Cricket 1896

AuG.r 20, 1896. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 369 HAST INGS & ST LEONARDS • CRICKET WEEK, 1896. TWO GRAND MATCHES WILL BE PLAYED IN THE C on tra ! C r ic k e t G rou n d , H a stin g s, AS FOLLOWS : — THURSDAY. FRIDAY, AN D SATURDAY, September 3rd, 4th, and 5th , SOUTH OF ENGLAND AUSTRALIANS. (Last appearance of the Australians in England.) MO NDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY, September 7th, 8th, and 9th. NORTH v. SOUTH . Wickets pitched at Twelve o’clock first day of each Match; other days at half-past Eleven. Cheap Fares on S.E.R. and L.B. and S.C.E. and Excursion Trains will ran. Admission 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 10 b ., can be obtained on and after August 10th at the Central Cricket Ground, Hastings, where a plancan be seen; these Tickets must be obtained not later than Wednesday, September 2nd. Tickets for Uie Week, for Ground only, price 5s., can be obtained from the Hon. Secretary, or at the Central Cricket Ground. Carriages 5s. per day, and Is. extra for each occupant exclusive of driver. Terms for Allotment of Spaces for Private Tents for the Week to be obtained from theHon. Secretary. MILITARY BANDS W ILL BE IN ATTENDANCE. All communications to be addressed to the Hon. Secretary, Saxon Chambers, St. Leonards. Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LOUDON, E.C . THURSDAY, AUG. 20th, 1896. $a\nlton (gosmp. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. No one who witnessed the finish of the test match at the Oval could have failed to notice the rapidity with which Abel started off for the pavilion when— almost before—he had made the catch which gave England the victory. In these contests the ball in the last innings, as many Cricket readers know, goes to the player who gets it at the finish; conse­ quently as a souvenir it acquires an historic interest. Indeed, it deserves to be stated that a well-known Queen’s Counsel offered the “ Guvnor ” five pounds on Wednesday after the match for the last ball, without avail. E. G. H a yb s , the young cricketer who made such a promising debut in first-class matches against the Australians at the Oval on Monday, has for the last two or three years been a consistently successful run-getter for the Honor Oak Club. Accepting an engagement on the Surrey Ground last season, he met with great success, so much so, that he had an average of 66 for five innings for Surrey’s second eleven. He got a double first in fict, as in the batting averages in Surrey Club and Ground matches, he was also at the he id, scoring 217 iu five completed innings. He isj ust completing his twentieth year, and was not only bom, but learned all his cricket, in Surrey. The following paragraph, taken from the Daily Mail of Monday, refers, of course, to a well-known Kent cricketer, who has, unfortunately for the county, been able to give little time to important cricket this summer. WILSON-EDGE LL.—On August 12, at the parish church at Esher, by the Rev. T. C. A. Barrett, M.A., assisted by the Rev. E. J. Hone, M.A., Rector, Leslie Wilson, of G.itewick, Esher, third son of the late Alexander Wilson, of Beckenham, to Ida Josephine, onlydaughter of Captain and Mrs. E. D. Edgell, of Surbiton. M b , J o iis Sin; ter , it will gratify cricketers even outside Surrey to know, keeps the ball moving as vigorously as ever. Last Saturday the Rev. C. E. Kindersley, an old Harrow Blue, help ad him to put on the first hundred and sixty runs for Lessness Park against the 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment in an hour and five, or an hour and ten, minutes. The clergyman, who had made 103 of them, had then to leave, as he was due at church at half-past two o’clock to marry Aubrey Smith, the old Sussex amateur. That the ceremony did not affect the parson’s all-round cricket can be judged from the fact that on his return to the ground he bowled five of the soldiers’ wickets. P rince C h r ist ia n V ictor of Schles­ wig-Holstein is taking the waters at Kissingen. His interest in the test match was forcibly exemplified by an arrangement for a telegram at the luncheon interval as well as at the close of play on each of the three days. A few weeks ago, the possibility of a visit from a South African team next summer was hinted at. A letter received during the week from Bombay suggests that the Parsees have it also in contem­ plation to test their merits once more against English clubs, and according to present intentions iu 1897. The Phila­ delphians, it is worthy of remark in this connection, when they gave up their idea of coming this summer in view of the Australian visit, notified that they post­ poned their tour for a year.j T h e Australian team, who have made their last appearance in London, after playing three matches in Philadelphia, and one other in the States, at Chicago or New York, on the first part of their homeward journey, are due to leave San Francisco in the middle of October for New Zealand. After five matches in that Colony, and probably one at Hobart, they are due to reach home in time for the inter-colonial match at Christmas. T h e pair Peel made for England agiinst Australia at the Oval last week, it may be mentioned, is the third he has had the misfortune to get iu the test matches in which he has taken part in England anl Australia. On the other hand, if he failed to score, Peel’s bowling, with that of Hearne, won the last match. In recognition, a grant of five pounds each was made by the Surrey Committee. T h e matches between Sussex and the Australians and Middlesex and Lanca­ shire were each won with only twenty minutes to spare. D u r in g the last week or two several men have been run out (not necessarily by their own fault) at critical moments when there was no earthly reason for risking their wickets—when, in fact, there was every reason for not risking them. One has only to think of the end of Hayward in the second innings of Surrey v. Australians, Iredale in the first innings of Australia v. England, anl Bardswell in the se ond innings of Lancashire v. Middlesex, to wonder what can have induced such batsmen or their p irtners to give the opposing side such an advantage. F r a n k A l l a n , the once famous Aus­ tralian bowler, has recently been appointed chief inspector under the Vermin Destruction Act, and has been transferred from Warrnambool to Mel­ bourne. Syd Donahoo, the well-known Melbourne left-hand bitsman, has bean appointed to an office in the Graziers’ Company of Queensland, and has gone to live in Brisbane. F rom the Barbados Cricketers' Annual for 1895-6, which is edited and compiled by J. Wynyard Gibbons, I find that the highest innings made in Barbados is 175 by A. W. L. Smith, who is also credited with 174 not out. The record for the first wicket is 157. The Annual contains an interesting account of the inter­ colonial matches, in which Demarara, Trinidad, and Barbados take part every other year. The editor considers the out­ look in Barbados as regards bowling to be very unpromising indeed. D itbing the present month (beginning August 3rd) Lancashire has played five matches, and has lost the toss in each match, having to field out first every time, while their opponents batted on a good wicket. Against Kent they fielded to 385 runs, against Leicestershire to 399, against Derbyshire to 577. In the last two matches they have enjoyed a period of comparative peace, for Middle­ sex only made 229 and Sussex 153. But the experience during the first three matches was very trying. F or the second time this season Glou­ cestershire has won a match in which Dr. Grace had nothing to do with the victory. Against Notts he only made 10 and 1, and took one wicket for 20. Most of the younger members of the