Cricket 1891

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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 Cluhg. Send for Price List to 171, Fenchurch St. or 71 and 73 Park St. Regent’s Park, N.W. Cncket: AWEEKLYRECOBDOFTHEGAME. *1 , ST. ANDREW’ S HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, AUGUST 2 0 t h , 1891. IjaftrKon f e s x p . The »batr»ot and brief chronicle ol the time.— ______________________________ SamU t M y good friend of many years, Mr. F. Gale, took leave of London, as well as of a number of trusty comrades who were bent on seeing the last of him, at Euston yesterday week. It had been the “ Old Buffer’s ” intention ever since he had made up his mind to go out to the Far NorthWest to join his son, that he would stay over the August Bank Holiday to see the completion of the return match between Surrey and Notts at the Oval. This was the last important fixture he saw, and is likely to see for some time, though, in common with many of his old friends, I am very hopeful that we shall, in spite of his present intention to settle permanently in Canada, have a chance of grasping his hand again in the not very distant future. He left Liverpool in the Allan Liner “ Parisian,” and a letter written off Lough Foyle, while the steamer was waiting for the mails, shows that at all events he was taking his final leave of the Old Country in the best of spirits and full of hope. His address, I believe, is Butterfield, Manitoba, Canada. A bout this time last year I had occasion to notice some remarkable scoring by Mr. C. W . Parry, the Old Carthusian who has been acting as Captain of the newly-formed Bucks County Eleven. In the statistics I then gave I had to record one not very common performance of two consecutive innings of over a hundred during the Old Carthusian tour. This last few weeks he has been doing, too, good things in the way of run-getting, and it is worthy of notice that he has three times got into the second hundred while on tour with the Old Carthusians. A s the following summary will show, his last seven scores at Brighton for the Old Carthusians have realised an aggregate of 538 runs with three not outs. 1887. College Ground, v.Brighton 1st. 2nd. Club ............................... 45 46* 91 1888. College Ground, v. Brighton Club...................................... 6 0 6 1890. County Ground, v. Brighton Club ...............................163* — 163 1891. College Ground, v. Old Brightoniana ... ..........103 — 103 1891. County Ground, v. Brighton Club ............................... 175* — 175 538 The above shows four completed innings for an average of 134—2. During the last fortnight Mr. Parry has made three consecutive innings of over a hundred while on tour with the Old Carthusians, 103 and 175 not out in the foregoing list, and 123 agaiust the Old Wykehamists at Charter­ house, on August 7 and 8. A k e e n cricketer, settled in Grenfell, Assiniboia, in the North Western Terri­ tory of Canada, in some particulars he has been good enough to send me of the progress of the game in those far distant quarters, mentions an amusing umpire whom he was fortunate enough" to encounter in a recent match in the North West. He was a Presbyterian Minister, and his method of giving guard was original, far from “ quite English you know.” I wonder what the effect would be over here, it the batsman on applica­ tion for block received the answer, “ A little more to the North.” I remember well myself, many years ago, at Warley Garrison anon-commissioned officer, who astonished the batsman with the reply to his enquiry of “ Centre and Far Stick.” I have no doubt that the collectors of umpiring facetiae could supply from the stores of their memory many an incident with an equally humorous side. T h e success which attended the match between the Public Schools and the Gentlemen of Surrey, at Bichmond, at the end of last week, it is to be hoped will result in the arrangement of an annual fixture, on the same, or at least, on some­ what similar lines. The number of school players from whom the eleven was to be selected was so large that it was determined finally to play twelve a side, and as many as twelve of the chief Public Schools were represented. The team, too, comprised a majority of the most successful players of the year, so that from every point of view, the fixiure was interesting. Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Rugby, Marlborough, Bepton, Upping­ ham, Malvern, Brighton, Sherborne, Wellington, and Clifton each supplied one of its best cricketers, and though they just failed to avoid a follow on, the brilliant batting of P. H . Latham, of Malvern, and P. F. Warner, of Bugby, who were not out at the end after adding 176 runs, enabled the boys to finish in brilliant style. In the two days 685 were made for twenty-three wickets, so that the rate of run-getting was thus considerably above the average, and this in spite of the fielding, which was on the whole of a very high order, The batting of Latham and Warner, though the latter’s display was not faultless on the second day, was distinctly above the ordinary run. Of the others, Fry, the Bepton Captain, was the best, though Butty, the Captain of the Sherborne Eleven, and Mason, of Winchester, also shaped well. I t should be, however, mentioned that four Public School cricketers, to wit, C. Wigram, B .H . Lewis, and H . Leveson- Gower, all of Winchester, and H. H . Jupp of Brighton College, are qualified for Surrey, and all did good service for the opposition, Wigram by his fine hitting, Leveson-Gower by his brilliant fielding, Lewis by wicket-keeping much above the average, and Jupp by the variety of his slow bowling. Some facts re­ specting the principal players will be of use to those who take interest in amateur cricket. Latham, who has scored so heavily for Malvern College this year, goes up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, in October, Fry, the excellent all-round cricketer from Bepton, who I understand will make his first appearance for Surrey against Warwickshire on Monday, to Wadham College, Oxford, at the same time. Wigram, who has in him the making of a very useful all-round player, enters at the Boyal Military Academy at Woolwich this autumn. Leveson-Gower as well as Lewis, who bids fair to develop into a first-class wicket-keeper, remain at Winchester for 1891, and the former will captainthe eleven. The Bugby eleven of next year will have Warner as their captain,and in all probability Mason, who has two more years at Winchester, will be captain there in 1892. Brewis of Eton, as I have stated, goes to Oxford in October, and Pope, the Harrow captain, to Trinity College, Cambridge. S ince the Catapulta, which I myself can remember in use in the latter part of the fifties, there has been, as far as my knowledge goes, no mechanical appliance which can be said to have been so far