Cricket 1893

106 CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. MAY 1893 ago, and there is little or no chance of his being able to resume active cricket until, at all events, quite the end of the season. The loss of his bowling may be severely felt by the Wanderers before the summer is over. T h e eleven which is to represent Surrey in its opening match at the Oval on Monday next will contain two players new to first-class County cricket at all events. The players in question are Marshall and Hayward. The former, unless I am mistaken, played for Leices­ tershire on one or two occasions three years ago. He is a wicket-keeper of the sturdy type, and being now qualified for Surrey by residence, may be useful as an understudy for Wood. Hayward, who as I have said before harks back to Mitcham in the second generation, I believe has represented Cambridgeshire, but not, if my memory serves me, in an important match. He is about twenty- three years of age, aud on the form he has shown as an all-round player during the two seasons he has been engaged at the Oval, should be of use. T h e honour of the highest individual score of the season so far, to the best of my knowledge at least, belongs to D. L. A. Jephson, of last year’s Cambridge University Eleven. He must have pun­ ished the Bickley Park bowlers freely on Monday, for when the Wanderers closed their innings with only three wickets down for 328, he was still in with 169 to his credit. Though qualified to represent Cambridge again this year, I hear he is a doubtful starter having I hear taken his name off the books. He is, I believe, going on to the Stock Exchange, and will strengthen the already very strong com­ bination which could be collected out of The House. B ic h a r d D a f t , in his “ Kings of Cricket,” tells a story of the two York- shiremen, Pinder and Lockwood, which will be thoroughly characteristic to those who had any personal knowledge of the players in question. It was during the visit of Daft’s team to the States in the Autumn of 1879. The party were taking thair first look at the great fall at Niagara, at which most of them were awestruck with admiration. The two Yorkshiremen were standing a little apart from the rest, and Pinder asked Lockwood “ what he thought on’t.” Ephraim replied, “ Nowfc at all; if this is the falls of Niagara I ’d sooner be at Sheffield.” T h e versatile Sloper, Ally of that ilk, has found there are certain points of similarity between a cricket report and, well, another kind of catch. His com­ parisons, too, even if they are odorous, are at least well found. “ The average account of the capture of a burglar reads very much like the report of a cricket match. First of all the occupant of the house is out, then the burglar being stumped wants to go in, but a policeman who is bowled interferes, and the burglar is caught while running by another constable at point, in fact it is a wicket job altogether.” W h i l e looking through “ Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanac” for last year [writes Mr. E. Fletcher, of 9, 'Whitworth Street, East Greenwich] I thought it might per­ haps interest the readers of your paper to know how many of our cricketers went through the season breaking their “ duck ” on every occasion. T h e following are cricketers who made runs on every occasion in 1892 for their county when playing the other first-class counties :—Mr. W. W . Bead (Surrey), W. Gunn, H. B. Daft (Notts), Mr. Challen (Somerset),A. Smith (Lancashire), Mr. A. E. Stoddart (Middlesex),Mr.Paterson, Mr. Le Fleming, A. Hearne, G. G. Hearne (Kent), Mr. W. G. Grace, Mr. Kitcat (Gloucester). T h e following scored on every occasion in their county matches and also in North v. South matches, in Gents v. Players, in Married v. Single, and in Lord Sheffield’s Team v. England:—Mr. W. W. Bead (Surrey), W. Gunn, *H. B. Daft (Notts),*Mr. J.B. Challen (Somerset), *Mr. W.H. Patterson, *G. G. Hearne,*Mr. J. Le Fleming (Kent), Mr. W. G. Grace, *Mr. S. A. P. Kitcat (Gloucestershire). Those marked thus * did not take part in any of those matches. It willbe seen that Mr. A. E. Stoddard, Middlesex, A. Hearne, Kent, and A. Smith, Lancashire, made a “ duck ” in one of those matches. WELCOME, AUSTRALIANS! X, "Welcome Australians ! this be our refrain— Sing a song of welcome, boys 1 Empty your glasses, fill them tip again, Drink a drink of welcome, boys! In the dear Homeland Let us take them by the hand— The ohieftains of a game that never oloys— And sing a song of welcome, Sing a song of welcome, Sing a song of welcome, boys ! II. Welcome, Australians ! though they come to fight— Sing a soDg of welcome, boys! Tho battle soon begins, be merry then to­ night, Drink a drink of welcome, boys ! Fill them up once more Ere we hear the battle roar, And together join in cricket’s joys— And drink a drink of welcome. Drink a drink of welcome, Drink a drink of welcome, boys 1 III. ■Welcome, Australians ! Princes of the game— Sing a song of welcome, boys ! To those we know of old, to those by fame, Sing a song of welcome, boys 1 Be the battle not begun, Be it lost and won, Our friendship it never destroys— So eing a song of welcome, Sing a song of welcome, Sing a song of weloome, boys! G. W. H a^ d y. I t will please all good C r ic k e t readers who retain active recollections of the earlier Australian teams, to know that T. W. Garrett is able to keep the ball moving with much, if not quite, the same vigour as he showed over here. Only a few weeks ago, or to be precise, at the end of March, he played a particularly fine innings for Sydney University, against the Carlton Club. In about an hour and a half he made 90 runs, and in his figures were three fives. E v e r y C r ic k e t reader will echo the hope that the statement in tli3 excellent biography of Mr. H. T. Hewett, which appears in this month’s Bailij, of a pro­ bable reduction in the number of hia appearances in first-class cricket, is at all events a little too previous. The in­ creasing claims of his profession since he was called to the bar in 1891, it goes without saying, will probably have the effect of curtailing the amount of time he is able to devote to the game. Still, County cricket, fortunate as it has been of late years in a constant succession of sturdy upholders, can not afford to lose a keen and genuine sportsman of the type of the Somersetshire captain. WUAT IS THE CAUSE OP ALL THI3 EXCITEMENT ? TEE NATIONAL GAME, OP CODEBE. How the dear Old Buffer’s heart would go out to the writer of “ Bustic Cricket ” in this month’s New Review. And there is certainly a touch of nature about the closing lines of Gerald Fiennes’ article, which everyone will appreciate who would wish the old world of cricket akin. For man to love his brother he must first convince himself that his brother was also man. The lives of rich and poor lie all too wide asunder, hence they misunderstand eaoh other. The rich man looks on the poor man asthe Gehazi, who is eager to take somewhat of him, even to the last clod of his paternal acres.