James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1878

5 6 (11) Kent, w ith two men given England. Canterbury, A u gu s t 6, 7, and 8. The first match o f the Canterbury week, and perhaps a more fitting one to Kentish notions than that o f Gloucestershire and K en t against England, which it superseded. Messrs. W - G . Grace and R id ley were the two given men, although the latter was not on his form o f 1877 the one who \\ ould ha\e been generally selected, and either A . P . Lucas or L lye tt would ha\e been a better representative. The county though, with the two allies, made a rare fight of it, against a strong England eleven, and what was more satisfactory the chief honours rested with Kent^ W ith a splendid wicket the batsmen had all the best of it, and in all 812 were realised for 32 wickets. Mr. . G. Grace (50 and 58) was level in point of runs with Mr. \ ardley (47 mid 61), but the feature of the match was a splendid second innings for the county, by Mr. Frank Penn, whose 135 was altogether devoid of anything like a chance. Lockwood (63) and Mr. I. D. Walker (38) contributed 101 to a first total o f 209 by England, and the game was drawn, with Lockwood and Mr. G. F . Grace out in tne second innings for 32, so that to win England would have to make 33 1 runs for eight wickets. The game was drawn. K en t , 229 and 342 ; total, 57 *• England, 209 and 32 (for two w ickets); total, >241. Overs, Maidens. Runsfc W ickets. Mycroft (1st inns. K e n t ) . . . f , 39-3 J7 4 2 6 Mr. Absolom (istinns. England) IQ 3 14 4 C H A P T E R I I . PRINCE’S CLUB IN 1877. O f f ic e r s for 1877* — Committee, Marquis of Bowmont, Earl o f Clarendon* Earl of Coventry, Lord Delamere, Viscount Downe, Sir W . Hart D yke Bart. M .P, Viscount Folkestone, M .P ., Earl of Gosford, Lord Grey de Radcliffe, Arthur E . Guest, Lord George Hamilton, M .P ., Lord Londes- borough, Alfred Lubbock, Earl of March, M .P ., Colonel Marshall, Lord Methuen, Marquis of Queensberry, Captain W . S. Kenyon-Slaney, A . H . .Smith-Bariy, Colonel T . E . Taylor, M .P ., Colonel Trotter, Lord Willoughby de Broke. Secretary, George Prince. Only two matches of general importance were played at Prince’s during 1877, and owing to the defection of the more influential amateurs from a cricket point of view, neither of these was at all successful, though a marvellous im­ provement in the condition of the wickets in comparison with the previous year, gave rise to some very high scoring. The departure of the Middlesex County Club to Lord’s robbed the ground of some of its attractions for cricke? ters, but we hope to see some good cricket there again next season.