Cricket 1894

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It will interest them, therefore, to know that the Old Stagers will give a performance with this desirable object at the St. George’s Hall, Langham Place, on the 12th of next month. The Old Stagers, unlike the Christy’s Mia­ s'rels, who used to claim that they never performed out of London, never, or perhaps hardly ever, fret their brief hour on any other stage than that of the Canterbury Theatre duing the cricket week, so that the public will appreciate the good feeling which has in­ fluenced them to make an exception on behalf of the London Playing Fields. Any one desirous of securing or assisting in the sale of tickets will obtain every information from the secretary of the London Playing Fields Com­ mittee, Mr. H. W. Neventon, 13, John Street* Hampstead, N.W. The resistance piece, may add, is “ Sweet Lavendar.’ A som ew h a t curious coincidence occurred on the Crystal Palace Ground on Saturday last during the course of the match between the Crystal Palace and Streatham Clubs. The effect was to necessitate nn application of the closure under, not only very novel, but par­ ticularly interesting circumstances. The Palace had scored 201 when the ninth wicket ell. The last man at the time happened to be in a pond just below the cricket ground wit^ his pads on, engaged in the laudable mission of saving a child from drowning. When he reappeared he was hardly fit for publication— at any rate, he was covered up to the waist in mud. The only possible alternative in such a situation was the closure. Curtain ! The announcement in yesterday’s Sportsman of the death of James Ricketts, the old Lancashire cricketer brings, to my mind a rather amusing incident in connection with the memorable innings he played for Lancashire against Surrey at the Oval iu 1867, On that occasionRicket*s, as students of cricket lore know, carried his bat through the innings for 195. Just before he was out, no doubt from the fatigue of a protracted stay at the wicket, he played several very faulty strokes, any one of which might have been fatal. About this time a cricket enthusiast who was nothii g of a player, and only a poor judge, came into the pavilion and sat down next to a great and well-known Surrey cricketerrecently retired. Shaking his head with all the conB sciousness of a real critic, under the impression of course that the batsman had just gone in, the former said, “ Well, Fied, I have seen enough of cricket to know tbat that man s a rank duffer.” “ Quite so,” was the reply. “ Only he has j ust made a hundred and eighty runs.” Tableau! A c o r r e s p o n d e n t has sent us the details of a curious over, in which S. Chessman, who has played a by no means unimportant par iu cricket in Greater London during the last five j ears,‘was the performer. It was in amatch between the Hon. Artillery Co., in which S. C. is a private, and the London Rifle Brigade, pilyed last Saturday. With his first ball he caught and bowled one batsman, and with the next he clean bowled another. The third knocked down the wicket of a third batsman, but this was no balled. The fourth, though, clean bowled the batsman who had escaped, and the fifth of the over produced another downfall, in this case by stumping. Unfortu­ nately the umpire forgot to allow an extra ball for the no ball, or the result might have been still more interesting. The H. A. C., it may be added, won within a minute of time. T he news of the first success of the South African team will give unqualified gratifica­ tion to oricketers all over the country. It was “ a glorious victory ” in every sense, and Mr. Castens’ modest claim at the Surrey dinner last week that his side would show themselves to be a much better all-round combination than their earlier form would lead anyone to believe, has been speedily vindicated. In any case the team have proved