Cricket 1898

D ec . 22, 1898. CRiCKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 477 am quite sure that it would be highly advan­ tageous for the club from a financial point of view, and would add greatly to the pleasure of those present. If the matter were once commenced prob­ ably Surrey and other county grounds would follow in the wake. Trusting you will give the matter proper ventilation through tho columns ot your influential journal. Yours truly, R. A. E. EVANS. WEST INDIAN CRICKET. To the Editor of C r ic k e t. D e a r S ir ,—If a West Indian cricket team was to go to England it would do good to cricket in more ways than one. For instance, it would draw large amounts of gate money, as the English public would only be too glad to pay to go in and see the black men play the national game. It would also be a strong team from a cricket point of view, and would make a good fight with the first-claps counties, but of course would not beat Yorkshire, Surrey or Middlesex. West Indf&ns are very keen cricketers, and play the game like sportsmen to the finish, and I think they would be much more successful than the American team that went home last year. A good team could be got together from the different islands, and the following team would be hard to beat: —D. C. McAulay (captain), H. B. G. Austin, G. B. V. Cocks, and Percy Goodman. Barbados; Standly Sproston and G. Learmond, DeineraTa; I)’Ade, Woods, and Cumberbach, Trinidad; W. H. Mignon, Genada ; Lane and C. Olliverre, St. Vincent. One or two more men shoul 1 be taken as reserves in case any of the team got sick, and I am sure the trip would be a success in every way. Yours, etc., A WEST INDIAN CRICKETER. JAMES LOVE’ S POEM. To the Editor o f C r ic k e t. S ir , —I have perused with keen intt rest the excellent arlicle of Mr. F. S. Ashley-Cooper’ p, “ At the Sign of the Wicket,” in your la^t ifsue. The facts furnished by him as to his discovery of the date of the first fully recorded match , Kent v. England, in 1744, not 1746, are to my mind most conclusive, and Mr. Cooper is to be most heartily congratulated upon the success of his painstaking research. As Mr. Cooper has to a large extent based his find upon carefully studying the issues of James Love’s immortal cricket verges, it will be interesting to Cricket Bibliophiles if I re­ produce in Cricket the exact title page3 of three issues of the poem which I have in my possession. It is only fair to mention that when I contributed the article “ Bibliography of Cricket” in Wisden for 1892, although I had the undated copy of Love’s poem before me, 1 was unaware that the edition was 1744, but concluded that the date was as mentioned by me, 1770. I have publicly to thank Mr. Ashley-Cooper for discovering the prize I possessed, viz., the editio princeps , and this is further enhanced by the fact from a com­ munication 1 have just received from the Rev. R. S . Holmes, that he has never seen the issue of 1744, dedicated to Lord Sandwich. Yours faithfully, ALFRED J. GASTON. Brighton, December 12th, 1898. 1st Issue, 1744, Quarto (4 pp. Intro. ; 25 pp. Text. Title page— CRICKET, AN HEROIC POEM. ILLUSTRATED. With the Critical Observations of SCRIBLERUS MAXIMUS. L O N D O N : Printed fo r W . E ic k r r t o n . at the Gazette, in the Temple-Exchange, near the Inner-Temple-Gate, Fleet- Street. [Price One Shilling.] 2nd Issue, 1754, Demy Octavo (14 pp. Intro. ; 115 pp. Text. Title Page— POEMS SEVERAL OCCASIONS. JAMES LOVE, Comedian. Interdum tamen et tollit Comoedia vocem. H or . E D IN B U R G H : Printed by R F le m in g , m ,d c c ,liv . Third Edition, 1770, Title Page Poems (6pp. Intro. ; 30 pp. Text.) Title Page— CRICKET, AN HEROIC POEM ; ILLUSTRATED. With the C r it ic a l O b s e rv a tio n s of SCRIBLERUS MAXIMUS. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN EPILOGUE, c a l l ’ d BUCKS HAVE AT YE ALL, S p o k e n b y M R . K IN G , A t t h e T H E A T R E R O Y A L in D U B L IN , IN THE CHARACTER OF RAN G ER i* t h e SU SPICIO U S H U SB A N D . B y JAMES LOVE, C om edian. L O N D O N : P R IN T E D F O R T H E A U TH O R , m ,d c c ,lx x . [ P rice O ne S h il l in g .] CRICKET AT MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE y. SOUTH MELBOURNE. (Pennant Match.) Played on the Melbourne Ground on October 15, 22 and 26. Melbourne won by 272 runs on the first innings. M e l b o u r n e . Trum ble b K^mp 6 M 'I.eod. b K em p ... 2! Graham, c Ingleton, fo K em p ... 177 M «ilpr. c Smith, b Giller ....................16 Russell, l’ w . b Giller 9 M'-Vsey. b 4rm *trong 7 G. L. W i’son, no' out 125 Hos*. c Ingleton, b Giller .......... Johns, c Goodwin, b Arm strong ... Lanigan ,cH oi sburgh b Giller ................... Cave, b Giller ... E x tra s................... 27 Total ... . 406 Bow ing.— K em p, three wickets for 107 ru n s; Gi \rr. five f-.r 5i ; I gleton, 0 for 67; Horsburgh, 0 for 46 ; H odges, 0 for 45; Arm strong, tw o for 80. S o u t h M e l b o u r n e . D . Sutherland, c and b M ‘L e o d .................... 22 W . G. lngleton, b M L e o d .................... 45 J. Giller, c Cave, b M 'L eod ................... 12 W . G oodwin, c Cave, b M ‘L eod ..................... 0 W . Arm strong, b M ‘Leod .....................28 A. Rose, b M 'Leod ... 0 G. H o d g e s , b M ‘Leod G. Honeybone, c M ’Leod. b Lanigan G. H orsburgh, c Trum ble, b M ‘Leod C. Kem p, b Lanigan T . Tatchell, not out. E x tra s........... Total 134 Bow ling.—Trum ble, 0 wicket for 31 runs ; Cave, 0 for 44 ; M ‘Leod, eight for 33 ; Lanigan, tw o for 17. CRICKET IN PRETORIA. LAW AND BANKS v. ALL COMERS. Played at Pretoria on October 15 and 22. Drawn. A l l C o m e r s . F. N . Townsend, not o u t .......................................220 Louis Esselen, b Sec- cull ............................... o Gert K olze, run out .3 9 W . E. Niem eyer, c V. K otze. b Seccull ... 53 _____x_ ______ M . C. Stevens. G. H . Robinson, C. F . W . Jeppe D . G. H afner, and R . J . W ebb did not bat. * Innings declared closed. L a w a n d B a n k s . G. C. M acA rthur, c A . B. Tancred, b Ferris ..................... 5 P. H . Brain, not out... 64 E x tra s...................67 Total (4 w kts.)*438 A .B . Tancred, c W ebb, b K otze ....................73 W . A . Tindall, b N ie­ m eyer............................ 20 A .W . Seccull. not out 105 L . C. Braund, b Nie­ m eyer............................. 4 H . (i. M ortim er, b N iem eyer.................... 8 T V - . M - Tanered, P . A . M . Cloete, a n d C. T a n Leenhof absent. E . Esselen, c H afner, b Niem eyer ............ 7 V. K olze, c Niemeyer, b K otze .....................31 H. Ferris, b Niem eyer 0 Extras.....................10 Total .. ...258 CRICKET IN INDIA. MILITARY y. CIVIL (CALCUTTA). Played at Calcutta on November 12 and 14. Drawn. M i l i t a r y First innings. Lieut. Bush, ht w kt ............104 L ieut. Stewart, c Paine, b Guise ...................................... Lieut. O ’D ow da, c Paine, b M oran ... ............................. Sergt. Dennard, b M oran ... Capt. Stainer, b Guise .. Capt. D obtie, c Quinn, b Stewart ............................. Lieut. Ruck, c H eckle, b M o ra n ...................................... Capt. O’Connor, c M oran, b P a in e .................................... Lieut. Gray, not o u t ............ Pte. Hecker, b P a in e............ Pte. Leach, c M urray, b b M oran ............ Second innings, b M oran ............ 0 10 b Guise ............38 10 Extras , 12 10 c H eckle,b M oran 27 c Guise, b W atson 26 b Paine ............13 c M urray,b Paine 0 c Guise, b M oran run out ............ n o to u t.....................15 not out..................... 2 st W arden, b Paine ............11 E x tr a s .......... 10 T otal... 207 Total (9 wkts) 145 C iv il . First innings. Mr. Ogbourne, b H ecker ... 39 Mr. W arden, b O’D ow da ... 8 M. Guise, b Hecker ............ 7 M r. M oran, b Stewart .. 33 Air. M urray, c O ’D ow da, b Stewart ............................. 4 M r. Paine, at Leach, b Dennard .................... Mr. Stewart, c Bush, Dennard ............................. 0 M r. W atson, c Bush, b D ennard ............................ ig M r. Patterson, b Hecker ... 2 Mr. Q-uinn, n otou t ............16 M r. H eckle, b O’D ow da ... 13 Extras .....................15 Second innings. b Hacker ............ b O’D ow da........... 0 b H ecker ............ 9 b Hecker ............ 1 21 not out.................... 0 b D oblie ... not out . b Becker ... c O’Dowda, Dobfcie ... E xtras... 13 3 Total.. Total (7 wkts) 45 N E X T ISSUE, THURSDAY , J A N U A R Y 26.