Cricket 1899

154 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME M a y 25 , 1899 tralia, as Brown major—printed Brown (m a.)—while the new comer is called Brown minor— printed Brown (m i.). This system would be understanded of the p e o p le . --------- S o m e a ll-r o u n d r e c o r d s a t t h e e n d o f la s t w e e k : — Martin scored 21 not out and 35 for M.C.C. v. Derby- shire and took five wickets for 13 and six for 76. Trumble took four wickets for 35 and seven for 37 for Australians against An England team at East­ bourne and scored 16 and 25. F. S. Jackson made 133 for Yorkshire against Cam­ bridge and took one wicket for 48 and six wickets for 51. Hayward for Surrey v. Gloucestershire made 46 and 41 and took four wickets for 79 and four for 8. C o lle c t o r s of cricket poems should not om it to see this week’s Punchy in which will be found some clever verses pet to the tune of “ Ten little N igger B oys,” under the title of “ A H ow ’ll at Surrey.” The verses commemorate H ow ell’ s feat of taking all ten wickets at the Oval a short time ago. MAY. An attempt to show that the poet Heber did not write for all time. Queen of fresh showers, Which never keep away, Of what use are thy flowers To cricketers, pray! In Nature’s wettest livery drest Thou art a most unwelcome guest; Nor earth nor heaven has any rest, Thou wretched month of May ! Mark ! how we bless thee When there is no play ! Hark how we address thee After rain all day! While all the goodly bats that be Soon find that they are up a tree, And come to grief because of thee, Thou wretched month of May ! Men in pavilions, And boys with holiday, Spectators in millions: What do they say ! And thou who oughts*t the sun to bring, Thou sends’t the rain like anything, And shall we then thy praises sing, Thou wretched month of May ! W . A. B. B elow will be found the results of all matches between Yorkshire and the Australians. 1878 J Australians won by six wicketa. \ Yorkshire won by nine wickets. i qqa * Australians won by five wickets. 1880 \ Drawn. ( Drawn. I Australians won by six wickets. 1882^ Drawn. I Australians won by 47 runs. I Australians won by seven wickets. 1884 Australians won by three wickets. iqqc JAustralians won by six wickets. 1886 \ Drawn. ! Australians won by an innings and 264 runs. Drawn. Drawn. 1890 I Yorkshire won by seven wickets. \ Yorkshire won by eight wickets. ( Yorkshire won by 64 runs. 1893 < Drawn. ( Australians won by 145 runs. ( Australians won by an innings and 8 runs. Drawn. . Australians won by 140 runs. 1899 Abandoned. From the above it will b e seen that altogether Yorkshire have played the Australians 24 times, Yorkshire w inning four times and the Australians eleven times. Nine matches were drawn. T h e follow ing suggestion for an England team was sent by a small boy from an Irish school. With the guile­ lessness of youth he w rites:—“ Here is the team which they ought to play :— Ranjitsinhji, Fry, Rhodes, Storer, j . T. Hearne, Richardson, Lockwood, Abel, Grace, Townsend, and Brockwell.” F i r s t - C l a s s cricket on Bank Holiday was a failure. Below will be found the record for the day. Australians v. Yorkshire, no play.. Kent v. Lancashire, no play. Essex v. Leicestershire, no play. Middlesex v. Somerset, no play. Notts v. Surrey, no play. "Warwickshire v. Worcestershire, no play. Cambridge Twelve v. Sixteen, no play. Hants 155, Derbyshire 236 for 8 wickets. Sussex 97, and 5 for no wicket. Gloucester­ shire 157. S o m e years ago Flowers had a benefit match at Nottingham , but ow ing to bad weather the proceeds were disappointingly small. But when the Middlesex v. Somerset match on Whit-M onday was allotted to him as a well-earned reward for his work for the M.C.C., he seemed a very fortunate man, and if the weather had only been reasonably fine he would have received a large sum of money. But like so many other men who have had benefits, he has found the clerk of the weather in a very hostile mood, with the result that the match was finished in about three hours. A l t h o u g h Donnan is not considered to be as good a batsman as he was two or three years ago, he has had a fine season for Burwood, the Sydney electorate ciicket club c f which he is a member. His scores are 67 not out, 42 and 27, 76, 95, 45 and 39 not out, 25, 19 and 10, and 128. The great Prince Ranjitsinhji, Who came to us from Inbji, Remarked, “ It seems to me That little Gregoree ’s complexion’s rather dinhji.” So many papers do Cricket the honour of quotation, acknowledging the source of their information, that the sins of other papers which quote without acknowledgment may well be forgiven. But a line has to be drawn somewhere, and we are inclined to think that it may be drawn at the announcement in a Scottish newspaper (after last week’s verses about Howell, Trumble and Y oung had all been given as original matter) that “ a ‘ cricket’ poet (small “ c ” ) breaks out in this strain.” Then follows “ The Wanderer’s Return.” This is a punishment greater than we deserve. W h it in g about the visits o f English teams to India, “ The Tice,” in the Madras Times, says:— But let all cricket committees combine and not have Gymkhana tea-fights when we really have a good chance of serious good class interesting cricket. After all that mis­ guided scribes, like myself, have scribbled about cricket as we play it, let every club do its level utmost to get the best teams to meet the visitors. I f we give them good cricket worthy of their steel, we will get more teams out here. Perhaps that is the reason there has been such a lapse of time since an English eleven was with us ! You can’t expect men to spend money and travel about 25,000 miles before they get home again to play bumble- puppy. And so sure as Gymkhana teams, whether elevens, sixteens or twenty-twos are pitted against them, so sure will our visitors get anything but the best. T h e results o f the E lectorate com peti­ tion at Sydney fo r the season 1898-9 are as fo llo w s :— Match Matches. W on. Lost. Dwirl Points. Paddington ......... 8 ... 5 ... 0 ... 3 ... 5 North Sydney ... 8 ... 5 ... 1 ... 2 ... 4 Waverley ......... 8 ... 5 ... 3 ... 0 ... 2 Glebe ................. 8 ... 3 ... 1 ... 4 ... 2 South Sydney ... 8 ... 4 ... 3 ... 1 ... 1 Central Cumberland 8 ... 3 ... 3 ... 2 ... — Leichhardt ... 8 ... 3 ... 4 ... 1 ... —1 Burw ood................ 8 ... 2 ... 4 ... 2 ... —2 Redf e r n ................ 8 ... 1 ... 5 ... 2 ... —4 East Sydney........ 8 ... 0 ... 7 ... 1 ... —7 F o r Thorpe St. Mary’s, a new club at Thorpe, in Surrey, against W eybridge A lbion, on M ay 18th, P ercy R. M ay, a b o y o f just fifteen years, b ow lin g against men, took all ten wickets in one inniDgs, eight o f them bow led, in 7 overs, for 12 runs. It was a coincidence that the b oy was a spectator o f H ow ell’s perform ance at the Oval three days before. P ercy M ay, w h o is Surrey born, has already this season taken 67 wickets in matches, o f which 57 have been bow led out, at a cost o f 2 4 runs each. L ast season he took 207 wickets fo r “ Thorpe Ju niors,” average 2,47, and headed the batting averages. The score o f the A lbion innings is as follow s :— W eybridge A lbio . v . H.Brissenden,b P.May E. Harveys b P. May E. Lawrence, b P. May A . Dedman, b P. May C. Price, c Shirley, b P. May .................. W . Harding, not out... T. Thomas, b P. May... E. Dedman, b P. May 8 W . Mobsby, b P. May 0 O. Beale, b P. May ... 0 W . Barrett, c Head, b P. M ay................... 0 Byes ................... 6 Total 21 Thorpe St. Mary’s won by 85 runs. I t is grievous to have to say that the epidemics of “ lbw ” and “ run out ” are increasing at a desperate rate. Many of the most famed batsmen have again been victims-—some of them have evidently not completely recovered from previous attacks. The latest bulletin, from May 17th to 24th, is as follows :— L .B .W .—G. Brann, Butt, Butt (same match), P. Perrin, Mead, A. O. Jones, D. L. A. Jephson, S. M. J. Woods, A. Shrewsbury, W . Gunn, F. Mitchell, G. Brann, King, A. G. Archer, L. G. Wright, B. J. T. Bosan­ quet, E. F. Penn, E. M. Sprott, S. E. Gre­ gory, H. G. Owen, W . Trask, A. E. Newton. Run Out.—Walter Sugg, Woodcock, C. Hill, V. Trumper, J. H. Stogdon, R. C. N. Palairet, A. Collins, Cox, L. G. Wright, Geeson, A. J. Turner. Arthur and Gunn Were in the sun, On a wicket moist with water, Gunn, with ten, “ Obstructed” then, And Arthur came tumbling after.