Cricket 1898

June 23, 1898. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAM*. 225 A n obituary notice of George Ulyett will be found on this page, and a cbat about him on page 213. The proposal made by Lord Hawke that the Australians shall play one of the matches agairist England in Yorkshire is thus discussed by the Adelaide Observer: “ The claim put forth by Lord Hawke that the 1899 Australian Eleven should play one of its test matches in Yorkshire, is a revival of a request which was ineffectually made in 1896. It is not in the least likely that Lord’s or Kennington Oval will lose its test game ; My Lord Hawke is, of course, aiming at the Lancashire people, who have always had a match at Old Trafford, Manchester. His agitation may, however, play into the hands of the Australians, with an astute man like Major Wardill to work the oracle. Three years ago they endeavoured to arrange five test contests, but could not get the English authorities to concede the point. Now they may succeed, because Yorkshire could thus he placated and Lord’s or the Oval could have a second match, say, in the former case in lieu of one of the games against M.C.C., or, in the latter, of a trial against the South of England.” A l i t t l e book entitled “ Scores of the Oxford and Cambridge Cricket Matches.” has jnst been published by Mr. F. E. RobinsOn. It is edited by Mr. Henry Perkins, who was for bo long Secretary of the M.C.C. In his short preface Mr. Perkins says, “ I have not thought it desirable to make any comments, and but very few remarks. The scores best tell their own stories, and comments, how­ ever impartial, are certain to create offence.” A complete index will be found at the end of the book, which is c°rtainly one which ought to be in every crieketei’s library. A correspondent (with a good humoured dig a t eome of Surrey’s critics) sends me the following lines in reply to the verse3 in la s t week’s Cricket :— Young man, be calm. Keep on thy head thy hair. At Ancient Trafford Surrey did so bravely, That even I (who always speke her fairly) Rejoiced to see her once more in the swim. ’Tis tiue that, tu t for Abel and for Holland, Thy noble county might have come a cropper (Though truly this is neither here nor there). What I have always said amounts to this,— If Surrey wins her matches, good ! If not, Then Heaven help her ! I f a team representative of the full strength of our Indian possessions had to be chosen at the present time, says Sport (India), we should suggest the follow­ ing :—K. S. Rinjitsinbji, M. R. Jardine, H. D. Watson, J. G. Greig, E. H. D. Sewell, B. Jayaram, B. N. Bosworth- Smith, Mistry, L H. Gay, J. B. Wood, and C. Y. B. Davy. Most of these men are well-known to English cricketers. I t is certainly an instance of the irony of fate that so many of the Sussex team ehould have fallen ready victims to the lobs of Mr. Winter. With the memories of the days when Humphreys was so useful to them iu their minds, they must have felt that they had indeed been hoist with their own petard. O u r war telegrams Tampa. Although several minor matches between local teams have taken place, the first-class match between All United States arid All Spain, which was fixed to take place in Cuba, has been indefinitely postponed. The Americans find that their men"are shockingly short of practice, and as they have no wish to be beaten, they have postponed the date on their own initiative. Despatch boat11Lyre ,” off.Santiago. A new bowler, named Vesuvius, is unques­ tionably the coming man. He delivers a ball whi’h rises so quickly from the pitch, and with so much spin, that it makes frightful havoc among the batsmen. Woolumh. The bowler Vesuvius is only trying a’w'ell known style of bowling. He has to run So far up the pitch that he will certainly bj very seriously injured if he is opposed to any hard-hitting batsman. T h e following are some of the latest hundreds:— May 19.- „ 19.- June 7.- 16. 16.- 18.- 18.- 17.- 17.- 16.- 17.- 17.- 16.- 17.- 16.- 18.- 17.- 17.- 20.- 20.- 20.- 21.- 21.- 11- 11.- 13- 18.- -E . H . D . Sewell, Ci\il v. M ilitary (Ooty) ........................................................114 -L ieu t. Taylor, M ilitary v. Civil (Ooty) 191 -R. E . Foster, Free Foresters v. W inchester College ............................. 110 - J. Gifford, K eisin gton Pk. v. Incog. 106 -G . H . A rlington, Lewes P rio iy -v . Hailsham .............................. ... 127 -E . H udron, W est Shene, v. E alirg D ean................................................................101* -A uden, Quebec v. Royal Artillery ... 104* -A tlield, Leights-n v. Corinlhians ... 23L -F . M. Lee, M .C.C. v. Eastt ourne Coll. 180 -F . 13. May, M .C.C. v. Eastbourne C< 11. 120* D r. H .lton , M .C.C. v. EastVne Coll. 12^* -A . H. H ornby, M .C.C. v. U .C.S. ... 151 -E . W . Jones, Glam organshire v. Ci rnw all....................................................... 101 L . C. H . Palairet, Leighton v. South W ilts .......................................................169 -A yres, FssexC. & G. v. W oliham stow 105* -G . B. BariiDgton. Derbyshire Friars v. Cheshire Gentlemen ,...................134 -E .H .D ay.M alvernCo'.l. v.U ppingV m 125 -A . L.W atson, N orthw oodv. t hanklin 111* -A bel , S urrey v. L ancashire ............148 -H o lla n d , S urbey v . L ancashire ...' 126 -S hrewsbury , N otts v . S ussex .. -W . L. M urdoch . S ussex v . N otts -G . B rann , S ussex y . N otts -Capt E .G .W ynyard , H ants v. I. eics . 140 -B arton , H ampshire y . L eicester . .. 110 -F . S. J ackson , Y obks . v. M iddlesex 133 -F . G. J. F obd , Y obks . v . M iddlesex 1*7 ■Q uaife (W .), W abwick y . D ebby ... 109 L ill> .y, W a rw ick v. Dicbby ............112 ■B b o ck w b ll,S u b b e y v. O xfobd U niv. 119 -L ock w ood , S u rrey v. O x fo rd U niv. 103 -W . H . P a tte rso n , K e n t v.W abvvick 117 -W a rd , L an cash ire v. Som erset ... 135 Sugg (F .). L an cah ii i;e v. Som erset 119 -A. J.W hste, B rixton W and. v. Sutton 111 D .H .Butcher, U . T ootingv. G rjphons 104 -G .F. Abell, L loyd’s v .P ’scott Dim sdale 111 C .A . Smith, Lessness Park v.Incognili 101 * Signifies not out. , 126 121* 105 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A. E. W a r d (Sheffield).—W e should have reviewed the book if the publishers had tent a copy to us. Thanhs for your other suggestion. Rev. C.W S.—It is simply a question of space and publishing arrangements. G KICKET AND LAWN TENNIS CLU B Captains and Secretaries are invited to write for estimate for complete or pardal Club outfits for the season to :— Hayoraet & Sou, L imited , Sports Furnishers, The Broalway, Deptford, London, S.H. O B ITU A RY . GEORGE IILYE TP. On Saturday last, June 18th,' Geo. Elyett died at Pitsmoor, Sheffield, after a severe attack of pneumonia. He was in bis 47th year. His early cricket was learned with the Pitsmoor C.C., and his first engagement was at Bradford, He was chosen to play for Yorkshire iu July, 1873, against Sussex at Bramall Lane, and he took three wickets for 21 runs, and in the second innings one wicket for 20. In 1874 he took thirty-three wickets at an average of about 15 runs. In the follow­ ing season be became a brilliant batsman, and from this time he was always in the front rank of cricketers. His best batting averages for Yorkshire were 36 in 1878, and 38 in 1881, while in 1878,1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1885 and 1886 he scored over 1,000 runs in first-class criiket. He retired from fiist-class cricket after the season of 1893, and since then has acted as umpire in fiist-class matches. Uiyett visited Australia five times with English touiing teams. In 1876-7, he came out first in the eleven-a-side averages with the excellent record of 48'6 per innings. He was also at the head of the list with 34 per innings with Lord Harris’s 1878-9 team, and on going out a third time with Shaw’s team in 1881-2, he came out first with an average of 39'2. His highest innings on that tour was 149, and no other member of the team reached the hundred. In 1884-5 he was at the bottom of the list, only making 136 runs iu twelve innings, but he did fairly well in bowling. His last visit to Australia was with Shrewsbury’ s team in 1887-8, when despite an accident, he was fourth on the batting list for eleven-a-side matches with 22 3 per innings, and second in all matches with 25' 11 per innings. He was one of Daft’s American team; he also went to San Francisco with the team which passed through the town on the way to Australia in 1881-2. In 1888 he visited South Africa with the first team which went there. His benefit match took place in 1887, and although the match was over in two days, the pro­ ceeds amounted to about £1,000. BLACK BEATH v. BLUE MANTLES.—Hayed at Tunbridge Wells on June 11. B la c k h k a th . S. Castle, st Cuitis, b E. Morgan .......... J. E. Mason, st Bray- brook, b Dean .. G. J. V. Wtigall, b E. Morgan ......... ... D. Chiistopherson, ct Kilsey, b Dean C. J. b. Robertson, and b Dean .......... 17 M. Chiistopherson and Ed. Mason did not bat. ‘ Innings declared closed. B lue M antles . 18 43 J. R. Mason, c and b Ke’sey ................70 R. J. H. ArbutLnot. b Malden .................39' F. M. May, not out ... 21 R. K. Aston, not out 33 B 2, lb 5, w J, nb 2 10 Total (8 wlts)*260 F. B. Morgan, c and b M a y ....................... C. 8. Dean, c Aston, b May ........................ E. M. Scott Smith, c J. E. Mason, b May ... J. H. Kelsey, o J. E. Mason, b May........ . 1 E. H. E. Morgan, c J.E. Mason, b Aston F. D. Curtis, b Aston . E. H. Rudwell, not out B. Murdoch, b Aston Dr.W .Maidon,b Aston A.P. Braybrook, bMay E. H. C. Polehampton, b Aston ... ... ... B 3, lb 1, w 1 ... Total ..........