Cricket 1893

ORICKET s A WEEKLY HECOED OF 'fffiS GAME; SEPT. 1 , 1893 HASTINGS & ST. LEONARDS CRICKET WEEK. T w o G r a n d M a t c h e s W ill be played on the CENTRAL CRICKET GROUND, HASTINGS As follow s :— THURSDAY, FR ID A Y, and SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 8, and 9, SO U TH o f E N G L A N D A U S T R A L I A N S . S outh of E ngland £>r. W. G. Grace (Capt.) Mr. J. J. Ferris Mr. H. T. Hewett Mr. W. W. Read Mr. A. E. Stoddart Rev. H. C. Tindall Rev. A. P. Wickham Alec Hearne J. T. Hearne Lockwood Richardson A u stralian s Selected from Mr.J. C. McC. Blackham Mr. A. C. Bannerman Mr. W. Bruce Mr. A. Coningham Mr. G. Giffen Mr. W . Giffen Mr. H. Graham Mr. S. E. Gregory Mr. A. H. Jarvis Mr. J. J. Lyons Mr. R. McLeod Mr. H. Trott Mr. C. T. B. Turner Mr. H. Trumble MONDAY. TUESDAY, and WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 12, and 13, N O R TH v . SO U TH . S outh N orth Mr. E. Smith Mr. C. E. de Trafford Mr. C. W. Wright Attewell • Briggs Flowers Gunn Peel Sherwin F. H. Sugg A. Ward Dr. W. G. Grace vCapt.) Mr. J. J. Ferris Mr. H. T Hewett Mr. W. L. Murdoch Mr. W. W. Read Mr. A. E. Stoddart Bean J. T. Hearne Lockwood Richardson Wood Wickets pitched at 12 o’clock first day of each match, other days 11 . 30 . Umpires—Thoms and Carpenter. Cheap Fares on S.E.R. and L.B. and S.C.R ,and Excursion Trains will run. Admission to the Ground, One Shilling. Covered Grand Stand, One Shilling Extra. pR IC K E T , FOOTBALL, & TENNIS GROUNDS (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 e n h a m (Proprietor). 104,Rossiter Roau, Balham. CJinder Track always open for Sports and Trainin g J . D. B A R T L E ’ a x j Railway Approach, WATERLOO STATION, Any young aspiring Cricketer rr.a'd become great in the Cricket Field by using B A R T L E T T ’S Celebrated REPERCUSSIVE BA T 3. 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THUESDAT, SEPT. 7 th , 1893. abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— . 3amW \ T he “ Incogniti ” which, through the energetic and watchful handling of their esteemed secretary, Sir A. W. L. Hemming, K.C.M.G., is one of the most popular of the wandering clubs, finished its season last week, having, since the beginning of May, gone through a programme of 48 matches; including visits to Oxford, Clifton, Chelten­ ham, and Sherborne ; and tours in Wales and the West and South of England for the last six weeks. Although the wins do not stand forth so prominently as they have in many past years, yet the season, taken as a whole, has not been a disastrous one in losses. Clubs —like counties—must look for “ ups and downs” —and it is most fitting and good for the welfare of the game, that it should be so. But it may at once be stated that, thanks to fine weather and the agreeable re*union of old friends, the season has been a most enjoyable one. As “ R.T. ” writes, it wound up in a blaze of triumph •’ last Thursday, at W in­ chester. After having all the worst of the maich against the “ Green Jackets ” on the Wednesday—and in a depressing minority on the first innings—the “ Incogs ” woke up, and, thanks to the dashing and effective bat­ ting of W . E. Martyn and E. Matheson—who each topped the century—the closure was an­ nounced. Fortunately, L. E. Abney proved to be in such deadly form with the ball, that the Green Jackets were summarily despatched and the Incogs, left off winners of a capital match. “ R .T .” T hus ruminates: The “ Hastings Cricket Week,” now recognised as one of the chief events of the season, will begin to-day with the match of South of England V. Australians. It was in Sussex, also, that the fiist great match of this season was played, at Sheffield Park, viz., Lord Sheffield’ s X I. of England v. the Australians, and as a welcome to our friends the “ Visitors ” —and a mag­ nificent welcome it was. It is not the first time I have been behind the sticks at Sheffield Park—and have for years officiated in many and many grand cricket gatherings elsewhere. Still, on no previous occasion have I come across a match carried out with such splen­ dour, coupled with the most profuse liberality. The luncheon in the tent, wherein were seated some 200 invited guests; the illuminated lakes, the grand display of fireworks, the splendid regimental bands, with the delighted crowds of thousands that thronged the Park was a scene to be remembered; and I am quite certain that our Colonial friends must have felt honoured and delighted at the thoughtful and brilliant “ welcome” Lord Sheffield had provided. His Lordship, too, during the progress of the match, appeared the very essence of geniality, his looks seeming to say to every* body, Enjoy yourselves. On the third day, too, when fortune fellon England and his eleven had won, no one was more gratified at the result than his Lordship. Altogether it was a match—with its surroundings — to be handed down, as it deserves to be, as one of the historical events connected with Sheffield Park, Now’ to resume about the Hastings Carnival. The first match, as stated, will be v. Austra­ lians, to be followed by the ever-popular match of Gentlemen v. Players, and as the teams will be represented by front-rank crioketers— headed by the champion—a grand show in the various departments of the game may be looked for. When I say headed by the Cham­ pion, all cricketers know that I refer to W . G. Grace—and my best wishes are that he,like his famous brother—the dashing and frolicsome Teddy Grace—may retain his wondrous form, and be found going strong when well into the “ fifties,’’ a wish I am certain that will be encored by all who know him, and especially by his fellow-labourers on the cricket field. One prominent cricketer will be missed on this occasion, as he has been all the se.ison ; but it is to be hoped that my attached friend, George Lohmann, restored to health, will be again seen flitting about on the cricket field—trundling, spanking, and bagging the leather in that admirable form that has placed him in the very foremost rank as one of the best of “ all-rounds.” C bicbet records have been having a bad time of it this summer on the other side of the *•big drink.” Early in July, the credit of the highest individual score on the American continent passed away from A. Browning, the old Streatham Club man, whose 204 for Montrsal against Ottawa at Ottawa, on July 1, 1880, had been for thirteen years the best per* formance of the kind, to another Englishman, A. M. Wood. L ast season, Wood, who played for Derby­ shire twice at the end of 1379, Was very near