Cricket 1891

56 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. APRIL 16, 1891 CRICKET CLUBS Desirous of buying First Quality Goods at most Reasonable Prices, should send to J. DAVENPORT, 38, FINSBDRYPAVEMENT, FOR NEW PRICE LIST . AHANDLE BATS 12/6 B E S T TSS? BALLS 5/6 pR ICKE T, FOOTBALL, & TENNIS GROUNDS (all thoroughly drained, October, 1888), TO LET at Hyde Farm, Balham, for Season, Day, or Saturdays, close to Railway Station. Special reduced return railway fares from Victoria, 6d. London Bridge 7d.—Apply H. B enham (Proprietor), 104, Rossiter Road, Balham. (Cycling and Running Tracks now ready.) (?< OOD CRICKET GROUND TO LE T, Terms moderate, close to Palmers Green Station. Bus meets Trains and passes Ground. Luncheons, Dinners, Teas, &c. 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I. to VIII. of “ C ricket ” and odd Nos. from the first year; “ Wisdens;” John Lillywhite’s ‘ Companions;’' James Lillywhite’s “ A n n u a ls B o y le and Scott, Conway’s and South Australian Annuals; Public 8chool Matches, ’53, &c., &c. —A. J. G aston , 133, Ditchling Rise, Brighton, Sussex. LUNN & Co. C r i c k e t , Go lf , Lawn Tennis, &c. SPECIAL TERMS TO CLUBS. Fully Illustrated Catalogue, 72 pages, Post Free. L U N N & Co., 257, Regent St., London, W. C r ick e t: A W E E K L Y RECORD OF THE GAME. 41, ST. ANDREW'S HILL, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, APRIL 16 t h , 1891. D e l i m i t f e s t p . The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— ______________ _ _______ Hamlet, M r. A. J. G aston , o f Brighton, w hose rescearches into cricket lore have often provided interesting reflection for C ric k e t readers, has been successful in m aking some m ore discoveries in the shape o f ancient records, as the follow ing comm unication w ill show. In Volume V . of C ricket , page 259, Mr. Percy M. Thornton gave a most interesting reference to some letters which came into his possession respecting cricket at Godalming in 1741, information of much value inasmuch as the first match recorded in “ Scores and Biographies,” Vol.I., is that between Kent and All England in 1746. I have recently met with a record of a match in 1743 in which tho names of all the players participating are mentioned. The fixture is taken from The Westminster Journal of 1743. “ On Monday July 9th A Cricket Match was play’d in the Artillery Ground, for 500 guineas between Newland of Slendon (sic) in Sussex, Sawyer of Richmond and Bryan of London, against Hadswell of Dartford, Romney of Sevenoaks, and Cutbush of Maidstone which was won by the three last by two Notches. ’Twas com­ puted there were 10,000 people in the ground and the bets ran five to one in favour of the Winners.” All of these players participated in the im­ mortalised 1746 match, England v. Kent, Newland especially |distinguishing him­ self, scoring 33 for once out, bowling three wickets in the first, four in the second, and catching one. In The Grub Street Journal , July 31st, 1735,1 find the following:—“ Yester­ day at the cricket match on Bromly Common between the Prince of Wales and the Earl of Middlesex for a £1,000, the Londoners got 72 the first hands, the Kentish men 95. London side went in again and got only 9 above the Kent, which were got up the second innings without one person’s being out, by the Kentish men who won the match.” Again after careful rummaging I find recorded in The Westminster Journal , Aug. 13th, 1743, the following :—■“ Last Monday the great Cricket Match between the Duke of Bedford’s Wooburn Club and the Londoners was played in the ArtilleryGround, Moorfields, when the Country went in first and got 104 notches; the Londoners got 93. At the second innings the County got 36 and the Londoners 48 which decided the Game in Favour of the latter whose two last Hands were in, when the Game was won.” Yet another match was played in the Artillery Ground, viz., September 19th, 1743, between Eleven Gentlemen of London and Eleven Gentlemen out of the Counties of Middlesex, Berkshire, and Bucks, when the Londoners in the first innings got 70, the Country 71. The Londoners in the second innings got 97, the Country 43. Majority for the Londoners, 53. In C ricket of September 4th, 1890 [adds Mr. Gaston], I gave instances of several matches in the last century not recorded in Vol. I. of “ Scores and Biographies,” and as I hail with delight that a continuation of “ Scores and Biographies” is being pro­ ceeded with, I have made a diligent search fcr these early fixtures in the modest hope that the same may find a permanent place in the appendix of the new volume. Quite recently, too, I came across an oil- painting, 5ft. in ^length by 3ft. 6in. wide, representing a great cricket match being played on Bembridge Common, in the Isle of Wight, in the year 1761. It is amost remark­ able picture of the costumes and the players of that early period—in fact, including the spec­ tators, there are over 300 characters in the picture. The most characteristic point is that the picture was found some twenty years ago, stored away in an old lumber room where it had probably lain for a hundred years or so. T he exceptionally fine bowling of James Phillips, of the Middlesex County Eleven, during the Australian season just come to an end, has been referred to more than once by the Gossip during the winter. How consistently successful however, he has been will be best under­ stood by a reference to the following statement of his performances furnished