Cricket 1893

JULY 13, 1893 €RXCRET § A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, 269 T he story told by Richard Daft in his “ Re- llections” a few weeks ago of the wonderment of the two Yorkshire players, George Pinder and Ephraim Lockwood, at Niagara Falls, has procured for C r ic k e t another anecdote of the Yorkshire “ stoomper’s ’’ experiences of America during his stay with Daft’s team. But perhaps I had better let my correspondent, a keen cricketer who has played against all the English combinations which have visited the States of late years, tell the story in his cwn way. “ I played against Daft and Shaw’s team in 1880 , 1 he writes. “ I think it was forCentra 1New York at Syracuse. The English team stopped at the Vanderbilt Hotel, and while there Pinder had his hair cut besides being shaved. The usual price charged in the States was 25 cents and 10 cents respectively. This evidently taggered Pinder, for he came to me and in his broa3 Yorkshire dialect, which I must admit my inability to reproduce, said, ‘ Mr. --------- ba this thing roight ? They’ve gone and charged of thirty-foive cents.* I replied, ‘ That is right.’ 1W h y------it,’ Pinder replied, ‘ A man could have had his d------head coot off in England for that.’ Thirty-five cents, it is perhaps superfluous to add, represents seven- t3en pence half-penny of English money.” F rom what I can hear, the revival of the County Cricket Council, wliich suspended its unctions in such an unaccountable way some wo years ago, s not an unlikely incident of the near uture. The only surprise in the face of so many irregularities and abuses is that some stepi have not been taken before this to resuscitate a body which is clearly essential to the proper regulation of county cricket. If for nothing else than the provision of some better system of umpiring, as well as he strict enforcement of the rules regulating the ualifications of players, there is plenty of good work for the Council to do to justify its existence. The want of a high court of appeal M r . A . J. W ebbe (M iddlesex). From a photograph by Hawkins & Co., Brighto i . THE COUNTY CAPTAINS. L o r d H aw ae (Yorkshire). From a photograph by Hankins & Co., Brighton. to adjudicate on all matters affecting county cricket has been severely felt justlattly. As the Council has only been suffering from suspended animation, its restoration to active life should not be the work of any great length of time. “ T h e Master’s ” completion of 1,000 runs durirgthe second innings of the match between the Gentlemen and the Players at the Oval on Friday last was the more noteworthy from the fact that only two other batsmen, A. E. Stoddart and Gunn, to wit, have been able to claim a similar record this season so far. W. G.’s marked success in that same contest was another proof of Lis marvellous vitality as a cricketer. There could hardly be a better proof of his extraordinary powers than his retention of the front position for such a long term of years. As a matter of fact, he had made his first big score of two hundred in an important match before any of the others who represented the Gentlemen at the Oval last week, with the exception of A. T. Kemble and C. W. Wright, were born. And now, after twenty-nine years of continuous work in first class cricket, he is still the noblest Roman of them all—“ Which nobody can deny 1 19 “ The game commenced shortly after ten o’clock, Wednesday, February 5th, 1845. The Civil Service Club, having won the toss, put in their opponents, and Mr. Scott began bowling the first over; the first ball he gave hit Captain Hillier on the leg, and on the umpire being appealed to, he was given out lbw. Five wickets went down before a run was obtained, in the shape of a bye from Mr. Tucker’s bowling. This proved to be the only notch, and as Judge, the last man, was absent, the innings closed with the fall of Ihe ninth wicket. Ryan carried out his bat, and it was found that the club only marked one ran as their total score , being the b> e mentioned above ; not a single run was scored or even attempted from the bat. C alcutta . First Innings. Second Innings. Hillifr, lbw, b S c o t t .......... 0 b Tucker ............ 1 Crcoke, b Tucker ........... 0 c Scott, b Tucker u W ood, c Bowring, b Scott 0 b Scott ....... 8 Prendergast, c Pigou, b 8cott .................................. 0 b Tucker .... 30 Mayne, b Scott .................. 0 c Tucker, b Scott 38 S. Palm er, b T u ck e r........... 0 b Carnac ....1C C. Palmer, b Scott ........... 0 c Davis, b Scott U Munro, b Scott ................... 0 b Tucker ..... 0 Smelt, b Tuck- r ................... 0 b Tucker ..... g Ryan, not out ................... 0 b Carnac ... to Judcf*, atsent ................... 0 not out ...... l B .................................. 1 B2<? w 2‘2 ... 4 2 Total ................... I . T jtal ...lb. C iv il S e rv ice 0 First Innings. econd Innings. . 0 b r . Pa'mer ,. 1 b W ood ........... . 1 not out ........... . 51 not out . 0 o W ood .. 0 .. 0 .. 0 12 run cut Scott, b W ood Carnac, b W ood ........... Tucker, b Sm elt........... Pigou, b W ood ........... H obhouse, b W ood ... Bowring, b Smelt Patton, b W o o d ........... Latour, b W o o d ........... Greathed. b O. Palm er Davies, c W ood, b Palm er ... ........... Richardson, not out ... B 14, w 1 ................... Total ........... C. c Ryan, b Palm er c Prendergast, b C. Palmer B C, w 10 ... Total 81 The writer concludes his account by saying that “ Messrs. Tucker and Scott may be said to have accomplished that which they can hardly ever expect to do again in the course of their cricketing career, be that as long and successful as it may.” There can, [Mr. Hatt adds], I think, I e little question that this is the lowest, score ever obtained in a match of any importance. While glancing through Vol. I. of the “ India Sporting Review ” (1845), [writes Mr. J. B. Hatt, of the Abbey School, Fort Augustus], 1 came across a cricket curiosity of which I have never seen mention made in any work or article on the game. Great rivalry existed at that time between the Calcutta and Civil Service Clubs, and the first match of the 1845 season between them had resulted in a very close contest, the Civil Service ultimately winning by two wickets (Calcutta 83 and 165, Civil Service 193 and 66). The extraordinary nature of the return match is sufficiently manifest from the scores given below, but it may not be out of place to extract from the “ Indian Sporting Magazine” a few facts re­ garding the first innings of the Calcutta Club. M r . J. S hu ter (Surrey). From a photograph by Hawkins & Co., Brighton