Cricket 1891

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I know [he wrote in his comments on the match] that for several days before Blackham left for Adelaide he was haunted and harassed by the thought that Giffen and L j ons would get set. “ bhou’d they get set, what are we to do ? ” said the prince of wicket-keepers. “ Keep on bowling at them,” was the reply. Clearly our wicket-keeper made a mental note of this reply, for the reports of the match most unmistakablv show that the Victorians did “ keep on bowling at them.” Nay, it is narrated that the prince of wicket-keepers himself went on and bowled a maiden, the first of the afternoon. There was a time in Victorian cricket when we did not think much of bowling a maiden. But now, ah ! now the bowling of a maiden is a circi mstance of some moment, a subject for special chronicle. That maiden, too, was a “ grubber ” over. What a striking commentary cn Victorian bowling. Who can fail to perceive the tremendous strides of advancement we are making in this department of the ’game. I trust the Mel­ bourne Cricket Club or the Victorian Cricketers’ Association will take early steps to make some gilt-edged testimonial to Blackham in special recognition of his feat with the leather. Tell Allan, Cosstick, Palmer, Boyle, Kendall, and all the rest of long ago to get off the grass. Their splendid deeds count as nothing now. Blackha-m has effaced, obliter­ ated, wiped them out. He bowled a maiden. A h a! T h e Victorian bowling, as far as or.e can judge from the accounts of the game, seems, indeed, to have got into a pretty considerable knot when George Giffen GAME. DEC. 81, 1891 had become thoroughly set. Giffen had got so completely the measure of tho usual changes, that Blackham as a last resource was induced to ask J. Harry if he could bowl left-handed as well as right. “ O h ! yes,” said Harry. “ Well then, go on left-handed,” was the Captain’s reply. Harry accordingly went on left-handed, and very nearly , it is said, secured Giffen’s wicket. It was only nearly though—near it, very near it, in fact. The mention of Harry’s ambi-dexterity will no doubt recal more than one English cricketer who could on occasion bowl with either arm. It seems a pity, indeed, that Mr. O’Brien was not available on the occasion. His imitations of various bowlers might have given a pleasant relief to the monotony of Victoria’s long outing. Another amateur will occur to the minds of Surrey cricketers who could, and unless I am mistaken did, not in­ frequently bowl left as well as right- handed. To the majority of present-day cricketers, it will be news that Charles Duke Yonge, Professor of English Litera­ ture in Queen’s College, Belfast, who died in Belfast on November 30, his seventy-ninth birthday, was, in his time, a player, and one of considerable promise. At least, he formed one of the Oxford eleven which defeated Cambridge in 1836 at Lord’s, and more­ over had the distinction of being tho highest individual run-getter in the match with scores of 17 and 3G. He was, too, in good company, as among the twenty who figured in that contest were the Bevs. J. Pycroft, the author of the “ Cricket Field,” and J. C. Kyle, subse­ quently Bishop of Liverpool, on the Oxlord side, and on that of Cambridge, Hon. F. Ponsonby, now Earl of Bess­ borough, and C.G. Taylor, both of whom subsequently won high reputations on the cricket field. The match in question possesses an unenviable notoriety by reason of the extraordinary number of extras. The aggregate of 479 for four innings included no less than 95 byes, 44 wides, and ten no-balls, or in all, 149 extras. A nother cricketer of even an earlier date passed away some days ago in the person ofthe Old Harrovian Charles Perry. The first Bishop of Melbourne, he resigned that see in 187G. A contemporary at school of another distinguished Church­ man, Charles Wordsworth, subsequently Bishop of St. Andrews, as well as of Herbert Jenner, now Sir Herbert Jenner, Bart., of whom Mr. B. Ainslabie wrote Herbert the phenomenon is such a clever stumper, And such a polished gentleman, we’ll toast him in a bumper. Charles Perry’s name is to be found in the records of Harrow Cricket seventy years ago. He played for Harrow against Eton in both 1822 and 1823, so that he must have been long past the allotted span of three score and ten. NEXT ISSUE JANUARY 28