Cricket 1892

JAN. 28, 1892 CRICKET : A WEEKLY EECOED OF THE GAME; other old Surreyite, and Mr. T. K. Tapling, M.P. The latter gentleman, who passed away on April 11,was a real cricket lover, and a member of the Marylebone Club, Surrey Club, and Nondescripts. He accompanied Mr. Vernon’s Team of Amateurs to India during the winter of 1889-90. In Lord Truro also a keen supporter was lost to cricket; while at School he was in the Winchester elevens of 1833-84, and bowled with success against Harrow and Eton. Mr. Bichard T. Burney, formerly of the Bengal Civil Service, was a more dis­ tinguished Old Wykehamist—at least, so far as our national pastime is concerned. For three seasons beginning with 1852 he was in the College eleven, which he captained during the last year of his stay. Mr. Burney’s death took place in London on April 5, aged fifty-five. Still keeping to the ranks of the ama­ teurs, we next have to chronicle the demise of Mr. Edward Lumb, a York­ shire batsman of no mean capacity. Mr. Lumb displayed no little precocity at the opening of his career, playing for the Yorkshire Colts at fifteen, and actually captaining the Dalton Club at twenty. H e made a remarkably successful first appearance for the county, too, carrying his bat through the innings for 83 v. Leicestershire, at Sheffield, in 1883. This highly promising season of ’83, however (he averaged 25.2 for eleven completed innings), was his first and last for the county, as his health rapidly gave way. A trip to the Colonies did not men matters, and he expired on April 5 la s t - aged only 38 years. Kindly, gonial, and ever helpful to young cricketers, Mr. Lumb was regretted by all who knew him. This same disastrous month of April witnessed two other good and true sports­ men pass over to the silent majority. In the case of Dr. Evan B. Jones, who died on the 21st at the good old age of seventy- two, it will be long before the Marylebone and Surrey County Clubs—more especi­ ally the latter—look upon his like again. Humphrey Payne was but half-a-dozen years younger than the genial Doctor. He was a fine all-round cricketer years ago, playing in some of the best matches, and afterwards for about twenty years shared with Robert Thoms the care of tho old Eton and Middlesex Ground. In the month of May occurred a slight break in the death roll, but on Juno Gth died Mr. .Frederick Calvert, Q.C., ex-M .P. for Aylesbury, and captain of the Harrow Eleven in 1823. William Wadsworth was the next to go (June 13). He was once a prominent member of the All England and Yorkshire elevens, as well as of the Bradford Club. Bui a far greater cricketer than either deceased on the 23rd of the same month, in George Parr, once captain of the All England Eleven, and prince of leg-hitters on his day. Parr, it will be recollected, organised the English Team to Canada in 1859, and followed this up by personally conducting the second team to Australia in 1864. All this time Parr’s perform­ ances in first-class matches kept him well before the public on this side, he being a mainstay of the Notts eleven, and one of the first batsmen o f the age. He was afterwards engaged at Harrow School, etc., and in 1878 North v. South was played at Nottingham for his benefit, with the best results. Born in 1827, George Parr was sixty-four years of age. The Rev. Charles P. Winter, M.A., well known in connection with Somersetshire cricket, died of yellow fever on June 2nd in the thirty-second year of his age. Mr. Winter did a rather remarkable perform­ ance with the ball for Bishop’s Lydeard v. Nether Stowey in 1874, when he clean bowled eight wickets for no runs. Turning to the Colonies for a moment, we next come to the demise of “ Johnny Mullagli,” the celebrated Aboriginal player who came over here in 1868. His real name was Muaarrimin, and he was the last of his tribe ofblacks. For the Aboriginal Team in ’68, his all-round excellence was phenomenal. In the whole tour he totalled 1,679 runs, and averaged 22 per innings, his best performances being 33 and 73 v. Surrey, 75 and 12 v. M.C.C. & Ground, and 94 v. Reading. Against the latter, too, “ Johnny ” secured eight wickets at a small cost, and altogether contributed materially to their crushing defeat by an innings and 218 runs. Returning to the Colonies, he had the honour of assisting Victoria against Lord Harris’ Team, and scored an admirable 36, for which .£50 was given him, and Mr. Hornby presented him with a bat. Mullagh’s chief batting characteristics were pretty wrist play and a strong for­ ward stroke. He was subsequently identified with the Melbourne and Harrow (Victoria) Clubs. Mullagh, who is supposed to have been in the fiftieth year of his age, died on August 14, and had quite a public funeral. The deaths o f Mr. George Nevile Wyatt, father of Mr. G. N. Wyatt the Sussex amateur, aged seventy-three, and of Mr. G. C. Morrison, of the Committee of the Surrey County Club, took place on September 4 and August 21 respectively. Dr. Peter Royle—father of the Rev. Vernon Royle, and himself a keen sup­ porter of the game in Lancashire—passed away on November 12. Cricket lost another veteran in Mr. Oliver Claud Pell, who died at E ly on October 17th at the ago o f sixty-six. Mr. Pell was educated at Rugby and at Trinity College, Cam­ bridge, and was a member of the Cam­ bridge University Eleven from 1844 to 1847 inclusive, the latter year as captain. As a prominent member o f the famous All England Eleven, too, he was contem ­ porary with Fuller Pilch, Felix, and the others who formed that mystic circle. Nor did Mr. Pell confine himself to cricket alone as a pastime, he being a member of the Inns of Court Volunteer Corps, and a splendid shot with the rifle. On the 31st of the same month Mr. H . E. Mayo passed away—at the comparatively premature age of 44. He was preemi­ nently a Surrey man, both by birth and association, and at one time played for his County. Professor C. D. Yonge, who died at Belfast, on November 30, played for Oxford against Cambridge in 1836. On that occasion Mr. Yonge was not only on the winning side, but was in addition the top scorer for the Dark Blues with 17 and 36. This match, by the way, pro­ bably has no parallel in the matter of “ extras ”— at any rate, in relation to the aggregate of runs scored. The four innings produced 479 runs, of which number 95 were byes, 44 were wides, and 10 no balls ! Mr. Yonge was well-known for his cricket enthusiasm. He was born on November 30, 1812, and therefore died on his seventy-ninth birthday. Dr. Charles Perry, who was the first Bishop of Melbourne, and a distinguished Old Harrovian, passed away in December. W e find the name of Charles Perry as having appeared for Harrow v. Eton in 1822 and 1823. The death of Mr. G. E. Jeffery of the Cambridge University elevens of 1874 and 1875, in April, caused great regret in cricket circles generally. *S-C0^EgP0NDENCE> RESIDENTIAL QUALIFICATION FOB OBICKET. To the E ditor of “ C r icket .” Sir,—Having followed with interest the controversy which has in late times arisen with reference to the above matter, may I, through your columns, be permitted to put the following question, viz., What constitutes “ residence” within the meaning of the Rules of County Cricket ? At the annual meeting of one of our leading county clubs, held a year since, objection wa3 taken to the fact that certain players merely hired rooms in the counties to which they had gone, and x>ractically resided as much in their native as their adopted counties. I admit that the Rules say nothing as to whether “ residence” should be continuous^ though I have reason to believe that a continuous resi­ dence is considered by many capable judges to have been intended. I should even be sorry to assert that the mere hiring of rooms with­ out actual occupation is not a technical com­ pliance with the Rules. From a common sense point of view one would imagine that the original intention was to give a title to the bona fide inhabitants of any given county. As the use to which the Rules have latterly been put does not appear to give unmixed satisfaction, might I suggest a new regulation disqualifying any player, amateur or profes­ sional,who fails to prove to the satisfaction of the M.C.C. that he speuds some specified portion of his time in his “ residential” county. It will be remembered that Cross­ land was disqualified from playing for Lan­ cashire on the ground that from October, 1884, to April, 1885, he had resided in his native county, Notts. From this we may gather that the M.C.C. considered an absence of six months fatal to Crossland’s qualification, and hence I maintain that there is need of definite legislation upon the point. It would be obviously absurd to disqualify any of our cricketers who are touring in the colonies, and any new regulation would, of course, make exception in the case of absence beyond the sea. Would it not be a greater guarantee of the genuineness of inter-county matches if a rule were framed requiring a bona fide resi­ dence [i.e. actual occupation) for the period of at least nine months out of the twelve months of the year ? Yours &c., Jan. 23, 1892. J. B . P ayne . CRICKETERS— B e s t <QCB« Goods C ity Agents — beak, this Makk — Advfc. P a b to n & L e s s e r , 94, Q u een S t ., C h e a p sip k , NEXT ISSUE FEBRUARY 25