Cricket 1902

J u l y 10, 1902. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE CAME. 267 completion of the match between the Australian team and All Scotland at Edinburgh on Tuesday of last week. On measurement, one of his hits was found to be 152f yards. Thi^, I may add, has been beaten, both by Dr. J. M. Cotterell and Frank Sugg, on the same ground. By the way it is satisfactory to find that Ihe two day’s match the Australians played at Edinburgh, though fixed up only a few days, was a financial success. Over £460, it is officially stated, was taken at the gate. S i r A u g u s t u s H e m m in g , the Governor of Jamaica, is on his way home, if not already here, for a brief holi­ day. The papers which have announced the fact are not far off the mark when they refer to his visit to Eng­ land as his “ annual cricket holiday.” The Governor is, indeed, as keen and devoted a follower of the game as he was during his long service as hon. sec. of the Incogniti C.C., if the cares of his high estate naturally limit his public appearances nowadays almost to the vanishing point. W h a t a pity that the sporting papers treat the Second Division of the County Championship with such scant courtesy ! Their answer would, of course, be the impossibility of finding space in view of increasing number of first-class matches, of which thepublicdemandsampledetails. On the other hand the public interest would be considerably stimulated to the benefit of the competition generally if the papers were to give at fairly long intervals of, say a fortnight or three weeks, tables showing how the various counties stand, on the lines of those which are published weekly in connection with the County Championship. T h e Hon. J. D. Logan, “ the Laird of Matjestfontein,” whose hospitality has been so bountifully extended to English cricketers touring in South Africa was in London the other day on a flying visit from his Scotch seat in Perthshire. In him poor George Lohmann found a loyal and devoted friend, and his visit to the Oval was mainly in connection with the memorial the Surrey County C.C. is placing over the grave of that great cricketer at Matjestfontein. Mr. Logan, who is only in England for a time, has kindly undertaken to look after the erection of the memorial on behalf of the S.C.C.C. F r o m what one can hear, no very striking individual form was the out­ come of the match between Haileybury and Wellington, at Haileybury, at the end of last week. The Haileybury eleven were a very level lot, and the side were collectively up to the average, though there was no bright particular star. The best bats seen in the two elevens were perhaps E. C. Hodges, A. F. Spooner, of Haileybury, Carter and Muir for Wellington. The best bowler was R. H. Powell, of Haileybury, but as a whole the cricket of the match was hardly up to the highest traditions of the two schools. S mith (W. C.), the slow bowler who makes fitful appearances in the Surrey eleven, set about the bowling of York­ shire’s second eleven at Harrogate last week in a way that at least suggested the methods Jessopian. Two overs he utilised to the tune of thirty runs. The forty-three notches that stood to his name in Surrey’s first innings, in all only occupied him nine minutes. I t is gratifying to hear that the County Championship Competition is stimulating considerable interest in the minds of the Scotch public generally. According to our well-informed and painstaking Scotch correspondent, the match between Perthshire and Forfar­ shire last Saturday attracted a crowd of some five thousand more than did the visit of the Australians to Edinburgh on the first two days of the week. A little more enthusiasm on the part of the general public would do much to develop Scotch cricket, which really only wants a fair stimulus to do itself justice. T h e elevens for the annual match between the Gentlemen and Players at the Oval, commencing to-day, will be as follows:— G entlemen . G. W . Beldam. W . M. Bradley. R. B. Brooks. C. J. Bumup. A . Eccles. D. L. A . Jephson. P Abel. Barnes. Brockwell. Hayward. Hargreave. Iremonger. G. L. JesBop. C. McGahey. W . G. Grace. E. E. Steel. W . Troup. Lilley. Lockwood. Quaife. Trott. Tyldesley. A c c o r d in g to the generally-accepted idea, the match between Eton and Har­ row to commence at Lord’s to-morrow, is the seventy-seventh between the two schools. All the same, it is well to add that Harrovians take exception to the inclusion of the fixture of 1805 on the ground that it was in no sense a real match between the Etonians and Harro­ vians being in statu pupillari at the time. A s s u m in g the generally accepted record to be correct, Harrow has won 32 and Eton 28 matches, the remaining 16 having been unfinished. Of the last eight con­ tests Harrow has wt>n the only three that have been played out to the bitter end. The highest individual score of the series up to date is E. Bayley’s 152 in 1841. T. G. O. Cole, who scored so well in both innings for Liverpool and Dis­ trict against Cambridge University at Liverpool this week, has so far the Har­ row record with his 142 in 1897. D u r in g the last fortnight, V. F. S. and R. T. Crawford have between them scored 651 runs in first-class ciicket. A CAPITAL performance was accom­ plished on the 2nd inst. by L. Parbury, some of whose feats I have from time to time chronicled in G ossip . The match was Bedford County School v. Dunstable Grammar School, at Bedford, and, play­ ing for the former, Parbury obtained fourteen wickets for 34 runs, and played an innings of 124. With A. E. Holmes- Brown (91) as a partner, he made 222 for the first wicket—a record for the school. D u r in g the second innings of England at Sheffield on Saturday, Clement Hill from the out field threw in a ball which, after breaking the wicket, went on and broke the wicket at the other end. Caffyn, in an All England match, and George Ulyett, iu an up-country match in A.U8'ralia, each did the same thing. George Uiyett’s own version of what happened after his throw was that one of the umpires turned to him and said, “ Are both men out, Mr. Ulyett ? ” Whereupon Ulyett said, “ Certainly. You see it makes all the difference when the same man knocks down both wickets.” T he team to represent Harrow against Eton on Friday and Saturday is as follows :— C. H. Eyre (capt.), G. Maclaren, E , E. H. Baity, M. M. Carlisle, G. J. V . Hopley, G. A . Phillips, R. G Barnes, A. H. Macan, G. U. M. Bennett, E. T' Bolton, and F. R. R. Brooke. Reserve : Lord Anson* S ome few days ago it was stated that there would be a match ar­ ranged between Yorkshire and an England Eleven at the end of the season on behalf of the Cricketers’ Fund Friendly Society. It is now officially announced that the match will take place on Sep­ tember 11th, 12th and 13th at Lord’ s. T h e Rev. C. W. Streatfeild writes as follows :— In the paragraph in last week’s Cricket, in which the Oxford and Cambridge elevens (and their schools) are given, the following -words are rather curious reading :—“ Thus Eton, Winchester and Harrow are each represented by two players.” One glance at the list shows that Eton and Harrow had each four representatives in the University match, and Winchester three. Mr. Ashley-Cooper’s List of Cricket Blues of recent years, and their respective schools, is very interesting, but L. P. Collins, who played for Oxford in 1899, and who is assigned to Bradfield College, was, if I mistake not, a Marlborough boy. A t Liverpool on Saturday, Kitchener, the old Ormskirk and Derbyshire pro­ fessional, took four wickets for Sefton Park against Broughton in one over; three were clean bowled, knocking a stump out in each instance. A t the annual gathering of the em­ ployees of John Piggott, Limited, at the country residence of ttie head of the company, “ Parkhurst,” Bexley, Kent, cricket matches formed one of the prin—