Cricket 1893

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He had spent the whole of the three days of the Australian match at the end of last week at Lord’s, and when I had the pleasure of a chat with him on Monday was still full of the delight he had experienced in witnessing for himself that remarkable illustration of “ gentle tapping ” provided for the crowd at St. John’s Wood on Monday last by Mr. J. J. Lyons. To his great regret the Parsee captain will be deprived of the chance of watching any more first class cricket in London—for the time, at all events. For the next six months he will be busily at work at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublip, in quest of new experience in his profession as a dootor. I can heartily commend him to the good offices of Irish cricketers, not only as a useful all-round player but as a diligent student and keen follower of the game. A ccording to Mr. Pavri, it is quite on the cards that negotiations may shortly be opened with a view to the visit of another team of Parsee cricketers to England in the summer of 1893. The effect of the last tour was naturally to give a great development to tbe game among the Parsees, which has been still further stimulated by their successive victories over the two amateur combinations taken to India by Lord Hawke, In any case, should the projected trip become an accom­ plished fact, it will not surprise anyone to find a muoh more ambitious programme ar­ ranged for them than was provided even on the oocasion of their last visit. T he correspondent who sent to the Editor of the Weekly Sun an enquiry as to the age of George Lohmann, will, I am afraid, be very much astray, if he ventures to rely too im­ plicitly on the information supplied to him in that paper of Sunday last. What the great Surrey bowler has done to be represented, or rather misrepresented, as in th eroa riD g forties it is difficult to tell. “ Tay Pay *’ or his lieutenant was, indeed, sadly at fault in giving 1853 as the year of Lohmann’s birth. A sa matter of fact, the Surrey cricketer is considerably younger than the Sun would make him out. He was born in 1865, so that he is quite in the prime of a cricket career. Mr. L yons ’ phenomenal scoring at Lord’s last Friday has naturally drawn attention to other instances of fast run-getting under something like similar circumstances. As a display of continuous and prolonged hitting it was—well, simply “ prodigious,” to use Dominie Sampson’s favourite exclamation. The marvel, though, was not so much in the rate of scoring at any one particular period, as in the uniformity and consistency of the hitting throughout the inniDgs. G reat stress has rightly been made on the fact that he got sixteen runs off one over, and one paper, the Westminster Gazette , goes so far as to claim for this the distinction of a record. It is, of course, nothing of the kind— that is to say in a match of any importance even if it should happen to be, which I should fancy very unlikely, in one of that class at Lord’s. I am writing purely from memory, but one or two notable instances occur readily which outdo this particular achievement of the great South Australian smiter. In more than one of them, too, an Australian cricketer of the past was the principal actor. The giant Bonnor, on one occasion, I think it was at Scarborough in 1882, scored, if I re­ member rightly, twenty off one over. But the best feat of the kind was by the captain of the team of 1886 against Yorkshire at Sheffield. The sensational finish will be still remembered by some C rick et readers. When the last over was begun nineteen were wanted to win, and H. J. H. Scott Bettled the matter decisively by scoring a six, a four, and two sixes, or twenty-two runs in four balls.