Cricket 1899

J o l t 27, 1899. CRICKET ; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 301 feel a little hurt that such things should happen to them when the partnership goes beyond reasonable bounds. With Somersetshire men this feeling is not possible. They have “ been there before” too often not to recognise that any feat, however remarkable, may be accom­ plished at cricket, and this is bound to beget a feeling of indifference as to what may come. After all, a match can only last three days, a thought which has cheered many a fieldsman when he has learned all he wants to know about the style of a couple of batsmen. V e r y heavy and rapid scoring charac­ terised the match at Uxbridge between the Nondescripts and Uxbridge on Saturday last, no less than 608 runs being made for the loss of only nine wickets, in five hours and fifty minutes. Three hundreds were made, J. 8. Haycraft 116 not out, and Harold Wade (the ex-cham- pion miler) 117 not out, for the Non­ descripts, and W . L. Eves 107 not out for Uxbridge. Haycraft and Wade scored 252 runs in an hour and fifty minutes. F r o m the Yorkshire Telegraph and Star: “ It is not often that the turf shows a bowler’ s footprints as clearly as Hirst’s are shown here. It is as easy as anything to see that he takes eleven steps up to the delivery of the ball, and every one is clearly marked by a brown patch. T h e Nondescripts start upon their annual tour to North Devon on Saturday next, July 29th. The fixtures are aB follows:— JULY. 81. v. J. B. Challen’s X I., at Instow AUGUST. 2. v. North Devon, at Instow 4. v. Lynton and Lynmouth, at Lynton 7. v. North Devon, at Instow 9. v. Rev. R. W . Sealey’s X I., at Westward Ho 11.v. Bideford, at Bideford The above are two-day matches. O v e r h e a r d at the scoring board out­ side the Tasmanian Mail office : “ Say, guv’nor, that ’ere Noble’s a hummer. What’s ’e’s perfeshion ? ” “ A dentist, I believe,” replied the other. “ Well, these ’ere Hinglishmen will .have to look after their stumps.” A c c o r d in g t o the Tasmanian Mail it is reported that Mr. C. J. Eady will, at an early date, permanently take up his residence in New South Wales. I n a match played by two teams belonging to the South London Schools’ Cricket Association a boy named Giinton took nine wickets of the opposing side for no runs in three overs and one ball; one batsman was run out. It will be seen below, from the details of Grinton’s analysis, that he did the hat trick in two successive overs. . . W W W | . W W W . | w w . w . G e o r o e P a l m e r , the famous old Australian bowler, has been succeeded as groundman to the Northern Tasmanian Cricket Association by C. Deering. I n a match last week at Chesterfield, between the Sheffield Royal Grammar School and Chesterfield Grammar School, one of the Chesterfield bowlers took five wickets in an over. The first three were bowled middle stump, the fourth man was stumped, and the last one bowled. W r it in g from Harrow, K .L .A . points out a cricket curiosity. “ I notice,” he says, “ in the last number of Cricket that in the match Yorkshire v. Leicestershire, Whitehead, of Leicester, was out thus :— "Whitehead, c Haigh, b W hitehead........................... 9 c Whitehead, b Haigh ...........26 A p a r a g r a p h taken from the Mel­ bourne Punch : — “ What are newspapers ? ” asked a teacher at the Albert Park State School. “ Things for telling about the Australian cricketers,” replied the clever hoy of the class. T r u m b l e is the first Australian to take a hundred wickets during the present tour. As will be seen from the following list of the Australians who have previously taken a hundred wickets during a season in England, this is the third time he has accomplished the feat:— 1878. 1888. F. R. Spofforth... . . 108 C. T. B. Turner ... 314 1882. J. J. Ferris ... 220 F. R. Spofforth... . 188 1890. H. F. Boyle ... . . 144 C. T. B. Turner ... 215 G. E. Palmer ... . . 138 J. J. Ferris ... 215 T. W . Garrett ... ... 128 189). 1884. C. T. B. Turner ... 160 F. R. Spofforth... . . 216 G. G iffe n .......... ... 148 G. E. Palmer ... . . 132 H . Trumble .. ... 128 1886. 189?. G. Giffen ................ . 162 H . Trumble .. ... 148 T. W . Garrett ... . . 129 E. Jones ......... ... 121 G. E. Palmer ... . . 110 G. Giffen ... 117 T. R. M ‘Kibbin ... 101 The 1886 and 1893 tour included one match against odds. The remainder are in eleven a-side matches o n ly . S c e n e : Crystal Palace cricket ground. Two ladies(an amateur and a connoisseur.) W . G. goes on to bowl. Lady (amateur), after W .G . has bowled a maiden: “ That man can’t bowl. He ought not to be allowed to bowl. He is of no use at all. (W . G. bowls another maiden.) It’s perfectly absurd; they ought to take him off. Why they don’t get any runs at all.” Lady (connoisseur) : “ Perhaps he does’nt want them to.” Lady (amateur): “ Oh, I didn’t think of that.” T h e Artists’ Cricket Club, which was instituted this season, has been even more successful than its founders can have hoped. Members of the club must be either Painters, Sculptors, or Architects, and the annual subscription is five shil­ lings. Mr. E. A. Abbey, E .A ., is the president, and Mr. H . H . La Thangue, vice-president, while Mr. G. H . Swin­ stead, The Studio, Weston Park, N ., who is well known as a cricketer, is the hono­ rary secretary. To give a list of the committee and members would be to mention most of the most famous of the younger artists of the day. The club has just concluded a successful “ week.” T h e season of the above club is short, because so many artists leave town early. Appended are the results of the matches :— April 25.—Varnishing Day Match. A.C.C. v. Chel­ sea Arts Club. At Richmond Athletic Ground. Won. April 26.—E. A. Abbey’s Fairford X I. v. Chelsea Arts Club. A t Kichmond Athletic Ground. Lost. May 10.—v. Sa\ile Club Won. May 19.—v. J. M. Barrie’s X I. Won. June 1.—v. Anthors. A . Coaan Doyle’s X I. Lost. June 15.—v. Musicians (R. Kennerley Rumford’s X I.) Lost. June 29.—v. Oxford “ Graduates.” A t Oxford. Drawn. As announced some time ago in “ Gos­ sip,” Lord and Lady Harris, who were married in 1874, will celebrate their silver wedding at Belmont, their country seat near Faversham, on the 29th inst., when they will entertain a large number of guests. The members of the Royal East Kent Mounted Riflos will present them with a large silver bowl as a memento of the auspicious event. I h a v e received the “ Barbados Cricketers’ Annual” for 1898-99, edited and compiled by J. Wynfred Gibbons, and published at the Globe office, Victoria Street, Barbados. The annual is dis­ tinctly up to date, for it records the score made by the Clifton College boy a week or two ago—or, rather, the score as it was when the game was adjourned for the last time, viz., 598. Fast scoring is not unknown in Barbados, for I find that last December the Wanderers put up 210 runs for three wickets in an hour and three-quarters, and that Mr. W . H. Allder made 37 (including four sixes) in ten minutes. T h e following extract from the above annual is interesting, as showing what trials have to be undergone by cricketers who are exposed to the effects of hurri­ canes :— “ In consequence of the absence of foreign matches, captains have had to play frequent games in order to find something for the players to do. It is well known that it was Lord Hawke’s intention to hring a team of English amateurs to these parts during the winter, but the awful hurricane of September 10, 1898, had wrought such havoc with this island, and our sister-colony of St. Vincent, that the noble cricketer, despite reprisals from this island, and special invitations from Jamaica, Demerara, and Trinidad, persistently refused to permit an infatuated desire for pleasure to cast its chilling mantle over the form of Imperial consideration and aid that our impecunious position demanded for us. It was a hardship almost amounting to cruelty, to be so nipped in the bud as we found ourselves so late in the year, but cricketers are now all agreed that Lord Hawke did infinitely more for us when (against his own will) he said ‘ No ’ to our combined invitations and subsequent appeals than had he yielded to his will and ours, and brought out a team to ruined fields, forsaken pastures, and starving hosts.” F o r quite a long time Albert Trott has stood alone as having taken a hundred wickets during the season—he has now got up to 158— but Rhodes, Mead, and Trumble have at last joined him. Young