Cricket 1896

484 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. D ec . 31, 1896. Fifteen times altogether: no other player except Shrewsbury has done it three times. Dr. Grace has scored at least one century on every ground on which he has played for Gentlemen v. Players. He has reached three figures at Lord’s on seven occasions, at the Oval four times, and at Brighton, Prince’s, Scarborough, and Hastings once each. TABLE 4.—TABLE SHOWING HOW D r GRACE HAS BEEN DISMISSED IN GENTLEMEN v. PLAYERS MATCHES, 1866-96. Caught and Leg-before- Run Year. Bowled. Caught, bowled Stmpd. wicket. 1865 1866 1867 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 6 out. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Total ... 41 56 11 1 Dr. Grace has never been dismissed through “ hit wicket,” and only once has he been stumped, viz., at Lord’s, in 1888, by Sherwin.__________________ GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Although a team of Gloucestershire players met the M.C.C. at Lord’s in 1868, yet the Gloucestershire County Club was not really formed until the year of Grace, 1870. During the seventies, mainly owing to the brothers Grace, Gloucester­ shire was frequently champion county, and was often strong enough to play, and sometimes beat, England. W. G., E. M., G. F . ; what a power those names were in the seventies! The early death of G. F. in 1880 left a gap in the Gloucester­ shire ranks which has never been filled to this day. E. M. has now practically retired, but W. G. still plays and heads the list in the batting averages. TABLE 1.—TABLE SHOWING D b . GRACE’S BATTING AVERAGES FOR GLOUCESTER- Year. Matches. Times Inns, not out. Runs. Average. 1868 ... 1 ... 2 ... 0 ... 37 ... 1850 1870 ... 3 ... 4 ... 0 ... 366 .... 91-50 1871 ... 5 ... 8 , ... 1 ... 435 ,... 62-14 1872 ... 5 ... 6 ... 0 ... 284 .. 47-33 1873 ... 6 ... 11 ,... 3 ... 497 ,... 62*12 1874 ... 6 ... 7 ... 0 ... 596 ,... 85-14 1875 ... 8 ... 14 ... 0 ... 541 ... 38 64 1876 ... 8 ... 12 . ... 1 ... 890 ... 8090 1877 ... 9 ... 13 ... 1 ... 367 .... 80 5 8 1878 ... 12 ... 21 ... 2 ... 605 ... 31-84 1879 ... 11 ... 15 ... 2 ... 709 . ... 54 53 1880 ... 11 ... 18 ... 2 ... 614 ... 3837 1881 ... 12 ..., 19 ... 1 ... 720 ... 40-00 1882 ... 13 ... 22 ... 0 ... 666 ,... 30-27 1883 ... 12 ... 22 ... 0 ... 871 ... 39*59 1884 ... 12 ... 22 ... 4 ... 672 ... 35 66 1885 ... 14 ... 26 ... 2 ... 1034 ... 43-08 1886 ... 15 ..., 26 ... 2 ... 714 ... 29*75 1887 ... 14 ..., 27 ... 5 ... 1405 ... 63*86 1888 ... 16 ..., 28 ... 1 ... 1068 ... 39-55 1889 ... 14 ... 26 ... 2 ... 884 ... 36*83 1890 ... 16 ... 29 . .. 2 ... 930 ,... 34-44 Year. 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 Matches. ... 18 ... ... 14 ... . 16 ... ... 18 ... ... 18 ... ,.. 20 ... Times Inns, not out. Runs. 22 25 30 440 802 747 , 633 1424 Average. . 20-95 . 3645 . 2766 . 19 78 . 50 85 . 51-30 Totals... 322 553 43 20644 40 47 After playing twenty-eight years he can thus show an average of 40-47 runs per innings, a performance of which no other player can or probably ever will be able to glory in. TABLE 2 —TABLE SHOWING THE TEAMS AGAINST WHICH D e . GRACE HAS SCORED FOR GLOUCESTERSHIRE, 1868-96. i s 4 o «M<8 ° d ■i ^ ! $> 3o £ 1 6 bo § 1 Australians.. . 1878 ... 16 ... 30 ... 4 ... 856 ... 32 92 D erby.......... 1884 ... 1 ... 2 ... 0 . .. 22 . 11-00 England . 1877 .... 2 ... 4 . .. 0 . .. 94 .... 23 50 Kent ........ 1887 ,... 18 .... 31 .... 5 ... 1388 .,. 53-38 Lancashire... 1878 ... 37 ... 68 ... 8 .. 1995 .,.. 83-25 M.C.C........... . 1868 ... 3 ... 5 . .. 1 . .. 292 ... 73-00 Middlesex ..,. 1879 ... 36 ... 60 ... 6 ... 2617 ... 48-46 Notts ......... . 1871 ... 45 ... 78 ... 4 ... 2723 ... 36-79 Somerset .. 1879 .. 18 ... 29 . ... 0 . .. 1211 .,.. 4175 Surrey........ .. 1870 ... 53 ... 88 ... 6 ... 2658 .... 32-41 Sussex........ . 1872 ... 39 ... 65 ... 4 ... 2822 .,.. 46 91 Warwick . 1894 ... 5 ... 10 . .. 1 . .. 292 ..,. 32-44 Yorkshire ... 1872 ... 49 ... 83 ... 4 ... 3674 ..,. 46-50 Totals......... . 1868 322 553 43 20644 40-47 TABLE 3.—TABLE SHOWING THE CEMTURIES SCORED BY Da. GRACE FOR GLOUCESTER­ SHIRE, 1868-96. Year. Club scored against. Ground. Score. 1870 M.C.C. Lord’s 172 1870 Surrey Oval 143 1871 Notts ... Nottingham ... 116 1872 Yorkshire Sheffield 150 1873 Surrey Clifton 160* 1874 Sussex Brighton 179 1874 Yorkshire Sheffield 167 1874 Yorkshire Clifton 127 1875 Notts Clifton 119 1875 Yorkshire Sheffield 111 1876 Yorkshire ... Cheltenham ... 318* 1876 Notts Clifton 177 1876 Sussex Brighton 104 1878 Notts ... Nottingham ... 116 1879 Surrey Oval 123 1879 Notts ... Nottingham ... 102 1879 Somerset Clifton 113 1880 ... Lancashire Clifton 106 1881 Notts ... Nottingham ... 182 1833 ... Lancashire Clifton 112 1884 ... Australians Clifton 116* 1885 Middlesex Clifton 221* 1885 Yorkshire Bradford 132 1885 Surrey ... Cheltenham .. 104 1886 ... Australians Clifton 110 1887 ... Yorkshire Gloucester ... 183* 1887 Notts Clifton 113* 1887 ... Middlesex Lord’s 113 1887 Kent Clifton 101 & 103* 1888 Suesex Brighton 215 1888 Yorkshire Clifton 148 & 153 1889 ... Middlesex ... Cheltenham ... 127* 1889 .. Middlesex ... Lord’s 101 1890 Kent Maidstone 109 1895 Somerset Bristol 288 1895 Kent Gravesend 257 1895 Middlesex Lord’s ... 169 1895 Notts ... Cheltenham ... 119 1896 Sussex Brighton 243* 1896 ... Lancashire Bristol 102* 1896 Somerset ... Taunton 186 1896 Sussex Bristol 301 it will be seen that W.G. has twice accomplished the rare performance of making two separate centuries in a county match. No other player has done it more than once. He has altogether scored 44 three-figure innings for his county: Nine against Yorkshire, eight against Nottingham, five each against Sussex and Middlesex, four each against Kent and Surrey, three each against Lancashire and Somerset, two against Australian teams, and once against the M.C.C. (To be continued.) hotels FREQUEN TED BY CRICKETERS. Announcements are inserted in this column at a charge of 21 s. per annum. Half-inch space , 50 s. per annum. Each Hotel inserting an Advertisement will receive a copy of the paper, by post, free of charge. 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Eong-Stephens 7 . . 1 . . 136 ... 52*... 22-67 H. C. King-Stephens 7 . . 4 . . 64 ... 27 ... 21-33 N. E. T. Bosanquet .. 8 . . 1 . . 126 .. 36 ... 18 W . G. Jeffery . 7 . . 0 . . 117 ... 26 ... 16-7 L. Jacobs ............... .. 7 . . 0 . . 116 ... 54 ... 16-57 H. H. Commyn .. .. 6 . . 1 . . 82 .. 37 ... 16-4 H. O. Ryder................. 12 . . 1 . 180 . . 61*... 16 36 F. R. Jeffery ... .. 14 . . 1 . . 191 ... 37 ... 14-69 L. Tamworth ... . . 13 . . 3 . . 116 . . 23*... 11-6 E. H. Christian ... .. 10 . . 1 . . 63 ... 26*... 6-3 C. Jeffery ............... .. 6 . . 1 . . 25 ... 15 ... 5 E. F. Wright ... .. 4 . 0 . . 18 .. 12 ... 4 5 E. H. Gunnery ... . . 8 . . 1 . . 29 . . 12*... 4*14 F. Burrow s.............. .. 5 . . 0 . . 12 . . 6 ... 2 4 BOWLING AVERAGES. Overs. Mdns. Runs. Wkts. Aver. G. Simmonds ........ 15 .. 3 . . 88 .. 7 ... 5.43 P eters....................... 40 .. 15 . . 62 .. 6 .. 10.2 H. H. Commyn........ 33 .. 5 . . 80 .. 6 ... 13.33 A. J. Crowder ......... 271 .. 69 . .578 .. 42 ... 13.76 C. M. Wells ......... 55 .. 25 . .116 .. 8 ... 14 5 R. S. Lucas................ 189 ... 31 . .625 .. 35 ... 17.35 J. W. Crawfurd 90 ... 35 . 227 .. 13 ... 17.46 B. J. T. Rosanquet .. 58 .. 11 ...103 .. 6 ... 17.3 E. F. Wright ......... 79 .. 30 . .199 .. 9 ... 22.1 H. S. Goodwin......... 32 .. 6 . .199 .. 7 ... 28.43 F. Mitchell ......... 56 .. 5 . .239 .. 8 ... 29.87 M O W R E A D Y . 3 4 T H E lO I T I O M O JOHN WISDEN’ S CRICKETERS’ ALMANACK FOR 1897, Edited by Sydney H. Pardon. Contains County, University, Public School, and flrst-class averages; Portraits of Ranjit- sinhji, Lilley, Richardson, Trumble and Gregory, and full account of the Australian Tour; full scores and bowling analyses of all the chief matches in 1896. Back numbers on sale, 1879, 80, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1892, 3, 5 and 6, 2s. 3d. post free; 1889, 1890, 1891, at 5s. each. JOHN WISDEN & Co., 21, GtyfyfiOtiQl STREET, LONDON, W .C . 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