Cricket 1891

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Cricket: AWEEKLYRECORDOFTHEGAME. ♦1, ST. ANDREW'S HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, AUGUST 13 t h , 1891. g a f r x l n m f a m i l y . The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— •• Hamlet, A correspondent who is modest enough to hide his identity under the signature of “ One who Knows ” has sent me the following interesting contribution to the discussion which seems just now to be agitating the minds of such a large section of the public, the vexed question of the premiership of County crickct. I should fancy after this communication any lingering idea that Surrey has a claim to be considered even one of the foremost Counties will be dispelled. The clever people who air their views in the sporting dailies have long since disposed of any such mistaken notion. TH E SO -CALLED C H AM PION COUNTY. Y ou would think, Mr. Editor, to hear some people talk that Surrey really had some claim to this title, or at least to a prom inent place in the cricketing world, but let us analyse for a m om ent all her doings and see what all this com es to. In the first place if she really claims to be cham pion, let her im itate Lancashire, Kent, Sussex, or for that m atter almost any other County, and play only born Surrey men. I don ’t believe in our County any man has so m uch as looked over the border, let alone been there, till he went to L ord’s to play for us. Then let’s take their cricket to pieces, and w hat is it ? Take their batting, isn’t it more like schoolboy hitting than real cricket? Name any one of the lot, and isn’t it sim ply an effort to make as m any runs as they can in a short tim e, and with the bat too,------let ’em play w ith their legs like men, and I ’ll say something to ’em, but they can’t and they daren’t try. Then their boasted bowling, I ’ve watched them m any a day at the Oval, and I ’ve seen ’em—on a wicket specially prepared no doubt — put down balls which twisted, aye, ever so m uch they did. B ut that ain’t not what I calls bowling. W e can’ t bowl twisters, nor we can’t play ’em, and w e don’t want to— ’ taint fair, and cricket isn’t nothing if it isn’t fair. W hy, you know yourself, sir, that m ost of the great makers of bats and balls live in Surrey, and surely they do their own County a good turn—that’s human nature, isn’ t it ? Then again hasn’t Derbyshire beaten Surrey, and haven’t we beaten Derbyshire, so you see we all could beat Surrey if we chose, but we don’t choose, nor w on’t, not till Mr. Goschen puts the coinage right and gives us pennies that w on’t com e down whatever Mr. Shuter calls, be it heads or tails. W h y last match we gave some of their men as good as three lives, and they caught all ours first tim e. A man can’t expect to win while that sort of thing is allowed to go on— W h y don’t they miss catches same as others, then you’d soon see things different. M r . A lfred J . G aston , of Brighton, writes:— In C ricket of last week it is stated in the notes dealing with the Surrey v. Notts match at the Oval thus, “ Richard Daft, we m ay add, is in his fifty-sixth year. W e know of no other instance of a father and son playing for the County at the same tim e in an important m atch.” I can give two instances [adds Mr. Gaston], viz., in the Middlesex v. Surrey fixture at the Oval in 1851, and in the England v. Sussex match at Lord’s in 1853. In the Surrey v. M iddlesex match of 1851 for Middlesex appeared W illiam L illy white the famous “ nonpareil” and his two sons James and John Lillywhite. Old “ L illy ,” as the Veteran was called, was then fifty-nine years of age and played for M iddlesex by residence. A noteworthy feature in connection w ith the matoh is that father and son, viz., W illiam and James Lillywhite, led off the attack, the two capturing singularly three wickets each in Surrey’s only innings. Again in W illiam Lillyw hite’ s benefit m atch at L ord’s, Sussex with G.Parr versus England, July 25th, 26th, and 27th, 1853, Old “ L illy ,” then 61 years of age, and his tw o sons James and John figured in the Sussex Eleven, but the old player W illiam Lillvw hite only bowled an over or tw o in the first innings of England, being taken ill, and his place was filled by M r. H. N. Hoare, captain of the E ton Eleven. In matches almost approaching first-class, there are several instances of father and son participating. I have taken the opportunity of giving publicity to the above achievements of the “ Three Lillywhites,” father and sons, and I m ight almost go a step farther and state that “ Four Lillywhites” assisted in the Surrey v. Middlesex fixture of 1851, as Fred Lillywhite, the younger brother of James and John, was on the ground with his Printing Press,issuing the “ correct card” of the game. [M r. Gaston in conclusion adds] I was sitting side by side with M r. Padwick, of R ed H ill (one of the largest collectors of cricket literature in England), in the Pavilion at the Oval on Tuesday in last week when the t w o . Dafts, father and son, issued from the Pavilion to resume the N otts first innings, and hearing the observations around respecting the appearance of father and son being a “ record” in first-class Cricket, I observed to Mr. Padwick, “ W hat about Old L illy th e n ?” “ Yes,” remarked Mr. P ., “ and did not Mr. C .W . W right,w ho is playing to-day, and his father once play in a m inor m atch at N ottingham a few years ago ?” * A n other noteworthy incident [remarks Mr. G.] this tim e in conneotion with the Canter* bury “ W eek,” giving evidence of yet another land mark of the past,was the introduction of M r.Padwick and m yself to W illiam Martingell, the once famous Surrey and Kent player, who was brought out by L ord Bessborough at Lord’s in the match Surrey v. M .C.C., July 15th, 1839. Martingell, who is now past the age of three score and ten, seemed as blithe and as gay as in the days of his youth. During the week the Veteran was the guest o£ Sir Charles Oakeley. ; jk . ju I.3 ,i T h e scoring of the young Cambridge cricketer, Mr. D. L. A. Jephson, has been so consistently high during the last few weeks that a record of his innings will be of general interest. The table which follows will show that he scored 994 runs in twelve consecutive innings, from July 24 to August 8 inclusive, and as he was twice not out this gives him an average of 110-44. A correspondent, who has kindly lurnished me with the figures, accompanies ihem with these com­ ments :— His tw o innings at Lewes were really adm ir­ able—Parris, Hollands, and H ilton were bowling remarkably well on a deadly sticky wicket, and Parris especially was almost unplayable. It was hard luck on him to be run out by his partner at Cambridge against the M .C.C., when within eight of his hundred, which if secured would have made, w ith the follow ing score at R ebate, four consecutive centuries. A t Reigate he did not give any­ thing [like a chance until the last over before the innings was closed, when he m ight have been taken at the wicket off a bum ping ball. The scores at Tonbridge were, w ith the exception of five runs got on the previous evening made on the same day. Date. For. Against. Runs. July 24 Norbury Park v. Ne’er-do-weels 149 „ 25 ClaphamWndrsv. Crystal Palace123 „ 28 Cambridge Uni­ versity L.V.C. v. M.C.C. 92 „ 30 Clapham Wndrsv. Reigate Priory 167* (On Tour) „ 31 „ v. Lewes Priory 57 Aug. 1 „ v. „ 70 „ 3 „ v. Eastbourne 22 .• 4 „ v. ,. 18* „ 5 „ v. Devonshire Park 44 « >« v. „ 70 „ 7 „ v. Tonbridge 114* .. 8 ,. v. „ 66 Total 994 Average for 9 completed innings 11044. * Not out. I n the list of those I mentioned in last week’s “ Gossip” as certain to join the team Lord Hawke is to personally conduct to America next month, by an oversight I omitted to mention the name * There are several instances of the kind in minor matches.