Cricket 1898

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Butler, notout ... 5 c D o u g la s , b jT 'n :iS ,r KSOn' b windsor 0 lb^'b'palmer 1 " - Doids, b U lndsor ... o b Windsor ... ... 2 •a. Uriggs, o and b Windsor 12 b Pa'mer 4 *-*tias........................11 E xtos i;. 16 Total Total. ..........160 T c . N orth . cavigny, b Bingham ... 1 cMcAllen.bBing- G-Pennefather, c Bum, b ht.m................. 5 Bingham ... ..........83 b Eady................ 0 r. Bamsay, st Gatehouse, bli.ngha ,... 2 ca n d b E .d y ...10 N R to ?^or' b Bingham 0 cEady.bBingham 32 5 ' P»lIT V Ea;d5r•■ 5 « Briggs, b Ward 20 Tr i ’ 0 Gatehouse, b A ar>L, V............i.SO b Bichardson ... 36 ■a. Uouglas, e Eady, b C (':?m KQn i." ................. " c and b Bingham 4 U Campbell b E ady..........n b Eady... . ... o J ’ b blnSh*m.-- 8 not out.......... R H tfron’ ? ° t ° ut ........ 4 b Richardson Sams, b Eady ........ o bEady.......... ........................ 2 Extras... 10 Total ... 93 Total..........131 S outh . First innings. Second innings. B. M. R W . B. M. R. W. Windsor ........... 91 4 26 7 ............. 174 6 75 3 Pennefather ... 90 2 71 1 ............. 96 0 69 2 Hammond.......... 60 1 31 1 ............. 60 0 37 0 Palmer................... 15 2 18 1 ............. 180 5 32 3 Campbe’l ... 48 2 28 1 Douglas ... 18 0 10 0 Savigny ... 30 2 8 0 Camp1ell lowled one wide. NORTn. First innings. Second innings. B. M. R. W . B. M. R. W. Eady.................. 138 5 59 4 ............. 129 4 46 4 Bingham.......... 132 11 32 6 ........... 138 9 42 3 Richardson... 48 1 20 2 Ward .......... 12 0 13 1 TH E CHAM P ION CR ICK E TER OF AM ER ICA , W H O IS H E ? The task of selecting a man to be crowned with such a wreath as the above is almost as arduous as is Mr. C. Whitney’s when he picks out his eleven of pre­ eminent footballers each fall, and should one-thousandth of the abuse which I personally have heard hurled at Mr. Windy be cast at me it would, I fear, cause my retirement to Camden or the Klondike. But my nom de plume is in itself a powerful disguise, as 1 invariably score heavily ; indeed, I thought seriously of finishing off this article by merely writing I am it. The task before me can, in any event, gain me but two friends, to wit, the editor and the proud gentleman of my choice, while the possibilities iu the way of enmity are truly appalling. To proceed with the serious business of the meeting, let us consider what consti­ tutes a champion cricketer. In the eyes of the public the consistent and heavy scorer is pre-eminently the man, but in reality he is only the champion bat, unless he combines with his scoring a few other qualities, chief among which are good bjwling, good fielding and a sweet temper. To come down to personalities, if batting alone were under consideration and little matters of birth not taken to be of any moment, John A. Lester to-day stands alone. For consistent work on good, bad, wet or dry wickets, he is the best bat we have ever had. But he’s only a fair fielder (taking all-round work into consideration), and not up to the mark as a bowler. And as he is not an American by birth, he’s just about in the same fix with this article that Ten Eyck is in with the Henley Committee. My choice with him out of the way narrows with startling rapidity. While in point of usefulness to a side at the present day it is very hard to overlook a dozen or so of our rising cricketers, there is in my mind only one man who is justly entitled to be called America’s champion cricketer. I will leave you to guess for a space, while I enumerate the claims of a few of the other possibilities. First of these is J. B. King. He is hardly seasoned yet, and years sit lightly on his curly nut, but he is one of the most useful cricketers we have. He batted in very N E X T ISSUE , T H U R S D A Y , M A R C H 31.