Cricket 1895

344 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. [A ig .^16, 1895. I V Y C R IC K E T AN D L A W N T E N N IS G R O U N D , F orest H il l R o a d , H osor O a k . T wo minutes from Honor Oak Station, L.C. & D. and 12 minutes from Peckham Rye Station, L.B. & 8.C. CRICKET PITCHES and LAWN TENNIS COURTS to Ltt, for the Day or Term. For terms and particulars apply to H. A sd e r 6 on , Proprietor, 16, forest H ill Road, Honor Oak. 4 ^ J< SALE, I v j f e \ EAGLE CRICKET BALL FACTORY, Southborough, Kent. JillIII Very Beat Material and y y K M w ll Workmanship Guaranteed Price List on Application 3fc“ " ^ ESTABLISHED 18T0. OUTFITS FOR CRICKET, ROW ING, TENNIS, CYCLING, AND ALL SPORTS, TO BE OBTAINED OF W . J .P I L E , The City Athletic Outfitter, 2 2, P h ilp o t Lane, F en ch u rch S treet, E .C ’ AND 7 3 , P ark Street, Reg-ent’s P ark, N .W . Flannel Shirts, 5s. 6d., 6s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 9s. 6d. 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LEONARDS CRICKET WEEK, 1895, TW O GRAND MATCHES WILL BE PLAYED IN TlIE CENTRAL CRICKET GROUND, HASTINGS, AS FOLLOW8 :— THURSDAY, FRIDAY, AND SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th, 6th, and 7th, N O R T H Y . S O U T H . MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9th, 10th, and 11th, Mr. A. E. STODDART’S A U S T R A L I A N T E A M R E S T O F " E N G L A N D . W ickets pitched at Twelve o’clock first day of each M atch; other days at half-past Eleven. Dr. W . G . G race will Captain the South and England Teams. Names of all Teams will be announced later. C h eap F ares on S.E.R. and L.B. and S.C.R., and E xcursion T rains w il l run . Adniission to the Ground, ONE SHILLING. Covered Grand Stand, ONE SHILLING extra. TICKETS FOR THE WEEK, including Admission to the Ground and Reserved Seat in Grand Stand, price 10s., to be obtained on and after Aug. 12th, at the Central Cricket Ground, Hastings, where a plan can be seen; these Tickets must be obtained not later than Wednesday, September 4th. Tickets for the Week, for Ground only, price 5s. can be obtained from the Hon. Sec., or at the Central Cricket Ground. Carriages 5s. per day, and Is. extra for each occupant exclusive of driver. S s lf Terms for Allotment of Spaces for Private Tents for the W eek to be obtained from the Hon. Secretary. All communications to be addressed to the Hon. Sec., S axon C ham bers , St. Leonards-on-Sea. U N P R E C E D E N T E D S U C C E S S . “CRICKET” THE SONG OF THE “ CENTURIES Dedicated by permission to W . G . G ra c e . Written and Composed by J. H arcourt S m ith . Published by H o w ard & Co., 25, G t. Marlborough Street, W . P R IC E , 2s. N E T T . Copies may be had at Cricket Office, 168, Upper Thames Street, London, E.C. Cricket: A WEEKL T RECORD OF THE GAME, 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LOUDON, E.C. * THURSDAY, AUG. 1 5 t h , 1895 . ^abUton ©rosstp. The abstraot and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. I f it be true, and from the source of my information there is no teason at all for unbelief, that Messrs. G. L. Jessop, whose excellent all-round cricket has been of such service to Gloucestershire these last two years, and F. W. Stocks, the slow bowler of Leicestershire, are both going into residence at Cambridge in time for next season, the University should have two valuable recruits, to say the least of it, for 1896. J e s s o p ’s record for Beccles Grammar School this summer is so much out of the common as to deserve to use the phrase­ ology of the shop, “ a special line.” His average for thirteen innings with five not outs was 132. In addition to this he got his wickets at a cost of 2 44 runs apiece. One can only, to use Dominie Sampson’s favourite exclamation, add “ Prodigious.” And with a big, big P, if you please. I t was a curious experiencewhich J. T. Brown had at the commencement of Yorkshire’s innings against Surrey in Abel’s benefit at the Oval on Monday. As a rule, to be in while over fifty runs are made and all the while receiving only the bowling from one end, is an incident which falls very rarely to the lot of a cricket critic to have to chronicle. Yet this was Brown’s luck onMonday. Going in, second wicket down, with only one run up, the score was somewhere about fifty before it fell to his fortune to play a ball from Richardson. And it was more by good luck, perhaps than anything else, that he survived that ball, excellent in the extreme as his subsequent play undoubtedly was. T h e report that George Lohmann is to have a benefit at the Oval next summer, is, Cricket readers will be glad to learn, correct. As it seems pretty certain that we shall have another Australian team overhere in 1896, there is every likelihood that the precedent established in the case of Maurice Read will be followed, and that Lohmann will choose the match between England and Australia. There could hardly, indeed, be a more appro­ priate fixture in view of the high reputa­ tion he has won alike on Australian aijd English grounds. The report to hand since these lines were written that the authorities in Australia have decided not to send a team over next year in the absence of a formal invitation from the M.C.C. is not very intelligible, seeing that the M.C.C. has joined with the Counties in expressing the readiness of English cricketers to give an Australian team a hearty welcome in 1896. A m o n g the honours gazetted this week nonewill give more satisfaction to Cricket readers of Great and Greater London than the distinction of the Companionship of the Bath, which has been conferred on the Hon. Chandos Leigh. To the parliamentaryworld Mr. Leigh has, it is hardly necessary to say, been known for years as the Counsel to the Speaker. In cricket he will have, per­ haps, a more enduring record. A player of no mean order in his day, he has of late years deserved well of the whole body of cricketers, if only for the great work he has done as chairman of the London Playing Fields Committee. To his watohful care and untiring energy, the success which has attended that most useful and deserving of our Metropolitan cricket institutions is in a great measure due.