Cricket 1895

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Talbot, who showed such excellent cricket for the Royal Engineers some twenty years ago, and to the best of my recollection also acquitted himself with credit in first- class matches on one or two occasions. The gallant major— in his case the adjec­ tive is no mere figure of speech— played an important part in the Afghan cam­ paign in 1877-78, and was present at the attack and capture of Ali Musjid. He participated in the subsequent opera­ tions round Kabul, and accompanied Sir Frederick Koberts on his famous march to Kandahar, being present at the en­ suing battle. His bravery secured men­ tion in the despatches, and he received a medal, four clasps, and bronze decoration. S u r r e y cricket will be pretty well represented in South Africa during the coming winter, what with G. A . Loh­ mann in charge of an English touring team, and several of the minor lights under engagement in different parts. A week or bo ago I mentioned the fact that Street and F. E . Smith had agreed to go to the Cape to assist the Western Province and Cape Town Clubs. And now comes the report that there is a good chance of George Ayres going to East London for the winter on a similar errand. Hayward, too, it is certain, is to form one of the team which Lohmann is personally to conduct, so that Surrey will be doing its fair share to the develop­ ment of the rising talent in South Africa during the long vacation. H a ig h , the young Yorkshireman who has made a very fair debut for his county this season, and acquitted himself with some credit last week in the final match of the Scarborough Festival, has an exceptionally fine record as the result of his engagement with the Perthshire C.C. this season. L a s t year be took one hundred and twenty wickets for an average of 4-10 runs. This season, with a very consider­ able reduction in the number of matches played, his record showed ninety-one wickets at a cost of 4-44 runs a-piece. As a batsman, too, he was well in advance for the Perthshire Club with an aggregate of 467 for fifteen completed innings, and an average of 31-2, with 125, not out, as his best score. Considering the wet wickets prevalent during a part of the season, at all events, Haigh’s batting figures may be accounted as distinctly creditable. T h e result of the football poll in connection with the Surrey County C.C. could hardly have been grateful or comforting to anyone but those who advocated cricket as the predominant partner at Kennington Oval. The fact that 1,405 voted in favour of the recom­ mendation of the Committee against the continuance of football, and only 453 for its retention, does not to my mind prove that the number of those who support football had grown appreciably less so much as that a large section of the Club thought the executive ought to be sup­ ported by the members. In any case, whatever one’s opinions, it will, I should fancy, be conceded by both sides that a good majority one way or the other was infinitely preferable to a narrow margin which might have created fresh doubt. T h e Perthshire Club has generally had a useful medical contingent, and though they have neither of them been quite successful as rungetters as they were last season, the brothers Mailer, one of whom, if I remember rightly, made a big score in Australia some few years ago for a Junior Eighteen against one of the English teams, have been decidedly useful. Scotch cricket does not advance as rapidly as one would like to see it, so that it is particularly gratifying to point to figures like those of the Perthshire C.C., which do really give grounds for hope and certainly present encouraging signs. A n y h o w , the club this season had a record, with which it had reason to be thoroughly satisfied, of tbe 20 matches that were played, 15 were won, two drawn, and only three lost, at one period of tbe season, the eleven were invincible, and, indeed, for six weeks they did not lose a match at all. Altogether, the Perthshire Eleven totalled 2,589 runs for