Cricket 1897

J une 10, 1897. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 203 So many were the scores of between 80 and 90 in the nine first-class matches this week that it may be interesting to record them. They are: Sir T. C. O’Brien, 80; F. Marchant, 80; F. S. Jackson, 8 1 ; P. F. Warner, 83; E. C. Wright, 83; Brown, 89. O n Tuesday both Surrey and Essex ended the day with a score of 77 for one wicket. J t j s t about the time, almost at the very moment in fact, that I was penning the notice of one good performance in the way of run getting by young Frank Crawford, he was completing another remarkable display of fast scoring. On Wednesday of last week he was playing at Croydon for Whitgift Grammar School against Blackheath Proprietary School. The re­ sult of his batting was 201 out of a total of 301 for four wickets. The runs too were got in an hour and three-quarters, which is about as quick a thing in the shape of run getting as has been recorded. T wenty four represented the outcome of one over, twenty-two of another, nineteen of a third and seventeen of a fourth. A t the time he was gently tapping them to the tune of 201 his father, “ Parson Craw­ ford ” was scraping away on a mud heap for Addiscombe with a duck and a sinjle as the result of his two efforts. F. H . B. C h a m p a i n , the Cheltenham captain of 1896, who has made such a promising debut for Oxford University, plays for Gloucestershire b y the right of a long residence at Cheltenham. He was born, so a reliable authority has it, at Richmond-on-Thames, so that he is a native of Surrey. The Champains were, it is certain, at one time connected with the Royal Borough. An elder brother C . E. B ., actually played for the Surrey second eleven at Manchester against Lancashire second in August, 1894. T h e re is to b a no cricket at Lord’s on Jubilee Day after all. A suggestion from the Middlesex captain that the match with the Philadelphian team, to be begun on Monday, June 21, should be suspended from that night till the Wednesday morning was gladly accepted by M ilton C. Work, the Philadelphian manager. G. S. Patterson and the other American cricketers will be able to see the Jubilee procession if they feel so disposed without let or hindrance. N o r m a n D b u c e , the Cambridge cap­ tain, who, by the way, got his second two hundred of the season at Cambridge last week, will take his place in the Surrey eleven in the Hampshire match at Southampton on July 19. The county will find him a most valuable acquisition in the later matches. T h e Abbey School, Beckenham, has a long list of fixtures again, including Lord Sheffield’s X I., Cheam, Hawtrey’s, Little­ john’s, Elstree, East Sheen, and many others, so thatthere will be plenty of chance for the boy 8 to keep up the excellent record which stands to the credit of the school for the last five years. Indeed, since 1892 the school has only lost seven matches in all, and only two since 1894, and one this year, so that it is bound to fall upon a weak year before very long. Mr. Frank Mitchell, who is working at the schoolis away this week playing in the final matches at Cambridge. So bad was the weather on Wednesday that the whole of the nine first-class matches had to be abandoned. L a s t night the Philadelphian cricketers were to leave Oxford for Manchester where they have a stiff task before them, particularly if Lancashire is at full strength. I t will be of use, perhaps, to Cricket readers, or at least to some of them, to know where the team will be staying during the tour Juno 10-12.— Lancashire, Manchester (Grand Hotel). „ 13-15.— CambridgeUniversity, Cambridge (Buli) „ 17-19.— Sussex, Brighton (M-itropole). „ 21-23.— Middlesex, Lord’s (Arundel). ,, 24-26.— OxfordPastandPresent, Oval (Arundel) .. 28-30.— Yorkshire, Sheffield (Victoria). July 1-3.— Hampshire, Bournemouth (Salisbury). ,, 4-7.—Vacant, London (Cecil). ,, 8-10.—Warwickshire, Birmingham (GreatWes­ tern). „ 12-14.—Notts, Nottingham (George). „ 15-17.— Gloucestershire. Bristol (Grind). „ 19-21.—Somersetshire, Bath (Royal). ,, 22-24.— M.C.C. and Ground, Lord’s (Cecil). „ 26-28.— Kent, Maidstone (Star or Mitre). „ 29-31.— Surrey, Oval (Cecil). From August 1st to 6 th inclusive the team will have an opportunity of doing London. On the 7th they leave for Southampton to embark for New York where they are due a week later. M r . J A. Les t er made such a favour­ able impression by his consistent scoring over here last year during the tour of the Haverford College team, that it will be particularly gratifying to the B .P., or that portion of it which follows cricket, to find him setting the Philadelphians such an excellent example in their open­ ing match. ‘ Strictly speaking, it was not his baptism of fire in England for the season. He was playing on Saturday for the Butterflies against the Blackheath Club, at Blackheath, and it may be added, with equally successful results, scoring, in fact, 75 (not out) of 154 for three wickets. Lester, Cricket readers may be reminded, is one of the only two members— the other is Wood, who is a native of Derbyshire—in the team who is not American by birth. Lester was born, as last week’s Cricket notified, at Penrith, in Cumberland. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. An O ld C r ic k b t k b .— It was an opportunity lost, but what can one do? G . W. S im m ebs . — The ball was not dead. The follow ing are some of the latest hundreds:— June 5.— F .G . J. F o bd ,M id d l ’ s ’ x v. G l o u c e st e b . 150 June 8.— B a g s h a w , D e b b y sh ib e v . H a m p s h ib e 105 June 8. — F . E. L a c e y , H a m psh ib e v . D e b h y . ... 121 June 8. — K n ig h t . L e ic e st e b siiib e v . E ss e x ... 110 June 8.— G unn , N o t t s , v . S u b b e y .................... 125 May 26.— J. W. Crawford, Merchant Taylors School v. City Police.....................127* May 15.—J. W. Crawford, Merchant Taylors Sch. v. St. John’sSch., Leatherhead 103* June 1.— J.W. Crawford,Monitors v. Prompters, Merchant Taylors School...............149* June 5.— N. F. Druce, Cam. Univer. XII. v. XVI. 225 June 3.—G. F. Higgins, Essex Club andGround v. Walthamstow........................... 102 June 3.—G. H. Noton. Clifton Coll. v. Incogniti 107 June 7.— G. Higgins, Essex Club and Ground v. Forest School .............................. 105 June 2.— G. Higgins, Essex C. & G. v. Epping .. 122* June 5.—S. W. Scott, Southgatev. Harrow Blues 117 June 5.—N. A. Usmar, St. Paul’s School y. Sherborne School.......................... 113 * *Signifies not out. NOTTS v. SURREY. A FINE INNINGS BY GUNN IN HI8 BENEFIT MATCH. Played at Nottingham on June 7, 8 and 9 . Abandoned. It was a great stroke of luck for Notts to win the toss, but it was doubtless amistake on their part not to forcethe gamea little more when they began to get the upper hand of the bowling, for it was pretty obvious that the weather was not going to hold up for long. At the same time it almost constantly happens in matchesbetween Surrey and Notts-as it used to happen in the old days when Yorkshire played Lancashire—that the bowlers and the field are seenat their very best, with the result that runs are lesseasy to get than usual. There was nothing very remarkable about the Notts batting except the innings of Gunn, who, contrary to the habit of m<»n who play in their own benefit matches, was not de­ terred by over anxiety fromplaying up to his reputa­ tion. He went in first wicket down with the score at 1 , and was still going very strong when stumps were drawn with the total at 249 for 9 wickets, his own scorethen being 121. He shewed all the command oyer the bowling which was characteristic cf him in his best days. He wasgreatly assistedby Mr. Dixon, Dench and Attewell. Only very little play was possible on Tuesday. The Notts total was taken to 275, Gunn being disposed of soon after play began for 125, an innings which lasted for five hours and a half—and included twelve fours. Surrey on a wet wicket had scored 77for onewicketwhenstumpswere drawn. Brockwell had played beautiful cricket for 49, and Abel carried his bat for 26. On paper the position of Surrey on Tuesday eveningwas good, but there was such a probability of a curious wicket on the following, day that therewas considerable cause for anxiety. As it happened, however, not aball was bowled onWednesday, owing to rain. N o t t s . A. O. Jones, cWood, b Hayward .................10 Daft, b Richardson ... 1 Gunn (W.), c Abel, b Hayward............... 125 Dench, lbw, b Rich­ ardson .............. 34 Attewell (W.)fb Nice 31 Mason, b Nice ........ 0 Pike, not out ........ 6 Guttridge, c Leveson- Gower, b Abel ... 16 B 2, lb 2, w 1 ... 5 Total.. Shrew 8 bury(A.),b Nice 16 J. Dixon, c Hayward, b Richardson ........ 31 C. W. W rig h t, b Richardson ........ 0 ............ 275 S u b b b y . — Abel, not out, 27; Brockwell, lbw, b Attewell, 49; leg-bye, 1; total (1 wkt.) 77. Hayward, H. B. Chinnery, H. D. G. Leveson-Gower, W. W. Read, Baldwin, K. J. Key, Nice, Wood and Richard­ sondid not bat. N o t t s . M. R. W. 8 70 2 1 Brockwell.. 21 74 4 Read........ !8 1357 3 Chinnery... 6.2 3 11 1 IL.-Gower.. Chinnery bowled a wide. S u b b e y . O. M. R. W. O. M.R. W. 163 7 24 1 Daft ... 4 1 16 0 6 1 18 0 Dixon ... 2 0 6 0 4 0 12 01 O. Hayward... 30 Richardson 49 Nice........ 28 Abel... O. M. R. W. 14 40 0 13 3 1 2 4 Attewell Dench... Jones .. KENSINGTON v. BURLINGTON WANDERERS. — Played at Wood Lane on June 5. C. E. Bloomer, bWaller G. T. Davies, cWaller, b Williamson........ R. H. Moore, b Wil­ liamson .............. L. de Montezuma, b Waller .............. O. Damian, c Clarkson, b Bull.................... A. E. Damian, b Bull... K e n s in g t o n . 39 E. Gardner, b Bull ... 20 E. A. Watson, not out 28 C. E. Currie, b Waller 9 J. Briggs, c Bull, b Waller .............. 4 C. J. Dux, b Bull ... 22 B 8 , nb 1 ........ 9 Total.. ...171 B u r lin g to n W a n d e b e b s . S. Cook, b Montezuma M. J. Wells, c Briggs, b Currie .............. 11 J. Clarkson, cBloomer b Currie .............. 22 E. B. Warren, b Currie 2 E.Williamson, bO. Damian .................20 A. Waller, lbw, b Gardner ............ . 0 C. T. Grabham, b O. Damian .............. 6 W. Waller, b Dux ... 12 H. T. Bull, not out... l A. L. Pattison, not out ..................... 4 B 2, wb 1 ........ 3 Total (8wkts.) Qi