Cricket 1892

AUG. 4, 1892 CRICKET: A WEEKL1 RECORD OF THE GAME. 841 be a strong combination. Of some excellent all-round cricket, perhaps tbe best feature was the wicket-keeping of J. A. E. Hickson, which, considering the large amount of fast bowling he had to take, was decidedly above the average. In the six matches Horn- Bey altogether scored 1,563 runs for71 wickets, or an average of 22 runs per wicket. The ag­ gregate numbers of runs against them was 1,167 for 110 wiokets, which only gives an average of just over ten runs. A v e r y notable piece of bowling was recorded in a match played last Saturday in a boys’ match at Cleve House, Seend, near Melksham. The match was twelve a side, between A. C. Bell’s team and the Melksham Choir, and the boys were under fifteen years of age. H. S. Thynne of the former had a remarkable analysis, bowling ten overs, ten maidens, for no runs and ten wickets. A. E. S to d d a r t has been recently getting himself into good practice for the heavy work the Middlesex eleven have before them in their remaining fixtures. The Hampstead Club, too, has just lately had reason to con­ gratulate itself on his temporary rest from County cricket. In the seven innings he played for Hampstead at the end of July, he made 500 runs, and as he was twice not out, his average was 100. His scores were as follow— 1st Inn. 2nd Inn. July 21—v. Crystal Palace ........... J26 ... July 22—v. H endon......................... 117 ... July 25, 26—v. Bournemont.h ... 104 ... 17* July 27, 28—v. Hampshire Ho^s ... 103 ... 23* July 29, 30—v. South Wilts .......... 10 ... In the same matches, he took thirty-four wickets at a cost of just over nine runs apiece. So far the record of the Hampstead Club for this season shows thirty-one wins, five losses, and two drawn games. P e r c y R e d fe r n C re ed , whose 211 at Lord’s last Wednesday established a new record for the Rugby and Marlborough match, is Irish by birth as well as residence. He is the oldest son of the Rev. J. C. Creed, rector of Moyglare, County Meath, and was born at the Grove, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, on May 13th, 1874. Before he went to Marlborough in January, 1888, he was at Mr. Lloyd Griffiths' Preparatory School at Tooting As he did not get his colours till 1891, last week's match was only his second appearance against Rugby. I n describing A. G. Steel’s 127 last week as the best individual performance previous to this year, in the same match at Lord’s, I was in error. I had overlooked, as several corres­ pondents have very kindly pointed out, E. H. F. Bradby’ s 170 for Rugby in 1885. So far, I believe, three Rugbeians and three Marl- burians have got a hundred in this match. Marlborough is represented by A. G. Steel in 1877, P. R. Creed and W. Mortimer last week. E. W. M. Lloyd scored 139not out, for Rugby, at Islington, in 1864; F. Tobin 107, in 1868, at Rugby; and E. F. H. Bradby, at Lord’s, in 1885, as already stated. Bradby’s performance for Rugby, at Lord’s, was the more remarkable, as in the following match against M.C.C. & G. he retired after making 102, having ricked his knee when he had scored about 90. O x fo r d men will be interested to know that after all there is a chance of R. P. Lewis, the Winchester wicket-keeper, whose School form justifies the prediction of a brilliant future in more important cricket, being up at the University next summer. At all events he hopes now to go up to Oriel College in October. U n t il last year he had never, I believe, tried his hand behind the stumps, so that his selection as a candidate for the position of stumper at Winchester was in a sense an accident. However, he soon proved his fitness foi the place, and in the Eton match of last year he acquitted himself very creditably, catching three and stumping one batsman, while only giving three byes. This summer his ability has been conspicuous,and his record at Winchester show twelve caught and eight stumped. On his first appearance for Surrey, at Leyton last week against Essex, he was very unfortunate, getting one of his fingers R. P. L ew is (Winchester and Surrey.) (Revrodticcd from a photograph by Jas. Bussell and Soils, Wimbledon.) injured so badly on the first afternoon that he bad to give up further participation in the game. I t is difficult enough for a bowler to take all ten wickets in an innings. Twelve a side matches, however, are so uncommon that an instance of all the batsmen falling to one bowler under such conditions is of the very rarest. It was done in a match at Shirley last Monday, between teams representing re­ spectively T. Watt & Sons of South Kensing­ ton, and Ashby, Son and Allen. Montagu Holmes took all the eleven wickets in the first innings of the former at a cost of only twelve runs. Of the eleven, seven, too, were clean bowled. Unless I am misinformed, Pougher did precisely the same feat for Marylebone Club and Ground against Streatham, on July 16, in the concluding fixture of the Streatham week. T h e Surrey crowd has been so grossly libelled at one time or another, that it is only justioe to call attention to what was after all, perhaps, the most remarkable feature of the memorable match between Surrey and Notts, which caused suoh universal excite­ ment in cricket circles during the week. It says much indeed for the sporting instincts of the thousands who stood to their places throughout Monday and Tuesday, in spite of every discomfort, that there was not the smallest hitch at any period of the match. It would be well indeed for sport if the admirable behaviour of the Surrey crowd under the trying circumstances of this week, and with all the keen excitement of a close and stubbornly fought match, could be reproduced on all occasions and in all places. T h e match itself is so full of historic interest that it will ba well to place on record the attendance. Up till this week the largest number registered at an Inter-County match, at least as far as I am aware, was 51,607 on the occasion of the same match at the Oval in 1887. 1hen the match lasted well into the third afternoon, and indeed over eleven thousand paid on Wednesday. This week however all previous records were thrown into the shade, and the aggregate of four years ago beaten by over twelve thousand. The official return of the number paying at the gate each day was as under: Monday 30,770, Tuesday 29,370, Wednesday 3,635, Total 63,775. C o n sid e rin g that Notts had only 56 to get yesterday, with seven wickets to fall, yester ] day’s attendance was the more remarkable. Nor do the numbers given for the three days fully represent the attendance. In estimating this it must be remembered that there are 3,250 members of the Surrey County C.C., and that the Executive gives free admission to all soldiers in uniform as well as railway and other public servants within reason­ able limits. Thom as H ayw a rd , who will be qualified for Surrey by residence next summer, gives every promise of proving a useful addition to the county. H e has been scoring consis­ tently well recently, and has already made over fifteen hundred runs this season. In his last six matches for the Surrey Club he has made 400 runs. As will be seen from the following summary: 1st Inn 2nd Inn Total July 13—v. Thames D itto n ............. 42* — 42 Jnly 15—v. Streatham........................14 13* 27 July 27—v. Cobham ........................54 — 54 July 29—v. S u rbiton ........................97 — 97 Augu 11—v. Reigate Hill ............. 137 — 137 August 2—v. Banstead ............. 43 — 43 I n the last eight days his aggregate, it will be seen, has been 321 for four innings. So far this year, his average for the Surrey Club is 68. He is the son of Daniel Hayward, who played for Cambridgeshire, and nephew of the celebrated Tom Hayward. His family is not unconnected with Surrey, on the con­ trary, his grandfather was a Mitcham man, whose name is to be found in the Surrey eleven in 1847. T h e regularity with which A. S. Johnston is scoring hundred after hundred for the Gran­ ville (Lee) C.C. must become a little mono­ tonous to the bowlers of the other side. Last Tuesday he ran up his fourth hundred, this time 135 against Eltham at Lee. For the third time, too, he was out in the last over of the match.