Cricket 1893

848 OEICKETs A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME; AUG. 17, 1893 JasliliywHitGjrowasGo. (T h e O riginal O ld E stablished F irm of LILLYWHITE). A C T U A L M A N U F A C T U R E R S OF F IN E S T Q U A L IT Y Cricket and Lawn Tennis Goods, Racquets, Footballs, Golf, & c ., & c . T he largest stock o f F ine Old Seasoned Bata in th e W orld. F R O W D ’S S P E C IA L D R IV E R B A T IS THE KING OF BATS ) . L. F .& C o .’s WATCH BALLS surpass all others fo r perfection of shape and durability. P rice L ists P ost Free. L iberal C ash D iscount. 2 ,4& 6, Newington Causeway,S.E J. L ., F . & Co. are pu blishers o f Jam es L illy w h ite’s C ricketers’ A nnual, 1/- J. D. BfiRTLE'i a j Railway Approach, WATERLOO STATION. Any young aspiring Cricketer way become great in the Cricket Field by using B A R T L E T T ’S C e le b r a t e d R E P E R C U S S I V E B A T S . The A u stra lia n s d u rin g th eir la st v isit a ll u sed O ur C elebrated R E P bK - CU SSIYE BATS. See C ricket a t O val, i Sept. 22nd, 18E8.—52 run s m a de in le ss than h a lf a n hour, a n d 87 ru n s in an h ou r a n d th ree q u arters from o u r B ats. A dm itted the F astest S corin g B at o f th e Season. M ay b e had of all D ealers in C ricket G oods. u » ct OB y - 7 1 . W A T E R L O O R O A D . HASTINGS & ST . LEONARDS CRICKET WEEK. T w o G r a n d M a t c h e s W ill b e played on th e CENTRAL CRICKET GROUND, HASTINGS A s fo llo w s :— T H U R S D A Y , F R ID A Y , and S A T U R D A Y SEPTEMBER 7, 8, and 9, SOUTH of ENGLAND v. AUSTRALIANS. M O N DAY, T U E S D A Y , and W E D N E S D A Y , SEPTEMBER 11, 12, and 13, NORTH v. SOUTH. Gradidge’s C E L E B R A T E D CRICKET BATS AND BALLS The “ Imperial Driver.” The “ Extra Special.'’ The “ Special Selected ” Bats. 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G a s to n , of 133, Ditchling Rise, Brighton, writes me on the subject ’ of ‘ •Richard Daft’s Rem iniscetces9t:— The charming jottings from Mr. Richard Daft from records of matches from an old scrap book in his possession, in your issue last week, strike a happy keynote of true old English cricket in the early days. Not many weeks since it was my privilege to peruse two large post quarto manuscript books of the late Mr. “ Felix,” containing not only the full scores of the matches of the celebrated All England Eleven of 1851 and 1852, but over sixty highly-coloured drawings of cricket grounds and cricket celebrities by Felix him­ self. One of the most exquisite drawings in the volumes is the sketch of Mr. Trant, of Torquay, to which Mr. Daft refers, taken by Felix while the famous single-wicket match between Mr. Trant and Wisden was being played, the footnote to the drawing being in true Felix wit, viz , “ The Castle of O Trant O ** Those M.S. books have never yet been published, but immediately the treasures were placed in my hands I wired to Mr. A. L. Ford, of Enfield Old Park, and Mr. Thomas Pad- wick, of Red Hill, who both came to my house, and we had one of the grandest three hours with “ Felix’s *’ private folios that ever a cricket enthusiast could realise. It is, indeed, an extraordinary coincidence that Mr. Richard Daft should now relate the story of Mr. Trant and our Sussex “ Little Wonder ” Wisden. C a n o n C a z e n o v e , who died the other day while playing lawn tennis, was in his day not only a good cricketer, but always a keen supporter of the game. That his death does not seem to have received any notice at the hands of the cricket scribes is a little strange, consid­ ering the fact that he was the hero of one of the most extraordinary incidents ever recorded on the cricket field. In a match played on May 5, 1853, between the Undergraduates of Oxford and the County, he obtained sixteen wickets. He got the whole ten in the second innings—a feat then very rare. The curio to which I refer occurred in this same match. In an over of four balls he got five wiokets. By accident the umpire allowed five balls, and with each ball he lowered a wicket. T h a t the cricket doctors do not disagree to any material extent, at all events on the question of the best side for England, will be shown by the fact that the Committee of the Lancashire County C.C. have selected the same eleven to oppose the Australians at Old Trafford next Thursday as opposed them at the Oval this week, with one exception. The exception is the substitution of Peel for Lock­ wood. It deserves to be stated in oonneotion with the Oval match that Wainwright was asked by the Surrey Committee, who were of opinion that a second slow bowler was re­ quired. In face of the universal understand­ ing come to at the meeting of the Counties, that any players should be let off for the three test matches, the Yorkshire executive declined to let Wainwright off. In contrast to their decision, attention should be called to the sportsmanlike action of the Middlesex management in agreeing to spare both A. E. Stoddart and G. McGregor for the same match. To pass at one bound from the second eleven of a County into an England match is an iccident, one well worthy of notice in C r ic k e t . Yet to the uninitiated this would seem to be the case with two Lancashire cricketers. I am referring, of course, to the inclusion of Briggs and Mold in the second eleven of Lan­ cashire against Worcestershire at Stourbridge at the end of last week. In commenting on the presence of S. M. Crosfield, C. H. Benton, F.Ward, Briggs, Yates, and Mold, the Athletic News naively remarks that the Lancashire Committee played them because they were desirous of including “ a few fairly good men.” “ Fairly ’’ is decidedly funny. T he credit of one of the highest individual scores of a by no means unfavourable season for batsmen belongs to Captain Wyld, one of the first to bring Dulwich College to the front as a cricket school. The captain, as many will no doubt remember, played for Surrey some twelve years ago, and indeed, his active con­ nection with that County was only interrupted by his sudden summons abroad on military service, if I remember lightly, in the middle of the match between the Gentlemen of Surrey and Gentlemen of Philadelphia or Canada. For some time he shared with Mr. Leslie Wilson the distinction of the highest record