Cricket 1896

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THURSDAY, FEB. 27 th , 1896. IMPORTANT NOTICE ! Six numbers are published during the Winter as heretofore, from October to March inclusive. The last issue of the Winter series will be :— No. 412.—THURSDAY, MARCH 26. JjiaMlton (Kosstjp. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. A u s t r a l ia n cricket saw the old year out to the accompaniment of some generally sensational scoring. One of many notable performances in the way of run getting was recorded in the match between North and South, on Dec. 28th, in the country week at Adelaide. R. Burton of the Redhill, and A. H. Evans— good old English cricket name—of the Lyndoch club, who went in first put on 230 runs for the first wicket. They scored at a rate of about a run and a half a minute. Burton was out for 119, and as often happens, when all other bowling had failed, a “ lo b ” separated the bats­ men. Evans was still in at the end of the day with 225 out of a total of 450 for four wickets. The long innings of the North closed on the following Monday for 806, with Evans out for 267. He was batting altogether six hours. T he air of South Africa, it would seem, to suit George Lohmann’s cricket “ down to the ground.” Consistently successful as his bowling has been for Lord Hawke’s team, he fairly excelled himself in the second innings of the South African eleven at Port Elizabeth, when he took eight wickets at a cost of only seven runs. The South African team 1will have particular reason to remember him, as they were in and out in three- quarters - of - an - hour. With bated breath I would humbly submit to the heads of the statistical department of cricket, that this must be very near the shortest innings on record in a match of any importance. N o r is it only as a bowler that Loh- mann has been furnishing material for the cricket critics in South Africa. On the occasion of the visit of Lord Hawke’s team to Kimberley, a scratch match was arranged to fill up a spare afternoon. The game was between eleven locals and a scratch eleven composed mainly of members of the English team. Six wickets of the latter were down for 65, when Lohmann and one Von Schade became partners. The latter left after making 22, but Lohmann out-stayed the remaining batsman and finally carried out his bat for 115. How he must have hit will be understood when I add that his figures included five sixes and seven­ teen fours. T he Daily Telegraph of the 19th inst. in its column of “ London Day by Day,” gave a full, true, and particular account of the wedding of Mr. H. Phillipson, of cricket, association football and racquet fame. The bride was the Hon. Miss Mina Oliphant Murray, daughter of Lord and Lady Elibank. Mr. Ralph Phillipson acted as his brother’s best man at the wedding ceremony, which took place at St. Peter’s, Eaton Square. T he first match between Lord Hawke’s team and Fifteen of Natal at Pietermaritzburg, was the occasion of quite a new batch of records for South African cricket. On the first day, Lieut. Poore, of the 7th Hussars, opened the ballwith the highest individual score made in South Africa against an English team, while the Natal XV . also obtained the highest total so far made against an English team. In addition, Lord Hawke’s team created four records—firstly, by NEXT ISSUE, THURSDAY, MARCH 26th.