Cricket 1899

J une 1, 1899. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 171 team against M ill H ill School. On Tuesday afternoon, at the Oval, Richard­ son sent a bail at a distance which was measured at 44 paces. In club matches in the North some of the bowlers have had remarkable analyses. The follow ing details of a few of them are taken from the Sunday Chronicle. S. Smith, Michlefield v. Tad^aster. E. Zangwell, Darnell v. Greasborough. ' . T . ' w f . I ' . T •r ‘ I* wi • w J. J. J . 1 • w w • w 2 .|. m \ w .|. 1 W . Brown, Middleton ▼. Eorwich. w ' w 2 1 1* 1 2 • • | • w w w . W W 1 . T h e coaching of J. E . West, the Middle­ sex professional, who, with the ground man, Croom - bridge, has taken the team of Quernmore House School in charge, seems to hav j produced; satisfactory re ■ suits. Up to last Saturda j the school had played two matches, beating its old rivals, Sidcup College a n l Forest H ill. The school made scorcs of 165 and 178, and disposed of its oppo­ nents for 21 and 28. The boys of the, school must have had contented minds on Saturday evening, for during the day the under 14j team beat the Abbey School under 14J. U n d e r ,the title’ of “ JX . W . G. Grace, the K in g of Cricket,” a book has been published, at the price of a penny, b y firms in L on ­ don, Manchester, and Bristol. In London, it can be obtained of Mr. John Heywood, 29, Shoe Lane The book is illustrated by reproductions of photo­ graphs, among which, in addition to W .G . in var­ ious attitudes, appears his surgery, the house in which he was born, and the Grace fam ily. The literary matter is better than that of many books of the s<ime kind. Anecdotes abound, but we have not discovered any new ones. T h e River Plate Sport and Pastime is responsible for the fo llow in g :— “ We will not mention names, hut the following true ttoiy is too good to keep to ourselves. A short time hack one of our oldest and most prominent cricketers was selecting a few clubs not a mile from our office, and had chosen what he wanted with the exception of a putter. One was selected and handed to him for his inspection. Our noble cricketer planted his feet firmly on the groundiand after one or two terrific hits at an imaginary nicely pitched up half-volley, thought it a very nicely balanced club and that he would be able to drive all right with i t ! ” ’ T h e team which has been chosen to represent England to-day (Thursday) against the Australians is as follow s: — ENGLAND. W . G. Grace (Gloucestershire) (capt.) F. S. Jackson (Yorkshire) 0. B. Fry (Sussex) K. S. Ranjitsinhji (Sussex) W . Gunn (Notts) W . Storer (Derbyshire) J. T. Hearne (Middlesex) W . Rhodes (Yorkshire) T. Hayward (Surrey) J. T. Tyldesley (Lancashire), and G. H. Hirst (Yorkshire) or W . Brockwell (Surrey). It will be remembered that the Board appointed a committee consisting of Dr. AB EL ACKNOWLEDGING THE APPLAUSE AFTER HIS INNINGS. (From a Photo by the Standard Photo Company.) Grace, Lord Hawke and Mr. Bainbridge, who after the first six had been chosen, were assisted in their deliberations by Mr. Jackson and Mr. Fry. It would serve no useful purpose to comment on the choice of the team. The committee has done its best, and it is not its fault that all our fastest bowlers are either “ off colour ” or disabled. I n the City on Wednesday morning : A. Manage to get to the Oval yesterday ? B. (Sadly) Yes, I managed it. A. Why, What’s the matter P B. Well, I didn’t get a paper,till 3 o’clock, when I saw that Abel had got about 300. I thought that if there mat to be a record score, 1 might as well be in it. So I rushed off to the Electric, and got to the ground at decided to take the club, remarking that ‘ he |twenty-fivu past. Through a lot of heads I could just see Richardson preparing to receive the ball. I saw the bowler move, and then heard a shout of “ g o t’im,” and the innings was over. I waited, and soon the first Somerset wickets fell after some uninteresting play, and I said to myself, “ I ’m off.” So I went, and I found that Woods played a very lively innings. Just my lu^k. M r. G. L . W il s o s , the old Sussex cricketer, finighed up the season at Melbourne in great style. In the last round but one of the Pennant matches he took six wickets for 61, and in the last round he played a beautiful innings for 80, which included eight fours and two fives, and then took six wickets for 41. A t one time he had taken all these wickets for 26 runs. T o Mr. F. H. B. Champain, the Oxford University captain, has fallen the honour o f being the first batsman to make a hundred against the present Australian team. It has always been a very great distinction to make a hundred against the Aus­ tralians, for only very few men have been able to ac­ complish the feat. During the 1896 tour, Abel, Ran­ jitsinhji, andO . J. Bumup, were the only men who were fortunate enough to do this. O n e can imagine with what delight the Austra­ lians heard of the ever- increasing score made by Middlesex against the bow ling of three of the men on whom England relies to dispose of them at Trent Bridge. On the other hand one can easily guess that the Australians did not with much equa­ nimity watch Mr. Cham­ pain treating their own hitherto invincible bowlers with little respect. As far as can be judged from what happened on Tuesday it looks as if the batsmen on both sides would have a good time a Nottingham if the weather keeps fine. A f e w notes on Abel’s innings, 357 not out, in the match against Somerset:— He was batting for eight hours and thirty- five minutes, and his score was made up of a six, seven 5’s, thirty-eight 4’s, eleven 3’s, twenty-three *2’s and 86 singles. He carried his bat through the innings. He made his last fifty before reaching his 300 in twenty minutes. Only Maclaren, W. G. Murdoch, J. T. Brown, Hayward and W . W . Read have made 300 in first-class cricket besides Abel. T h e total of 811 against Somerset is the l.ighest ever made by Surrey. 698 against