Cricket 1908

M arch 26, 1908. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 43 scared 138 and Moulder, a former member of the Oval groundstaff, 34 for E .E .P .M . against Pirates, at Vogelfontein. The former’s leg-glanoes were described as “ remarkably brilliant.” T h e Annual Dinner of the Wanderers O.C. will take place at the Holborn Restaurant on Wednesday next at 7.15 p.m . Mr. Clement Colman, the President of the Club, will preside. T h e balance-sheet of the Sussex County C.O. for last season shows a decided increase in the amount of subscriptions and rIs o in gate receipts, and, although extra expense had been incurred, the deficit was reduced from £376 in 1906 to £298. This year all the first-class counties, with the exception of Northamptonshire, will be met, and a match with Cambridge University will be played at Brighton. O B IT U A R Y . M r . A. J. C h it t y . Mr. Arthur John Chitty died iu London on January 6 th, in his forty-ninth year, and was buried at Woking three days later. He was in the Eton Eleven in 1877 and 1878, playing against Winchester each year, but against Harrow in 1877 only. In the Winchester matches he scored 23 runs in three innings, and against Harrow 4 in one. He was a fair bat, but it was his wichet- keeping which gained him a place in the side. Among his contemporaries at Eton were C. T., G. B., and J. E. K. Studd, the Hon. Ivo Bligh, H. Whitfeld, the Hon. M. B. Hawke, and P. J. de Paravicini. He was eldest son of the late Rt. Hon. Lord Justice Chitty, who played for Eton from 1844 until 1847, and for Oxford in 1848 and 1849, and was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn. Mr. F. J. C oltm an . Mr. F. J. Coltman died in London on January 9th, in his 77th year. He was the wicket-keeper of the Eton Eleven of 1850, which was captained by Mr. C. L. Norman and which beat Harrow by seven wickets and Winchester by five. He afterwards pro­ ceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, but did not obtain his Blue. He was a younger son of the late Mr. Justice Coltman and was called to the Bar in 1860. J.D.B. M r . J. K. J. H ich en s . Mr. John Knill Jope Hichcns, late Chairman of theLondon StcekExchange Committee,died at Ascot on the 9th inst. He was bom on December 8 th, 1836, and was a member of the Winchester X I. of 1855. The meeting with Harrow took place for the last time in 1854, and therefore his only Public School match was against Eton. He did little on that occas:on, scoring only 1 and 0, and Eton won by 46 runs. He afterwards proceeded to University College, Oxford, but was not successful in obtaining his Blue. J. B. D. M r . J. H one . Mr. Joseph Hone, who was born at Dublin on March 28th, I860, died at Roebuck Grove, Dublin, on the 10 th inst., when within a few days of completing his fifty-eighth year. He was educated at Rugby, but did not obtain a place in the Eleven. In later years he developed into an excellent wicket-keeper and a batsman above the average, and for long was prominently identified with the Phoenix Park C.C. In 1879 he accompanied the Gentlemen of Ireland on their trip to America, and played for them against XV . of Toronto and the Peninsula C.C., of Detroit, scoring 11 in the former match and 3 in the latter. At the time of his death he was a Director and past Governor of the Bank of Ireland. Three of his brothers— Messrs. W ., X., and L. Hone—were well- known cricketers, as were also Capt. T. Hone and Mr. W . Hone, jun. In 1878-9 Mr. Leland Hone formed one of the English team which Lord Harris took to Australia. Mr. R. J oyce . Mr. Ralph Joyce, who has many times assisted Leicestershire, died suddenly at Ash­ bourne. Derbyshire, on the morning of March 12th. Bom at Ashby-de-la-Zouch on August 28th, 1878, he had therefore not completed his thirtieth year. He was the fourth son of Mr. J. H. Joyce, J.P., of Blackfordby, and a nephew of Mr. Justice Joyce, and was in practice as a solicitor at Ashbourne. His early cricket was played with the Woodville Town C.C., near Burton-on-Trent, for whom he one year averaged as much as 161 : he did not, however, obtain twelve centuries that season, as so frequently stated during the last few weeks. Educated at the Ashby and Bedford Grammar Schools, he assisted Leicestershire two years prior to proceeding to Brasenose College, Oxford, and made scores of 44 v. Hampshire in 1896 and 51 v. Derbyshire in 1897. In the Oxford Fresh­ men’s match of 1898 he made 82, and two years later scored 37 and 25 in Trial matches, but he never appeared in the University Eleven. Meanwhile, and until the end of 1906, he rendered much valuable assistance to his county, though he usually appeared in only a few matches at the end of the season. His best scores were :— 1899 ... 69, v. Derbyshire, at Chesterfield. 1902 ... 44, v. Surrey, at the Oval. 45 |v. Essex, at Leyton. 56* v. Warwickshire, at Edgbaston. 1904 ... 401 v< Worcestershire, at Worcester. 1905 ... 46, v. Worcestershire, at Leicester. 102, v. Notts, at Nottingham. * Signifies not out. In 1906 he played consistently well, averaging 18 for twelve innings, with a highest score of 37. His first match for Leicestershire was against Essex at Leicester in 1896, and his last—his only appearance during the season— against Kent on the same ground in 1907. In 1902 he headed the County’s averages with 38-00 runs for seven completed innings. He was a free and stylish batsman, a splendid field, and a useful slow bowler, though in first-class matches the few wickets he obtained were taken at a heavy cost. He also played hockey and liugby football, and on the Saturday before his death scored twice for the Woodville Hockey Club against Leicester. He was buried at Blackfordby on the 15th inst. The coffin plate bore the following inscription:— RALPH JOYCE, DIED MARCH 1 2 th , 1908, AGED 29 YEARS. Notwithstanding a heavy snowstorm, over a thousand persons were present at the inter­ ment. J. B. P a y n e . M r . J. N ix o n . Mr. James Nixon, a well-known Durban cricketer, died of enteric fever at Addington Hospital on February 20th. He was born in Belfast, and had been settled five years in Durban, where he was identified with the Queen’s Park C.C. M r . D. R. O n slow . Mr. Denzil Roberts Onslow, for over a- quarter of a century a member of the Com­ mittee of the Surrey County C.C., died suddenly at Little St. James Street, S.W., on Saturday last. He was born at Chittore, in Madras, with which Presidency his family had many ties, on June 12th, 1839, and was educated at Brighton College, where he was in the Eleven, among his contemporaries being Messrs. E. B. Fawcett, G. E. Cotterill, Chas. Carpenter, and A. E. Bateman. Scores and Biographies (vi.—393) says of him “ Height, 6 ft.: weight, 12 st. Fields any­ where, except as wicket-keeper or long-stop, and is a very hard hitter indeed. ” He was also a very useful change fast bowler. In 1860 and 1861 he was a member of the Cambridge Eleven, making 1 and 11 (the only double figure in the total of 41) against Oxford in the former year, and 17 and 48 (the highest score in an innings of 218) in the latter : he also took four wickets for 41 runs in the two matches and was each time on the winning side. Afterleavingthe Universityhe proceeded to India, where he was Private Secretary to Sir Charles Trevelyan, Bart., the Rt. Hon. W . N. Massey, and Sir Richard Temple, Bart., all Finance Ministers of India, in succession, and where he identified himself with the Calcutta and Simla Clubs. Living at one time at Brighton, he possessed a qualification for Sussex, and for that county he played three times in 1860, once in 1861, and twice in 1869, scoring 75 runs in twelve completed innings and taking six wickets at a cost of 13-83 runs each ; five of the wickets were taken against Surrey at the Oval in 1869 for 28 runs in an innings of 233, among his victims being Jupp, Griffith, and Pooley. For Gentlemen of Sussex against Gentlemen of Berkshire, at Brighton, in 1860, he scored 84, but his best innings in a match of note was probably his 53 for M.C.C. and Ground v. Surrey at the Oval in 1871, when he made his runs against the bowling of Southerton, Marten, and Street. Among the many club 3 he played for were the M.C.C., which he joined in 1869, Blue Mantles, and Anomalies, of which he was one of the original members. His grandfather, the second Earl of Onslow, played for Kent at the end of the eighteenth century and for Surrey at the beginning of the n ext; he was then Col. the Hon. Thomas Onslow, not succeeding to the Earldom until 1814. Mr. Onslow represented Guildford in the House of Commons in the Parliaments of 1874 and 1880, and continued to do so until the borough was disfranchised.under the last Reform Act. In the General Election of 1885 he contested the Poplar Division, and after his defeat there did not again attempt to enter the House. A Chat with him was published in Cricket of March 26th, 1903. M r. A . R u t te r . Mr. Algernon Rutter, who was born at Montague House, Uxbridge, Middlesex, on September 12th, 1840, died at Bexhill on the 9th inst., after a very short illness. He was a brother of Mr. Edward Rutter, the well- known Middlesex cricketer, and was educated at Rugby, where he was in the Eleven for three years, commencing in 1857. In the year named, when Rugby beat Marlborough