Cricket 1899

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Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LOHDOM, E.C, THURSDAY, JULY 13 th , 1899. $a\uUott #ossitp. The ab st ract and brief chron icle of the time.— Hamit . T he record of the Australians is now as follows: Matches played, 19; won, 11; lost, 1 ; drawn, 7. Darling has won the toss ten times and lost it nine times. T h e r e seems to be something strangely familiar about the name of the Indian celebrity to which the Literary World refers in the following passage : — The pronunciation of Indian names is a standing difficulty in the way of the popu­ larity of Indian celebrities, but the parents of Prince Samat Singhji, of Palitana, whose marriage to a Rajkot princess took place recently, gave their son a convenient name for the purposes of foreign travel. W e can imagine one cockney asking, at a reception or elsewhere, “ Who’s that Indian fellow ? ” and getting the answer : “ Oh, he’s Prince ‘ Summat’ Singhji” ;—which would be phonetically correct. A CLUB secretary asks whether, “ if a spectator wilfully slops a ball by handling, and prevents it from travelling further, is the batsman out if his wicket is put down while he is attempting a second run ? ” This is one of the cases to which the laws cannot be applied. In practice such an occurrence is generally regarded as one of the accidents of the game, and a batsman must take his chance: sometimes the captain of the other side declines to take advantage of such an accident. It may be said, however, that the batsman would probably run between the wickets for all he was worth if a dog were to pick up the ball and prevent the fieldsmen from getting it for some time. There was an instance of a ball rolling under the feet of a pony standing grazing in a far coiner of the field. As soon as the fields­ men approached, the pony began to kick, with the result that the batsmen ran until they could run no more from laughing. I believe that in this case a compromise was arrived at. The ball was certainly not lost. W hen in the cricket editions on Satur­ day night one saw that Mr. Fry was not out 92 in the second innings of Sussex against Yorkshire, and that the word “ close ” was not added to the score, one began to hope that at last he would succeed in getting out of the nineties into the happy hunting grounds of the hun­ dreds. As will be seen from the scores he not only did this, but got within measurable distance of his second hun­ dred. To Mr. A. L. D. Beeston I am indebted for a cutting from a Beckenham news­ paper, giving the scores of a match which must rank as one of the most curious of curiosities. In the course of the two innings and a half no fewer than fourteen men were given out l.b.w. This must surely be a record. The matchwas between two strong second elevens— Beddington v. Addiscombe, so that all the players would be fairly good men. The Bedding­ ton team played a complete innings, and lost five wickets in the second innings, the l.b.w.’s being very evenly divided—four in the first innings and two in the second. Addiscombe, on the other hand, had as many as eight men l.b.w. in their only innings, while another man was run out. The score of this innings is appended. Can any statistician produce another anything like it? It is, of course, possible that the Beckenham newspaper has been the victim of a hoax, but there is no reason whatever to suppose that this is the case. A ddiscom bb . A. Wiltshire, cR oose.b ; H G. Clark, lbw, b Hadfield ...................12 K eelin g..................... 33 H. Youel-Brown, lbw, F. Newcombe, lbw, b Atkinson ........... 1 b Goddard ........... 9 L. L. Beed, lbw, b W . H. Newcombe, A tk in son ................... 0 lbw, b Langman ... 12 W , H. Tomkins, run P. Horseley, lbw, b out ........................... 1 Atkinson................... 7 D. M. Roberts, lbw, b H. Browne, not out... 0 A tk in son ...................11 Extras ...........18 H. O. Green, lbw, b — Langm an................... 7 ; T o t a l...........I ll I n the match between the Gentlemen and Players at the Oval 1,258 runs were made for the loss of thirty wickets. This is a record for Gentlemen v. Players, the previous best being 1,196 for forty wickets at Lord’s in 1897. The best at the Oval was 1,145 for thirty-one wickets in 1889. W it h regard to the huge score made by a Clifton boy, “ An Old Cliftonian ” writes:— ‘ ‘ It may be of interest to you and your readers to know what sort of match it was in which A. E. J. Collins made his marvellous score of 628 not out. It was a house match of the junior school of Clifton College. No boy over fourteen is in the 1junior,’ but it is not fair to consider Collins’s achievement any the less for his age, because it follows logically that the other players in the game were as much bis equals as if he had been a county player in a county match. Not only this, but a bov of thirteen or fourteen cannot he expected to remain as many hours at the wicket as a full-grown man, nor to be as steady in his play. It remains to be seen whether Collins will develop into an excep­ tional cricketer, but your remarks in ‘ Pavilion Gossip ’ of June 29th are such as to suggest that the rccord is hardly worthy of more than a passing mention.” [We must admit that we do not feel very enthusiastic about it. — E d .]