James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1876

38 Zingari was up to the mark from first to last. At Huddersfield, in the match between North and South, the latter in their second innings scored 411 runs for the loss of only six wickets ; Chari wood and Mr. G. F. Grace, while they were together, putting on as many as 205 runs. By way of contrast there was no lack of small scores. In one match between Wennington and Purfleet Garrison the former in their second inn­ ings were all dismissed without one run from the bat , the total consisting of three byes and a wide. At Bromley-by-Bow the Lombardian Club, too, had an innings of four runs, all from the bat, while the Marylebone Club gained the distinction of the smallest innings made of late years by any Club of position, when its Eleven were all dismissed by the Ealing Club for seven runs at Ealing on the 22nd of May last. An exhaustive summary in one of the sporting journals may be taken in confirmation of the above incidents, and the same witness is answerable for a list of sundry bowling curiosities during the season. According to this undoubted authority there were eight bowlers credited with all the wickets in an innings. It is at any time a remarkable feat, and, perhaps, the most remarkable of all those quoted in 1875 was that of Mr. H. P. Stedmau, who secured eleven wickets—ten of them clean bowled—in the Freshmen’s Match at Cambridge on the 19th of June. J. Kenrick, on behalf of Beddington Park, took all ten wickets of Reigate Hill, and the others to achieve this distinction were A. McAllister for Royal High School, Edinburgh r . Clydesdale, J. Wilkinson for Horsforth Church against Meanwood Park, H. G. Jeafifreson for Light against Dark of Charterhouse School, J. R. Trusswell for Farnsfield r. Woodborough, Coxall for Midland Railway v. Booth Brothers, and Armitage for Holderness Wanderers v. Scarborough. The task of enumerating such curiosities might be continued to an endless period, so that one more noteworthy than the rest must suffice to close the list. In a match between WillenhaU and Wolverhampton at Willenliall on August 14, the Rev. G. Wodehouse’s lobs secured the last six wickets of WillenhaU in their second innings in one over , an achievement extraordinary with bowling of any kind, but positively astonishing with slows. Cricket is at all times a game productive of eccentricities, and in this respect, as well as in its general features, the season of 1875 was true to the traditions of a long line of ancestors. c