Cricket 1892

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The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet, T h e umpire who is a law unto himself is not by any means an unknown quantity in minor cricket. He was very much in evi­ dence in a match between two well-kuown South London clubs last Saturday. An old Middlesex amateur, in playing out, missed the ball, which re-bounded off the wicket­ keeper’s pads and removed the bails before the batsman had regained his crease. On an appeal, the umpire gave the batsman not out on the ground that the ball ought to have been in the wicket-keeper’s hand for a case of stumping. And on remonstrance that this was not according to the laws of the Maryle­ bone Club, his rejoinder was that he knew nothing about Marylebone rules. He knew his own, and that was enough for him. E i g h t wickets for no runs is a noteworthy achievement against any class of batsmen. But Irving’s performance last Saturday, for Manchester, was the more remarkable, con­ sidering that it was at the expense of the Bowdon Club, which is not by any means an inferior opposition. Irving is the Cumberland professional who has been engaged at Old Trafford for the last few years. He qualified for Lancashire by residence two summers ago, and played a fortnight since for the second eleven against Surrey’s second eleven at the Oval. For nearly half a century John Gilbeit has been a familiar personality in Sussex cricket. And like his senior, Charles Absolon, the veteran’s hand does not seem even now to have lost its ancient cunning. Playing for Sheffield Park against Barcombe as recently as June 24, he did an excellent bowling per­ formance, taking three wickets with his first three balls, and altogether five wickets in fifteen balls for six runs. T h o u g h in his sixty-third year Gilbert has plenty of cricket vitality. Some seven summers ago he showed of what stuff he was made, and again at Sheffield Park. The match was between Fletching and Newick, and Gilbert after helping to get Newick out for 69 made 250 without losing his wicket. During the afternoon he ran 450 runs, and, as the only boundary was the pavilion, as a mere matter of staying power it was a remarkable performance for a man of his years. E. M a ld e n , who kept wicket for Kent against Sussex, at Gravesend, last week, is an old Haileyburian and contemporary of the Kent captain (F. Marchant) at Trinity College, Cambridge. During the last few years he has been chiefly identified with the Blue Mantles and Tunbridge Wells Clubs. His first trial for Kent was successful, for he stumped one and caught two batsmen. As a stumper he is distinctly above the average. C le m e n t M i t c h e l l , the left-handed bats­ man of the Crystal Palace, to whose run- getting I have had to call attention more than once already this summer, was in evidence again on Saturday. His score of 201 not out for the Palace against Chiswick Park, at Chis­ wick Park, is the highest score of the week—to the best of my knowledge at least. “ Clem my boy,” who was also an International foot­ baller at the Association game, has been one of the mainstays of the Palace Club. Two years ago in twenty-three completed innings he had an aggregate of 1,663 runs, and an average of over 72. In nine innings on the Palace ground in 1890 he scored 1,191 runs. A l t h o u g h the suggested match between Lord Sheffield’s Eleven and the Australians in London, which ought to have commenced to day, had to be abandoned in consequence of possible interference with the polling, the Sussex President may be interested to know that there is a chance of the Americans in London getting up a team for a match or two before the end of the summer. Mit. II. W. B r o w n , of Philadelphia, who was in Edinburgh during the Surrey match with his three sons (R.D., II.J., and T.E.), expects to be in London next week. R.D. and H.J. were prominent members of the last Philadelphian team, which visited England in 1889, and with the Brown quartett, father and sons, as well as Dr. A. W . Biddle, an old Philadelphian cricketer who is also in Eng­ land, there will be at least the nucleus of a fairly good scratch team. B a ts m e n of the stonewalling school hav not found favour with the Surrey authorities of late years. It will therefore surprise no one to learn that there will be just enough, but not too much, of the “ block, block, block ” style of batting in the Players’ Eleven against the Gentlemen, at the Oval, next Monday. Abel, who was only selected at Lord’s when Lohmann was unable to play, and Maurice Read have been preferred toWard and Chatterton. And if Lohmann’s hand should