Cricket 1891

426 C R IC K E T : A W E E K L Y RECORD OP T H E GAME . SEP®. 17, 1891 rjRICKBT, FOOTBALL, * TENNIS GROUNDS ^ (all thoroughly drained, October, 1888), TO L E T at Hyde Farm, Balham, for Season, Day, or Saturdays, close to Railway Station. Special reduced return railway fares from Victoria, 5d. London Bridge 7d.—ApplyH. B enh am (Proprietor), 104, Rossiter Road, Balham. (Cycling and Running Tracks now ready.) T^OR LAWNS, CRICKET FIELDS, MEADOWS, ■*- use Reliance Fertilizer, 561o. 11s., cwt. 20s. Cash. Carriage paid to any Station within 100 miles. Directions free.— H orticultural S upply C ompany , Old Shot Tower Wharf, London, S.E. pR ICK E T ANNUALS.—FOR SALE, GREEN ^ LILLYWHITE’S for 1868 and 1869; price 2s. each.—“ B at ,” care of Wright, 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, E.C. 1STINE BEST MAKE, LA.RGE SIZE CLUB ' CRICKET BALLS ; must sell; perfectly new ; price Is. Gd. each; positively cost double.—E. G id d ie , 21, De Crespigny Park, Camberwell. 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ANDREW’S HILL, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 7 th , 1891. IMPORTANT NOTICE, Results of the Season and Averages of the Prin­ cipal Clnbs will be inserted in C ricket during remaining Summer issues, as well as in the earlier Winter numbers, at the rate of 3/6 a column, with a minimum charge of 2/6. To ensure insertion in the following number, particulars must be received not later than the Saturday previous to day of publication. The last Weekly number will appear on Thurs­ day, Sept. 24. Six numbers will te published as heretofore, from October to March inclusive. The dates will be No. 287—THURSDAY, OCT. 29. No. 288—THURSDAY, NOV. 26. No. 289—THURSDAY, DEC. 81. No. 290-THURSDAY, JAN. 28. No. 291—THURSDAY, FEB. 25. No. 292—THURSDAY, MARCH 25. The six Winter numbers will be forwarded im ­ mediately on publication for Is. 3d. The amount must be sent to Mr. W . li. W righ t , Manager of C ricket , at the Office, 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Doctors’ Common, London, E.C. JjainKmr The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— _______________ Saml.Se T h e many friends of “ The OldBuffer ” will be glad to learn that he is fit and well on the other side of the big drink. The most cheery accounts have reached England of his passage in the “ Parisian,” and of his health since he landed. He is making his way by slow stages out to his new home at Butterfield in Manitoba, visiting Niagara and other places of in­ terest enroute. As far as I can hear he is not likely to reach his settlement in the Far West until the middle of next month. He writes in the most grateful terms of the hospitality he has already received on all sides since he set his foot on Canadian soil. A d is tin g u is h e d lawyer, well-known in Society as well as on the cricket-field in years gone by, is, so saysthe writer of Notes and Notions in the Star, shortly to be welcomed back to England. He refers to Mr. Douglas Straight, who is about to return home after acting for nearly twelve years as a judge of the High Court of Allahabad. The comple­ tion of his term of service entitles him to the usual pension, and with this he re­ tires from the Indian Services. Mr. Straight sat in the House of Commons for Shrewsbury, and was in his day one of the leading Counsel at the Old Bailey, acting as Prosecutor for the Bankers’ Association and also for the Treasury. He was byno means an inferior cricketer, and always took great interest in the game. T h e following incident which occurred in a match played on Saturday, the 5th inst., although not possibly without precedent, “ One of the Players,” who furnishes me with it, is of opinion is worthy of being recorded as a “ cricket curiosity.” A. and B. had been bowling, and at the finish of an over bowled by A. the captain directed that O. should bowl in lieu of A. B. then bowled his over, and with the last ball bowled one of the batsmen. C. immediately began to place his field. So soon as the fielders were placed to O.’s satis­ faction, he commenced to bowl. Off his first ball the batsman was missed from a catch at the wioket. The seoond ball was played in the direction of mid-oil, and the striker was on the point of calling a run when he dis­ covered—not only to his own surprise, but also to that of his opponents, the umpires, and the onlookers—that there was no other bats­ man to run. Almost at the same moment the “ next man in ” was seen emerging from the dressing tent. Under the circumstances the two balls that had been bowled by C. were voted “ trials,” and the over was recommenced; but it is not uninteresting to speculate what discussion there would have been had the wioket-keeper held the first ball, or had the batsman driven the second to the boundary. C. is a fastidious bowler in the placing of his field; it is in faot said by his own side that whenever he is hit for four (which occurs generally about twice in each over) he is anxious to explain that if the fielders had stood where placed the runs would have been saved. The placing of the field by C. there­ fore involved some alteration in nearly each man’s position ; and it apparently occurred to every person on the field that the break in the game was caused, not by the dismissal of a batsman, but by the change of a bowler. It may be mentionedby way of anticipation, that the incident occurred before lunch; but it is significant also to add that the match was being played in the grounds of an Asylum for Lunatics. 1891. 11 An average season! ” our farmers report, Whether Cambridgeshire, Oxford, or Bucks; 11 Not an average year,” will our batsmen retort, “ But a oapital season—for duclcs." P aris . P e r m it me to draw attention [writes a correspondent] to the curious fact that a large proportion of our prominent pro­ fessionals of the present day possess monosyllabic names of fourletters each. The following eleven, whichI should send in in the order given, would be capable of rendering a good account of itselfagainst any combination, viz :—1, Hall, York­ shire ; 2, F. Sugg, Lancashire ; 3, Gunn, Notts ; 4, M. Bead, Surrey ; 5, A. Ward, Lancashire; 6 , Bean, Sussex; 7, Peel, Yorkshire; 8 , Wood, Surrey ; 9, Tate, Sussex; 10, Woof, Gloucestershire ; 11, Mold, Lancashire. This eleven com­ prises seven first-class batsmen of all styles, a first-class wicket-keeper, four first-class bowlers of varied style and pace, and two out-fields who are second to none. Five of the team (if not six) have played for the fall strength of England versus Australia. A s e co n d eleven capable of tacklirig any second-class county could afterwards be formed as follows:—1, W. West, Warwickshire; 2, F. Ward, Lancashire; 3, W. Sugg, Derbyshire; 4, W. Hall, Derbyshire ; 5,H.B.Daft,Notts ; C, J.Hide, Sussex; 7, Paul, Lancashire; 8 , J. E. West, Middlesex; 9, Wade, Yorkshire; 10, Butt, Sussex; 11, Mead, Essex. With A. Hide (Sussex) and A. Bird and W. Bird (Warwickshire) as reserves. T hinkins it m ight interest your readers [writes Mr. C. H . B. Kendall, of the Paragon, Blackheath] I have compiled a list containing the averages of what I consider the three best Australian,and the three best English bowlers. T he averages, etc., are oom piledfrom eleven a-side English v. Australian engagements. In comparing Spofforth and Turner, it should be taken into consideration that while Turner has had worse wickets on which to bowl, yet the batting in Spofforth’s tim e was at a lower standard than it is now. Overs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. Aver. C.TB.Tur- n e r .......... 5631 ... 2573 ... 7793 ... 673 ... 11.5 W. Attewell I6S6 ... 967 ... 1798 ... 149 ... 12.06 J. Briggs ... 2146 ... 1104 ... 2759 ... 2u9 ... 13.2 F. R. Spof­ forth ... 5933 ... 2385 ... 9618 ... 718 ... 13.3 J. J. Ferris 4733 ... 2043 ... 7197 ... £00 ... 14.3 G. A. Loh­ mann ... 3011 ... 1449 ... 4176 ... 276 ... 151 In all cases the averages are cari ied out to one or two places of decimals. It will be seen from the above that the Aus­ tralians have bowled— Overs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. Aver. 16,297 ... 7,001 ... 24,608... 1,891 ... 13.06 W hile the English have bowled— Overs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. Aver. 6,843 ... 3,520 ... 8,733 ... G34... 13.7 F or these averages, I am indebted to Mossrs. Brum fitt and K irby’s “ England v. Australia at the wicket,” and to “ W isden’s Alm anack” (1888 and 1890). These averages are compiled both from the averages of Australian teams in England, and of English teams in Australia.