Cricket 1899

444 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. O ct. 26, 189^. F OR SALE.—The residue of the marvellous Cricket Collection of the late Thomas Padwick, Eeq., Redhill, Surrey.—Address, Mr. Alfred J. Gaston, 14, Prestonville Road, Brighton. T HE Editor of Cricket wishes to purchase Volumes 3 and4 of “ Scores and Biographies,” “ Wisden’s Almanack” from 1864 to 1878, “ John Lillywhite’s Companion,” before 1869, 1870, 1872, 1874, “ Football Annuals,” 1868,1872, “ James Lillywhite’s Annual” for 1874. 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D a v is , a well-known authority on cricket in Australia, writes : “ As faras Iknow, theEnglish Press, with- outexception, has, in dealing with the ‘ hat trick ’ in test matches, overlooked that performed by Johnny Briggs, in Sydney, a few years ago. It will be recollected that the Australian second innings, in the Sydney match in 1892, was magnifi­ cently started by Lyons (134) and A. C. Bannerman (91). Owing to rain the innings was finished on a tricky wicket. With his last three balls Briggs got rid of Walter Giffen (bowled), Callaway (caught at point by W. G. Grace), and Blackham (l.b.w.), C. T. B. Turner being the onlooking batsman at the other end.” In a recent number of Cricket it was stated that R. H. Marriott, of Tonbridge fame, a short time ago twice made over a hundred in a match. Mr. Ashley-Cooper informs me that the Rev. W. Rashleigh has written to him to say that the scores were 102 and 117 and were made in July last in a match between two lots of day-boys, divided A to K and L to Z. “ The chief thing remarkable about the match,” adds Mr, Rashleigh, “ was the badness of the fielding.” W. G. G bace heads the batting averages of the London County Cricket Club for the last season. He played twenty innings, was seven times not out, made 1,092 runs in all, and had an average of 84. He scored a hundred four times, his highest innings being 175 not out against Worcestershire. He did much more bowling than any other man in the team, his analysis being 340 overs for 781 runs and 50 wickets— average 15'62 runs per wicket. The club played twenty-seven matches, won eleven, lost four, drew eleven, and played one tie. Three public school boys were noticeable for their good bowl­ ing during the holidays, viz., W. J. Peters, of Harrow, left-hand round at a good pace, breaks both ways; E. W. Dillon, captain of Rugby School, slow right hand, breaking each way; and C. B. Grace, Clifton College, who bowls good lobs. Mb. F r a n k W. M illig a n , the well- known Yorkshire County cricketer, and son of Colonel Milligan, of Cauldwell Hall, Burton-on-Trent, is says the Daily Telegraph of October 18th, one of the defenders of Mafeking. Mr. Milligan went out with Lord Hawke’s team, and, anticipating Boer trouble, he stayed at the Cape. Colonel Milligan received a letter on October 17th from his son, who mentions that he has obtained a commission in the BechuanalandFrontier Force, and has joined Colonel Baden- Powell. O u r war correspondentin South Africa informs us that British troops are en­ camped on the cricket ground at Kimberley. C am b rid g e cricketers will regret to hear of the death of “ Jemmy Deans,” who, for many years was the groundman of the St. John’s College cricket ground, as well as custodian of the Christ’s, Sydney, and Amalgamation grounds at Cambridge. U n d e e the heading of “ Dangerous Practices ” the Madras Times says:— “ The casting of empty sodasat pointsmen, gangsmen, and level-crossing lay-figures is generally deprecated by the pufE-puif people, but that little game is child’s play when compared to hitting at long-hops with one hand. It is possible when swinging round at a long hop to leg with one hand for the bat to become the master of the batsman—as a certain cricketer found to his cost last month at Coimbatore, where, in doing this, he finished up on the wicket-keep’s ear, cutting it in half and knocking that player quite senseless. The ‘ Coimbatore cut ’ is nowa bye-word among cricketers and others in this corner of the globe. Ooty’swicket- keep, C. M. Nuttall, was the victim, and gets no wound-pension for facing the music as he did. History doesn’t say whether the striker was the bowler off whom Nuttall took most of his 82 runs, but, in accordance with the eternal fitness of things, it should have been.” A t the Royal Military Academy sports on September 20th, Mr. A. H. DuBoulay, the Kent cricketer, won the Hundred Yards in 101 secs., the Marching Order Race (400 yards), and the Quarter Han­ dicap in 551 secs.; while Mr. W. M. Turner, the Essex cricketer, won the Throwing the Cricket Ball (109 yards), the Obstacle Race, and Putting the Shot (32 ft. 6 in.) DuBoulay was second with 31 ft. 8J in. F rom lhe Australasian :— It was past midnight, and in the particular newspaper office to which I refer they were waiting anxiously for news of the final test match. Printers and machinists were all ready to rush off the first edition, and the sub-editor, who likes a joke, determined to have one, so sentup a slipwiththesensational heading— THE ENGLISHMEN BATTING. NO WICKETS FOR 170. The printers are a loyal lot of Australian sympathisers, and the exclamations produced by that innocent-looking slip of paper were curt but emphatic—such words as one some­ times hears in a sermon, but not used quite in the same sense. It gradually dawned upon themthat they had been made the victims of ajoke, but it was one of the boomerangorder, which flewback and hit the operator. When the first cable came a fewminutes later, and he wanted themto set the line, “ No wickets for 181,” they laughed him to scorn. He realised then that his first attempt had been not somuch a joke as a prophesy. Two old Winchester boys write with reference to a statement that Eton beat Winchester on June 23 and 24 by nine wickets, which appeared in the last issue of Cricket. Their letters are as follows :— Please ! There is a slight error of trans­ position on page 431 of your last issue. Wykehamists would be the last to grudge their kind friends at Eton a nine-wicket victory if they hadwon it. But this year’s match ended in an one-wicket victoryafterone of the most exciting games on record. The “ one ” andthe “ nine ” havechangedplaces. Forgive me for worrying. In your table showing the results of the Public School matches in 1899, published in the last issue of Cricket, Eton is represented as gaining a hollow victory over Winchester on June 23 and 24. This is rather “ rough ” onWinchester. The match really produced a most exciting Jinish, Eton only winning by one wicket!—not nine as stated in Cricket. I n a perfectly legitimate manner, Mr. A. Browning (Montreal) takes us to task for writing a sentence which might bear two interpretations. He says: “ I