Cricket 1891

SEPT. 24,1891 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME; 448 of the Pampa and Pisagua team. Mr. Moore, who played for Gibbs & Co., unless I am mistaken, was an active member of theLiverpool Club some years ago. It is hardly necessary to add that cricket out there is played on cocoa-nut matting. A llo w me [writes 11 A.A.” ] to point ont an inaccuracy in the bowling statistics in last week’s C r icket , by Mr. G. H . B. Kendall. Wm. Attewell’s analysis should read— Overs. Mdns. Buns. Wkts. A ver. 2432 ... 1432 ... 2388 ... 203 ... 11.7 Mr. Kendall has omitted the 53 wiokets which Attewell took - for Shrewsbury’s Team in Australia in 1887-8. The following are the averages of some other bowlers who have taken over 100 wickets in these'matches, compiled from the same sources.— Overs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. Aver. T. Emmett ... 1232 ... GOO ... lo81 ,... 118 ... 13 3 E. Feate.......... 1811 ... 865 ... 2349 . 165 ... 14.2 H. F. Boyle ... 3545 .. 1510 ... 4977 . 344 ... 14.4 W. Barnes ... 1848 ... 927 ... 2398 ... 164 ... 14.6 R. P eel.......... 2308 ...1141 .... 2805 .... 181 ... 15.4 G. E. Palmer 5730 ...2377 ... 8748 ... 548 ... 15.9 T. W. Garrett 4245 ...1870 ... 6001 ... 354 ... 16.9 G. Giffen 3405 ...1300 ... 5959 . 307 ... 19.4 Other bowlers who have taken more than 100 wickets are W. Flowers 101, E. G. Barlow 120, G. Ulyett 127, A. G. Steel 128, W. Bates 131, and W. G. Grace 134. The following have taken 50 or more wickets F. Martin with an average of 10.9 for 61, A. Shaw 88 , F. Morley 58, E, Barratt 51, E. Evans 79, C. T. Studd 50, H. Trumble 62, J. J. Lyons 72, J. W. Trumble 52, and G. H. S. Trott 91. A n y o n e who has read Lord Randolph Churchill’s letters to the DailyGraphic on the subject of his trip to Mashonaland, will have noticed several references lately to the Hon. Charles Coventry, who joined the party at Port Tali. I need hardly say that this latest addition to Lord Eandolph’s entourage is the Old Etonian who visited South Africa as one of Major Warton’s English Team in the winter of 1888. On the conclusion of that tour, he joined the BechuanalandPolice, inwhich he is still serving. Leave from his police duties for three months has enabled him to join the expedition to Mashonaland, of which Lord Eandolph Churchill is the leader. P b in c e C h r is tia n V ic t o r , who devoted agood deal of his short leave last summer to cricket, is now on his way back to India to resume his military duties with his regiment, The King’s Own Royal Rifles. He left London on Friday last to join the P. and O. steamer “ Peshawur ” which is bound for Bombay. His ultimate destination is Rawal Pundi, where his corps, the first Battalion of the King’s Own, is stationed. A w r i t e r in the Melbourne Argus, in a very kindly reference to C r ic k e t , occasioned by aperusal of the summary of the doings of the principal cricketers during the last ten years which appeared in “ Gossip ” of July 30, calls attention to the non-appearance of some leadingAus­ tralian cricketers who are certainly well worthyof inclusion. The omissionmust be jaken of course as purely accidental. Australia, of course, is more distinguished inbowling thaninbatting, and in justice to theveterans H. F. BoyleandT. W. Garrett it may be pointed out that Mr. Brand has singularly enough omitted them from his compilation. This must surely be the result of oversight,and demands attention, especially in the case of Boyle, whose bowling average is not inferior to that of such celebrities as Morley, Ferris, SpofEorth, Attewell, Watson, Peate, Emmett, Martin and Briggs, and better than Steel, Southerton, Lohmann, Peel,Grace, Woods, Wright, Studd, Bates and Barnes. T he following bowling records (in first-class matches played in England) should be added to the list published in C r ic k e t — Buns off Wickets. Bowling. Average. H. F. Boyle 1 .......... 316 ... 4211 ... 13 T. W. Garrett .......... 289 ... 4374 ... 35 There seems to be a fatality attached to Boyle’s bowling reoords, concerning which there is a probability of posterity becoming somewhat mixed. As an instance, and a very remarkable one, it may be mentioned that although Spofforth, the demon bowler, has always been chiefly associated with the historical defeat of the Marylebone Club in one day by Gregory’s Australian eleven in 1878, Boyle actually beat him for average on that occasion, their respective records being— Boyle, 9 wickets for 17 runs ; Spofforth, 10 for 20. Spofforth has been generally credited with the better average for that match, but a mistake was made in the scores by the English papers (the Times excepted), one of Boyle’s wickets in the second innings being credited to the demon. It is also remarkable that in compiling his batting records Mr. Brand has failed to mention one of the most dashing and successful batsmen that either hemisphere has produced—Percy M’Donnell, whose record in first-class matches played in England is 183 completed innings, 3936 runs, average 21. T h e lovers of coincidences in matters crieketal will find food for contemplation in some singular performances of the Motherwell Trinity during the present month. OnSaturday the 5th inst.theymet the Wesleyans, and after getting the latter out for 36 were dismissed for the same total, the last two wickets only adding a single. Onthe following Satur­ day Newmans C.C. were their opponents and this time they went in first and scored 36, a total just equalled by the other side on the fall of their last wicket. On Monday, the 14th, the match was against theRoss Ramblers. Again Trinity batted first and this time their aggregate amounted to 66 . This sum was reached by the Ramblers on the fall of the sixth wicket, but the four remaining batsmen all failed to augment the score and three of them fell in four balls. The result consequently was another dead heat. The above will show that there was a tie in each of three following matches of the Trinity Club, an extraordinary coin­ cidence, and one I should think with hardly, if any, parallel. B y the end of next week the English cricketers who are to star in Australia during the winter, under the guidance of the Earl of Sheffield, will have said good­ bye to the Old Country for the next few months and commenced the first stage of their voyage to the Colonies. They are to leave London, as has been stated before, intheP. andO. steamer “Arcadia” to-morrow week. From information I have received, however, it would appear as if the teamwere to foregather at the Manchester Hotel, Aldersgate Street, next Thursday. In any case as they will be nearing Australia before the next number of C r ic k e t appears, I take the opportunity of wishing them on behalf of C r ic k e t readers a pleasant voyage, a successful tour, and a safe return. It will be welcome intelligence to the many friends he made “ at home,” to learn that Dr.J.E. Barrett, who remained in England on the completion of the tour of the last Australian team, reached Melbourne safely on the fourteenth of Augustafter seventeenmonths’ sojourn in theOldCountry. It will, too, be interest­ ing aswell asgratifyingtoEnglishCRiCKET readers to know that he carries back with him to Australia very pleasant recollections of his stay here. “ Socially,” he toldtherepresentative ofthe Melbourne Daily Telegraph, “ he spent a pleasant time in London, which was a wonderful placeforallkindsofamusements. England he described as a truly delightful country. As a Colonial he was alittle apprehensive at the approach of winter, but found the fog and coldnothing to speakof.” He also took the opportunity of paying a well- deserved compliment to our Grand Old Man, to whomhe duly doesjustice indes­ cribing as “ specially kind ” ?nd attentive to Australian cricketers. Everyone will be gladto hear that Dr. Barrett intends to keep up his cricket. His old club, South Melbourne, will, it goes without saying, heartily welcome his return. M e n tio n of an Australian player reminds me that one of the oldest links between English and Antipodian cricket has just been severed. Johnny Mullagh, though unknown even by name in ali probability to a large number of the present generation of cricketers, was one of the earliest specimens of the excellent material Australia oould produce in the way of all-round cricket. Only a few weeks ago I had occasion to refer to Charles Lawrence, who acted as Manager of the Aboriginal team which visited England in 1868, the pioneers of Australian cricket here. And now the whirligig of time has brought itsrevenges inthedeath ofwithout exceptionthe finest all-round player of that combination. Mullaghwas in fact the bright particular star of the team. More than that he was distinctly above the average of English cricketers, a neat as well as an effective batsman, a very fair bowler, and a sure field. His death was reported at the end of 1873, but there was no foundation for the report. If I remember rightly he played some years ago against one of the English teams in Australia, and with consider­ able success. He was found dead at Pines Hill Station inVictoria, where by the way he was born, on the fourteenth of last month. His real name, according toMr. Arthur Haygarth, the compiler of “ Scores andBiographies,” was Muaarrimin. NEXT ISSUE OCTOBER 29