Cricket 1893

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Thompson & Co., 3, Church Street. BRISBANE—R. A.Tbompson & Co., Edward St. The abatraofc and brief chronlole of the time.— _____________________________________________ E a m le t, T he Clapton Club has during the last week or so been doing big things in the way of scoring. On Saturday week they made 339 for two wickets against London Hospital, on Saturday last 252 for one wicket against Wanstead, or an aggregate of 591 for three wickets only in two successive matches. Cap­ tain Boyton, to whom on his present form Middlesex might well give a trial, is just now in a wonderful vein for run-getting. This season, up to date, in nine innings he has made 475 runs, whioh, with two not outs, gives an average of over 67 runs. J. H, Douglas has only a slightly worse record. In nine innings he has, too, been three times not out, and as his aggregate is 360 runs his average is exactly 60. These facts speak very highly for the excellence of the Clapton wickets this season. S till , both Claptonians would have to take a back seat if a comparison were made with the recent performances of one of the principal run-getters of the Hampstead Club. Though W . S. Hale has only so far taken part in six innings for Hampstead, he can show an aggre­ gate of 460 runs. The oomponent parts of this total will be found as u n d e r- May 10—v. C. Johnston’s Eleven .. 70* „ 24—v. Chiswick Park .. .. 49 „ 31—v. Uxbridge............................. 56 June 3—v. Highgate School .. 45 „ 7—v. H ornsey.............................124 „ 10—v. Granville . . ..116 These, with one not out, give a splendid average of 92 runs. C harles M oroan , the G.O.M . of suburban cricket, has just attained the distinction of a grandfather. He bowled a good Beckenham side the other day, and looks forward hope­ fully to playing with his grandson, C.L.M . junior. Forty years of active crioket have hardly paled the orioketal fire of a right cheery veteran. T he author of “ The Kings of Crioket,” though close on the sixties, is still capable of practising, and to advantage, the art on which latterly he has commenced to preach, and preach too right well. So far this season his scores have been as under— 10j 25; 68; 107 not out; 7; 33 not out. Together these six innings gave a total of 250 runs, whioh, allowing for the two not outs, furnishes an average of 62. Richard Daft’s continued vitality shows that he is, like “ J.B.” in “ David Copperfield,” “ tough,” and using the phrase, of course in a Pickwickian sense, in his cricket methods, at all events, “ devilish sly.” I t is something of an anomaly that while the wickets at the Oval are, aocording to the critics, so bad, Surrey’s second eleven seem to find them particularly easy. At all events, the second team have been scoring this year on them in a way which does not oonvev the impression that the pitch has favoured the bowlers very much. I n the three matches they have played at the Oval, as will be seen from the following figures, Surrey’ s second have scored 1,024