Cricket 1900

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Cambridge out of thirty-three played during the match, while in one of the five single-figure innings the batsman was not out. ------- S cene : A recent first-class m atch in w hich a fieldsman has ju st m ade tw o brilliant attem pts to make catches which w ou ld have been ou t o f the question to m ost men. Spectator in the free seats, who has been giving his opinion very freely: “ There. It’s a mystery to me how they can allow such men to play. I would send him off the field, I would, if I had my way.” ------- S e v e r a l records were made in the Oxford and Cambridge match. Mr. R. E. Foster, with his innings of 171, beat Mr. K . J. Key’s record of 143 for the match ; the total of 503 beat the previous best of 388 made by Cambiidge in 1872 and 1892. Mr. Foster’s aggregate of 213 for the match beat that of Mr. M. R. Jardine (179 in 1892). The total aggre­ gate for the match, 1,300, leaves record far behind. ------- I n a recent first-class match, cover- point, who had to run level with the wicket, gently tossed the ball first bound to the bowler on seeing that the batsman had got home. The bowler was standing behind the wicket waiting for the ball to come into his hands, but as it happened, it knocked off a bail. Whereupon a spectator remarked with enthusiasm, “ Now that’s what I call cricket. You see ’e ’it the stump when ’e ’ad got only one to aim at. That’s the man for my money.” T h e b e was excitement in Victoria Park on Saturday. The Flamingoes were playing the Excelsior in a Victoria Park cup tie, and so keen was the interest taken in the result by the nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood that the park-keepers and police had more than their fair share of work in trying to keep back the crowd, which numbered nearly two thousand. Excelsior could only manage to produce 31 runs, but when they in their turn had disposed of three Flamingoes for nine, spectators prepared for a close finish. It was at this critical moment that T. Benyon went to the wickets and began to play a game which will long be remembered in the Park. He so badly lamed three ot the spectators who crowded round the pitch too closely that they had to be carried off in the ambulances, and was not out until he had made 75, the total score of his side being 179. T h e quick scoring at Lord’s last week by the Oxford stumper was by no means the only instance that has come under notice. Last Saturday, Essex Club and Ground were playing Tottenham, and after Mr. McGahey had made the usual century, the Club and Ground started their innings with Dr. Francis and Sewell, the old Bedford boy, who has lately turned pro. Out in India the last- named had a reputation for big hitting, but so far, up-to-date, he had done nothing much to sustain it in England. At Tottenham, however, he proved that this reputation was not altogether ill- founded, for he scored 66 in just over the quarter of an hour— sixteen minutes to be perfectly accurate— and when he was out with the score standing at 110, made in less than 25 minutes, his individual score was 76. To give an idea of the vigour of Sewell’s hitting, it may be mentioned that his 76 included a 6, and sixteen 4’s, and cff the first four overs Bent down to him he scored 12, 16, 18 and 20 respectively. In these days of hundreds made in four hours or more, little bits of “ gentle tapping” such as this, and Mr. Martyn’s in the ’Varsity match, are most refreshing. T h e major had rolled up his sleeves just before going on to bowl. “ Major,” inquired one of the players, “ how did you get all those little scars on your arms ? ” “ Duels,” responded the major— “ duels I fought in France.” “ And I suppose that large scar was acquired in some particularly fierce combat P” “ No, sir; that is where I was vac­ cinated when a child.”— Chicago Newt. T h e Hampshire County Cricket Guide, published by Mr. Henry King, South­ ampton, at sixpence, and compiled by Mr. E. L. Ede, contains complete infor­ mation about the cricket played by the county last year. As usual it gives a list of hundreds made by Hampshire cricketers during the past season, from which we find that Major Poore scored more than anybody else, viz., seven (all for Hampshire) and that Mr. C. G. Ward made five for the training ship “ Mercury,” and Mr. E. J. Newton four for the Deanery C.C. I n the Wellington Evening Post, New Zealand, there is an article on the beginning of intercolonial cricket in the Islands, by Mr. A. F. Wiren, whose account of the first match between Wellington and Auckland is decidedly interesting. He says :— In January, 1860, aWellington gentleman, named May, had been on a visit to Auckland, and in returning to this city brought with him a challenge from the Aucklanders to play a cricket match on the Wellington ground. The challenge was eagerly accepted, and the first interprovincial match ever played in the colony took place somewhere about the site of St. Patrick’s College, on the 16th March, 1860. Soon after Mr. May’s departure for Wellington, a meeting was held in Auckland to make arrangements for the proposed visit,