Canadian Cricket Field Volume 1 1882

f M PDTP I TKMET F ELD. generally good for as iany runs as a good lit. )n the ot her lianid, go[p Ju r I j o1 fast, straiglht Iowling on a liard, dilicult n iekvt, is inore lkely to lie iuccessfull than slow bowlig ; buit i a hard, good. wicket, I should prefer a good slow bowler who uI.tesis hiead to all the fast THE CIICAGO CLUB. bowler-s rolled into on,. ()în a soft wicket, there a be io doubt . --- as to tie superiority of the slow howling. To the Editor of te imduw iebt F0el. If aen man caluiot get a wicket, doî not bo afriud to take hiîn oif DE %R Sin,- Tie good "l cricket citizen.s," tof the we"t welcome and put on another, who, though not nearly s good, mnay level the the advent of anitler paper devotel to the nierests of tli best of stumîaps, for tiero is nothing like an occasional change. al 1 ganes, cricket ; and your correspondent (self-îvited though h, Under-hanîd, or lobi bowliig, is§ rather uider-rated at present. be) begs t- express the hope that the pressure of matter miay compel Ye scarcely %-ver seu a slow under-hanid bwler gven afiur trial ; the editor to eularge lis palier fuurfold ere the present seasoi he is, as a rul put on to bowl, wlen every ont ese lias failed. eloses. Even thon he very often gets a wicket or two -a conîîcliusive proof During the month of May and thus far in June, we scarol have that lob bowlers slould be put on at the begiiumîing tf a mîatvh and hiad a week of ch.ar , wariî weather-nothing but torrenîts of ramin not treated as forlorn hopes. the consequence i, that our Chicago Cricket Club is muany weeks Avo-id bowling toi) slw-a good hatsian wil easily get out toi a behmiid in its practice, and is not realy for the fray. However, with slow hall, no matter how high the curve, and score off it, if it is not a few"sunny hao sur teamîîwill soon fit theimselves for work. abovo a certain pace--and wheu bon ihng vlio noer bowl two halls Ou- first elevenl has been greatly strengthened by the addition alike. One hall should have a l<t of twist, while the niext iiay have of throe or four gentlemen whI have lately come anonîg us, and who no twist at all ; a full pitch is good occasionally, and astraighît long are ,1,ay(rm beyo.nd a pei-edventire ; it needed but one match to hop which keeps low nay often take a wicket. dleionstrate their skill, and if the C. C C. does not take a position Never keep bowling P way dead on, but try and tind out the bats- near the lieaid of the list this year, it will be their own fault. mnan's weak point. If lie ruts out of lis ground and plays forward, ILast week the homte teat ea'ily defe, ted the Westenî Americ s, pitclh shorter and shorter with a ligher cirve until lie îiiakes a of St. Louis, in the initial gaine of the jear, and had not " Mr. J. imistake and is either stuiped, caight, or boîwled. If he pIlays lluivius " lbeeni sv, ishing his wrateriig-can over the crease for a -,olid back, pifch clîoser and closer up, so as to bring lii foîrward or drive ni ith, imaking run-getting alinost an impossibihty, we would have hini on to his wicket. In fact, try at himi back and try at hii for- been able te record a handsoine victory. As it is, we are content ward until lie gets in a fog aiid yiu liae bis wicket in liis mîuoinent with a rvasonable advantage ; quite a nuuiber of the eleven failedt of indecision. Bowl for catches as well as for stuiping ; your to coiie off at the 1ai, but we look for theim on the 12th June, when object is to get the muant out, and if you cainiot do it in one way, do the Moiiud City C11b), of St. Loi, probably the strongest team it in another. Find <ut bis favourite strole, see if he ca i lit best which the C. C. C. will ieet this season, are comning up te try con- to the leg or to the off- -few latsen ati e good all round-and treat clulsions. him accordingly. Never act independently of the field and try to Matches are being arranged witl Winnipeg, Le Mars, Iowa win a match without their assistance -- you will not do imiuch single- Guelpl, Ont.; Ietr':t, Mich., and some others. It is te be hoped hauded ; and, in conclusion, take especial care wiih the last ball of that Toronto will ai ise, take into its first eleven seme yuiq blood, the orer, as if nothing lias heen scored til the others, the batsmnan huint up a brace of owliers, who can send down an over or two in can very rarely resist the temptatioi of arisky attempt to spoil your wlhiclh a fiw "c on»îcentrated hiuniers " will appear, and then conie imaiden. out to Chicago to retrii the vi.lt of hit year and to bear back a __________________victory. On Guel p h we coulnt ; why cannot Toronto corne also, playing STOLETQ 1UI2. Detroit either coing or going i - - - ---- -- - - - ---- Again wisliiig yoiu every success in your new enterprise, On Saturday the 20th ultiio, Mr. E. W. Lake, playing for the I am, very respectfully yours, Incogniti against the School of Gunnery at Shoebiryness, sent a PALMER. bail a distance of 93 feet belind the wicket.- Cricuet. Chicago, IlL., Junie, 1882. ince the very compliientary notice if Blackhan's wicket- -- - keeping appeared m LillyihWs Am«I for 1879, the Austrahans will never have it that anyone can approach limn beln. 1 the stumips. An Australian newsp.per, speaking of Pilling's performances with i Shaw's teamî in the colony, reinarks as follows : " In this depart- ¯ mtient Pilling was at his best, and proved clearly that if secoid, he Guelph play Galt at Gait on the 16th, the Peninsular Club, of is a very good second to Blackhai, the prince of wicket-keepeors."- Detroit, in Guelph on July lst, and the roturn match, against Galt, A merica Cricxcyter. at Guelph on 14th July. IT is said that Midwinter tried very liard to get nto the Aus- U. C. College play Trinity School at Port Hope oi the 17th ; the tralian teai, but that public opinion . was very munch agaiist im annuai match between ex and present Day boys and Boarders is for deseîtiig Gregory's teai in 1878. He was finally sliut out by aniounced to tako place oi the 24th inst. S offorth declaring that lhe would it ba one of the team if Mid- | The Sous of England Club, of Toronto, lias a nienibership of 40. wimter was included. Midwinter, it wIl be reieibered, was <one The followimg are the officers : Presinnt, J. W. Carter ; Vice. of the str<migest bats in the tirst Australian team, Lut he oily played Pres'ident, Mr. Jenniings ; Sec. -Treasurer, - White ; Chaplain, W. for it im tive out of their seventeen matches, and was accused of Beasley. The managing coinmittee consists of two non bers fron haviiig deserted theni whelin they played the couunty of Middlsex each lodge. at Lord's. On the sane days there was a match at the Oral between Surrey and Gloucestershire, about which there was nuch feeling; and it is recorded that " play wras delayed a bit to allow BW M D Messrs. W. G. Grace and Bush to capturo Midwinter when he ras all ready to go in for the Australians v. Middlesex at Lord's." Midwintor has played for Gl.ucestershire ever silice that tine. . In a muatch between M. C. C. and Leicestershire, the former woi I-- one imimings. Score : M. C. C., 546, Leicester, 152 and 164. PEION<AL.- -EoRE LAxx left England for America onu 27th of Barnes Made 266 with 3 chances, Midwinter 187 with one chance May, «n steamsiihii) Gallia. He is utnder engagemnt to the Staten at 130. su-d Club. . Among the heavy eruptionof large scores duringtie hast few days, it is refreshing te think of somle Matches in which the bovlers have TPHE Uhfl'1p liad a turn. On Saturday last ain eleven of Hanworthy (Dorset) were .. -got Out by Constitution Hill oun the latter's ground for one run in the second iningu. Last week a tean bearing the euphonious name -of BowLERi.--Many cricketers besides yourself are ignorant of what a Osgathorpe were dismissed by one with the equallypleaant-sounding wide bail really is. Thie chalk mark you refer to has nothing to appellation of Coleorton for three. do with the decision. Rule XII. gives the answor: "If the . bowler shall bowl the bail se wide that in the opinion of the AUSTRALIANS V. LANCASHIRE. umîuire it shall not be fairly within the rcach of the batsinan, he This match was begun on the 1st inst. Bonnor and Black- shall adjudge one run to the party recoiving the innings." hamn toîok the places of Giffen and Joues on .the Australian side.