Cricket 1893

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G rah am , the young Victorian, who comes from Australia with a reputation as one of the bright particular stars of what bids fair to be an exceedingly good fielding side, got his name up in a great measure by a sensational catch he made as a substitute in one of the best matches against the Earl of Sheffield’s team. He caught the ball just inside the boundary, and with his arm extended far back over his head. This bit of fielding fairly electrified even the cricket critics, and more than one of the illustrated journals immortalised Graham’s feat in a special sketch. Jupp’s first introduction to Surrey cricket was, if I remember rightly, in a great measure the result of a similar incident. It was his good fielding as a substitute in an important match at the Oval which brought him directly before the notice of the Surrey authorities. T he County o f Mitcham in the parish of Surrey lias an unmistakeable grievance against some of the gentlemen of light and leading whose mission it is to instruct the British public on matters cricketal. Only this week one of the sporting dailies in­ formed, or rather misinformed, the B. P. that the Australians had been practising on Mitcham Common. It should of course have been Mitcham Green, C ric k e t critics seem to get a bit mixed about the topography o f Mitcham. Oddly enough, the same blunder occured in the Badminton series, where a sketch of the Village Green is made out to be a re­ presentation of Mitcham Common. The Green is devoted to kricket and kids, who, from information I have received, abound to an abnormal extent there. Mitcham Common is quite a different locality. It is devoted to golf, grazing, gravel pits, and gorse, not omitting — horresco re- feren s — the geese. G e n era l congratulations to P. S. Jack­ son, the captain of the Cambridge University Cricket Eleven, on proceeding to his B.A. degree in the Senate House on Thursday last. In addition to the good work he has dene both by precept and example to improve the character of Cambridge cricket, it deserves to be added that the recent purchase of Fenners ground was the result in no small measure of his personal exertions. His big score in the match of last week on Mr. Laverton’s ground at Westbury