Cricket 1893

864 CRICKET: A WEEKLY KECORD OP THE GAME, AUG. 24, 1893 HASTINGS & S T . LEONARDS CRICKET WEEK. T w o G r a n d M a t c h e i i ) Will be played on tbe CENTRAL CRICKET GROUND, HASTINGS As follow s:— THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 8, and 9, SOUTH of ENGLAND AU STRAL IAN S . S outh of E ngland Dr. W . G . G race (Capt.) Mr. G . Brann Mr. J. J. Ferris Mr. H. T . Hewett M r. W . W . Read Mr. A. E. Stoddart Rev. H. C. Tindall Rev. A. P. W ickham J. T . Hearne L ockw ood Richardson A u s tra lia n s Selected from Mr. J. C. M cC. Blackham Mr. A. C. Bannerm an Mr. W . Bruce Mr. A. Coningham Mr. G. Giffen Mr. W . Giffen Mr. H. Graham Mr. S. E. G regory Mr. A. H. Jarvis Mr. J. J. L yons Mr. R. M cL eod Mr. H . Trott Mr. C. T . B. Turner Mr. H. Trum ble MONDAY, TUESDAY, and WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 12, and 13, NORTH v. SOUTH. N o r th Mr. E . Smith Mr. C. E. de Trafford Mr. C. W . W right Attewell Briggs Flow ers Gunn Peel Sherw in A. W ard W ainw right S o u th Dr. W . G. G race vCapt.) Mr. G. Brann Mr. L. H Gay Mr. H .T . Hewett Mr. W . L. M urdoch Mr. W . W . Read M r. A. E. Stoddart Bean T. T . Hearne L ockw ood Richardson W ickets pitched at 12 o ’clock first day o f each m atch, other days 11.30. Um pires—T hom s and Carpenter. Cheap Fares on S .E .R . and L.B. and S.C .R , and E xcursion Trains will run. Admission to the Ground, One Shilling. Covered G rand Stand, One Shilling Extra. Car­ riages holding Five, Five Shillings. ( UtlUKET, FOOTBALL, a TKNNIB (i.KOUNDS (all thoroughly drained, October, 1888), TO LE T at Hyde Farm, Balham, for Season, Day, or Saturdays, close to Railway Station. Special reduced return railway fares from Victoria, 5d. London Bridge 7d.—ApplyH. B enham (Proprietor). 104,Rossiter Roa*I, Balham. Cinder Track always open for Sports and Training J. D. BARTLEY* Railway Approach, WATERLOO STATION. 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The bowler should be sought for high and low in the country, just like Beach was searched out and trained to beat Hanlan. He should be little less than 6ft. in height, brawny, sinewy, but thin, rakish as a Turkish pirate, bizarre as a geared ordinary, a quirk and quip in every joint, with a terrible hand that can roll up crown pieces like cigarette paper, and with the touoh of a lady pianiste. But the physique is not all, it is the mere framework of the machine. There should be soul. He should possess a devil, a very irre­ sponsible devil; unreasonable, capricious, sly, and malignant. His breast should contain the shaggy heart of a Darton, his eye the menace of Attila. The ball should become a very imp, a squirming, grovelling, sliding, darting imp. Old Clarke could make the ball do everything but speak, we are told. Speak —we are long past that. The ball must whistle and sing, now with the seduction, the lulling softness of Patti’ s high notes, anon like the storm-wind of Labrador. Speak! The ball must orate, stutter, Bcreech, and use stranger language. Good gracious! only to think of it. I re­ member once reading an account of a cricket matoh in which an imaginative reporter, by way of describing a catoh, explained how the ball “ descended with the gyrations of a cork­ screw till it fell into the nimble clutoheB of the fieldsman.” But fancy “ a squirming, grovelling, darting, sliding ball.” “ They be bonny writer’ s words,” as Andrew Fairservice was wont to Bay. C b ic k e t readers generally, not merely those who were taught at the foundation of Lyon of Preston, “ Yeoman John,” will be interested to know that a brass tablet has just been placed on the arch of the Chancel of the Harrow School Chapel in memory of Cyril Buxton, the Cambridge University and Essex oricketer, who was at School at Harrow for some years. The tablet, whioh has been erected by some of his sohool friends, bears the following inscription, “ In affectionate memory of Cyril Digby Buxton.” —“ Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness." On the lower orioket ground a pavilion is in course of erection, alBO as a memorial of Mr. Buxton's Bchool life. T h o u s h , perhaps, in his time better known as an Association footballer, T . W . Blenkiron, the Old Carthusian, is able to urge the flying ball quite as well on the oricket-field, and with very muoh the same force. A recent performance of his, no later than last week, will show that he is a gentle tapper when the spirit moves him after Robert Thoms’ own heart. For Northbrook against Norwood, on Saturday, in one over he made twenty-four runs by a four, two sixes, and two fours. W ith so many big feats in the way,' of fast scoring, it is difficult to make definite pronouncement that this is a reoord, Still, the best performances of the sort I can remember just of late are George Brann’ s 22 for Sixteen of Reigate last year, 0 . G. Radcliffe’s similar achievement for East Glou­ cestershire v. Thornbury some years ago, and H. J. H. Scott’s for the Australians v. York­ shire at Sheffield in 1886. The last is, I think, the best of the lot, as 22 were in this case made off an over of four balls. T.W.B. is the son of one of the vioe-presidents of the Northbrook O.C., himself a keen supporter of our grand summer game. Blenkiron the younger played oricket for his College besides gaining his football “ blue” at Cambridge University.