Cricket 1892

JUNE 16, 1892 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, 213 record, as the total of 523 is the largest as yet made by Middlesex. Considering that he has been playing County cricket since he was twenty-four, which was in 1878, as a mere matter of staying power his performance was noteworthy. Like Messrs. R. S. Lucas and J. U. Head, as well, if I mistake not, as S. A. P. Kitcat, Stanley Scott in the winter is a keen hockey player. “ THIS DAY’S CRICKET.” The head-line’s sure to meet oar gaze, No matter what the journal, Nor where we wend our devious ways, In this the season vernal; At eventide in tram or train— (For as we take our ticket, A Star or Stand.ird all obtain)— We see—when play’s not “ stopped by rain, The head-line “ This Day’s Cricket.” Of cricket on the Southern slopes— Their batting, bowling, fielding ; Or Northern heights—their doubts and hopes, Aud what the season’s yielding; Of cricketers on down and dale— Where e’er they pitoh a wicket, And Willow mighty monarch hail; Of cricket England o’er the tale Is told in this day’s C ricket . C.P. T he following case has been submitted for m y o p in ion ;— In the cricket match at Westbury—L. C. H. Palairet’s Oxford Eleven v. Leighton—played May 16th, one of the umpires no-balled ” the last ball of an over, which was scored from; the umpire then called “ over:” this was demurred to by most of the cricketers on the ground and especially by C. K. Pullin , the Gloucestershire umpire. Question .—“ Should a ball which has been ‘ no balled ’ by the umpire be counted in the over, if scored off by batsman ?—Short Lbg.” There oan be no doubt about the proper answer. A no-ball can not under any circum­ stances , whether runs be hit from it or nott be counted as one of the over. A g o o d parformance in the way of bowling wis recorded at Cambridge on Whit Monday. Playing for St. Giles, Cambridge, against Bot- ti3him Lode, C. Cook got thirteen wickets in the match at a co3t of only 6 runs. In the first innings he got seven wickets for no runs, in tbe second six for 6. A d ir e c t contrast was furnished in the match between St. Anne’s Heath and Sun- ningdale at Virginia Water on June 4. Hera the batsmen had a good time of it. Sun- ningdale in particular were in evidence, for the Rev. S. H. Smith and F. Atkinson put on 228 runs for the first wicket. In two hours and a half the side scored 347 for Bix wickets, and Mr. Atkinson was still in with 213 to his name. C r ic k e t readers who had the opportunity of making the acquaintance of the members of the two Parsee teams which visited England, will be grieved to hear that one of the most successful batsmen of the two tours, J. M. Morenas, has played his last ball. Though employed at the Wadhwan Raj (State) with one of the Kathiawar chiefs on special duty, he participated in all the first-class matches in Bombay and the mofussil, fully sustaining the promise he showed in England. His death, which occurred at Baroda on May 27th, has caused universal gloom in Indian cricket circles, as well a3 among a large number of friends outside. T he instances are fortunately of the rarest wherein abatsman has the ill-luck to reoeive only one ball in each innings of a matoh. Watts, who lias been acting recently as understudy to Wood the Surrey wicket-keeper, enjoyed this unenviable distinction in the match against Cambridge University at the Oval last week. He was bowled each time. H. R. B r o m l e y D a v e n p o r t , whose fast bowling has been of great service to the Cambridge eleven on occasions this season, has a delivery which, to use a favourite phrase of the oricket critics, is hardly orthodox. He takes a long run of several yards, and if I mistake not, holds the ball in his right hand, transferring it to the left as he is »» about to deliver. Considering the work he goes through in bowling every ball, he does not tire quickly. He is one of the few cricketers who play in spectacles. He has, I am informed on good authority, already received his “ blue,” as have also L. H. Gay and J. Douglas. I t seems as if the mantle of .the veteran Yorkshireman, Tom Emmett, was likely to descend to his son. A son of his, Arthur by name, at all events, got his name up on Whit- Monday, by a very good all-round perform­ ance at the opening of the new ground at Morecambe. Playing for Mr. E. Airey’s Brad­ ford team in a twelve a-side match, he had a hand in the dismissal of all the eleven wickets, getting teu, nine of them clean bowled, off his own bowling, and catching the eleventh. The first ball he received, too, he put clean out of the field. L a st week by a slip of tho pen, Mr. William Lancelot Knowles, who played so well for Kent against Middlesex at Blackheath, was represented by me to have been an infantile prodigy in cricket. Born in 1870, he got into the Hurstpierpoint College eleven in 1884, not 1874, as was then stated, and joined the Plaistow Club in 1888,-not 1878. Though he lives at Bromley, he was born at Henfield, so that he has a birth qualification for Sussex. G. S. P a t t e r s o n , one of the best all-round men in the last Philadelphian team,it will inter­ est many on this side of the big drink to know, has begun the season in the most promising style. He has made a good start for German­ town in the Halifax competition, with scores of 133 against Merion on Saturday, May 28, and 74 out of 171 from the bat againstBelmont on the following Monday. George Patterson is a real cricketer in every sense of the word. J. R. H e a d , who made his first appearance for Middlesex against Surrey this week, was in the Clifton College eleven of 1886, a con­ temporary of E. Smith, the old Oxonian. Like R. S. Lucas, of the Middlesex eleven, he plays for the Teddington Club, for which he scores freely at times. Like Lucas, he is also a keen hockey player. Both have done good work for the Teddington Hookey Club. C. V. B. D a v y , who made a very creditable first appearance for Kent against Middlesex at Blackheath a fortnight ago, was in the Cheltenham College eleven of 1888. H. B. Champain, who played once or twice for Gloucestershire, was captain that year, and Davy was only second to him in the batting tables with an average of 25 for seven innings Since 1889 his all-round cricket has been of material assistance to Bickley Park Club, and last year he scored three hundreds, 165 for the Band of Brothers against Shorncliffe Camp, 130 against Richmond, 111 v. Kensington Park, both these last for Bickley Park. His best bowling performance for Bickley Park was in 1890 against Bromley, when he took six wickets for 200 runs. His bowls left hand medium, and is a batsman of the vigorous type. I n his excellent weekly “ Notches ” [writes Mr. A. J. Gaston, of 133, Ditchling Rise, Bright on] I noticed in your issue of the 2nd inst. that Mr. Holmes gracefully alludes to old Clarke’s lobs. It would, indeed, have been a rare good “ Notch ” if Mr. Holmes had added a few practical hints “ How to play lob bowling.” Perhaps my friend Mr. Holmes— enthusiastic snapper-up as he is of cricket literature—has never seen the little pamphlet by “ Felix,” “ How to play Clarke.” The first principle therein is, “ Let every good player open his shoulders , go boldly to him, and hit hard and freely .” Possibly the Rev. R. S. Holmes will, therefore, in these modern days “ Notch ” a wrinkle “ How to play lobs.” M id d l e s e x will find a very useful addition to its strength in the Oxford Captain of 18S0, the Hon. F.J. N. Thesiger, if he should be able, as seems probable, to assist them at all fre­ quently, if not regularly. His second innings of sixty not out at the Oval this week showed plenty of confidence, and his plucky stand when things were looking all against his side, deserved unstinted praise. As an out field, too, he is brilliant. The catch which disposed of Brockwell on Monday was a parti, cularly fine one. He was, indeed, almost on the pavilion fence, and a little more would have oarried the ball over and made it a boundary hit. M r . A. S. J o h n s t o n ’ s biography will hardly be complete without incidental mention of a record which, though not an athletic feat in the strict sense of the term, may at all events be classed as one of endurance. Eggs have, no doubt, been not unknown to him during bis cricket career, but they are of another kind. One of his earliest achievements was to secure the first prize for a collection of birds’ eggs, and as this comprised a specimen of the eggs of every bird known to Hertfordshire,from the nightingale to the rook, the amount of labour necessary to the completion of such a collection can be easily guaged. By the way, an ivory miniature of Mr. Johnston when he was about seven or eight years old, as a sailor-boy, was exhibited in the Royal Academy. It has been one of the attractions at the entrance to Mr. Heath’s studio at 11, Pall Mall East, for some time. W a l t e r N ic h o l s o n , who showed such promising all-round cricket for the second eleven of Yorkshire against Lancashire’s second at Manchester last week, is not a professional cricketer as some papers seem to have implied. He is an amateur, and one of the most active members of the Mexborough Club. S o m e exceptionally rapid scoring was recorded on Saturday at Cane Hill Asylum, which is Purley way. St. Thomas’ Hospital, who were the victims, after being dismissed