Cricket 1892

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1 1 t h , 1892. fJaMIimt drrsstp. “the abstraot and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet, C r ic k e t in Sussex will be considerably the poorer by the removal of Herbert Pigg from St. Leonard’s at the end of next month. Though professional duties prevented him from assisting the County, still he did good service to the game during his residence on the South Coast. His practical knowledge and experience proved of great use to the management of the Hastings Festival, espe­ cially in its early struggles. His individual cricket, too, was on more than one occasion among the most noticeable features of the week. Just lately his health ha3 not been of the best, and this season it has affected his form somewhat. His retirement from Hast­ ings will be a great loss to the cricket of the town. He goes to Cambridge to join hiB brother Charles in scholastic work, “ T h e y manage these things,” if not better, at least differently, in Madagascar. At all events, they celebrated the Queen’s birthday at Tamatave with quite a new departure in cricket procedure. The Madagascar News contains a full, true, and particular account of a match on that day between elevens captained by F. Lloyd Jones and R. Bell respectively. And Madagascar cricket, to judge from the printed score, is not satisfied with the two innings which the laws here stipulate aa the maximum of batting for each side. In this case the two elevens had a third knock, all of whioh is written in the score published by tho News. Curiously, while Lloyd Jones’ Eleven went on the crescendo principle with totals ranging from 21 to 36 and on to 50, the opposition acted on a diminuendo scale, descending from 40 to 14 and finally to 4, with two absentees. It would seem, too, that the News , according to the analysis, has a bowling language of its own. S. Winter is down to have bowled 14 overs, 4 maidens, 22 runs, 13 wickets, 2 rites , while G. Clarenback’e two overs produced 4 runs and six wiles. Can it be, after all, that the printer fiend has been at his old tricks even in far Tamatave ? T h e Sporting Times of Saturday last has the following “ pome ” on the big match of last week, NOTTS v. SURREY. A c apital battle they made it. But Nottingham victor was found ; And as at the Oval they played it, ’Twas jolly good cricket all round. W ith firearms they both should be ’cuter, It seems that by shooting it’s done, When the best on one side is a Shuter, And the best on the other a Gunn. For Surrey—though Eve’s not the mother— Still Abel is able indeed ; One Read has come off—but the other— The figure’s not double you read. A well managed show—those who bossed it Are worthy of praise all the same ; Though Surrey fs mad she has lost it, The man who was Daft won the game. B allyhooly . T he Epsom Club has just oome success­ fully through seven consecutive days cricket, that is working days, with Sunday of course intervening. T o complete the week’s enter­ tainment a scratch match was arranged against the Epsom Conservative Club, and, so popular was the fixture that twenty-six, almost without exception members of the Epsom C.C,, took part in the game. D u rin g the week, inclusive of Saturday, July 30th, the second eleven won three matches, viz.—against Ashtead, Ewell (2), and Stamford Green, while the first eleven de­ feated Ewell, Beddington, Old Suttonians, and Merton. Excluding this scratch match from the calculation, in the four first eleven matches there were scored for Epsom 675 runs for 41 wickets, average 16.453, against 535 runs for sixty one wickets, average 8.77. In the three second eleven fixtures the corresponding figures were, for 553 runs, thirty wickets, average runs per- wicket 18.433, against 323 runs, forty-one wickets, average runs per wicket 7.878. I t is not often that a batsman can claim a niner, and all run out, on an enclosed ground, as was the good fortune of W. E. Broomfield, for St. Mark’s, Kennington, against One and All at the Oval last Saturday. The hit was only one incident, too, of some very uneven crioket. One and All, who went in first, made such a good start that 74 was up with only two batsmen out. Then came a remarkable collapse, and the next seven wiokets fell without any addition to the score. After a bye the last batsman was caught at short slip, so that eight wickets went down without a run from the bat. St. Mark’s batting was of a very different kind. Clark, who went in first, was not long in possession. Broomfield and Barton, however, made runs at a rare pace, and at the end of the day they were still in with the total 210 for one wicket, having added 186 runs. Broomfield’s 109 not out included a hit for nine, in addition to a six, and two fives. C r ic k e t readers would always prefer That Surrey send first to the wicket, The Guv’nor with stout W .W. For then they get Read Able crioket. H.S.