Cricket 1892

292 CRICKET: A WEEKLY EECOED OF THE GAME. JULY 14 , 1892 J. DAVENPORT Cricket & EawnTennisOntStter 20, ELDON STREET, L i v e r p o o l S t r e e t , E . C . Removed from 38, FINSBURY PAVEMENT New Price List now ready. Terms—Ready Money. Cash discount 10 per cent. Speciality — Best All Cane Handle Bats, warranted thoroughly seasoned, 12/6 each. Davenport’ s Propeller Bat, 15/- nett. Treble Seam Cricket Balls 42/-, 45/-, 54-/, 57/-, per dozen, nett. PROFESSIONAL desires re-engagement for remainder of season. Averages up to date, bowling—seventy-two wickets under 4 runs each;, batting—17.5 per innings. Present engagement ceases July 28th.—W. H. C hambers , Woodford Green, Essex. PRICKET, 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, 5d. London Bridge 7d.—ApplyH. B enham (Proprietor), 104, Rossiter Hoad, Balham. 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A wicket-keeper’s lot is not a happy one, particularly when the grounds are hard for any length of time, as they have been this season. A stumper with thoroughly sound hands, just now, is something of the exception which proves the rule. Surrey has had both Mr. A. F. Clarke and Wood down, York­ shire has had to give Hunter a slight rest, and Mr. Gay, of Cambridge University, was evidently keeping for the Gentlemen at the Oval this week under difficulties. Even the massive and stoical Sherwin relished Lock­ wood’s fast bowling so little on Tuesday that he found the ball provided by the Surrey authorities a trifle too hard. T h e Granville (Lee) Club has just secured a valuable acquisition in the person of Mr. A. S. Johnston of the Essex County Eleven, who is perhaps even better known as the full­ back of the Blackheath Football. Mr. John­ ston, who has lately come to reside at West Chislehurst Park, has already m*de his mark effectually for the Granville. During last week he twice scored a hundred for the Club, 135 v. M.C.C. & G. on Wednesday, and 141 against Charlton Park on Saturday. Curiously enough, too, on each occasion he was out in the last oveif of the day. I t [will bo of interest to thosa who follow Public School cricketers closely to know that R. A. Studd, the last of the brotherhood, who went in first for Eton against Harrow, last week, is going up to Cambridge. D. H. Forbes, the Eton Captain, whose all-round cricket was one of the best features of the School match at Lord’s last week, may probably go to Oxford. At present, however, nothing has been actually settled about his destination when he leaves Eton. Though the hard wickets are not to be held solely responsible, it is long since so many leading cricketers were partially disabled at the same time as just now. W.G.’s absence from the Gentlemen and Players’ match robbed the Oval fixture of a good deal of its interest. He strained his leg slightly in play­ ing for the Gentlemen, at Lord’s, and though he hoped against hope that he would be able to play on the Surrey Ground against the Players, at the last he found himself quite unfit. It is, indeed, doubtful whether he will be ablo to assist Gloucestershire against Somersetshire, at Bristol, to-day. B ad hands were also the cause of the non- appearance of Messrs. S. M. J. Woods and Fer­ ris for the Gentlemen, as well as of Attewell, who injured himself at Brighton at the end of last week, for the Players. Another cricketer unable to oppose the Gentlemen was Gunn, who has been ailing this season, and was anything but well in the Sussex match. Alec Hearne is also on the sick list, and Lohmann has just got to work again, after ten dayb’ compulsory abstention, the result of an injury to his finger in stopping a hard return at Edinburgh. M e n t io n of Edinburgh recals the pro­ nouncement that some of the sporting papers have decided to regard the matches between Surrrey and Scotland as first-class. The force of absurdity could hardly further go. And the explanation of this ruling only serves to emphasise the untenable nature of their position. The reason alleged is that the matches were duly made by the executive of the County Club. But so were the fixtures against Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Warwick­ shire, and even Herts and Bedfordshire. And yet none of these is placed by any section of the Press in the category of first class. T h e amateur who played for Scotland in both matches under the pseudonym of J. Robertson is identical with a well-known Glasgow cricketer who made history with a big score of 419 (not out) for the West of Scotland against Priory Park, at Chichester in July, 1885. This was a best on record until it was eclipsedthirteen months later by A. E. Stoddart’s 485 for the Hampstead Club against the Stoios. E v e n in the midst of a plethora of high scoring, the recent batting of C. S.J. Douglas