the Garrison and the Non- Commissioned Officers and Men, in which Major Benny-Tailyour, Mr. W. 0. Hedley, another Sapper who played- a prominent part in Kent cricket a few years since, and is now hoping to help Somersetshire, and Major Bice, who captained the Aldershot team last year, were playing. The first-named, too, was the chief scorer on the side of the officers, carrying his bat out for 62 in a total of 192. PRINCIPAL MATCHES FOB NEXT WEEK T h ursday , J une 4. —Lord’s, Middlesex v. York shire; Kenningfcon Oval, Surrey v. Gloucester­ shire ; .Liverpool, Lancashire v. Kent; Leyton, E»sex v. Leicestershire. F r id a y , J umk 5.— Durham, Durham v. Northum­ berland ; Hereford, Herefordshire v. Wiltshire; Oxford, the University v. the County. M ond ay , J une 8.— Lord’s, Middlesex v. Notts \ Brighton, Sussox v. Gloucestershire (W. Hum­ phreys’ Benefit); Leeds, Yorkshire v. Derby­ shire ; Leicester, Leicestershire v. Lancashire; Sheffield, Yorkshire Colts v. Notts Colts; Northampton, Northants v. Bedfordshire; Stoke, Staffordshire v. Hampshire. T u e sd a y , J u n e 9—Barnes, Surrey Colts v.Barnes United; Worcester, Worcestershire v. Keble College, Oxford; Chelmsford, Essex C. and G. v. Chelmsford. W e d n e s d a y , J u n e 10.—Guildford, Surrey C. and G. v. Guildford. CRICKETERS-Best <-CGIKfc Goods City Agents — b e a r th is M a r k .— A d v t. P atton & L ester , 94, Q ubbn S t ., C he ^ sxpe WALTHAMSTOW v. CHESHUNT. Played at Walthamstow on May 30. C h esh u n t . Galloway, run out ... 4 A. Andrews, run out 7 W. Galloway, c Ro'erts, bWallett 2 F. Doxat, b Tuck ... 2 C.W. Bedwell, c and b Platt ......................19 M. A. Evans, b Wallet 2 H, A. Shaw, b Tuck... 9 W a lth a m sto w . A. F. Bedwell, not out ... ................ H. C. Clark, c Wal­ let, b Platt ......... Pedley, b Platt ... Mochpy, b Platt ... B 3, lb 1, w 2 ... Total. 60 F. A. Tuck, c and b Evans...................... 5 H. W. Lyle not out... 17 J. Johns, b Shaw E. T. Platt, b Shaw ... J. A. Wallet, b Shaw A.E. Overton, b Shaw S. Collard, b Shaw ... Roberts, b Shaw ... A. E. Arundel, b Pedley ................ Brady, b Shaw......... J. Cullen, b Pedley... Total 0 1 1 , 83 MORTIMER v. CORDWALLES. Played at Mortimer on May 80. M ortim h r . Hon. R. Ersklne, c Lord F, Scott, c Bar- and b Barlow... ... 16 low, b Gosling ... 5 Hon. W. Cadogan, b Lord Castlereagh, b Black ... ... ... 8 White ............... 18 Hon. C. Allsopp, b G. Blacklock, b Gos­ Barlow ......... ... 15 ling ...................... 9 Hon. G. Trefusis, b G. Tryon, b White 1 Gosling ......... ... 82 H. Marsham, not out 0 D. Dalrymple, c Extras................ 8 Black, b Gosling ... 11 — Hon. W. Trefusis, b Total .........123 Barlow ......... ... 0 Steinthal.cDalrymple, b J. Trefusis ......... White, c Blacklock, b CORDWALLES. First Innings. Walford.b J.Trefusis Bostock, b J.Trefusis Hanson, b J. Trefusis Seymour, b Dal- rymple ................ Darling, not out Extras................ Tryon .............14 Gosling, run out ... 15 Bathurst, c Cadogan, b W. Trefusis ... 0 Barlow, b Tryon ... 0 Black, cCastlereagh, Total b J. Trefusis......16 In the Second Innings Steiuthal scored c and b Tryon 12, White, c J. Trefusis, b Dalrymple 3, Gosling (not out) 7, Bathurst (not out) 0.—Total, 21. SUTTON v. BRIXTON WANDERERS. Played at Sutton on May 30. S utton . H. M. Smith, b Rider......................21 E.Mawer, c Rider, b Hcppel ............. . 59 H. Hyslop, b Heppel 0 G A. Bacon, o sub., b Rider ................ 5 F. Ashworth, c and b Heppel ............... 0 E. H. Bambridge, b Rider......................10 F. Biades, lbw, b Heppel ................ 1 F. J. Nightingale, b Heppel ................ T. Burrows, c E. G. Blades, b Heppel G. B. Blades, c E. G. Blades, b Bider ... J. H. Martyn, not out ...................... Total 71 B rixton W anderers . H. Odell, b Mawer ... 2 W. H. Boffey, run out 0 McLauchlan, c F. Blades, b Bacon ... 1 Rider, b Mawer......... 9 E. G. Blades, lbw, b Mawer ............... 9 W. S Holford, c B am b r i d g e , b Mawer ............... 22 W. Puckle, b Mawer 1 W. Lloyd, c Hyslop, b Bambridge......... A. W. HeppeJ, c O. B. Blades, b Bam­ bridge ................ L. Blades, not out ... G. M. Topp, c and b Bambridge ... ... Extras................ Total .........48 W e s t ’ s P o c k e t S core B ook contains ample room for keeping Bowling Analysis, Ac., for 48 innings. In use by all principal Clubs. Post free Is. lja., of Wright and Co., 41. St. Andrew’s Hill Doctors’ Commong, E.O.