Cricket 1894

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It was even more noteworthy, perhaps, in that it was the occasion of two cricket curios,or at least two records,I should imagine, for County Cricket. I n the first place, I do not fancy that in any case of late years the best informed C b ic k e t reader can remember a hit for seven without an overthrow in a big match, where there has been a continuous boundary. At all events, I believe Abel’s hit for seven off Rawlin in Surrey’s first innings on Friday is unique in its particular way at the Oval. George Anderson’s eight in “ the good old days ” was assisted by the interference of one of the seats on the balls return from the long field, to the best of my recollection. I myself can remember two hits for seven, and in one over of Lillywhite, by Mr. John Shuter. But in this case the boundary was not continu ous, and the hits, which were to the corner by the gas-works, were run out. T h er e is a certain anomaly in respeot of Abel’s hit on Friday in the fact that the ball stopping a few yards inside the boundary gave seven runs to the batsman, who would only have counted four had it travelled a little further, that is to the seats. Still, it will satisfy the curiosity of my old friend and fellow Gossip, the Rey. R. S. Holmes, and perhaps others, to know, as this hit proved, that it is possible to make seven all run out at the Oval. The match, I may add, was played wide on the Clayton Street side, and the ball went close to the boundary in the direction of the Yauxhall Gate. On its return Phillips fum­ bled the ball in forwarding it to the wicket, but in any case six had been made before it reached him. The extension of the banks and retirement of the football pavilion has made the ring at the Surrey Ground, I should think, the widest in any County enclosure, or very near it. T h e other incident which tended to give last week’s match at the Oval an historio interest was the form of Mr. Jephson’s dismissal in Surrey’s second innings. I can call to mind no parallel in a big matoh during the last twenty-five years. It occurred thusly: In playing one from Rawlin the batsman sent the ball to third man. His bat, a new one, was broken by the impact, and the portion removed fell on to the leg bail, which it dislodged. A good deal of discussion has been provoked by the incident, and a writer to the Rail Mall Gazette of Monday is anxious to know under what rule Mr. Jephson was given out. Rule 25, which adjudges a batsman to be out “ if in playing at the ball he 1"it down his wicket with his bat,” provides for the case. It was dearly a pait of the stroke which led to the removal of the bail, and there can I should think be no doubt that the batsman was out under the rules. Still, it is poor satisfaction fflr Mr. Jephson to feel that the form of his dismissal has had few if any parallels in county cricket, at least of later year. J. B. H a t t , who has personally conducted mmre than one team of English cricketers to Holland of late years, had a share in a pretty good bowling performance at Port Augustus, which is Inverness way on Wednesday of last week. The Abbey School, where “ J. B .” trains the youth­ ful mind in cricket and other more im­ portant matters, after declaring with the total 165 for four wickets, dismissed the Northern Counties for 34 and 85. The second innings was brief enough, for it only entailed the delivery of eight overs and two balls. All the runs “ bar on e” were got in the first three overs. The last seven wickets in fact fell for a single. J. B. and Riley—is this the crioketer who was tried once or twice for Notts ?—bowled throughout the match for the School. The former sent down ele en overs and a ball for 22 runs and eleven wickets. Riley had twelve overs and two balls for 19 runs and nine wiokets. I t will interest C r ic k e t readers to know that Baily for June gives not only an excel­ lent likeness of the Somersetshire Captain, Mr. S. M. J. Woods, but also of Arthur Shrewsbury. The news that the latter may not be able, perhaps, to take part in any first-