Cricket 1897

G eo . G. B ussey & Co., THE LEADING CRICKET AND SPORTS MANUFACTURERS, 8 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J a n . 28, 1897. c / a Q J £C O 111 X h t c 111 > o mJ mJ < CO H Z Id C3 < C O C R IC K E T ANNUAL, RECORD OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP. (40 pages, 4to.) Over 50 photos of Leading players ; full of interesting cricket matter. 2d , ; post, 3d. “ YORKSHIRE OWL ” OFFICE, '4 8 , BR IGGATE, LEED 8, And at the Offices of this Paper. P ROFESSIONAL AND GROUNDSMAN (com­ bined) required. State terms, with references, and full particulars. — S ecretary , Cricket Club, Hadleigh, Suffolk. T HE EDITOR OF “ CRICKET” wishes to procure Nos. 339 and 346 of “ Cricket” (August 3 and September 21, 1893), as well as Vols. 1, 3 to 13 in­ clusive, and Yols. 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9,10 and 11 of “ Scores and Biographies.” W ANTED, by the Honor Oak Cricket Club, a man to look after their ground. Must be used to preparing cricket pitches and lawn tennis courts.— Apply by letter only to H. L. H o lfo r d , 15, The Gardens. Peckham Rye. S.E.________________________ Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, JAN. 28 th , 1896. IMPORTANT NOTICE! Six numbers are published during the Winter as heretofore, from October to March inclusive. The two remaining dates -will be:— No. 441.—THURSDAY, EEB. 25. No. 412.—THURSDAY, MARCH 25. $a\u lton The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. T he match between the Australians and New Zealand was remarkable for the number of singles scored by the players on both sides. Apparently nobody ever succeeded in getting his eye in, although there were several scores over 50. T he Eton v. Harrow match is to be played on Friday and Saturday, July 9 and 10, at Lord’s. I t is not often that selection committees have such an opportunity of con­ gratulating themselves on the choice of a colt as fell to the lot of the East Melbourne committee in the pennant match against Richmond. They deter­ mined to give a trial to V. Thompson, a second eleven player; they put him in first and he carried his bat through an innings of 625 runs for a score of 228. Thompson is eighteen years old and has already made six hundreds for the Juniors this season; he is, like so many Austra­ lians, very tall with a commanding reach, and has a great variety of strokes. Already prophecies are being made that he will be the great man of Australia in a few years, and he has had the honour of exhibiting himself in one of the smaller theatres as a living picture “ The Colt of the Season.” He bats left hand. A nother batsman on the same side, S. M. Michael, scored 211 in the same innings. The partnership between the two men produced 315 runs. A third batsman, J.Vautin, missed his hundred by six, his 94 being made in forty minutes. The rest of the team scored 76 between them, of which 35 were due to H. Stuckey. A n umpire in Ceylon has been un­ fortunate enough to be hit full in the face by a ball hit tremendously hard to square leg. His left cheek bone was dislocated, but he is progressing favour­ ably. To the list of benefit matches in the last issue of Cricket there must now be added the follow ing: R. Carpenter...C.Univ.v.Hamp....Camb.JunelO,11,12. (i. Davidson ...Derby, v. Notts ... Derby, July 5, 6, 7. The Derbyshire committee had decided to give a benefit to Walter Sugg, but at his wish it has been postponed. A lthough J. McBlackham seems to have quite made up his mind that he will not keep wicket again in first class matches, he has tried his hand in a match of no particular importance, with as much success as ever. Me. G. L. W ilson has played another fine innings for Melbourne. Against Hawksbum he, like most of the team, was completely beaten by J. O’Connor, a bowler who, owing to an accident, had not previously played this season ; in the second innings Mr. Wilson made 82. His last 38 runs were scored while W. Bruce, his partner, was making 4. During his innings he made five fours in an over. A t Durban on December 12th no less than three matches produced a tie in the first innings. In one of the matches, I. Zingari against Wanderers, the latter were within two of the required total with five wickets still to go down. The last man was run out, which will, no doubt, afford an interesting topic of conversation for the members of his club for some months. I t may be remarked that in the above match the scores made by each side were 57, and that in their second innings I. Zingari again made 57. W ith reference to an allusion, at page 479 of the last issue of Cricket, to a catch made off cover point’s-head, Mr. A. C. Coxhead writes as follows :— “ This reminds me of an incident in the first big match I ever saw, Gentlemen v. Players at the Oval in 1858. A cut by either Wisden or John Lillywhite hit Mr. Burbidge, at point, on the forehead, and he fell to the ground. There were loud cries of ‘ catch it,’ but the bowler, Mr. Frere, was looking anxiously at his prostrate comrade, and not at the ball, which fell very near h im ! I do not know if Mr. Frere is still living; the others have passed away. With reference to J. N. P .’s bowling analysis, may I modestly claim the credit of having suggested ‘ balls per wicket ’ several years ago in your pages ? P. S. — As Mr. N E X T ISSUE, THUR SDAY , F E B R U A R Y 25.