Cricket 1895

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In other words, a world’s reci rd is hardly made before another performance comes up which outdoes all the previous best. A month ago and Cricket « as perpetuating the largest, aggregate in a game. And now the tall scaring in the first test match between England has gone by the board. The latest record belongs to the University Ground at Melbourne. The competing clubs were the University and North Melbourne, who settled mat­ ters on Dee. 15, after ocenpyiug four Saturday afternoons ami four weeks’ evenings. The University men batted first and made 421, to which North Mel­ bourne responded with 543. This won­ derful recovery seemed to leave them with a better chance of winning, but the second innings of the University realized 80 more than their first—that is to say 501. Then the North were at a dis­ advantage, as their innings had to be broken each evening. It ultimately closed for 200. Altogether 1,665 runs were made, which I make bold to suggest, with every possible submission to the honorable members of the Cricket Statis­ tical Society, is the highest aggregate in a match. A l e t t e r from GeorgeLohmann, under date of Jan. 7, from Mat jesfontein, con­ tains the gratifying assurance that the news of his recovery has not been over­ stated. He had, at the time of writing, just returned from Cape Town, where he nad been testing his powers in the only practical way by playing in a match. He played for the Cxpe Town against the Western Province Club, and with no small success, making 25 runs besides taking eight wickets for seventy runs. The most cheery part of the letter ij the statement that he went through the two days’ hard cricket without feeling fatigued. He is looking forward, naturally, with the greatest enthusiasm, to his home-coming next May, and to his return to Surrey cricket. Y o u n g cricketers who begin with a spell of bad luck will, perhaps, be com­ forted by the reflection that the greatest, players have in their time been in despair from repeated failure. Felix, of the Australasian, recently placed it on record that Ge irge Giffen commenced his career in senior cricket in Australia with seven successive duck eggs ? George tells, indeed, with great delight, how, after achieving the third one, he used to sit out on the fence of the park lands too disheartened to be hungry ar.d too much ashamed to go home until all the household had retired. B y Monday the bitterness used to wear off In curiuus contrast to Giffen’s failure, Felix recalls the auspicious commence­ ment of an Australian cricketer of a younger generation, who is likely to play an important part in the doings of the next AustralianteamwhichvisitsEngland. Frank Iredale’s father promised him twenty pounds if he made fifty in his first Intercolonial, and the young New South Wales man without demur duly bagged both the runs and the money. Iredale, as some may remember, was highly fan­ cied for the last Australian team, though not ultimately chosen. In face of the brilliant crick31 he has shown against Mr. Stoddart’s team, ann in view of his prob­ able appearance in England in the vety near future, the following critique on his style in the first test match will be of interest,:— “ I liked his cricket very much on Friday, and doubt if any other batsman in Australia manages a late cut with less risk than Iredale, whose easy commanding way of coming down on them is very pretty to watch. The con­ trast between bitten and Iredale as they stood ready was very marked—the champion crouching and watchful, playing a lot of them late, with a lightning-like action; his partner stalwart and swinging—the one willow-blade ever “ on guard,” the other flashing.” T h e death of Mr. G. H. Fillingham someten days ago deprives Notts County Cricket of what it can ill afford to lose just now, a warm and liberal supporter. A member of the Harrow eleven of 1856 and 1857, he went up later on to Oxford. Settling down at, Newark, he took a lead­ ing part in the formation of the Gentle­ men of Notts Club, in which he always took the greatest iuterest, and for which he did good service on the field. He was also a keen upholder of the Notts County Club, and had served on its committee for some time. A good all-round sports­ man, he was universally respected by all classes in Nottinghamshire. STODDART’S TEAM IN MELBOURNE. A WELCOME ODE. B y H.C.C. From the Melbourne Herald. Our greeting ! All our soul’s in arms, And eager for the coming fray ; Fast bowling now has no alarms, We’ve heard about your first essay— Your first essay Against S.A. How are you ? Our greeting ! People says the Yics. Are this year scarcely strong enough ; Well let us get before the sticks And have a go at Humphrey’s stuff, Or Richardson’s, We’ll make some runs. How are you ? Our greeting ! Giffen’s rather warm, And Darling you found very dear, And Reedman took the crowd by storm— The soup is somewhat thinner here. But we’re all right, We’ll make a fight. How are you ? Our greeting ! After all, the game’s The thing : we're glad to see Friend Stoddart back, his cricket fame Is come to talk this side the sea. A welcome true To old and new. How are you ? This was, it is as well to add, before the Victorian match. NEXT ISSUE FEBRUARY 28