Cricket 1902

234 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J unk 26 , 19 02. Though the first day of the recent match between the Australians and Yorkshire gave the Leeds ground a record for the largest paying crowd on an English cricket ground, the numbers for the two days of the match are con­ siderably below tbe figures reoorded when Surrey and Notts met at the Oval in August, 1892. At Leeds, against this, the turnstiles, I believe, recorded that 44,397 had paid on the 2nd and 3rd of this month. The Oval record for the August Bank Holiday match of 1892 showed 30,760 for the Monday and 29,370 for the Tuesday, or 60,130 for the first two days. T h e Charterhouse eleven made full amends for their somewhat unexpected reverse at Vincent Square last season by defeating Westminster at Charterhouse last week with 150 runs to spare. The Carthusians were so unmistakably in­ ferior that the game as a test was hardly good enough to give a real idea of their cricket powers. Surrey can claim four of the victorious eleven, O. T. Norris, the captain, W. J. H. Curwen, D. Grahame, and E. S. Cripps. Thompson, the superintendent ground bowler at the Oval, who umpired in the match, speaks highly of the batting promise of the last named, who is quite young. Or the thirty-nine matches so far played between the two schools, Charterhouse has won twenty-one matches to fourteen of Westminster, the remaining four having been drawn. The first match, which was in 1850, was played in Vincent Square, as were the next three in 1861, 1865 and 1866. Prom 1867 to 1871 inclusive, the two schools met at Lord’s. In 1872 there was no match owing to the transfer of Charterhouse school from London to Godalming. Since that year the matches have been played alternately at Vincent Square and Godalming. Charterhouse has been the victor in eighteen of the twenty-six games which have been played in these three decades. How the honours have fallen will best be gathered from the following sum- m a r y :— C harterhouse won in 1866 ... ... 1881 1889 ... . . 1896 1869 ... ... 1883 1891 ... . 1900 1870 ... . 1884 1892 ... . .. 1902 1876 ... ... 1886 1893 ... . 1878 ... ... 1887 1894 ... . 1880 . . ... 1888 1825 ... . W estminster won in 1850 ... ... 1868 1879 ... . . 1899 1851 ... .. 1871 1882 ... . . 1901 1865 ... ... 1873 1890 ... . 1867 ... ... 1877 1897 ... . In 1874, 1875, 1885 and 1898, the games were unfinished. The most de­ cisive result was in 1881, when West­ minster was beaten on its own ground at Vincent Square by an innings and 177 runs. The best contested match of those played out was that of 1897. This was at Vincent Square, and West­ minster won with only two wickets to spare. The Eton and Winchester match, which is in progress at Winchester as these lines are penned, is the seventy-second of the series. The schools first met in 1826 at Lord’s, which was the scene of the public school contests between Eton and Harrow and Eton and Winchester until 1850. Hitherto the matches between Eton and Winchester had been played irregularly. Since they began to take place in alternate years at Eton and Winchester, which was in 1854, there has only been one blank—in 1865. Of the 71 matches which have been played up to date, Eton has been successful in 43, Winchester in 22. Five of the remaining six have been unfinished, the other ended in a tie. In this latter, which was in 1845, Winchester scored 111 and 52, Eton 66 and 97. The Eton eleven that year included J. W. Chitty, who got a double blue for cricket and rowing, and subsequently was known to fame as Lord Justice Chitty. As a mere matter of record it will be of interest to give the result of the seventy-one matches :— E ton won in 1829 ............... 1848 18*56 .. ... 1880 1832 ............... 1849 1867 .. ... 1881 1833 ............... 1850 1868 .. ... 1884 1834 ............... 1855 1869 .. ... 1886 1835 ............... 1856 1872 .. ... 1887 1836 ............... 1857 1873 .. ... 1893 1839 ............... 1860 1874 .. ... 1894 1842 ............... 1861 1875 .. ... 1895 1844 ............... 1862 1876 . ... 2899 1846 ............... 1863 1877 .. ... 1901 1847 ............... 1864 1879 .. ... W inchester in 1826 ............... 1851 1870 .. ... 1891 1830 ............... 1852 1871 .. ... 1892 1838 ............... 1853 1878 .. ... 1896 1840 ............... 1854 1882 .. ... 1897 1841 ............... 1858 1883 .. 1813 ............... 1859 1889 .. e matches of 1885, 1888, 1890, 1898 and 1900 were drawn, and that of 1846 ended in a tie. Parson C raw fo rd and his son Reggie, otherwise R. T ., who plays for Leicester­ shire, were in great form with the ball for Cane Hill Asylum on Saturday. Northbrook furnished the opposition, and on the first innings, R. T., after clean bowling nine batsmen for 18, caught the tenth off his father. In the second innings the pair again divided the spoils, R. T. taking seven wickets, five of them clean bowled, and the Parson three others. By the way, the youngest of the Crawford brotherhood, J. N., got his colours at Repton on Saturday at the finish of the Old Reptonian match. Up to Monday, C. H. M. Ebden, the new Cambridge Blue, had scored 427 runs with an average of 28. He has had a somewhat curious experience this year, as, after beginning well, and then scoring 137, he made five duck’s eggs. But in contrast to this, he has scored 50, 34, 30, 53 and 78. T h ere does not seem much chance that Abel will ever be chosen for England again, but a glance at his scores since 1896 against the Australians may be interesting to those who have not to choose the team. He has made scores of 26, 24, 21, 116, 94, 71, 63, 50 not out, 16, 13, 4, 5, 6, 22, 0, 16, 56, 34, 36 and 32— total 729 for twenty-one innings, once not out, average 36 odd—not so bad for all sorts of wickets, including some of the worst imaginable. T h e re has been a decorous race between Victor Trumper and Robert Abel as to who should be the first to score a thousand runs this memorably wet season. The honour fell to Abel, who reached the thousand before stumps were drawn on Monday at the Oval in Surrey v. Oxford University. Trumper’s two innings of 3 and 9 against Yorkshire put him out of the running. I t is not at all remarkable that W. G. Quaife should play an innings of over a hundred runs, but it is something of an event when he scores 106 out of a total of 168 made from the bat while he v as at the wicket. This is the sort of pro­ portion of runs made by a big hitter when he is in exceptional form, and it might be accounted for in two ways, either that the rest of the teiim played an in­ sufferably slow game, or that Quaife bustled about. As a matter of fact, he took two hours and a quarter to score his first fifty, and then doubled his score in less than an hour. W h en Newport were playing Cardiff on Saturday the latter had to make 163 runs in two hours, and had lost nine wickets for 92 three minutes before time. The Cardiff captain then claimed that he need not send in another man, and after waiting for two minutes the umpires drew the stumps, awarding a victory to Newport. A re p o r t having appeared in several daily papers to the effect that in the match between London County and Cambridge University, W. G. had called out “ Drop it ” when Gillman had a catch from him, the Doctor has been severely called to task. It is however claimed that in the first place he did not call out “ Drop it,” but “ Catch it ” ; in the second place that the hit was made off a no-ball, so that it did not matter whether the fieldsman brought off the catch; in the third place that the fields­ man actually made the catch. W e have had various kinds of weather in England lately, but we have escaped a hailstorm of the sort which is said to have fallen at Musaferkhana, a small station near Allahabad. Some of the hailstones are stated to have been “ extraordinarily large, in size quite as big as cricket balls.” A t the Oval, on Friday, C. H. M. Ebden, who scored 78 against Surrey, was awarded his blue by the Cambridge captain. He is a Senior, and has shown exceedingly good form throughout the season. In the Oxford team, A. C. von Ernst­ hausen, the Surrey amateur, and Mr. Bonham - Carter, who has played for Kent, secured their blues on Friday.