Cricket 1897

J u l y 8, 1897. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 269 20 and 30 each time they batted. Mr. Crosfield’s scores for Lancashire against Essex were 24 and 21, and Mr. Jephsoa’s for Surrey v. Yorkshire were 28 not out, and 28. The third cricketer was Major Spens, who made scores of 118 not out, and 34 for Hampshire v. Philadelphians. O f the 22 players in the match between Kensington Park and Upper Tooting on Saturday only seven had an innings. Kensington Park declared with 264 for 3 (F. Kendall 105, and C. Hild- yard 101, not out), while Upper Tooting made 233 without losing a wicket (R. R. Sindilands, not out, 105, and T. W. Hemmerde, 108, not out). A total of 497 for the loss of only three wickets is remarkable. In the other match played by Kensington Park against Uxbridge, Uxbridge declared with 7 for 234, and the Park only lost two wickets for 157. I t may be mentioned, that the total of 497 in the above match, which took place at St. Quintin’s Park, was made in four hours’ actual play. This high scoring speaks volumes for the excellence of the Kensington Park wickets, which are pre­ pared with loving care by Mark Hawks- worth, the groundman. A n o th e r match last week in which the scoring was very large, was Upping­ ham School v. Old Uppinghamians. In this, the Old Boys scored 473, of which S. P. Bell made 248, not out, and H. R. Parke3 155. To go in against such a large total would have disconcerted most teams, but the Uppingham boys put together no less than 549. The only score of over a hundred (134) was made by G. Harris, who went in fifth wicket down, but nearly everybody made runs. R. H. Lambert, of the Leinster Cricket Club, Dublin, who both in 1895 and 1896 performed the remirkab e feat of getting over 2,000 runs and taking over 200 wickets, is once more proving incon­ testably that he is the best all-rounl cricketer in Ireland. Against Blackrock College last Thursday he scored 122 and took nine wickets (eight clean bowled) for 52 runs, while he followed this up on Saturday by making 189 (not out) and capturing six wickets for 22 runs. This was his third century for the season, an 1 his average is now 82'3 for thirteen inn­ ings, total number of runs 827, while his 68 wickets have cost less than eight runs each. He will be remembered asdoing afine bowling performance during the Leinster tour in London last year, when a stroug team of Surrey Club and Ground so nar­ rowly escaped defeat at the hands of the Irishmen. L a st year Oxford had to make 330 to win in the fourth innings of the match against Cambridge; this year, also in the fourth innings, they had to make 331. A lth ou g h most of the batsmen in the Oxford and Cambridge match are supposed to be extremely nervous, there really seems no reason why they sh mid, so many of them, deliberately seem to try to run themselves out. The ex­ perience of the Cambridge team in Mr. F. S. Jackson’s year, was a lesson which can hardly have been forgotten by Cam­ bridge men, but if the Oxford fieldsmen this year in the first innings had not been as excited as the bitsmen, about half the team would have been run out. But nowadays it is quite fashionable to be run out in bis; matches, and the less necessity there is for running short runs, the more determined do men seem to make them. In all the matches played at the end of list week, except that between Oxford and M.C.C., the teams were nearly level after the first innings had been played. Yorkshire began the sec md innings with a lead of only 12; the Philadelphians only led Hampshire by 11 after 573 had been made; Sussex had only an advan­ tage of 39 after 571 runs, while Lanca­ shire, although 43 behind Essex, had drawn level before they lost a wicket. B a r to n , the well-known and popular Hampshire professional, has had the un­ usual, but pleasant experience of receiving on two successive days a sum of money collected for him on the ground on which he had made a big score. At Bourne­ mouth, where he made 93, not out, against the Philadelphians on Saturday a collection amounting to £12 10s. was made for him, and on Monday, at Southampton, after his score of 125 against Yorkshire he was presented with £ 2 1 6s. T he first hundred made in Germany this year was scored by an Englishman, T. Dutton, for a team chosen by himself against a club called the ToSka. In a match at Berlin between the Britannia and the Preussen clubs, the latter made a totil of five, of which four belonged to extras. J. Seni at slip had the distinction of catching three Preussen players off successive balls. The Rev. H. Ernest Hill writes as follows :— “ You have unintentionally done an injustice to two cricketing schools in your paragraph on the success of Abbey School, Backenham, and I feel sure you will put the matter right in your next number. It is not a fact that Cornabe, the Abbey School cap­ tain, is bigger and older than other prepara­ tory school boys. He was under fourteen in every football match he played in, and is only just fourteen and a half at the present time. He goes up for his final examination for the Navy in two weeks time. It is only fair to mention this, as our rule and arrange­ ment with all other schools is, that no boy shall play who is over fourteen and a half at the beginning of the term, and we are as particular in keeping faith as we expect others to he. “ It is, therefore, only fair to add, that the eleven from St. John's School, Leatherhead, to which you refer, were all under fifteen. ’ ’ The victorious career of the Abbey School, Beckenham, was checked last week at East Sheen, but the boys were completely thrown out by having to bowl for over a hour in the morning on a pitch only 21 yards long. After lunch the pitch was put right and another start made, but the bowlers could never get their length and the eleven were off colour for the rest of the day. It is very unusual for preparatory schools to play on a shortened pitch now that the small ball has been so universally adopted by them. E n g lish cricketers who have visited South Africa will hear with deep regret of the death of Mr. E. G. Cadwatlader. A Sussex man, unless I am mistaken, he had for many years occupied a promi­ nent position among the spirting jour­ nalists of South Africa. Hut journalism did not provide his only sphere of utility. Naturally fond of cricket he lent valuable assistance in the develop neat of the game. For some time he was the secre­ tary of the South Africtn Association, and though he did not come over here as manager it was mainly his perse­ verance which brought the first visit of a South Atricin team to England within the scope of practical politics. As a sporting writer he exercised con­ siderable influence in South Africa, and exercised it, too, in the best interests of athletic games. Though associated with the Press at the Cape for many years he died at Johannesburg, where he was editing a weekly paper. A severe cold developed into malarial fever, contracted some five years before while touring in Mashonaland, which, with further com­ plications, ultimately carried him off on the 24th of May. A fund is being raised in Cape Town, as well as in Johannesburg, for his widow and three little children, who have been left with­ out any provision. I n the general excellence of the cricket which marked the match between Surrey and Yorkshire at the Oval at the end of last week, more than one individual performance seems to have been over­ looked by lome of the critics, at least. In justice to Wood, prominence certainly deserves to be given to bis record at the wicket. In Yorkjhire’s aggregate of 506 for the match, there were only six extras, and five of these came from no­ bails. The other was a leg-bye. Though never prone to advertise him­ self, but on the contrary, modest to a degree, the followers of Surrey cricket have shown in the most practical way their appreciation of good and unostenta­ tious service by the hearty support they have given, and in all parts of the county, to Robert Henderson’s benefit fund. It was a great piece of luck for him, of course, that the weather, notwithstanding sundry threats, should have held up so thoroughly for the whole of last week’s match at the Oval. In spite, too, of certain forebodings, the wicket, which in the early stages was a little soft, and consequently favoured the bowlers, was as good at the end of the third day as ever.