Cricket 1907

446 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. O ct . 31, 1907. OBITUARY. C a p t . J. S t . J. F r e d e r ic k . Mr. John St. John Frederick, sometime Captain in the Jnniskilling Dragoons, was born in Chesham Place, London, on January 6th, 1846, and died on the 10th ult. He played for Eton in 1861 and two following years, for Oxford in 1864 and 1867, for Middlesex in 1864, and for Hampshire from 1863 to 1869. Scores and Biographies (vii.-104) says of him:—“ Height 5ft. 8Jin., and weight 11st. 71ba. Is a fine, free, an! powerful hitter, a most excellent field at long- leg and cover-point, a tremendously fast round-armed bowler, and, though not always so straight as could be wished, still, at times, very destructive.” Against Harrow he took nine wickets in the three matches for 70 runs and scored 16 not out and 21, 3 and 33, and 32 and 30 ; the matches of 1861 and 1863 were drawn, but Eton won that of 1862 by 54 runs. His record in the contests with Winchester was not so good, for he scored only 5, 5 and 1, and 16 andtook but three wickets ; still, Eton proved successful on each occasion, the margin in their favour in 1863, when their total was 444 (Alfred Lubbook, 174 not out; E. W. Tritton, 130), being an innings and 194 runs. Froceediag to Oxford, Capt. Frederick obtained his Blue as a Freshman, and so became a member of the great team of 1864 ; the others were T. Case, E. W. Tritton, F. R. Evans, R. A. II. Mitchell, R. D. Walker, S. C. Youles, F. W. Wright, W. F. Maitland, J. W. Haygarth, and A. S. Teape. In a low scoring match against Cambridge he made only 0 and 1, but Oxford, owing largely to a fine not out second innings of 55 by Mitchell, won by four wickets. In 1865 Capt. Frederick met with a severe injury to his knee, and in consequence did not again play against Cambridge until 1867. He then scored 5 and 13, and Oxford lost by five wickets. In 1864 he had assisted the newly-formed Middlesex County C.C. on three occasions, making 133 runs in four innings with an average of 33-25, his highest score being 78 in the return match, at Islington, with Buckinghamshire. His best score in a match of note was 110 for Gentlemen of Hampshire v. Gentlemen of Sussex, at Southampton, in 1864. He had been a member of the M.C.C. since 1864, and served on the Committee of the Club in 1891 and from 1894 to 1898. A portrait of the late Capt. Frederick can be seen in the group facing page 260 in “ Annals of the Free Foresters, 1856-1894 ” by the late Rev. W. K. R. Bedford. Mr. C. O. E aton . Mr. Charles Ormston Eaton, of Tolethorpe Hall, Stamford, died on September 13th in his eighty-first year. He was in the Harrow Eleven in 1844 and 1845, among his con­ temporaries being C. S. Currer, R. P. Long, and H. Vernon. In the four Public School matches in which he took part he was on every occasion on the losing side, Eton winning in each year by an innings, and Winchester by three wickets in 1844 and 12 runs in 1845. Against Eton he made 1 and 2 in his first year and 4 and 23 not out in his second; the last-mentioned score was the only double-figure made by Harrow in the match, Eton winning with the greatest ease by an innings and 174 runs. In the Win­ chester matches his scores were 5 not out and 1 in 1814 and 6 and 11 in 18J5. Among his opponents in the former year was Mr. J. C. Patteson, of whom an obituary notice also appears on this page. On February 19th, 1855, Mr. H. Vernon, of the Harrow Eleven of 1845, died at Mr. Eaton’s seat, Tixover Hall, near Stamford, at the early age of 26. J.D.B. M r . A. A. H irst , Jvn. Mr. A. A. Hirst, jun., one of the most promising young cricketers in America, died suddenly at Philadelphia on September 14th at the early age.of 15. He was a member of the Merion Club and in Radnor Cup matches had distinguished himse'f with many good scores. On July 14th, 1905, when only thirteen years old, he made 100 not out in a second junior game between Merion and Radnor. His portrait appeared in The Amerxcau Cricketer of September, 1905. M r . T. C. P atteson . One of the leading figures in Canadian cricket passed away quite recently in the person of Mr. Thomas Charles Patteson who died of pneumonia at Toronto on September 21st. He was born at Patney, in Wiltshire, on October 5th, 1836, and was educated at Eton and Oxford (Merton) but did not obtain a place in either Eleven. Of his schooldays he has remarked :— ‘ ‘ Martingell was the first coach we ever had at Eton, and he was a beautiful bowler. The first Upper Club match I remember at Eton was in ’47, and it was M.C.C. v. Eton College. Lillywhite and Hillyer bowled in high black hats and braces, but Sir Frederick Bathurst wore a cap, then regarded by men like Roger Kynaston and Herbert Jenner as a very ‘ fast ’ article of attire.” In his young days he played a good deal at Hambledon, in Hampshire, where, to again quote, “ I took a lad’s delight in swiping the half-volleys of opposing rustics from the neighbouring villages, and when that was over I diddled them out behind the stumps. It was quite impossible to make them believe that they were not cheated out, when they withdrew to their tents in visible ill-humour. In fact, I should say there is no greater marplot at a country cricket match than a lad fresh from the Eton playing-fields or the bumptious undergraduate from Cowley Marsh, who shows off his dexterity at the expense of the yokels. Slow and awkward, and not up to the subtleties of the game, they fall a ready prey to his prowess, and the game is spoiled.” At Oxford he played a great deal with the Marshams, the sons of the Warden of Merton, and in later years gave it as his opinion that “ C.D.” was “ perhaps the prettiest bowler ever seen on a crease, and deadly as he was pretty.” It was in 1858 that Mr. Patteson first played in Toronto, with which place he was destined to be intimately associated for almost half a century ; he was then in the company of] George Yonge, the famous Gentleman bowler, the pair being en route for Chicago and prairie shooting. He played for and captained Canada in three matches against the United States, scoring 4 and 1 not out at Toronto in 1859, 0 and 15 at Hoboken in 1860, and 1 and 1 at Toronto in 1865. The United States proved successful on each occasion, but in 1859 there was only one American-born player—the eldest of the famous Newhall family—in the team, and in each of the other years it was much the same. Mr. Patteson was a very good wicket-keeper and a most keen supporter of the game. Concerning wicket-keeping he wrote :— . You should never trail your right leg back, but stand on both legs and face the music, with your head right at the bails. I did so for many years, and was never hurt by a ball bowled. The fielders are far more apt to injure the wicket-keeper by wild throwing, and especially by throwing on the ground what they mean for a long hop to the top of the bails, when they should have shied at the wicket-keeper’s chest, considering the distance they were at. There is still surviving an amiable fat man in this city (Toronto) who broke my nose in two places by this sort of error, and this statement is the only revenge I have ever had on him.” By English cricketers Mr. Patteson will always be best remembered as the promoter of the visit to America of Mr. R A. Fitz­ gerald’s team in the autumn of 1872. In “ Wickets in the West” Mr. Fitzgerald has told how “ In the summer of 1871, two gentlemen inter' viewed the Secretary of the Marylebone Club at Lord’s ground. The one, Captain Wallace, of the 60th Rifles ; the other Mr. T. C. Patteson, of Toronto. They there and then unfolded a cricket scheme, pointing out to the Secretary where Canada was, and explaining who the Canadians were. The pre­ caution was necessary, as great ignorance prevailed in England at this time respecting its colony. The scheme amounted practically to this: Mr. Patteson was instructed on the part of the Canadians to invite an English Twelve to play a series of matches in the Dominion. The twelve were to consider themselves as visitors, expressly invited by the several cricketing bodies in Canada. The Canadians proposed to defray all expenses connected with the voyage out and home, and generally to provide for the comfort and passage of the visitors throughout the Dominion. It was hinted at the same time that the expedition might be extended to the United States, as Mr. Patteson expressed an opinion that a visit to New York, Philadelphia, and Boston would be hailed with satisfaction by the cricketers south of 49®.” The tour was arranged, and the Englishmen, acting upou Mr. Patteson’s suggestion, visited the States as well as Canada. Playing against them for XXII. of Toronto, Mr. Patteson made 6 and not out 3, but the visitors, for whom “ W.G.” scored 142, won by an innings and over a hundred runs, W. M. Rose taking nineteen wickets and Appleby eighteen. At the conclusion of the tour Mr. Fitzgerald addressed a letter to Mr. Patteson in which he stated :— “ I cannot leave your Dominion without express­ ing to yourself, as the originator and manager of our expedition, and through you to the people of Ontario and Quebec, my grateful sense of the recep­ tion which has boen given to my team of English amateur cricketers. We came to your shores as strangers, we have been welcomed as friends, we leave your Dominion as if we were leaving a second home.” A portrait of the deceased gentleman is included in the group facing page 45 in “ W.Gr.’s ” “ Cricketing Reminiscences and Personal Recollections.” Mr. Patteson was called to the Bar in 1863 and for many years was editor and proprietor of the Toronto Mail ; since Feb­ ruary 12th, 1879, he had been Post-master of Toronto. He was a keen horseman, the founder of the Ontario Jockey Club, and long recognised as one of the greatest authoritie i in America on pedigrees. He was cousin of John Coleridge Patteson, afterwards Bishop of Melanesia, who played for Eton in 1843 and 1844 and for Oxford in 1849, and who was murdered by the savages of Nukapu, near the island of St. Crux, on September 20th, 1871. Twelve years ago Mr. Patteson published his reminiscences in “ Sixty Years of Canadian Cricket,” by John E. Hall and R. O. McCulloch, and it is from that volume that quotations made in this notice have been taken. T h e R ev . H. E. M o bekly . The Rev. Henry Edward Moherly, D.D., one of the oldest University cricketers, died in his sleep at Winchester on September 22nd, and was buriedat St. Michael’s Church, Winchester, three days later. As he was bom at Madras on December 11th, 1822, he was in his eighty-fifth year at the time of his decease. He was in the Winchester Eleven in 1839 and 1840, playing each year