Cricket 1895

280 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u l y 18, 1895. IVY CR ICKET AND L AW N T E N N IS G R O U N D , F orest H il l R o a d , H onor O a k . T wo m inutes from H o n o r O ak Station , L .C . & D . and 12 m inutes from Peckham R y e Station , L .B . & S.C. C R IC K E T P IT C H E S an d L A W N T E N N IS C O U R T S to L et, fo r the D a y or Term . F o r term s an d p a rticu lars ap p ly to H . A n derson , P rop rietor, 16, Forest H ill R oad, H o n o r O ak. Ji SALE, EAGLE CRICKET BALL FACTORY, 8 outhboro ugh, Kent. Very Best Material and Workmanship Guaranteed Price List o d Application. ESTABLISHED 18T0. O U T F IT S F O R C R IC K E T , R O W IN G , T E N N IS , C Y C L I N G , A N D A L L S P O R T S , TO BE OBTAINED OF W . J .P I L E , T h e C ity A th le tic O u tfitter, 2 2 , Philpot Lane, Fenchurcli Street, E,C. AND 7 3 , Park Street, Reg-ent’s Park, N .W . F la n n e l S hirts, 5s. 6d., 6s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 9s. 6d. 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T A T E , CRICKET BATS, BALLS, AND ALL-ENGLAND CHAMPION RACKETS. 104, GREAT PORTLAND STREET, REGENT STREET, W , R E T A I L O N L Y C r i c k e t : A WEEKLY RECORD OF TEE GAME, 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, JULY 18 th 1895. NOTICE! The Editor guarantees the insertion of the Match Scores of Clubs only when arrangements are made for the publica­ tion of the whole of the season’s scores. The charge is One Shilling each match, with a minimum of One Guinea. Scores not thus arranged for are inserted at the rate of Two Shillings each match if space admits. p a b U t o n © o s f s t p . T he abstract and b rie f chronicle of the tim e.— Hamlet. M a n y happy returns of the day to the Grand Old Man of cricket. In other words, our own W. G. is forty-seven to­ day. And when one remembers that he is now well on towards the completion of his thirty-second year in first-class cricket, and that he is also well within touch of his two thousand runs, with only half of the season gone, there is good reason to speak of him as the old man eloquent. As another old man eloquent, my good friend F. G., wrote in Punch of December 13th, 1890:— “ I neednot point the leaderout, you seehim face to face ; Just asthere is the only Jones, there stands the only Grace. T h e Sword of Honour presented at the recent inspection of the students at the Eoyal Military College was won by Under-Officer Claud S. Rome. Cricket readers will hardly require to be told that this is the Harrow Captain of 1892. Nor will those who follow the game at all closely need to be reminded of the excellent work he has done, not only as captain, but as an all-round cricketer for the Military College. In the successes of the Sandhurst eleven during the past two years he has been an important factor. I t is not often, indeed, that a more successful first appearance is recorded for the Gentlemen than was made by the young Irish cricketer, L. H. Gwynn, at the the Oval last week. Though unlucky in the second innings, he had the dis­ tinction of the highest total on the side in the first. His score of eighty, too, was the outcome of good andwatchful cricket without a chance. In last week’s Gossip I pointed out that L. H. G. had also won his International Cap for Ireland at the Rugby Union Game. Three of the brothers, it will be seen from the scores of the match, representedDublin Univer­ sity against Cambridge this week. A ll three are, too, unless I ammistaken, Rugby footballers of repute on the other side of the St. George’s Channel. Any­ how, A. P. did duty for Ireland last winter. Rumour has had it that L. H. is a Welshman. He denies the soft im­ peachment, and justly, for he was bom in Donegal, which is quite Irish, you know. He is, I may add, twenty-two years old. D r . J. E d w a r d B a r r e t t , the stone- waller who rendered such good service to one of the latter Australian teams in England, is, it may be news to some Cricket readers, in the old country at the present time. The effects of the practicehe had at the Oval some fortnight or so ago have been already visible in the good cricket he showed for P. Abraham’s Eleven v. Ealing last week. The Doctor was very much in evidence both inbatting and bowling on that occasion, making the top score of 48 and taking six wickets. A n o t h e r instance of the necessity of an official interpretation of the exact requirements for a County qualification other than that of birth. Only recently a well-known amateur was told authoritatively that he was able, and moreover, was invited, to play on the ground, that a part of the family property was in the County for which he was asked. The case was the more pro­ nounced from the fact that the house was certainly not in the Shire in question. Yet the rule only provides for three qualifications; first, of birth; secondly, of residence; and thirdly, of the family home as long as it remains open as an occasional residence. S in c e the time, over twenty years ago, when “ Monkey Hornby ” made his first appearance at Lord’s, the Eton and Harrow match has never—well, hardly ever, at any rate—produced so diminutive a cricketer as the youngster who repre­ sented Harrow last week, and likely to be known for a time, at all events, as “ little Dowson.” Quite a little nipper, he showed surprising all-round cricket at Elstree last summer, and also figured more than once with credit in Surrey’s trial matches. As he is only fifteen, there is every reason to hope that he may play as important a part in Surrey cricket as his father, familiarly known as “ Teddy Dowson,” did in what were calledthe palmy days of Surrey—in other words, in the middle of the sixties. H i s t o r y has repeated itself this year in Uppingham cricket in the matter of names. As most Cricket readers know, C. E. M. Wilson, who got his blue at Cambridge this summer, was captain of the school eleven in 1892, and had the best batting average, as well as, by the way, the best bowling figures. This year C. E. M, Wilson is again at the head of the batting table at Uppingham School. Oddly enough, the present Uppinghamian has no connection with the “ other fellow,” the old boy that is to say. The young (Obadiah I had almost written) Wilson, who has played in the trial .matches at the Oval, is a relation of the Kent brothers Cecil and Leslie Wilson to wit.