Cricket 1894

JUNE 21, 1894 CRICKET i A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME; 217 th a t M r . J . C c n w a y , t h e A u s tr a lia n m a n a g e r g a v e B a r r a t t a n a d d it io n a l fiv e r t o c o m - m o r a le h is p n f c r m a n c e . A n o t h e r n o te - w o r ;h y fe a tu r e o f th is p a r t ic u la r fe a t w a s U a t L o t r r e c f B a r r a t t ’ s te n w ic k e ts w a s b o w k d . S e w n w e re c a u g h t a n d th r e e s tu m p e d . T he follow irg list contains so far as I know all the cases in which a bowler has taken the ten wickets in first class matches. Mr. V . E . W alker, it is worthy of remark, is the only cricketer who has a double first of the kind. Name For Agst. At Date Hinkly, F. ... Kenfc........ England... Lord's .. ]848 Wisden, J .... North ...... bonth...... Lord'd... 1850 Walker,V. E. England... purrey...... Oval...... 1869 Walker,V.E. Middlesex L a n c a - Manches- fhire .. ter...... 1865 Grace, E. M. M/V3.& G. 3enta. of C anter- Kent ... tury... 1862 W oottor, G. A ll E n g ­ land ......Yorkshire Sheffield 1865 Eicktor. W. LaLCashire Htmp Lire Manches­ ter...... 1670 Bother, S E. Oxford...... Cambridge Lord’s... 1871 Lillywhite,J. S uth ......N orth ........Canter­ bury... 1872 Shew A. ... M.O.C. & G. N< r-h ......Lords... 1874 Parratt, E. .. Piajcrs ... Australians Oval ... 1878 Giffen, G. ... Australians Com ined Australia S yd ne y 1884 Grace. W G. M.C.C &G Oxfrd Uni. Oxfo;d .. 1886 Burton Midd'esex Surrey . ... O val...... 18fc8 Woods, S M. Cambridge C.f.Thorn- C a m - J .............. Univ........ ton’sXI. bridge 189) Eichardson Surrey...... Essex...... O val...... 1891 I n addition to the above Mr. V. E. Walker took ten wickets of Gentlemen of Kent for Gentlemen of Middlec ex at Maidstone in 1864, and J. C. Shaw, of England, for Sixteen of Notts at Eastwood Hall in 1870. Still, neither of these can fairly be called a first-class ma*ch T he ill-success which has attended the side winning tbe toss this season has not received a check since I called attention to the com­ plete upset of tbe accepted notions in this particular matter last week. On the co ntrary, in every instance without exception, the captain who has lost the toss has been on the winnirg side. Another curious coincider ce in connection with the three important inter county matches played at the end of last week was, that each was won on Saturday by a margin of six wickets. So far. this year, out of twenty-six matohes otly three have been won by the side which has had the choice of innings. II .T. B u r r e l l , who made a oreditable first appearance for Essi x against Surrey at the Oval on Moi day, is a younger brother of the Rev. H. J E. Burrell, who played occasionally for the same county a few years ago. Both the Bum 11s are Old Carthusians, and unless my information is incorrect the junior is a recent development as a cricketer. He did not at all events succeed in getting into the Sohool eleven while he was at Charterhouse. He was the only batsman on the Essex side who shaped at nil well on M<nday against Richardson in the first innirgs. His thirty- one was in fact the one redeeming feature of poor display. T he Tcnbiidge Week, f enerally in advance of the other functions of a similar kind, is to commence on Monday next. County cricket as usual forms the sole attraction, and what with Middlesex in the early part, and Lanca. shire at the end, the six days should be full of interest to the cricket-coving public of Kent. Ihe evening entertainments are this time to consist of theatricals at the Public Hall on Monday, a sm -king concert at the same place on Tuesday, a Vere ian fete on the river on Wednesday, on Thursday a ball at the Publio Hall, as well as an aquatio display and an illuminated cycle parade, and lastly on Friday a ballad conoert at the Publio Hall. The crioketers who visit Tonbridge the next week as ever is, gfconld have a high old time of it. T here would seem to be something of the eternal fitness of things in the publication of the Oval picture by Messrs. Mayall and Co., •lose on the heels of the reproduction of M.C.C. at Lords to which I referred last week. In any case, Messrs. Mayall’s big work, con­ taining as it does, I should fancy, quite five hundred portraits of the chief personalities in the Surrey County C.C., should form a pleasing souvenir for all who are interested in I Surrey cricket or its surroundings. T he death of William Mycroft, on Tuesday last, removes a cricketer who played a by no means unimportant part in bringing Derby­ shire cricket to the front in the early part of the seventies. Though he was thirty-two when he first became associated with the County, for some years he was quite one of the mainstays of the eleven. As a left- handed bowler, for a time he was in the very front rack. students of ciicket lore will remember how Flint and he succeeded in dismissing the then very powerful eleven of Notts for six*een runs, at Wirksworth. This was for Sixteen of Derbyshire, and it is not too much to say that the performance gave a great fillip to cricket in Derbyshire and had much to do with its consolidation as a County club. In connection with the dismissal of Notts above mentioned, it is worthy of remark that that County was only beaten once—by Yorkshire—in 1873. W ATERLOO W E E K . A C omparison of K ings , 1815—1834. B y “ V C.’’ King George the Third was a monarch of might While the century yet was young ; He had men to fight and defend the li^ht When the gauntlet of war was flung. And they told him how, with its swarming bands, The two headed eagle flew, And men in all lands uplifted tfceir hands As he struck with his talons and elew. But George the Third Was a rare old bird, And a bellicose king was he ; And he sent his train To the wars in Spain In the year of his jubilee. And his armies me «*with the legions of France Where the old Sierras loom, And tbe lightning glance of the sworJ anl lance Made play to the cannon's l oom. And back to hise>rie beyond the pines The two-headed * ag e flew. Left Spam's green \ii.es to Ki g Ceor;t’s lines, An-1, weary of .vars, withdrew. But the “ ravening Fagle' ro°ergain And out to the Northward fl^w. And King George’s men went to battle then And won him his Waterloo. So the minstrel sings of tbe wa’ like things That King George was wont to do; For the play Le played was the game of kings, — And the greatness of Britain grew ! King George the Third Was a king in word, And a King in deed wa9 he; And the game he played Was the game that made Us rulers of land and sea. And now we have taken another king When the century groweth old, And the gage we fling is a different thing From the page of our forbeam bold. King Sport i3 king in our English fields, And his courtiers are many and true : And to none he yields in the power ho wickls And the deeJs that he may do. For old King Sport Keepeth open court And a cheerful old king is he, And he holds his own With a sceptre grown In the heart of the willow tree. When his myrmidons take tte field at Lrrf’s And the Gentlemen by the Trent, When the teller records on telegraph boards How the century hi’ s were Eent, When O'Brien is hitting again and again When Stoddart and Brockwell too Are first among men of the willowwand, tlen Is the week of his Waterloo. Thouah history olaim for King George great fame. King Sport is a greater than he, And the play he plays is a kinglier gnme, The beginning ( f tliirgs to be. For while our Britons the bat so wield Where the ball hurtles over the swHr-1, They shall never yield iu the battle fi- Id Nor fail with the lance anl sword. Tbus Old King *>port Is a rare old sort, And a goodly old kin? is he; And the game he plays In the modern day s Is the power that keeps England free ! PRINCIPAL MATOSES FOR NEXT W i EK June 21—Kcnninf ton Oval. Furrey v. He:tfcrd- hi. o June 21—Lord’p, Middlesex v. Surrey June 21—Liverpool, Liverpool and Dhft i t v. York hire June 21—MaLchebter, Larcashiie v. Oxford Uuiv June 21 -brishton, Sussex v. Cambridge Univ June 21—Le'cester, Leicestershire v. *•arwict>biro June *2—Caroiff.G amorganshire v.South Afrinrs June 25—Lord s. M.C.C & G. v. Cambridge Ui i'. June 25—Tonbii^ge, Kent v. fiuidd esex ( Lonbr.dfee Week) June 25—Kennington Oval, Furrey v. Yorkhhfre June 25—Brighton, Sussex v. 0*1 ra Unive nty June 25—Darlington, Durham v. Cheshire June 95—Nottingham, Notts v. Lancashire Jone 25 -Derby, Derbyshire v. warwickbh re .»une 2— Leicester. Leicenert-Hfe v. Hamp b re June 25—stoke or-Trent, 8t*ff»jrdfehire t. M rth- amptonebire June$5-Taunton, Somersetshire v. Soulh’ f icars