Cricket 1899

J une 22, 1899. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME 22i BAS RELIEF DISCOVERED IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ST. JOHN’ S WOOD ON SATURDAY EVENING. TEARS SEEM TO BE FALLING FROM THE EVE OF ONE OF THE ANIMALS. the England match, their collapse was regarded as one of those things which no man can understand, and if any prophet considered that Australia was an effete country because of it he has, no doubt, by this time admitted that he made a little mistake. A n o t h e r score of over 200 has been made in India. The fortunate batsman is Mr. S. P. Gosling, who made 220 for Ootacamund (Madras) against Coimba­ tore, at the end of May. The total of the Ootacamund innings was 377 for Beven wickets. F o r the Second Eleven of Blackheath School against Audley House School First Eleven, on June 14th, J. G. Orr took six wickets for five runs, doing the hat trick in his first over. D. Ward secured the remaining four wickets for nine runs. T h e result of the Electorate Competi­ tion at Sydney is as follows:— Match Matches. W on. Lost. Drawn. Pts. ...10 ...10 9 North Sydney... Paddington W averley........... South Sydney ... G lebe...........................w Central Cumberland 9 Leichardt...................9 B u rw ood ...................9 Redfern ...................9 East Sydney ...........9 3 3 2 1 —1 —1 N e w s of another low score comes from Australia : “ In a match played between a combined team of Oxford and Our Boys’ Club and St. John’s Choir a week or so ago,” says the Sydney Mail, “ some remarkable bowling was done. The combined team put up 148. St. John’s Choir responded with 60 and 1, the single being an extra. In the first innings Freight scored 40, and there were eight who failed to score; but in the second the whole ! ten did likewise. Thus of the twenty wickets that fell eighteen had the unenviable duck against their name, while eight earned a pair of spec­ tacles. The combined team, as before stated, scored 148. The choir boys compiled 60. The former, with two for 134, declared their innings closed, and then dis­ missed their opponents for one run. Chick, who scoied 105 not out, ac­ counted for six wickets for nothing.” For the loss of one wicket only, Quemmore School, which, since it has moved to Bromley, in Kent, has changed its title from Quernmore House School, put on 286 runs against Forest —— — — Hill School on Saturday. The first batsmanwas out with the first ball of the match, so that P. B. Sharp and H . G. Patrickson made the 286 runs for the second wicket. This, I should imagine, is a record for a school. Trumper and Hill Are youngsters still; But they’ll never delight in (excuse a la­ borious rhyme) A higher old time, If they live to be old as Methusaleh. The following very interesting letter is from Mr. N. Miller, the honorary secretary of the Streatham C.C. : “ Iu the Beckenham v. Streatham match at Streatbam on Saturday a curious incident occurred which you may think worthy of note. H . L . Dawson, for Streatham, bowled the same batsman twice in one over with no balls, and in the next over bowled him again, this time without being no-balled. On each occasion the ball hit the leg stump. In the Streatham innings of the same match, H. S. Barkworth was caught off a no-ball, and a few overs afterwards was nearly caught in the same place off the same bowler off another no-ball. At the end of May Patiala defeated Simla by 113 runs, the scores being : Patiala 184 (Nanak Ram 57, Tara Chand 51), aiid 306 (K. M. Mistri 140, the Maharajah 40, Billi­ moria 66); Simla 172 (French 70) and 205 (Ricketts 70 not out, C. Turner 46, C. S. Rome 26, and B. N . Bosworth-Suiith 21). At the end of the first day Simla had scored 100 for the loss of 2 wickets, but in Inns. Noble, M. A . 6 Trumper ... 6 the evening a polo match was played on the ground with dire results. In the abovematch several Englishmen well known in the cricket field were playing for Simla. Among them were J. B. Wood, the old Oxford Blue and lob bowler, who had such unexpected success against Cambridge some years ago. C. S. Rome, the old Harrow captain, B. N. Bosworth-Smith, the old Oxonian, who, I believe, only just missed his Blue, C. Wigram, the old Winchester College captain, and C. Turner, a brother of A. J., the Essex amateur. T h e averages of M A. Noble and Victor Trumper for the Paddington C.C., Sydney, in the Electorate matches are remarkable. They are as follows :— BATTING. N ot Highest out. score. Total. Avg. 4 ... 267* ... 516 ... 273 1 ... 260* ... 56i ... 112*4 BOWLING. Runs. Wickets. Average. Noble, M . A ................. 414 ... 49 ... 8 44 Trumper ................... 170 ... 12 ... 14 75 For the same club A. Mackenzie averaged 36*14, A. Bannerman 31, and J. J. Kelly 8. F r o m the Kentish Mercury : — “ A certain reverend gentleman, vicar of a parish not twenty miles from the offices of the Kentish Mercury , has achieved a record in the way of averages of which he is naturally rather proud. Going on to bowl when but one wicket remained to fall; he sent down one ball, which secured the dismissal of the batsman. Thus his average reads —, Overs. Maidens. Runs. Wkts. ' l-5th l-5th 0 1 ' Rigorous abstention from bowling in future will probably ensure that vicar an unique position in the annals of the game—at any rate, nobody can go ‘ one better.* ” O n July 2nd the Old Rossallians will go on tour, playing their first match on the following day, and their last one on July 18th. Mr. T. A. Higson, the honorary secretary, High fieldHall, Bred- bury, Stockport, is making the arrange- -TV ^ M k a a »x \\>C f 1 N i w w i O * ( W i h MATCH PLEASE M T M , I L ® R E i lS UP-TO-DATE VERSION OF THE COMEDY THEATRE POSTER WHICH IS TO BE SEEN ON ALL THE HOARDINGS.