Cricket 1891

(M EM B E R OP TH E K E N T COUN TY X I.) M A N U F A C T U R E R O F C R A N T ) B A L L S Cricket, Football, and Lawn Tennis Outfitter (Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation), 140, LEWISHAM HIGH ROAD , LONDON, S.E. “ T o g e th e r jo in ed in cr ick e t ’s m a n ly to il.1’— Byron, Itogi^rk^iranam^a'aicm Abroad. THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1891. PR ICE 2d. M R . F R A N K S T A N L E Y J A C K S O N . H arrow S chool sends up so many ol its best athletes to Cambridge that it has come to be regarded as one of the most useful training grounds for sport at the University. In Cambridge cricket for many years Harrovians have played a very conspicuous part. In the University Eleven of 1880, Harrow was un­ represented, but this may be cited as the exception which proves the rule. Though latterly, perhaps, the School has not furnished so many recruits able to attain the highest honours of the cricket-field as it did some twenty summers since, still for a long time it has been able to contribute at least one useful player to the University Eleven. In Mr. E. S. Jackson, the latest example of the Harrow School of cricket, the Cambridge Eleven has one of quite its best exponents. A member of a family long and actively identified with Leeds, Mr. Jackson is himself a native of the district, having been born at Chapel Allerton on November 21,1870. It was in the South, how­ ever, that he learned the rudiments of, as well as acquired proficiency in the game in which he has of late aoquitted himself with such credit. His early tuition was obtained at Mr. Draper’s School, Locker’ s Park, Hemel Hempstead, and the records will show that he acted as captain of the eleven during the last two years of his stay there. This, though, was merely a preliminary step to his entrance at Harrow School, which first claimed him as one of its alumni in September, 1884. To obtain a place in a Public School eleven involves, and not infre­ quently, a lengthy apprenticeship. There is no royal road to success at crioket, as Mr. Jackson found at Harrow. A good performance in the match against the Town during the summer of 1887 at last gave him his flannels. Still his one achieve­ ment of any merit that year was a useful score of fifty against a strong Quid Nunc team, and his first appearance at Lord’s was not a suocess, as he was only credited with four runs as the result of his two innings. The following season saw a great development in his cricket, in faot, he Was the bast all-round player in the Harrow Eleven of 1839. This time he was as fortunate as he had been unsuccessful in the previous season, and while he was third in the himself, showing considerable freedom and ower in the attainment of his score of 68, the ighest in the matoh. The news that he was going into residence in Trinity College, Cam­ bridge, in the following Spring, gave no small gratification to the leaders of cricket at that University. A well-played score of 44 in the Freshmen’s match, too, was followed by a similar success against Mr. Thornton’s Eleven in the shape of two good innings against a formidable trio of bowlers in Briggs, Walter Wright, and Mold. Nor was the promise of his first appearance unfulfilled. On the con­ trary, he proved himself to be one of the most successful all-round cricketers in an exceptionally strong University eleven. Oddly enough his best performance of the year was against his own County of York. His bowling, in fact, was one of the chief factors in tne University’s brilliant victory, and it was a great performance on such a wicket as that at Cambridge to take, as he did, twelve wickets for an average of nine and a half runs. Most of the Cambridge Eleven scored heavily against Sussex, at Brighton, and Mr. Jackson’s contribution to the record score of 703 was 60, his highest innings for the University. His first appearance for Yorkshire was against Lancashire, at Hudders­ field, in the middle of last July, but the eleven, as many will remember, made a bad show on a lumpy wicket, and Mr. Jackson was only a failure like the rest. A week later, however, he made full amends against M.C.C. and Ground, at Lord’s, and it was mainly his brilliant hitting during his partnership with Moorhouse that gave Yorkshire its easy victory. This year, though he has not done much in batting, the generally slow wickets have enabled him to show to great advantage as a bowler. In the match against Mr. C. I. Thorn­ ton’s Eleven he took six wickets in the second innings at a cost of only fifty runs, and this against a very strong side. Again, however, York­ shire furnished him with his most notable achievement, and ten wickets for 65 runs re­ presented a performance very much out of the common. Though he has hardly come quite up to the promise of his school form, as an all-round cricketer, Mr. Jackson has yet to be seen at his best. As a fa^t bowler he has already been very successful, and as he not only keeps a good length, but uses his head as batting tables at the end f the season, he had the satisfaction of knowing that he was the most successful bowler of the year. His brilliant performance against Eton in 1888 was the more remarkable as he had been ill some little time before the match. Still his all-round cricket was the best feature of the game, and in addition to two excellent scores of 21 and 59, he assisted in the dismissal of eleven Eton batsmen in the two innings at a cost of only 66 runs. His captaincy of the HarrowEleven of 1889, too,was marked by great success. A big score of 125 against the House­ hold Brigade helped to give him the excellent average of 45 tor eleven innings. While Harrow’s easy victory oyer Eton that year, too, was greatly due to his judicious manage­ ment, he also set the side a good example