Cricket 1899

A ug . 17, 1899. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 349 Mb. F. C. M o n t a g u - R ic h a r d s writes : *•I would venture to point out another coincidence with regard to the debut of Messrs. Miller and Pretty, for Surrey. Each of them was dismissed by stumping after making his tig score. Another instance of a batsman distinguishing him­ self upon his first appearance for his county is that of M r. W. H . Wilkes, who scored 55 for Worcestershire v. Yorkshire at the beginning of this week.” I t is unnecessary to make any com­ ment on the following extract from the Sydney Bulletin of July 1st:— “ There is business, not sport, where gate- money is involved. As for honour and fair- play, the English would not allow the Aus­ tralians sight-boards. They would not allow these because the Australians were used to them. The English took the point. But that’s nothing. The chief official of a certain Australian cricket ground carefully preserves a ball brought to Australia years ago by an English team. When the big match was played the visitors brought out this new ball to bowl with against the Australians in the latter’s second innings. The score that the Australians had to face on a good wicket was an easy job—the first two batsmen might easily have made it. But the first Aus­ tralian batsman came back with a long face. •They are breaking a foot either way, ’ he said; and the next, and the next, and the next came back—till 1he English won the match. An old cricketer at the last moment snatched up the ball, suspecting the truth. It was a beauty—one half a perfect hemi­ sphere, the other half a big, bulging, ‘ cud­ dled ’ lump. He showed it to the umpire. ‘ I didn’t notice it,’ said that gentleman, 1or I should not have allowed it in the game. So the matter ended, and now the ball is pre­ served, with the date of the match written on it, as a lasting memento of that match. Now and again it is taken out of its drawer and sent wobbling anyhow along a perfectly level table for the edification of visitors.” A f e w notes about the Surrey v . York­ shire match:— The partnership of 340 by Hirst and Wain- wright lasted for three hours and forty minutes. That between Abel and Hayward, of 448, lasted for six hours. In each of these long partnerships one man made over 200 runs, and the other j ust missed accomplishing the feat. The total made during the match was 1,255 for seventeen wickets, an average of nearly 74 runs per wicket. Abel and Hayward both scored their two thousandth run for the season during the match. On each sides three men had over an hundred runs hit off them. W . B enge , bowling for the Brixton Wanderers Second X I. v. Addiscombe Second X I., took ten wickets for 7 runs— viz., five dean bowled, one caught and bowled, two stumped, and two caught. H ayward ’ s scores in the five matches this year between England and Australia are 0 and 28 at Nottingham, 1 and 77 at Lord’s, 40 not out at Leeds, 130 at Manchester, and 137 at the Oval. A c c o r d in g to the Daily Telegraph, few women, comparatively, go in for cricket, th< ugh it has a certain following. They are enthusiastic spectators of the prowess of their mankind, know a good catch when they see it, and vote a man out for leg before as soon as the umpire, but they prefer their share to be passive rather than active. T he only men who have twice made a hundred in England in matches between England and Australia are Dr. Grace, Shrewsbury, F. S. Jackson and Hayward. T h e following lines were spoken in the Epilogue at the last performance given by the Old Stagers in the Canterbury Week Spirit of Australia (to Australian Cricketer) —Shall I speak for you ? Cricketer— I f you kindly will. Spirit—Down under we’re not talkers, for our shill Lies all ia action. Take us as we stand Leal sons and lovers of the mother land. Song - “ Advance Australia.” Though a traveler’s eyes with longing turn to lands where he may roam, To the Englandand the loved ones he has leftacross the foam ; Still other lands exist which much resemble home, sweet home, And a very grand dominion is Australia, Her people loving England, and by England well beloved, Two hearts that beat in unison ly but one impulse moved, Australians are welcome here, and oft it has been proved That an Englishman is welcome in Australia. Chorus— In the land they call Australia, which, though far across the foam, Is the daughter of Old England and a chip of home, sweet hom e; "Where the mother tongue is spcken, and tlieir hearts are loyal and true— Advance, Australia! England number two. T he ways of the newsboy are varied and wicked. Shamelessly he holds a contents bill before him with “ lunch score” inscribed on it in large capital letters (it may be a yesterday’s bill, but that is a detail), and sells you a noon edition. When you ask if it gives the lunch score he says, “ Gawspel troof,” with an injured air, and is absolutely amazed at his mistake if it is discovered in time. But even a newsboy may have a conscience—a small one perhaps, but a conscience for all that. One of his kind came racing up Cannon Street on Monday at a few minutes past two, a couple of hundred yards ahead of a yelling brigade. With a face full of enthusiasm he shouted, “ Lunch score,” sold a noon edition with rapidity on the strength of his apparent knowledge of the good news which the paper contained, but whispered, “ Eng­ land, 149 for no wickets,” just before he rushed off to ensnare another victim. T he question whether Hayward was bowled in the match between Surrey and Yorkshire on Friday evening when he had made 63 has given rise to much dis­ cussion. The umpire at the bowler’s end is positive that the ball did not hit the wicket until it rebounded off the wicket­ keeper. Hayward is equally positive that he was not bowled— and no one will dispute that he is a good sportsman. On the other hand most of the Yorkshiremen and some of the onlookers who were in a good position to see are convinced that the bails were off before the ball reached the -wicket-keeper. There cannot be much doubt that the umpire at the bowler’s end was in actually the best position to see what had happened, while it is very seldom that a batsman does not know when he is bowled. But the incident is one which can never be cleared up to everybody’s satisfaction. S ome rapid scoring was done on Satur­ day at Hothfield Place, Kent, by Mr. M. C. Kemp, the old Oxford Blue and Kent wicket-keeper, and the Hon. J. Tufton. They were playing for Hothfield Place, and when Folkestone, their opponents, declared their innings, the home team had to make 277 in a couple of hours. Thanks chiefly to 127 not out by Mr. Kemp and 86 not out by Mr. Tufton, they got to within a dozen of this total for the loss of only three wickets. Two other famous old players have recently made good scores—Lord Harris 86 and Mr. A. J. Webbe 43 (for Middlesex Second against Hampshire Second). T he success of Hayward on Monday so delighted the crowd at the Oval that when a collection was made for him a sum of about £131 was promptly sub­ scribed. I t was a little startling to read in the “ Stop Press News ” of the evening papers on Tuesday the following scores in the match at the Oval, and for a moment one forgot that Ernest Jones was not the “ only Jones ” :— F IN A L T E S T M A T C H . AU STRALIA—15 for 2. Trumble, c and b Jones...................... 24 Worrall, not o u t ...................................... 9 Trumper, c Lilley, b Jones ............... 6 T he partnership of 185 by Mr. F. S. Jackson and Hayward for the first wicket at the Oval on Monday in the fifth match against Australia is a record for these matches. The previous record was 170 by Dr. Grace and Scotton on the same ground in August, 1886. In other matches in England against the Austra­ lians the record was 176 by Mr. Stoddart and Mr. Jackson for Mr. C. I. Thornton’s X I. at Scarborough in 1893. R e s u lt s of matches between the Australians and Hampshire:— 1896. Southampton. Australians won by an innings and 125 runs. 1899. Southampton. Drawn. Two matches in all, the Australians winning one, and one being left un­ finished. I t was a curiosity of cricket that Mr. Fry, Abel and Hayward should all have made their two thousandth run for the season on the same day— in the same hour. Abel and Hayward reached the second thousand at between four and half-past four last Saturday, while Fry reached it at about a quarter to five. S t r a w , theWorcestershire professional, was out in a curious manner on Friday in the match against Warwickshire. He played a strictly defensive game, with the