Cricket 1893

284 ©EICEET s A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME g JULY 20, 1893 KENT COUNTY CRICKET KENT v. SUSSEX. AT B E C K E J N H A M Thursday, Friday, Saturday, JULY 27, 28, & 29, The E.’evens will te selected from the following— KEN T. F. Marchant. Esq. L. W ilson. Epq Kev. W . Rashleigh T. N. Perkins, Esq. .T R. Mason, Rsq Rev. B. C. I j . Tinda'l .T. l e Fleminer, Etq. O.W , Little, Esq. G. G. Hearne A. Hearne w . Hearne Martin W right SUSSEX. W. Ii. Murdoch, Esq. W . Newham, Esq. C. A. Smith. Esq. G . Brann, Esq. G. L. W ilson, Esq. Bean Marlow Tate Guttridge Humphreys Butt H ilton Play will commence at 12 noon on Thursday, and at 11.30 on the following days. Admission............... SIXPENCE Frequent Trains from V ictoria and Ludgate Hill (L.C. & D.R.) from Cbaring Cross and Cannon Street (S.E.R.), and from Croydon, &c. (L.B. & S.C.R.). fJB IC K B T , FO O TBA LL, & TENN IB GROUNDS I *horonghJy drained, O ctober, 1888), TO L E T at H yde Farm , Balham , for Season, D ay, or Saturdays, close to Railw ay Station. Special reduced return railway fares from V ictoria, 6d. ^ l T 9s ^ & B & BBNHAM(ftOPriet0r)’ Cinder Track always open for Sports and Training, E, J.PAG£& CO., KENNINOTGN PK. RD., LONDON, S E. THE C OM B I N A T I O N F L E X I B L E itC i These Bats find increasing favour with Gent'em en and Professionals. 1' or driving power they are un­ equalled. The jar, or stin* is entirely obviated, and the hardest hit can be made without feeling any unpleasant sensation. The words *Combination Flexible ” are stamped on each bat. i<St Jas.LillywditGjrowiliCo. (The Original Old Established Firm of LILLYWHITE). ACTUAL MANUFACTURERS OF FINEST QUALITY Cricket and Lawn Tennis Goods, Racquets, Footballs, Golf, <&c., &c. The largest stock of Fine Old Seasoned Bats in the World. FROW D ’S SPECIAL D RIVE R BAT IS THE KING OF BATS J. L. F. & C o.’s MATCH BALLS surpass a ll othe rs fo r perfection of shape and d u ra b ility . Price Lists Post Free. L it eral Cash Discount. 2,4 &6, Newington Causeway,S.E J. L., F. & Co. aie publishers of James Lillyvihite’s Cricketers’ Annual. 1/- Cricket: J. W E E K L Y RECORD OF THE GAME. 41, ST. ANDREW’ S HILL, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, JULY 20 th , 1893. CRICKET BALLS OF THE VERY BEST QUALITY. LEG GUARDS, BATTING GLOVES, FOOTBALLS, And all kinds cf Indoor and Outdoor Games. List of Prices on application, post free. 'She abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— _____ __ __________ Sam ^ E ven though George Lohmann is tempor­ arily absent, as he is to the universal regret of every one who appreciates and values a really keen sportsman, from first-class cricket in England, it will interest many to know that the name is not altogether missing from the records of important matches. If the match between Gentlemen and Players over here was spoiled to some extent by the absence of the great Surrey cricketer, his elder brother was very much in evidence in the same fixture on the other side of the big drink. J. B Lohmann in fact was the chief rungetter for the Players against the Gentlemen in the match at Philadelphia on June ‘29 and follow ing day with scores of 24 and 88. J. B. L. who was engaged with the Georgetown Ciub in Demerara for some time, is this year under engagement to the Merion Club at Philadel phia. Nor will anyone who knows him be surprised to learn that he has already won golden opinions from all kinds and conditions of men in his new post. O n ly the other day came an anxious inquiry as to the cause of the absence of the redoubt able F. R. Spofforth, “ the Demon,” of Australian fame, from the cricket field. His name had not figured in the chronicles of the Books of Cricket this summer, and hence the not unnatural inference that he was giving, or had given, up active pursuit of the game. But last week a records show that Spofforth was not dead to cricket, Le was cnly sleeping. He returned, too, from his slumber like a giant refreshed, as his performance for Hampstead against Marlow, at Marlow, on Saturday, testifies. The whole ten wickets in the first innings and altogether seventeen wickets in the match for only 40 runs, such was his day’s work. There are good judges, and not a few of them, who are of opinion that the Australian team would not have done a bad stroke if they had been able to secure the services of a fafct bowler, even as Spoff now is. At all events, he would have furnished the variety which has been at times so sadly lacking in the Australian bowling. T. B. R hodes , the captain of the Malvern CollegeEleven, to whom I had occasion to re­ fer a fortnight ago as a school wicket - keeper of more than ordinary pro­ mise, has no c r e d e n t i a l s just now at all events, for f i r s t - c l a s s county cricket. Born at Uttcxeter on August 13, 1874, he lives atpresent at the Grammar School, Brewood, near Stafford. Ergo , he has a double qualification fcr Staffordshire, by birth as well as residence. Under the watchful eye of the old Cambridge Blue, C. Toppin, Malvern has turned out several who have made their mark in a higher sphere of cricket, as useful all-round players, Those who have had the best means of estimating his capacity are of opinion that the present captain will in the same way fully uphold the best tradition s of Malvern cricket. In the course of an interesting interview which appeared in the St. James9 Budget of last week, J. McC. Blackham, the captain of the Australian team, gives his deliberate opinion that Charles Bannerman was the best bat Aus­ tralia has ever produced. J. McCarthy, which his hind name is Blackham, has had the most favourable opportunity of judging of the res­ pective merits of the different cricketers from “ down under.” His opinion, too, is entitled to the greatest weight, as he had, of course, the chance of seeing Charles Bannerman when he was at his very best. Still, to those who re­ member Murdoch’s brilliant performances with the earlier Australian teams it sounds a little straDge to find the batsman whom Englishmen generally would have accounted as inferior alone to our own Master, W .G., actually placed in a secondary position to an­ other Australian cricketer. But there, qvot homines tot sententice. By the way, this same St. James' Budget , one of the best cricket numbers we have seen for a longtim e, alto contains a gossip about the Marjlebone Club, with several excellent pictures, illustrating the ground and stme of the best-known per­ sonalities at Lord’s. T h e eagle was killed with a feather from its o*n wing. In other words, the recent defeat of Surrey by Somersetshire was in a great measure the woik of a Surrey man. It may be news to the j ounger generation of C k ick e t readers to know that the liev. A, P. "Wickham, wLo kept wicket for Somersetshire with such success at the Oval last week, is a native of Surrey. Born at Holmwood Vicarage, ne*r