Cricket 1896

A u g . 27, 1896. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 385 HASTINGS & ST- LEONARDS CRICKET WEEK, 1896. TWO GRAND MATCHES W ILL BE PLAYED ON THE C on tra # C r ic k e t G rou n d , H a stin g s, AS FOLLOWS THURSDAY, FRID AY, AN D SATURDAY, September 3rd, 4th, and 5th, SOUTH OF ENGLAND AUSTRALIANS. (Last appearance of theAustralians in England.) S o u th o f E n g la n d . Selected from Dr. W . G. Grace, Gloucester Mr. L. C. H. Palairet, Somerset K. S. Ranjitsinhji, Sussex Mr. A. E. Stoddart, Middlesex Mr. C. L. Townsend, Gloucester Mr. S. M. J. Woods, Somerset Abel, Surrey Hayward, Surrey J. T. Hearne, Middlesex Richardson, Surrey Lohmann, Surrey Butt, Sussex A u stralian s . Selected from Mr. G. H. S. Trott Mr. J. Darling Mr. H. Donnan Mr. C. J. Eady Mr. G. Gitfen Mr. H. Graham Mr. S. E. Gregory Mr. C. Hill Mr. F. A. Iredale Mr. A. E. Johns Mr. E. Jones Mr. J. Kelly Mr. T. R. McKibbin Mr. H. Trumble Umpires—Thoms and Phillips. W ISDEN’S ALMANACK.—The Editor of Cricket is anxious to obtain Wisden for 1875 to com­ plete a set. MONDAY, TUESDAY, September 7th, AN D WEDNESDAY, 8th, and 9th. NORTH v. SOUTH . N o rth . Mr. A. C. Maclaren, Lancashire Mr. C. E. de Trafford, Leicester Attewell, Notts Baker, Lancashire Brown, Yorkshire Lilley, Warwickshire Mold, Lancashire Peel, Yorkshire Tunnicliffe, Yorkshire Wainwright, Yorkshire A. Ward, Lancashire S ou th . Dr. W. G. Grace, Gloucester K. S. Ranjitsinhji, Sussex Mr. A. E. Stoddart, Middlesex Mr. C. L. Townsend, Gloucester Mr. S. M. J. Woods, Somerset Abel, Surrey Hayward, Surrey J. T. Heame, Middlesex Richardson, Surrey Lohmann, Surrey Butt, Sussex Umpires—Thoms and Carpenter. Wickets pitched at Twelve o’clock first day of each Match; other days at half-past Eleven. Cheap Fares on S.E.It. and L.B. and S.C.li. and Excursion Trains will run. Admission to the Ground, ONE SHILLING. Covered Grand Stand, One Shilling extra. TICKET S FOR THE WEEK, including Admission to the Ground and Reserved Seat in Grand Stand, price 10s.. can now be obtained at the Central Cricket Ground, Hastings, where a plan can be seen; these Tickets must be obtained not later than Wednesday, September 2nd. Tickets for the Week, for Ground only, price 5s., can be obtained from the Hon. Secre­ tary, 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 theWeek to be obtained from theHon. Secretary. MILITARY BANDS WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE. All communications to be addressed to the Hon. Secretary, Saxon Chambers, St. Leonards. JUST OUT. To be had from the Publishers, D. N u t t , 270, Strand, or from Cricket Office, or from all booksellers at 1/- each. Frederick Gale: “ THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CRICKET MATCHES FORTY YEARS AGO.” Second edition with facsimile of the original illustration of “ Public School Matches and those we meet there” (1853). Frederick Gale: “ ECHOES FROM OLD CRICKET FIELDS.” Revised issue of the original edition (1871). Both works have long been out of print, and have become very scarce. Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, 168, UPPER THAMES S TREET, LOUDON, E.C . THURSDAY, AUG. 27th, 1896. $a\nlton (iofistp. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— 11amle L ast week Mr. Stoddart and Mr. Doug'as twice made over 150 for the first Middlesex wicket. Against Yorkshire they scored 178, and against Notts 158. In each instance they were not out at lunch time—at Bradford with the total at 168, and at Nottingham at 132. The total score made by Middlesex in the Yorkshire match was 263, and in the Nottingham match 283. In the first match Sto'ldart scored 94, and in the second 93. Y o r k s h ir e , at Brighton, put on 113 for the first wicket, the score at luncheon being 139. Of this total Mr. Jackson claimed no less than 102. I n the Notts match against Middlesex Mr. Stoddart made 43 out of the first 63 in an hour, and Mr. Jone3 in an hour and ten minutes made 43 out of the first 53. No less than four scores of between 90 and 100 were made in first-class cricket in the matches at the end of last week. Tunnicliffe made 99 for Yorkshire v. Sussex; Mr. R. C. N. Palairet 99 for Somerset v. Kent; Mr. S. M. J. Woods 98 for Somerset v. K ent; and Mr. Stod­ dart 93 for Middlesex y. Notts. There were also two scores of 83—by Baker for Lancashire v. Surrey, and Mr. Stewart for Kent v. Somerset. T h e r e was a curious similarity in the scores made in the first innings by Surrey and Lancashire. In each innings the first two men made double figures, the two Surrey men scoring 30, and the two Lancashire men 27. The next two men on each side both failed. The great stand of each innings was made for the fifth wicket, and another stand was made for the sixth. In each innings the last man made 14, while the seventh and eighth wickets were productive of hardly any runs. I n the interview with Mr. Trott, which appears in this week’s issue, he remarks, with reference to Pougher’sfeatof taking five wickets without a run being scored off him in the first M.C.C. match, “ I should think it would be almost impossi­ ble for any man to do such a great performance again.” It is very curious that before the interview could appear in print Mr. Trumble should have taken his first five wickets against Gloucestershire without a run being scored off him. K. S. R a n j it s in h j i has now scored ten hundreds this year in first-class cricket. A list of them is as follows :— Sussex v. Yorkshire ............................................. 138 Sussex v. Gloucestershire......................................*114 Sussex v. Somerset ............................................. 107 M.C.C. and Ground v. Cambridge University ... 146 Sussex v. Oxford University .............................. *171 EDgland v. Australia (Manchester; .................*154 Sussex v. Notts .................................................... *100 Sussex v. Lancashire............................................... 165 Sussex v. Yorkshire ............................................... 100 Sussex v. Yorkshire .................................................*125 •Signifies not out. Up to this year, he had scored four hun­ dreds in first-class cricket, all the innings being played in 1895 :—• Sussex v. M.C.C. and Ground................................. 150 Sussex v. Oxford University ...................................*137 Sussex v. Middlesex ............................................... llu Sussex v. Notts ... ............................................... 100 •Signifies not out. I n a match in Gloucestershire between Dam Mills and Dursley, the former club, after getting its opponents out for 75, made 329 in an hour and forty minutes ■without losing a wicket. Mr. A. Davis made 201 (including five 6’s and twenty- eight 4’s), and Mr. A. S. Winterbotham 107 (including sixteen 4’s). My infor­ mant, Mr. W. G. Richards, of Dursley, says that these scores, with 29 extras, complete the total. But this would give a total t f 337 instead of 329; so that there is evidently a mistake somewhere. A total of 329—if that is the actual score—for no wicket, is not a record. Mr. L. Wilson (246 not out), and Mr. W. G. Wyld (203 not out), put on 470 for no wicket in 1885 for Beckenham v. Bexley. But for first wicket, the record is 472 by Mr. Stanley Colman (209), and Mr. P. Coles (247 not out) for Devonshire Park v. Mr. G. W. Morrison’s X I. in 1892. Mr. J. Shuter (304 not out), and Mr. T. Ashdown made 404 for first wicket in 1884 for Bexley v. Emeriti. In first-class cricket the 346 made by Mr. Hewett (201) and Mr. Paliiret (146) for Somerset­ shire v. Yorkshire in 1892 is the record. T h e last time that Lord Harris played for Kent, before he was appointed Governor of the Bombay Presidency, was at Beckenham against Notts. On his return from India last spring, he was asked to play for Kent against Oxford University on May 30, but a little while before the date of the match he broke a finger when batting, and did not appear in an important game until he played at Lord’s for M.C.C. v. Lincolnshire at the end of July. He made 34—a very good innings indeed—and 1. At the end of August he took part in a first-class match, M.C.C. and Ground v. Yorkshire, making 14 and 0. The first innings was played on a morning following a very wet night, and was as valuable as many an innings of 50 ; for M.C.C., who had made 122 for two wickets over night, collapsed for 195. The following letter from “ An Old Brightonian ” has the merit of containing an original idea :— “ As a means of still further increasing the interest that is taken by the general public in the struggle for the County Championship, and of developing the kindly feelings which exist between cricketers, what do you think