Cricket 1893

S E P T 7, 1898 ORICRETg A WEEKLY BECORD OF THE GAME, 897 be received with gratification by the cricketers round Richmond, and in the Thames Valley generally. E v e r y C r ic k bT reader will be interested to know that Mr. J. B. Challen, the well-known Somersetshire cricketer, has just taken unto himself a wife. The other chief figure in the ceremony which was celebrated on Tuesday last was Miss Amy Price, daughter of the Rev. E. H. Price, rector of Willey, Lutter­ worth, Warwickshire. Our very best wishes to you, Mr. and Mrs. Challen. The bride­ groom, who was so long attached to Welling­ borough Grammar School, is now, as most C r i c k e t readers know, head-masterof Credi- ton Grammar School. M y good friend Mr. Carles?, the active and intelligent oflicer who has so ably managed the affairs of the Hastings and St. Loonard’s Week, writes me that circumstances over which the executive at least have had no control, have necessitated more than one change in the teams for the Festival which is to begin to-day. Mr. George Brann is unable to represent the South in either of the two matches, and accidents will prevent Wain­ wright and Mr. L. H. Gay from appearing at Hastings. Mr. Brann’s place in the opening fixture against the Australians will be filled by Alec Hearne, in the second by Mr. Ferris. Sugg will replace Wainwright, whose injury at Scarborough will prevent him playing in the Northern Eleven, and Wood, Mr. Gay, on the side of the South in next week’s match. c‘ A L o v e r of True S port 99 is evidently much concerned, to judge by his letter in yesterday’s Sporting L ife , at what he con- siders to be a lack of appreciation by the j authorities of good bowling performances in , County matches. But is he justified in mak­ ing such a general charge ? Hardly, I venture to say. As a matter of fact, in at least one case, as I am able to say of my own knowledge, and no doubt in others, an exceptional achievement of any kind invariably receives 1ts due reward. Six wickets iu successive balls ! This is a record good enough to merit prominent notice, whatever the quality of the match or the calibre of the players. The double hat trick was done in the Halifax district on Saturday last by a young cricketer named Shaw, of Rastrick, in a match between elevens captained respectively by Messrs. Edwin and Wheatley. In six overs, which only cost two runs, he took ten wickets, the last six of them with successive balls. Hail to you, Shaw ! done good service at times for the second eleven. A district which has supplied such notable players as Pooley, and later Brockwell, to Surrey should be a useful training ground for county players. B y way of contrast to the heavy scoring in which A. M. Wood, M. R. Cobb, and Tyera were the principal actors, an American corres­ pondent has been good enough to send me particulars of a bowlers’ match on August 18. The game, which took place at Pickering, in Canada, was between the local club and a team from Markham. The run-getting was a curious contrast to that at New Jersey on the previous day. The totals of the four com ­ pleted innings altogether amounted to 102, which gives an average of just over two and a half runs to each batsman. Pickering scored four, of which only two were from the bat, and 40. The finish, too, was sensational, as Markham, after making 33 and 15 for the loss of four batsmen, lost their last six wiokets for a bye, and were accordingly beaten by four runs. T h a t was a curious derangement of affairs which occurred in Yorkshire’s first innings againBt the South at Scarborough on Thurs­ day last. Peel, who was batting, played a ball and a dangerously short run was made. Lock­ wood picking up shied the ball to the bowler, m ho missed it, with the result overthrow No. 1. O’ Brien, who was backing up, slipping, also fell in picking up the ball, and amidst great laughter, overthrew for another single. But the comic element was not yet exhausted. Peel himself slipped up in going for this last run, to the renewed and boisterous delight of the spectators. And in spite of interludes of this sort there are people who say that cricket is a serious game. I f the Yorkshire authorities have, as it is rumoured, suggested to J. T. Brown the advisability of his withdrawal from active football, the general opinion, of the faculty at all events, will be that they are acting pru­ dently and wisely in the best interests of the County’s cricket. On this season’s form Brown is quite in the front rank as an all round cricketer, and with every chance of a successful future on the cricket field, it would be, to say the least of it, imprudent to run the risk of the many accidents, any of whioh, even a slight strain for instance, might cause permanent trouble—to which flesh is heir in football. Football of the fin de siecle tyjie produces an exoess of—well, zeal, whioh is not calculated to make it altogether a thing of joy to those who have genuinely at heart the welfare of cricketers no less than of the game generally. passing Browning’s score but was just pre­ vented by time, making 201 not out for Belmont against Baltimore, on June 3 , 1892. This time, though, he put the matter effectually beyond a doubt, for his 278 for the Pennsylvania Railroad against Roanoke, on July 3, at Philadelphia, outdid the previous record by no less than 74 runs. On this occasion, too, Wood was not out, as the score sheet shows “ retired ” to his name. Just now Wood is undoubtedly the foremost figure in American cricket. Up to this year, too, he shared with G. S. Patterson the credit of tbe biggest partnership in America. Their achievement last year was a particularly good one, for the 267 runs they got were made for the Amateurs against the Professionals of Philadelphia. The performance to which I more especially wished to call attention at this time, though) was one of more recent occurrence than that of A. M. Wood, to which I have just referred. In this case the record for the largest partner­ ship, which was won by Patterson and Wood in 1892, had to go by the board. The distinction was gained by Tyers, a professional, who, if I mistake not, hails from Notts, and M. R. Cobb. The occasion was a match between the New Jersey Athletic and the Elizabeth Clubs, played at Bergen Point, N.J., on the seven­ teenth of last month. T he score, which is worthy of re-production in full, will show that the two batsmen put on 305 runs for New Jersey without the loss of a wicket. Their hitting must have been more­ over of a very severe character, if the reporter of the N eiv Y ork C lij)per is correct that the total was made in about two hours. In any case the match was a remarkable one. It is not often that two batsmen, and both of them still in, beat a side with 245 runs and an inn­ ings to spare. N ew J ersey A thletic C lub .—T.vers (not out), 170. CoV'b (not out), 126; b 4, lb 1, w 3, nb 1 .- Total, 805. E lizabeth . First Innings. Seco_d lonings. Campbell, c and b Cobb 0 bMaxlie’d .......... 6 Davis, c Tyers, b Cobb ... 7 c Cooper,bGunn7 H. Bnrke, b Cobb.................. 0 bMaxfield........... 0 Brokenbrow, b Tyera ... 4 c Payne, b Max- fltld ................. 3 Jones, b Cobb ................. 4 not out ............ 1 Lavin, b Cobb .................. 0 c Gunn, b Max­ field................ 0 Oldham, c Ma? field, b T yers................................ 1 cClarke, b Gunn 2 F. burke, c Day, b Cobb ... 0 c Tyera, b Max­ field ................. 0 O’Neill, c Payne, b Tyers... 0 bMaxfield........... 0 Hammond, b Cobb .......... O btoaxfleld............ 2 Corcoran, notout .......... fi c and bMaxfie'd 0 B ............................... 5 B 9, lb 8 ... 12 Total .................27 Total ... 33 UaLes3 I am altogether wrong in my reckon­ ing, the Lieut.-Col. G. B. Meares who has just been appointed Commandant at Kneller Hall, which is Hounslow way, is the same George Brooke Meares who has played by no means an unimportant part in Military and other cricket for many years. My own memory takes me back to the time when the Colonel was a strikin g personality in Army cricket, one of its best all-round players in fact. Since then he has pursued the game like a keen sportsman in many lands. The news of his appointment to Kneller Hall will F o r the last two or three years the Surrey Eleven have played the cricket season out on the Athletic Ground at Richmond. Nor will this summer be an exception to the rule. On the contrary, the committee of the County Club have kindly undertaken to send the team to Richmond on Monday and Tuesday, the 18th and 19th, to oppose a Twenty-two of the district. The Richmond Town C.C. has lately furnished a very promising young cricketer to Surrey in the person of L. Braund, who hts T h e International Match Committee, in making their arrangements for the visit of the Australian Team J o Philadelphia, have hit npon a rather happy expedient in their selec­ tion of the grounds on which the two matches are to be played. In view of the fact thtt there are at least two or three enclosures eminently suitable in the matter of wicket as «ell of the general appointments, they decided to give the preference to that club which offered the best terms. As the highest