Cricket 1894

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A c o r r e s p o n d e n t , whose identity will no doubt be disclosed to a number of C r ic k e t readers under the initials of A.R. A., verykindly points out that though I was right in my recollection of the match, I was at fault with regard to the particular player whose action was imitated by Hearne last week. A.R A. corrects me, and I am much obliged for tbe correction, by the leminder that it was Lord Harris and not Edgar Lubbock whom I had in my mind’s ej e. And though, personally, I do not in any way share the views of my corres­ pondent in this particular matter. It will be fairer, perhaps, for me to give his communi­ cation as it was sent. “ As to the paragraph in your paper on A. Hearne’s I performance with T y le r:- You are wrong in referring a previous occasion to Edgar Lubbock—it was done by Lord Harris when Walroth (in the Harrow X I) was backing up, about the year 1870, and I am still glad to remember that his action was received with a storm of disapprobation, and that very few of his own side were so far excited by the match as to cheer him No OEe doubts that it is strict cricket to do it, and may be strictly correct, but nearly everybody agrees that it is ‘ sharp practice,’ such as it is not desirable to introduce into cricket; though, after the University match : of last year, one is not surprised to find the professionals acting in a sharp mat ner.” Is the mantle of George Lohmann, the famous Surrey cricketer, going to descend to his younger brother, J.S. ? Should the ex­ perience of the near future provide an answer in the aitirmative,the result will givo universal satisfaction to the public which follows cricket. Lohmann, the younger, in any case is showing, just at the moment, all-round form which is not likely to be overlooked by the Surrey authorities. Only last Saturday for the Stoics, against the Streatham Club at Streatham, he scored 201 out of a total of some three hundred odd, besides taking six wickets at a comparatively small cost. M e n t io n of George Lohmann reminds me that tho Laird of Matjesfontein, Mr. J. D. Logan, who has thovn unremitting kind­ ness to the famous Surrey cricketer, from the time he arrived in South Africa, is in London just at the present moment. I had myself the pleasure of a long interview with him the other day, and the news he brings of Lohmann is cheering in the extreme. Accor­ ding to Mr. Logan, G. L. has derived so much and evidently such lasting benefit from his prolonged stay in Africa, that there is now every probability of his return to England next year, as well as, it is pleasant to be able to add, of his resumption of active cricket. Anyhow, even the prospect of his re-appear­ ance on the cricket field will give unmixed pleasure to every one w’ho has had an oppor­ tunity of appreciating the extent of the loss his retirement has proved to cricket generally. In any case, C r ic k e t readers one and al will hear with tbe greatest satisfaction of the marked improvement in his health. T he Wanderers had rather a new experience, for them at least, in their match against the South Saxons at St. Leonards, at the end of last w’eek. Stanley Colman and D. L. A. Jephson opened their innings in the first place in rather a curious way. The latter, who is generally very much in evidence in these tours, did more than his fair share of the run" getting at the outset, seeing that when he was out, the first wicked, at 63, he bad made 55. Colman’s batting offered a marked contrast, for he was in an hour and twenty minutes for six runs, having meanwhile seen five or six batsmen out. It is worthy of remark, more­ over, that though the first two batsmen put on 03, the total only reached 75. The main cause of this collapse was the good bowling of Hen son, the South Saxons’ ground man, who took nine of the ten wickets for only 22 luns. In the end, it may interest some C r ic k e t readers to know, the South Saxons won with seven wickets to spare. I t was something of a cricket curio that the matches at Lord’s and Leyton should both have ended on Saturday afternoon, and about very much the same time, with a margin, too, in each cise of less than ten runs. In other respeots, too, there was a great similarity' about the later stages of the two matches. l?ur- ther it i3 a rare experience for two instarces of carrying the bat through the inuings to be recorded in successive fixtures as was the case at Lord’s at the end of las t week. T iie two Public School matches, moreover, brought out in bold relief more than one scion of a good cricket stock. P . H. Stanning. who carried his bat through the Ru&by innings against Mirlborough for 152, is a son of Mr. Stanning.. of Le^land, who has done very much for the cause of cricket in Lancashire. D. Christopherson, who bow’ ed with considerable success for lluj by, is a younger member of the brotherhool whose doings have been writ large in the records of the Blackheath cricket and football club’ , as in Kent cricket and International Rugby football. H, Bateman Champain, the cap­ tain of the Cheltenham eleven,is, too, I believef the last of the brotherhood of cricketers who have played so prominent a part in Chelten­ ham College cricket. Mr. F. S. J a c k s o n , I am informed, aud on good authority, has no intention of join­ ing any of the cricket combinations which are leaving England this autumn for touring purposes in Australia, America, and else­ where. He is going to winter at home, after all, so that the Australian cricket publio, who were very anxious that he should form one of Mr. Stoddart’s team, will not have the chance of seeing, this winter at all events, one of the very^best all-round cricketers we have. From the same source I learn that Brockwell, though he has not as yet been asked, will be invited