James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Companion 1885

L<c}p1^: were all out for 131, and then the Surrey captain r. r. Ashdou n v ere at the wickets for the rest of the day. Mr. eight the f w O * ■ i-J w i f u U J L A A V / 1 1 1 U U v U V j Park on August 18, C. Howard, the Sussex professional, going in fi wicket down at 8, and carrying out his bat for 300. Mr. C. W. Rock, forniei and M m \ _ Shu ter scoied 304 (not out) and his partner 62 (not out), the former hitting eight sixes, eighteen fours, twenty-eight threes, twenty- i twos, and forty-four singles. In the same match Mr. L. A. Shuter did “hat trick. Goodwoo(l made 476 against Westbourne in Goodwood first the Cambridge eleven, scored 127 out of 264 for six wickets, for Clare College against Pembroke College, going in first, and being not out when the game ended. In Australia, W. Bruce, for Melbourne, against Hot- ham, made 328 (not out), which is the highest individual score ever made in the Colonies. Eight wickets only fell, and 635 runs were obtained. Mr. A. R. Cobb’s 190, for Sixteen Oxford Freshmen against the University eleven, on May 9, is the highest innings yet played on the ground in the Parks, Oxford. Playing for Cambridge Athenaeum against Oxford Bullingdon, Mr. D. G. Spiro, of the University eleven, scored 117 and 106, an achievement which can be credited to very few batsmen. In one week in May (consecutive days, May 20, 21, and 22) Caius College scored over 1,000 runs for four wickets against Magdalene, Corpus, and Emmanuel Colleges. Their captain, E. F. G. J. Page, when playing at Garboldsham v. Garboldsbam on June 3, went in with another man in the second innings to make 15 runs to win. The first ball he cut for four, the second ball he hit to long leg for four, the third ball, a magnificent hit, to forward square leg for six (fourteen in three hits), the fourth ball went almost to the same place for seven, thus winning the match for Caius—twenty-one in four hits. Twice during the season 220 runs were made before a wicket fell. On June 17, it was done by F. H. Stevens and C. Roberts for Witliam against Coggeshall, and on July 31 the feat was accomplished for Edinburgh University against Dunfermline. Eltliam obtained 210 for the first wicket against Fairfax, and A. T. Bishop and A. E. Bishop going in first for the Bees against Acton made 162 before they were parted. F. H. Stevens and C. Roberts, the two players mentioned above, are also credited with scoring 161 for the first wicket of Witham, in a match with Braintree, and mention must also he made of the performance of Bannerman and Bonnor, who, on March 15, at Adelaide, scoied 112, without either losing his wicket, in the match between the Australian team and Fifteen of South Australia. Mention has already been made of the performance of Captain Young and Lieut Dumbleton, and one or two other less wonderful achievements must be noted. On April 29, at Oxford, Mr. M. C. Kemp and Mr. H. B. Tristram put on 350 runs for the third wicket of Hertford College against Trinity College and Messrs. C. I. Thornton and J. E. A. Greatorex, on May 31 for the second wicket of Orleans Club v. Revellers, made 273. • In Pittsburgh 219 runs were put on by J. A. Scott and S. Law for Phila­ delphia^ Zingari against Pittsburgh, this being the largest number of runs ever obtained for one wicket in America. In a match between HMS Britannia and Mr.. Denison’s team, Lieut, Thomas and Under­ wood put on 151 runs for the third wicket without either giving a chance. Curiously enough both were out in the same over, and in exactly the same way—caught easily at short-leg from a fast kicking ball on the leg stump