Cricket 1896

448 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. O ct . 29, 1896. W ISDEN’S ALMANACK.—The Editor of Cricket isanxiou8 to obtain Wisden for J875 to com­ plete a set. C r i c k e t : A WEEKLY RECORD OF TEE GAME, 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C, THURSDAY, OCT. 2 9 t h , 1 8 9 6 . IMPORTANT NOTICE ! Six numbers will be published during the Winter as heretofore, from October to March inclusive. The five remaining dates will be:— No. 438.—THURSDAY, NOV. 26. No. 439.—'THURSDAY, DEC. 31. No. 440.—THURSDAY, JAN. 28. No. 441.—THURSDAY, FEB. 25. No. 412.—THURSDAY, MARCH 26. $ a \ n l t o t t The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamle4. When Lord Harris left India after serving as Governor of Bombay Presi­ dency, a large sum was subscribed by cricketers to perpetuate his name by a shield, to be competed for each year by the schools. The shield has been com­ pleted and is now on view in Bombay. In the centre, surrounded by a laurel wreath, is a medallion portrait of Lord Harris. Above, flanked on either side by a tiger and lion’s head, is a figure of victory, and a scroll on which is inscribed “ Harris ” Memorial Challenge Shield. On either side of the n edallion portrait are figures representative of the two leading native cricket teams in Bombay, and at the base a cricket scene with the Bombay Gymkhana as a background. The foliated edges have ribbons upon which will be engraved year by year the name of the winning team. J. M. Laing, the Canadian bowler who had so much to do with the victory of Canada over the United States, is a very useful all round man. He bats well, and when the Australians visited Canada three years ago he made 45 against them. He is about 6ft 2in. in height, and weighs about 185 lbs. As a bowler he has a very high action, is very fast, and every now and then sends down a most fascinating yorker on the leg stump. The Canadian eleven as originally chosen was much stronger than that which actually represented Canada. Of the first five men who were picked—the Rev. P. Terry, D. W. Saunders, A. Gillespie, Martin, and Wandsworth—not one was able to play. The American team, being on its own ground, was naturally almost at full strength. O ne of the best bats i i the Canada team, W. H. Cooper, has scored over 1,000 runs this season, and G. S. Lyon, who with Cooper made the most runs for his side against the United States, scored 132 against Laing’s bowling not long before the great match. The President of the Toronto C.C., which beat Chicago at Toronto a few weeks ago, is Mr. Lyndhurst F. Ogden, a well-known name to cricketers. He still plays once a year in the veterans’ match. In 1895 he scored 55, and this year 55 not out, so that he shows no signs of falling off. This year Canada has beaten the United States at cricket, golf, and in the yacht race. Or the 23 matches played between the United States and Canada, the States have won 14, Canada 7, and two have been drawn. Below will be found a complete record of the matches:— Year. Place. Winner. Margin. 1863 .. Haarlem .. . . U.S........ . 34 runs. 1854 .. Toronto ... . . Canada . . 10 runs. 1856 Hoboken.. . . U.S......... . 9 wickets. 1857 .. Toronto ... . . Canada . . 4 wickets. 1858 .. Hoboken... . . U.S........ . 4 wickets. 1859 .. Toronto ... . . U.S........ . 4 wickets. 1860 .. Hoboken... . . U.S........ . 5 wickets. 1869 .. Ottawa ... . .U.S.... . . 5 wickets. 1880 .. Philadelphia. . Drawn . 1881 .. Hamilton . U.S........ . 10 wickets. 1882 .. Philadelphia. . U.S........ . 8 wickets. 1883 .. Toronto ... . . U.S........ . innings & 46 runs. 1884 .. Philadelphia. . Canada . . 100 runs. 1885 .. Toronto ... . . Canada . . 35 runs. 1886 .. Seabright . Canada . . 97 runs. 1888 .. Toronto ... . . U.S........ . innings & 87 runs. 1890 .. Philadelphia . .U S ........ . innings & 31 runs. 1891 .. Toronto ... .. U.S........ . 36 runs. 1892 .. Philadelphia . . U.S........ . innings & 222runs. 1893 . Toronto ... . . U.S........ . 5 wickets. 1894 .. Philadelphia. . Drawn . 1895 .. Toronto ... . . Canada . . 140 runs. 1896 .. Philadelphia. . Canada . . 40 runs. The committee of the Sussex County C.C., has decided to arrange a county match for next season to be played at Eastbourne. To make up for this, an extra match is to be played on the county ground at Brighton. I t is stated that J. Carlton, the North Melbourne bowler, has gone to reside at Adelaide, with the view of playing for South Australia. Roche, the Melbourne bowler, has also accepted an engagement in South Australia. A t the conclusion of the annual meet­ ing of the New South Wales Cricket Association, the chairman (the Hon. W. J. Trickett) presented several inter­ colonial players with their “ Sheffield ” badges. They were as follows :—T. W. Girrett, C. Turner, W. Richardson, P. Walters (by deputy), A. Mackenzie, G. H. Youll, and W. Howell (by deputy). C lub secretaries are requested to notice that the address of Mr. Prank E. Glover, the honorary secretary of the Granville (Lee) C.C., is changed from 15, Walbrook to Halinghyrst, Warham Road, South Croydon. O f the second innings of the Austra­ lians in the final test match at the Oval, “ Felix ” thus writes in the Australasian : — “ Oh for a Percy M ’Donnell in that last innings of Australia ! Look, my friend, at that sad array, and if you don’ t feel funereal after perusal never more be officer of mine. Picture to yourself Harry Trott and his fellow-processioners in that pavilion of old Surrey, watching with visages gradually tending to fearful elongation as the slaughter goes on apace. It is a terrible feeling; I ’ve been in it, and I know. If Jack Blackham were there you would find him hidden away in a remote corner of the dressing-room, wrapped up in himself, and praying that Pcrcy M ’Donnell had still to go in.” The matches between Bombay Presi­ dency and the Par-ees, and Bombay and Poona, which it was feared would have to be abandoned on account of the heavy rains, were brought off successfully after all. Contrary to the general expectation, the Parsees were very easily beaten, but their defeat, may, perhaps, be described as due to the fortune of war more than anything else. I n an account of the second match between the Australians and Gentlemen of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Public Ledger says: “ Jones was the next bats­ man, and shortly after his advent, hit u p a little fly to Patterson, who first mis­ judged and finally made a g G r g e o u s muff of it, and the batsmen, like the band in the song, played on.” The same journal gives an excellent idea of the effect made on the crowd by the fine stand of Messrs. Patterson and Wood on the first day of the third All-America match : “ For six days they had sat back to the ropes at Manheim and Elmwood and watched their favorites a'most toyed with by the crack cricketers from the antipodes. They had hoped for better things till hoping had almost ceased to be a virtue and become the merest folly, but just when it seemed to be a black; deep black year in the cricketing annals of the Quaker City the turn came, and so complete was the reversal that it could hardly be realized.” The Committee of the Scarborough Cricket Club announces that, despite the unfavourable weather, the “ Week ” re­ sulted in a balance to the credit of the club of £264 13s. 8d. The Australian match produced £585 8s., half of which went to the club. I n giving an extract from the bio­ graphy of Sir T. C. O’Brien which appeared a month or two ago in Baily’s Magazine, the Asian has, by an oversight, attributed it to Cricket. A t the Wagga Wagga (N.S.W.) Show held in the beginning of September in the section for “ Best Mare or Gelding for Cavalry purposes,” there figured a horse named Ranjitsinhji. The record for the past three seasons of the Abbey School is as follows :— Matches played, 31, won, 26, lost, 2, drawn, 2 ; Runs for the School, 5,302, average per wicket, 2019; against the School, 2,408, average per wicket, 8 77. N E X T ISSUE, T HURSDA Y , NOVEMBER 26.