Cricket 1894

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A n d e rs o n , P rop rietor, 16, F orest Hill R oad, H on or Oak. CATFORD c r ic k e t w e e k . K E N T SU S S EX . Thursday, Friday, Saturday, July 26, 27, & 28, ON THE Private Banks’ Cricket Ground, C A T F O R D B R I D G E . T h e E leven s w ill be selected from th e follow in g K E N T . F. M archant, Esq. W . H . Patterson, Esq. L . W ilson. Esq. J L e Flem ing. Esq. R ev. W Rasnleigh G . J. V . W eigall, Esq. F. M . Atkins, Esq. T . N . Perkins, Esq. J. R. M ason, Esq. A. Hearne Martin W right W . H earne S U S S E X . W . L . M urdoch, Esq. W . N ew ham , Esq. D r. W . G . H easm an C. A. Sm ith. Esq. G . H . Arlington, Esq. Bean M arlow H um phreys K illick G uttridge Butt Alfred Shaw Play will commence at 12 noon on Thursday, and at 11.30 on other days. Admission ..............SIXPENCE Carriages, 2/6 per horse. Saddle Horses, 5/- B e fr e s h m e n ts p r o v id e d o n th e g r o u n d b y M r. F r a n k H e y w o o d , C a terer. 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H, Bullock, of this year’s Harrow Eleven, Oxford men will be consoled to know that the Captain of the Eton Eleven, as well as one of the two best all-round cricketers Eton has had this summer, C. M. Cunliffe to wit, will both be available for their University in 1895. This pair, so far as my information goes, are the only members of the present Econ eleven going to the Universities for next year’s oricket. The Bromley- Martins have usually found their way to Oxford, so that the Eton Captain, G.E. of that name, is only following in the footsteps of his predecessors on the completion of their School careers. A n old correspondent, and one thoroughly in the know in everything relating to cricket in the Southern Hemisphere, gives cheery news of the interest which the approaohing visit of Mr. Stoddart’sEnglish combination has already begun to excite in the cricket ciroles of Australia. “ All AustraUa,” he writes, “ is most anxious to welcome Stoddart again. He is exceedingly popular here, and I feel sure will meet with a great reception. I think,’’ he adds, “ I am safe in asserting that many new faces will be seen opposing the E ng­ lish team next summer. Some of the old hands have had a good trial and been found wanting. They must give way to younger and more brilliant men.” So it should be—I may say in parenthesis and with bated breath—if cricket is to retain its vitality, and not lose its attractiveness for the outside world. T h o u g h I hardly am quite in acoord with the opinion of the correspondent who has kindly furnished me with the details, that it is unusual for a slow bowler to meet with any great amount of success in club cricket, none the less, I am pleased to give prominence to the really excellent performances of one of the order during the last six weeks. C. A. Snell, of the London and Westminster Bank C.C., who is the bowler in question, in con­ junction with Pitt Brook behind the sticks, has the exceptional average of 4 45 pey wicket for the nine matches in which he has taken part between the 5th of June and Saturday both inclusive. Snell bowls a high dropping slow ball with a break from leg, and possesses the bowlers art of deceiving the batsmen as to the pitch. H is bowling figures for the nine matches are as follows :— O pponents. June 5 —H onor O ak ............................. June 12— County B a n k ............................. June 14—R o m fo rd ...................................... June 16—K ennin gton W anderers ... June 22—L on don and S .W . B ank ... June 25—H am pstead F .C ....................... July 10—C ounty Bank ..................... July 16— Joint Htock B ank ............ July 21—H ong-K ong B ank ............ Average, 4.45 per w icket. wkts. rjn s. 6 7 11 21 49 3S n 22 26 A good friend looited just now in Yoko­ hama, miadful that C r ic k e t —the paper—is cosmopolitan, and that nothing which con­ cerns the game but is of interest to the great fraternity of cricketers, has sent us two scores of matches played in that oharming city of the Far East. “ These [which will be found in another part of the paper] are,” he writes, “ the only matches the Yokohama C. and A.C. has played this year with the exception of prac­ tice games amongst the members, which, of course, represent a mild sort of dissipation, and little or no excitement. In the two matches the following represented tbe F leet: Lieuts. W. H. Thring, Sir R. K. Arbuthnot, E. Leatham, and H. W . James, Dr. H. Harrie3, Messrs. G. P. Wilson, G. R. Blount, Noble, Compton,Salfleet,of the fia?ship the Centurion —suggestive of big scores by-the-way-Lieut. Oldham, Mr. W . B. Penny, of the Plover, Dr. Meaden, Messrs. Powlett, and Ferguson, of tbe Alacrity, Mr. Walker, of the Severn, and Dr. Martin, of the Daphne.” One of these, Sir R . K. Arbuthnot to wit, unless I am mistaken, has done good work for the United Services G.C. C r ic k e t in Yokohama, acoordine: to my informant,is played from the beginning of May to the end of July, and again from the middle of September to the end of October. The con­ ditions would appear to be very much the same as in England, except that the sun is hotter, and there is more of it. As the boy is father to the man, the doings of the younger generation of cricketers are bound to be of interest to all who are con­ cerned in the proper development of the rising talent. A notable performance of a boy bowler has just been forwarded to me. The occasion was a match between Winchester House, St. L3onard?, and St. Pauls, Maze H il1, on Wednesday of last week. The bowler in question was Bryant, of Winchester House. His achievement was one very rarely recorded, i.e.y five consecutive wickets with five balls of the same over. Winchester House, who had scored 41, dismissed St. Pauls’ for 14, of which three came under the category of “ extras.” The two sides, from information I have received, were fair samples of school elevens, St. Paul’s, if anything, being rather the older and bigger. In addition to his successes as a bowler, Bryant, I may fay, has a good record this season as a bat, an average of 43, in fact, for some ten matches. On one occasion he was not out 85.