Cricket 1902

THB FINBST BAT THB WORLD PRODUCES. S ept . 11, 1902. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 403 BUSSEY’S M o fe P c a J J H » co S w s s* o .a a w 2 a « M o m CM >> o a § AT THE SIGN OF THE WICKET. B y F. 8. A shley -C oopbr . The Rev. John Shapland Elliott Cockburn Hood, who died at Catterick on the 30th nit. from the effects of a bicycle accident, was born at Sydney, N.S.W., January lfith, 1844. He was in the Rugby eleven in 1861 and 1862, and appeared for Cambridge again?t Oxford in 1865 and 1867. He entered Rugby School in February, 1859, and the first occasion upon which his name is found in the Rugby cricket annals is on April 19th and 20th, I860, when he scored 0 and 3, obtained one wicket and made a catch for Present Rugbeians v. Old Rugbeians (third elevens). That season he did but poorly, making single figures every time he went to the wicket, but in the following year he appears to have jumped into the first eleven at quite the commencement of the season. He began well by playing a not outinnings of 16 in a trial game against the bowling of Hay­ ward and Diver, and, curiously enough, the first match he played in for the School was his most successful one. It was against the Anomalies, May 20th and 21st, and he scored 5 and 19 not out, made a catch, and obtained seven wickets in the first innings and five in the second. His best year at Rugby was 1862, when he performed as follows for the School:— v. Old Rugbeians . v. Anomalies ... . v. Free Foresters . v. Etceteras ... . v. Rugby Club v. M.C.C. and G . v. Marlboro’ ... . v. Perambulators . v. Rugby Club.. . v. Pantaloons .. . v. Free Foresters Runs. 16 . 39* and 11* . 7 44 5 , 6 6 and 2 , 5 . 31* and 43 36 . 20 and 21 Wickets. 3 and 3 3 and 4 4 4 2 3 and 5 2 3 1 and 3 5 1 Mr. Hood, whilst at Rugby, was coached by Alfred Diver, of Cambridge, who has always been regarded as one of the finest cricket instructors there has ever been. Among his school companions were several who after­ wards became well-known in the cricketing world, including B. B. Cooper, C. Booth, M. T. Martin, E. Rutter, F. R. Evans and C. Marshall. Mr. Hood made many good scores, his leg-hitting being very fine, though he was somewhat lacking in defence. He always excelled in the field, especially at long-leg and cover-point. At times, too, he was useful as a change round-armed bowler, but after leaving Rugby he did not meet with much success. In May, 1867, be made 117 for Cambridge University against South­ gate (or the Gentlemen of England) at Fenner’s, adding wkh the Hon. G. S. Lyttelton (99) 206 for the fifth wicket, and in May, 1869, going in tenth man, he scored 50 not out for the Gentlemen of England against Oxford University, at Oxford. His best feat, however, was when he helped Mr C. E. Green to add 110 runs for the last wicket of Cambridge University v. M.C.C. and Ground, at Lord’s, in June, 1867. Mr. Green carried out his bat for 60, whilst Mr. Hood made 45 before being run out. Their partnership had a very great deal to do with the victory of their side by the narrow margin of 28 runs. After leaving Cambridge Mr. Hood practically dropped out of first-class matches, but occasionally appeared for the Free Foresters, for whom he made, in 1865, scores of 71 not out and 36 v. Cambridge University, at Cambridge, in May, 87 v. Dalkeith, at Dalkeith, August 2nd and 3rd, and 56 v. West of Scotland, at Glasgow, August 4th and 5th. For some time he was hon. secretary to the Cambridge University C.C., resigning^that position m November, 1867. At the time of his death he was vicar of Kirby Fleetham, in Yorkshire. An interesting, though somewhat curious, request is sent me by a Tunbridge Wells enthusiast, who asks for a list of well-known cricketers who have met with their death “ in an unusual manner—apart from smcide ! ” The request was, no doubt, prompted by the fact that the late Rev. J. S. E. Hood suc­ cumbed as the result of a cycling accident. Several amateurs have met their fate in war, among the many who have done so being Mr. A. J. Bramley (Winchester) in 185-, Mr. E. H. Townshend (Rossall) in 1873, Col. F. Y. Northey (Eton) in 1879, Mr. E. O. H. Wilkinson (Eton) in 1881, General Sir Herbert Stewart (Winchester) in 1885, Capt. W. MacFarlan (Loretto) in 1899, Major F. F. Crawford (Kent), Prince Christian Victor (Wellington), Mr. J. J. Ferris (Australians and Gloucestershire), Mr. F. W Milligan (Yorkshire), Mr. C. B. Childe*Pemberton (Harrow), Mr. A. M. Porter (Harrow), Mr. H. T. Stanley (Somerset) and Mr. A. C. Nixon (Char­ terhouse) in 1900, Mr. D. H. Forbes (Eton and Oxford), Lieut. Tryon (North­ amptonshire) and Mr. F. N. Townsend (Gloucestershire) in 1901, and Mr. George Strachan (Surrey, GloucestershireandMiddle­ sex) in 1902. George Summers (Notts), in 1870, and William Jupp (Surrey) in 1878, were killed by being struck on the head by a cricket-ball. Among the players who met their death through being thrown from their horse may be mentioned E. Martin (Kent and Hampshire) in 1869, Mr. C. W. Carpenter (Sussex) in 1876, Mr. G. M. Ede (Hants)— the celebrated gentleman jockey—in 1870, Mr. R. E. A. Jenkins ( Rossall) in 1876, and and Mr. W. F. Wickham, of the Winchester elevens of 1842 and 1843. Noah Mann, one of the Hambledon heroes, was burnt to death in 1789, whilst six years later Richard May, a famous Kent player, died in a drunken fit. Another celebrated Kent man of 120 years ago, in the person of John Ring, succumbed in a somewhat unusual manner, in 1800, death being due to a fever brought on by a blow received on the nose from a ball. The Hon. Col. Charles Lennox, afterwards Duke of Richmond, died in 1819 (being at the time Viceroy of Canada) through being bitten on a finger by apet fox. In 1871 John Coleridge Patteson (Eton and Oxford), when Bishop of Melanesia, was murdered by the savages of Nukapu, near the island of St. Cruz. J. Dale (Sussex) received injuries which proved fatal, in 1828, through being thrown out of a trap, and Mr. Edward Maeniven, of Eton, Cam­ bridge University and Surrey, met his death through a precisely similar occurrence thirty years later. Mr. W. C. Clayton (Harrow) waskilled atpolo in 1876, W. Cropper (Derby) at football in 1889, Mr. Robin Lubbock (Eton) in the hunting-field in 1898, and Canon Cazenove (Oxford University) at tennis in 1893. Thomas Hunt, of Chesterfield —“ The StarofTheNorth ” —waskilled onthe railwayin 1858,aswereMr. J. C. Rowley (Man­ chester) in 1870, John Boak (Middlesex) in 1876, and F. Thornhill (Derbyshire) also in 1876. Mr. Henry Arkwright, of Harrow and Cambridge, was killed in 1866 whilst ascend­ ingMont Blanc, whilst twenty-two yearslater Mr.H.F.Fox, of Sherborne and Somerset, was lost in the Caucasus Mountains. The body of Mr. Arkwright was never recovered. In 1879 Mr. G. B. Crawley (Harrow) was killed on board ship through a very heavy weight falling upon him, and in 1889 Mr. C. A. (“ Bos ” ) Absolom, of Kent, met with a similar end. Mr. A. Haskett-Smith (Eton and Oxford) in 1887 and Mr. A. Sclater CD G S BUSSEY’S