Cricket 1893

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' I i ’t cf Prices on a; p ic .Lion po^t free THURSDAY, MAY 11th, 1893. DaM Iim t f e s t p , Xba abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— _ _ _ _ _ Hamlet L o r d P e t r e , who died last week, was in his earlier days not only a keen cricketer himself, but a liberal supporter of the game. A slow round arm bowler with a naturally high delivery, and standing as he did over six feet, he was very difficult on certain wickets. The matches played under his auspices at his seat, in Essex, were always as enjoyable as they were productive of good crickit. The pitch was always carefully tended and in excellent condition. It was my own good fortune to play theremany atime and oft in the seventies, and there is nothing but pleasant memories of the good times there. After he took holy orders in the Church of Rome Lord Petre got out of touch with the game to a great extent. Still he never lost interest in it, and it is only a year or two ago tha.t he witnessed an important match at the Oval with the keenest enjoyment. T h e Harrow Freshman, F. G. L. Clayton, who made such a brilliant debut at Oxford last week, has not, at the present time at all events, any qualification for first-claks county cricket. Born and bred in the neighbour­ hood of Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland has the only claim on his services. ’ T h o u g h his mammoth score at Oxford came, even to those who had an opportunity of watching his school play closely, as a bit of a surprise, still his consistently good batting at Harrow, in 1892, warranted the general belief of old Harrovian critics that he would make his mark when he got on to good wickets. He is very good on the offside, both in driving and cutting, more especially in that particular hit between cover point and mid-off which is really the “ Harrow drive,” and thirty years ago was made only by Harrow cricketers, e.g., Daniel and Mait­ land. Last year his weakness was on the leg side. If not quite first class, he is a very fair field. •On a good pitch he is not likely to be a very effective bowler, though he got some wickets in the Freshmen’s Match. It.^only remains to be said that his score of 230 is the best ever made in that fixture. Nor is his record of 301 for once out likely to be beaten in a hurry. T h e Surrey captain, Mr. J. Shuter, paid a graceful tribute, at the dinner given by the Surrey Club to the Australian Cricketers, to the part the Australians had played in the rise and present greatness of Surrey Cricket. It is a well-known fact that when the first team came over in ’78 the finances of the now premier County were in a very bad way, while the cricket outlook as well was far from bright. The great attraction and the perfect cricket our Australian cousins showed drew enormous crowds to the Oral, and a replen­ ished exchequer, accompanied by some bold strokes of policy on the part of the Executive in securing outside help, laid the foundation of the position the County holds to day. T h e anxiety to secure left-handed bowlers at the present time seems to have developed into something very like a craze. A good story is told of a well-known amateurcricketer, the noblest Roman of them all in the matter of enthusiasm, who went so far as to have the right arm of his first-born secured, so that he should be compelled to use his left hand with a view to certain possibilities in the distant future, of success as a left handed bowler. Y e t there are parents so misguided—from a cricketstandpoint,that is—as to correct their children for the use of the left hand in ordinary