Cricket 1892

JUNE 2, 1892 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. 1 7 7 THE LONDON CLUBS. The Blackheath Club on Saturday last, for the first time, played three matches. Becken­ ham was beaten at Beckenham. At the Rectory Field Blackheath won against Black­ heath School, and at Lee against W. S. Valentine’s Twelve, though with only eleven men, time alone robbed Blackheath of a oertain victory, as ten wickets on the other side were down. In the whole-day matches Blackheath have an excellent record, having beaten Wimbledon, R.A. (Woolwich), Becken­ ham, and Crystal Palace, and suffered only one defeat, at the hands of a strong eleven of M.O.O. and Ground. Any clubs wanting half-day matches might apply to Mr. M. Christopherson, the hon. sec. of the Black­ heath C.C., Grove House, Kidbrooke, S.E. He is desirous of playing three teams as often as possible. All this shows that cricket at Blackheath is flourishing. Epsom beat Banstead, at Banstead, on Saturday, by three runs, after a very exciting game. The match was played on a difficult wicket, and in a half gale. Banstead batted first, and having scored 55 for five wickets, were all out for 57. At this point of the game Skelton and Crawford disposed of six bats­ men, with 13 consecutive balls, for 1 run and 1 leg bye. Crawford’s figures, viz., 2 overs, 1 maiden, four wickets, 2 runs, were especially remarkable, 'ihe Epsom batsmen generally fared even worse than their opponents, and nine wickets fell for 31 runs. On being joined by Perch, however, G. H. Longman carefully nursed the bowling, and by fine cricket succeeded in winning the game for his side. Gilbert bowled with great success, and only just missed taking all ten wickets. R. O. Crawford will be remembered as having done good service during the last two or three years for Jesus College, Cambridge, and been more than once tried for the University. He is now at Epsom College. The Kensington Club is having a busy time just now with|good*results. The match on the 28th against West Herts was principally won by good bowling, Salmon took seven wickets for 84 in the first, and the Rev. J.C. Crawford seven for 30 in the second innings. On Saturday last against a strong batting side of Holborn, E. V. Gardner got three wickets for 14,andW. A.Watson six for 18 runs. The latter is a fast bowler, who comes along at a rare rate, and keep3 a good length. The second eleven is also doing well this year. Apropos of the Upper Clapton Cricket Club, they did a fine piece of quick scoring last Saturday. The first eleven were playing the first eleven of Woodford Wells at Wood­ ford, and having got the home team out for 138 one hour and thirty-five minutes were left to obtain the necessary runs to win. In this time Upper Clapton lost two wickets for 180 runs—W. Sowerby 3, W. Robinson 55, being out, H. Barham 89 not out, J. B. Collingham 30 not out. The last named scored hia 30 runs (out of 36 while at the wickets) in twenty-one minutes. H. E. Barham, who was formerly in the Cambridge Cassandra with E. J. Diver, batted finely.. The Clapham Wanderers had an exciting match at Charlton Park on Wednesday, 25th May, winning a close game by the narrow margin of 3 runs. Stanley Colman aad A. H. Behrend played capital cricket, putting on 11Gfor the second wicket. Though this fell at 135, the rest of the side were out for 190. The Park began badly, losing three good wickets for 29, but some free batting by G. Turner (58), and H. Turrell (36), backed up by F. W. Holton and J. Hunter with 25 and 26, took the total to 156 for six. Though with eight wickets down the home side required but 6 runs to win,the last two men were out at 186 and 187, leaving the visitors victorious by 3 runs only. Clapton scored a good win at Clapton on Saturday against the Burlington Wanderers just on the stroke of time. H. Boyton played a superb innings of 66 not out, including nine fours. Bishop also batted well for 41. At Cheshunt Clapton had another win. Brewer scored 44, B. Waterer 31, P, Waterer 28 not out. Douglass bowled exceedingly well, taking fourteen wickets in the match for 55. He was ably supported by Waterer. Since the close fence has been erected the average attendance at matches has been 300, so that with over 400 members it will be judged the game is highly appreciated at Clapton. The feature of the matoh between Reigate Hill and Leatherhead at Reigate, on May 28, was the fine bowling of the Rev. E. B. Cotton. In the first innings of Leatherhead he got nine wickets for 26 runs, his last seven being taken in 12 balls at a cost of only 3 runs. The Erratics had a creditable win over Hampton Wick, on the latter’s ground on Tuesday last. In this, L. J. Turner and E. V. Gardner were the chief factors. The former took nine of the ten wickets at a cost of only 21 runs. His analysis read 11 overs, two maidens, 21 runs and nine wickets. In Gardner’s score were four 6’s and nine 4’s, and he made 74 out of 82 got from the bat while he was in. In the match Norwood v. Hornsey, played at Hornsey on Saturday last, G. H. Swinstead of Hornsey, with the ball he bowled F. S. Hallam of Norwood, sent the bail a distance of 43 yards. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. C R I C K E T M A T C H . NOTTS_ y . SURREY, JUNE 6th, &c. CROYDON v. BEDDINGTON.—Played at Croydon on May 28. B e ddington . T.Henderson.cWard, b Warner ......... 1 W. H. Lindsay, c and b B agott................ 33 H. M. Rogers, b Neech 0 F. E. Goddard, c and b B iscoe.................24 L. J. Paice. b Neech 1 H. N. Moody, bNeech 0 C. F. Evans, not out 27 C roydon . F. C. Lingard, b Bis­ coe ........................ C. Creasy, b Neech ... E. Taylor, b Bibcoe... A. B. Peile, c Dent, b B iscoe................. B 4, lb 1 .......... Total 98 H. R. Groom, b Paice 23 R. Biscoe, b Paice ... 4 A. C. Dent, b Paice... 0 C. G. May, b Hender­ son ........................35 W. H. Bagott, c Lin­ gard, b Henderson 0 J. Whitcomb,notout 52 H. W. Ward, b Paice 1 J. A. Archer, b Paice 2 W. Warner, not out 43 B ........................~ Total J. C. Neech and F. J. Rolls did not bat. ...168 CROYDON v. BEDDINGTON.—Played at Bedd ington on May 28. C r oyd on . R. D. Dalglieah, Baker........................ A. E. Drage, b Kirk- m a n ........................ W. J. K. FlintoD, b Baker....................... G. F. Long, b A. Kirk- rnan ............................. N. Lavers, b Baker.. 23 T. B. Joy, b Baker ... T. S. Ready, b A. Kirkman ..........20 J. H. Hardy, not out 12 C. J. Bailey, not out 1 B 6, lb 2, w 4 ... 12 Total ..131 P. Scrivener and E. Tessier did not bat. Innings declared closed. B eddin gton . R. C. Kirkman, b Flinton ................. 0 A. Kirkman, b Hardy 16 L.T. Baker, c Lavers, b Joy........................31 A. C. Oswald, not out 15 P.Carpenter, b Flin­ ton ........................ 4 E. Caff, not out ... 3 B 8, lb 3, w 1, nb 1 13 Total A. T. Cressy, A. C. Bissett, F. Collins, A.Collins, and H. E. Dives did not bat. C. M. Goodbody, b Capes ................ 0 C. A. Hamilton, b Capes .................10 H. B. Hawkins, lbw, b Harrison .......... 8 G. H. Williams, b Capes ................. 0 E. T. Warner, c Cooper, b Harrison 0 V. F. Crawford, b Capes ................. G. F. Hampton, b Capes ................. E. T. Brown, c Green, b Harrison .......... H. S. Loveday, b Capes ................. E. Bailey, lbw, b Harrison................. W.A.Conduit, not out B 23, nb 1 ..........i R. D. Mackenzie, c Brown, b Hawkins 68 J. P. Mollard, b Haw­ kins ................. ... 12 W. W. Capes, c Con- duitt, b Hawkins... 0 R. S. McCalloch, run out ........................ 0 G. L. MarkB.b Brown 46 J. C. G. Harrison, b Brown .................49 H. V. Green,b Brown 8 10 P a st . Total G. B. Thwaites, c Hampton, b Con­ d u ct..........................85 A. W. Cooper, not out .......................... 45 E. R. Jensen, c and b Goodbody ............16 E. J. 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