James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1895

T H EUNIVERSITIESA N DPUBLICS C H O O L SIN 1894. 1 6 3 SHERBORNESCHOOL ELEVEN IN 1894.-*J. E. Stevens : Captain and facile princeps . One of the best batsmen Sherborne has turned out , having sound defence against good bowling , and making it very hot for the looser sort . Avery useful bowlertoo, varying his pace with judgement and getting manywickets with his slow one. Amodest but thoroughly efficient captain . *C. A. S. Ridout : Improved greatly in batting this season , displaying more freedom and vigour , with no loss ofdefence . A nexcellent hardworking field . *A. D. Radford : Thebowler of the - team, generally having to bowl at both ends . Steady and straight as ever, with rather morepace . Wickets were too good for any bowler . *A. Dixon: Disappoint- ing at first , came on with a rush in the M.C.C. match, whenhe played a fine free innings . Fair change bowler . A. Wyatt Smith : More than fulfilled last years promise. A really good bat. Plays very straight , drives hard, and places them well off his legs . Goodlong field with a safe pair of hands . *W. H. Atkinson : A steady left handed, but often did good service byhis patient defence , and could hit hardon the off side . Capital field , always playing uphard. G. Partridge : A straight (rather short ) medium paced bowler , on his day bowled very well . Fair bat, good field . *H. G. K. Young : Kept wicket pluckily and not without success . H a r dhitting but not a very straight bat. Might have been a bowler . *T. C. Mason Hardlycame up to expectation either with bat or ball , but was handicapped by badeyesight , did well in both school matches . *O. S. Wigan: Notafinished bat, butlays on hard. Smartfield . *L. C. Stanger -Leathcs : Fair bat and change bowler. Bowled very well v Bradfield . Improved suddenly late in the day. S H R E W S B U R Y C H O O L . Captain for 1894-C. L. Alexander. R e s u l t so f M a t c h e s . Matches Played 11 ; Won, 0 ; Drawn, 3 ; Lost , 8. Club. O p n t s. Opponents. Where played . When played 1st 2nd 1st 2nd W o nb y Ins. Ins. Ins. Ins. 1 MatchesW o n(0). MatchesD r a w n(3). R e m a r k s. Oswestry Shrewsbury M a y29 *1 1 4 Edgbaston Shrewsbury J u n e9 *4 7 1 3 7 1 0 8 *8 w k t s. *3 Shropshire Shrewsbury July 30 2 5 1 *1 5 3 *6 و د د و MatchesLost (8). Lostby R o c kFerry Shrewsbury June6 8 3 2 1 3 130runs Wolverhampton Shrewsbury June16 4 8 *23 109 61 runs; *3 w d D e r b yFriars Shrewsbury June19, 20 9 0 51 107 *357wkts.; *3 w d R O S S A L L S C H O O L Rossall 6 37 7 3 8 0 L u d l o w Shrewsbury July7 8 0 *2 5 2 Inns. & 240runs 172 runs; *4 w d O l dSalopians Shrewsbury July11, 12 139 J. Salisbury's XI Shrewsbury July1 4 1 4 6 *2 5 8 M . C. C. andG. Shrewsbury July17, 18 5 9 7 4 226 89 88 *1422wkts.; *8wd 112runs; *2w d I n n s. & 93 runs B A T T I N GA V E R A G E S . T i m e s M o s tin I n n s. n o tout. R u n s, a nI n n s. Average. C. L. A l e x a n d e r 1 0 2 6 2 6 2 6 . 0 0 A . F. V e r n o n 1 6 0 2 2 7 3 7 14.18 W .M .Salt 1 5 1 1 3 9 6 6 9 . 9 2 C. F. Thornton 1 0 6 3 1 9 7.75 H .A . L o w e 1 2 1 8 0 1 8 7.27 F. H . O l d h a m 1 4 1 1 5 3 6 5 1 1 . 7 6 J. H . T h o m a s 1 1 2 1 2 7 *4 0 1 4 . 1 1 C. O. Tuckey 1 6 1 1 4 6 *5 2 9.73 H .D. Banning. 1 4 1 9 0 2 0 6 . 9 2 G. Moser 1 2 3 4 7 1 0 5 . 2 2 C. E. Finny 6 0 1 0 9 7 5 18.16 . . . . F. H. Humphrys. 1 1 0 4 3 1 4 3 . 9 0