Cricket 1897

J une 3, 1897. CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 185 TOBE COMPLETED IN TWENTY MONTHLY PARTS. Price 2s. a part. PART 4 IMOW READY. THE Encyclopaedia of Sport. E D IT E D B Y The EARLof SUFFOLKand BERKSHIRE, HEDLEY PEEK, and F. G. AFLALO. T h e C h i e f A r t ic l e s In th e F o u r t h P a r t a r e a s fo llo w s s CHAMO IS . By Count Schlick. CHAM P ION SH IPS . CHAR . By Rawdon Lee. CH E E TAH . By J. E. Harting and H. A. Bryden. CH EETU L . By Gen. P. Macintyre. COACH ING . By W . C. A. Blew. CON SERVAN CY . By “ John Bickerdyke.” COURSING . By W . F. Lamonby and W . Ellis. CRICKET. By W. J. Ford, with contribu­ tions by K. S. Ranjitsinhji, F. G. J. Ford, M. C. Kemp, and T. Richardson. CROCOD ILE . By H. R. P. Carter. The Two Plates accompanying this Part are:— COURSING. B Y W. F. C A L D E R O N . AND CROCODILE. BY E. F. CALDWELL. 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T h e first-class matches at the end of last week were all more or less inter­ rupted by rain, and the bowlers, or at any rate some of them, had a chance of showing that they have not forgotten their art. A sign of the change in the weather and wickets is that the word “ paltry,” which had hitherto this season only once or twice timidly ventured to appear in print, when the scores had been small by comparison with others, now stalks abroad through the land with the utmost boldness. T h e batting of the Yorkshire team in the first innings against Cambridge University afforded one of the most curious contrasts ever seen in first-class cricket. The first two men, Mr. Jackson and Tunnicliffe, made 85 between them ; the rest collapsed for 14, of which nine were scored by Hunter. For the en­ couragement of young cricketers who may be inclined to despair when they fail, it may be noted that eight such batsmen as Brown, Denton, Moorhouse, Peel, Wainwright, Hirst, Mounsey, and Haigh scored five runs between them, and that five of them made ducks. I n the Oxford v. Somerset match there were 27 double-figure innings out of a possible 38. One of the best all round men in Aus­ tralian club cricket this year was M. A. Noble. His batting average is 68'88 and he has taken 49 wickets for 13'69 runs apiece. U n d o u b te d ly the best performance in the first-class matches at the end of last week was that of Mr. Jackson, who made 61 and 59 not out for Yorkshire, when nearly all his team were powerless to play the Cambridge bowling. I t will be noticed that in the Yorkshire v. Cambridge match, Mr. Druce won the toss and put his opponents iu. This was a very bold thing to do with such a strong batting team as that of Yorkshire, and when, on Saturday afternoon, the Uni­ versity had lost four wickets for 64, and still required 61 runs to win, the Cam- br dge captain must have doubted the wisdom of his policy. Fortunately it turned out right in the end. G o in g home from Leyton. Friday evening:—- First Citizen: “ Well, I ’ve seen ’im, at any rate.” Second Citizen : “ What d’yer think of ’im, now you ’ave seen him.” First Citizen: “ I don’t quite know. Y ’see ’e only got 1 not out to-day, and blow me if ’e ’adn’t ought to ’ave bin run out for that.” Second Citizen: “ Well, you never know yer luck.” F r o m the Adelaide Observer :— “ A capital story is told about one of the South Australian contingent in the last Aus­ tralian Eleven. Several of the team were in a room talking to Fitzsimmons, now the champion pugilist of the world. A silk hat lay on a table, and Fitzsimmons offered to bet that he could punch a hole through it without moving the hat from the table. The cricketer conceived the idea that the hat belonged to Fitzsimmons, and was not reluctant to wager. The fighter, however, and some of those gathered round him, knew that the owner of the hat was the cricketer. Anyway, the wager was made, Fitzsimmons knocked the hole in the hat, and the cricketer laughed as loudly as anyone, until he discovered that besides having lost his wager he had lost his hat.” On the result of the match against Warwickshire, the Hampshire team, weak as it was, is to be greatly congratulated. To have to follow on in a minority of 205 runs, and then to leave off with a distinct advantage, rivals even the extra­ ordinary performances of Sussex last year. Hampshire had a lead of 57, with six wickets still to fall, when the match was abandoned, and on a wicket ruined by rain this would have been an immense pull. O n ly five men batted in the Hamp­ shire second innings. Their scores were 75, 55, 44 not out, 39, 28, and 14, not out—a very pretty performance. A MATCH played on Saturday, May 22, at Widemarsh (Herefordshire), produced such rapid scoring that the details deserve a place in “ Gossip.” Play began at 3.13 p.m. and ended at 6 53 p.m., with an interval of twenty minutes between the innings. This leaves 3 hrs. 20 mins. for actual play. In that time 476 runs were scored for the loss of only four wickets, which is a very satisfactory rate— for the batsmen. The scores are as follow s: — S t . M a r t in ’ s . G. W. Francis, Powell ........ Extras ... H. C. B. Phillips, not out ......................158 F. Dutton, b A. J. Thomas ..................11 Peyton Levason, b Total T. O. Thomas............11 *Innings declared closed. 13 R. Powell, not out .. A. Chapman, run ont W y e . 44 A.J.Thomag, not out 102 Extras ....... 6 Total ...190