Cricket 1894

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L on d on R ow ing Club (L.R.C.), Blaokheath B arriers, and other leading Clubs. Send for P rice L ist to 22, P h ilpot L ane, F enchurch S treet, or 71 and 73, P ark Street, R egen t’s Park, N .W . Cricket: A W E E K L Y BEGOBD OF THE GAME, 41, ST. ANDREW’ S HILL, LONDON, E.O. A. Halliwell they have a wicket-keeper quite first-class. Their bowling seems to be the doubtful quantity. What measure of success they are to achieve depends of course on themselves. Of one thing at all events they can be certain, that they will have the heartiest wishes of English cricketers throughout their tour. S ome of the dailies, it would appear, have already given a sure sign of the claims of the Cambridge Freshman, Mitchell, of Caius, to distinction. The prefix of the Christian name by the cricket critic is of itself an unmistakeable evidence of popularity, so that the young Cantab has every right now to consider himself one of the elect. Now that he has been familiarised as “ Frank Mitchell” his fortune as a cricketer is clearly made. It is only the shining lights of the cricket world who are fortunate enough to receive this particular condescension from the scribes. Tho common or garden player has nothing out of the ordinary to distinguish him. He is known merely as A. Smith or Jones (B.) as the casemay be. T he versatility of the Warwickshire eleven received another illustration this week at Birmingham, in the success of Pallett’s bowling. His brilliant perform­ ance against Kent on Monday came as something of a surprise, as in the Surrey match at the Oval, seven days before, the impression he created was that there was little or nothing in his bowling, not, at all events, on a wicket at all favourable for run getting. But this was not the only instance of the infinite variety of War­ wickshire cricket in the Kent match. It so rarely happens that a batsman is able to go through the innings in an Inter- County match of any inq o tance that the achievement of H . W . Bainbridge, the Warwickshire captain, on Monday is the more noteworthy. He saw the whole side out, with the result, a score of 65 out of 100 from the bat to his credit. Everyone too will be glad to see Diver, one of the most graceful batsmen it is possible to see, in his best form, as he must have been at the end of this same match. In Mr. Holmes’ most interesting “ Memorabilia ” of Surrey cricket [writes Mr. A. C. Coxhead] he does not mention the match at the Oval in 1864, when Surrey won by one wicket—H . H . Stephenson making 119 and Lockyer 108 not out, winning the match with Sewell. I have never seen a more exciting finish, and should be much obliged if any one could supply me with the score of the match. The scoring must have been heavy, for such individual innings to be necessary on the last day of the match. As far as I remember, the question of time was nearly as important as that of runs, and both Stephenson and Lockjer, especially the latter, hit with much freedom. T he ingenuity of the Sun man— or w as it the “ Minor Orb ? ”—has sohed in once a difficulty which has troubled a large section of the cricket community for a long time. A lot of people have been puzzled Send Ija . fo r A rtistic Show Card o f C r ic k e t w itb portraits of either A rthur Shrew sbury, G eorge L ohm ann, D r. W . G . (irac. (in fou r b attin g posi­ tions), or M r. S. M. J. W ood s. S uitable fo r h an g­ ing u p in P avilionp, Club, and D ressing B oom s. E very cricketer should send 7 stam ps to the office o f this p a p er fo r th is y ear’s C b ic k e t C a le n d a r (26th year o f issue). 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Subscription fo r Twenty-four Summe* Numbers. 51- vost free for twelve months , 61- Ijafaifiow ®Ssa abstract «aS brief stoonlcie ol the time.— Ham UH_ T he eleven which the Earl of Sheffield has selected to oppose the South African team, on the occasion of their opening match at Sheffield Park on Tuesday and Wednesday next, is to be composed, with one exception, of Sussex players. In this case, the exception is likely to have a great influence on the result, as it is none other than Briggs, the Lancashire cricketer, whose all-round cricket the South Africans will no doubt fully ap­ preciate before the game is over. With his accustomed liberality Lord Sheffield has arranged for the members of the team to be his guests at the Hotel Metropole, at Brighton, for the match. Mr. Castens and his mates— the word is of old coinage in connection with cricket—will have the satisfaction further of knowing that they will have the services of the greatest experts in the administration of the laws in the persons of the Lords Justices Carpenter and Thoms for their opening case. In any event the South African cricketers will open their tour in England under the most favourable auspices next week. From all I can learn they seem to be fairly well satisfied with the results of their practice during the last fortnight at Catford Bridge, so lar at least as their batting is concerned. They ha\ e in fact found themselves to be more at home on turf wickets than they had ex­ pected, particular y after such a short experience. All these who have had an opportunity of playing with him in the few matches in which he has taken part since his arrival, are of one accord, that in E.