Cricket 1898

S e pt . 22, 18 9 8 . CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 43 o whenwe will we can win.’ The Cxnuoks are a fine set of fellows; they play good cricket, but they are not yet in our class, theresult of the last three years’ matches notwithstanding.” When a team beats another team in an annual match for four years in succession (not three as stated by our contemporary), it really seems hardly advisable for thelosing team tobegin talking about “ class ” as soon as it puts a single victory to its credit. T h e sad death of Lieutenant J. T. Ferris will come as a great shock to his many friends, says Sport (Bombay), and cricketers in particular, both at home and out here, will mourn his loss. As a cricketer he was chiefly known in con- was a victory in the lawn tennis double handicap at Poona, in partnership with Miss Olivant. The report of the collapse of Ranjit­ sinhji for a couple of ducks in the match between the Kathiawar team and Poona Gymkhana turns out to be quite true. Be­ fore the match therehadbeenheavy rains, and as the Prince has of late been play­ ing onmatting wickets, he doubtless felt somewhat at sea on the slow turf. T h e ladies at the Kolar Goldfields (Bombay district) have taken up cricket with the greatest enthusiasm, and are looking about for opponents worthy of their steel in order to issue challenges. ber and have them bound. In years to come you will find no more interesting readingthanthefilesof Cricket Club Life.” From Australia I hear that Harry Trott is progressing favourably, and that hopesare entertained that he will be able to take his place as captain of the next teamwhich visits England. D r. A r th u r , the new Bishop of Bom­ bay, according to Indian Sport, was in bis younger days a keen football player, and has also played cricket with success, though for some years he has devoted himself exclusively toecclesiastical affairs. With the Viceroy elect also well disposed to sport, and especially to the national “ W. G .” AT HASTINGS, RETURNING FROM THE NETS. Reproduced by permission o f “ 7 'he Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic N ews.” ne tiori with the Harrow Elevens of 1892-93, but he did not captain the team in either of those years as stated by all our local contemporaries. It was as a batsman that most of his success was achieved at Harrow, and though in 1892 he could only point to an average of 8'33 for 12 completed innings, in the follow­ ing year he came out with the very fair figures of 191 for 10 completed innings. In the present dearth of good cricketers in Western India the game has sustained a great loss by his. death. C aptain J. G. G reig , the well-known Bombay batsman, made 113, not out, for Lord Sandhurst’s XI. v. Royal Indian Marines. Among his recent successes In closing its first volume Cricket Club Life (Philadelphia) legitimately con­ gratulates itself, at the same time giving a strong hint to subscribers and non­ subscribers : “ The paper, started at a time when there was no othermouthpiece of the army of cricketers in the United States, has had an encouraging career. Its subscribers are scattered over the world, Australia, England, Ireland, the West Indies, South America, Canada, and everywhere else where the noble game is played, having readers. Here in Philadelphia nearly every one interested in cricket takes the paper, and its career so far has been wonderfully successful. If you are not a subscriber, start in now with the new volume. Keep each num- game, cricket should receive a con­ siderable stimulus in India. C rick e t is prolific in coincidences, some of them of a remarkable character. I have heard of none more curious in a small way than the repetition of history in the case of J. W. Crawford, the old Merchant Taylor, who played for Surrey’s Second Eleven against Wiltshire last month. This summer he scored exactly the same number of runs for the same number of innings, and with the same number of not outs as in 1897. I t would seem that league cricket does not invariablytend to satisfaction. When the cup in the Bradford and District