James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Companion 1885

169 Other cmioush Small scores occurred in the following matches:— 4 by the lairfax Club agaihst L. and S. W. Railway at Putney, 6 by Southall agamst Belgrave, and 7 (including three extras) by the Stratford - on-Avon Town against Trinity College.' Wadham College disposed of Worcester College for 8 in which were two leg byes, * and St. Botolph’s y^re similarly successful against Shorne, the score‘of the latter club (8) including a bye. Nine was the total made on July 3 by St. Luke’s Choir against St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir School, and the same score was obtained by under 30 of Bichmond in a match with over 30 of the same place, six of the eleven failing to score. Out of a total of 25 made by Rooksncst, playing against Mr. \V. Foord-Kelcey’s eleven, Mr. T. S. Pearson made 15 (not out), Mr. A. G-. Bonsor 1, and 9 were extras. At Rochester, on June 25, in the second innings of Gravesend, Mr. Deary, the first mail in, made 20, and the other fen batsmen failed to score, dr. Mead took four wickets in one over and three more with successive jails in another. A * > ’:>1< • ;' 1 An instance of very rapid scoring is reported from Hornsey, where the Hornsey Club, on August 1G, obtained 270 runs for four wickets in two hours and a quarter against Upper Clapton. The first 171,runs Were made in an hour and twenty minutes. G. Swinstead scoredT75 (not out). On Aiigust 2G, for Bedford Town, against the Stoics, B. L. Cooper-Coles and Bogers hit up 130 runs in the horn’, wh ile ,at Sydney, for the University against Belvidere, S. P. Jones, of the third Australian team, scored 120 in less than an hour., , •f . ' • ‘v' : : Perhaps the .most remarkable case of hard hitting took place in Seiton Park on July ‘9, when after rain had stopped play, 388 runs were got in 138 minutes,'Mr. D. Q. Steel contributing 226 and Mr. H. B. Steel 100 to the number. Quite worthy of note, too, among these curiosities was the hitting up of 217 runs in an hour and forty minutes by East Melbourne ‘against Fifteen of South Melbourne Trades. On May 20, in a college match at Cambridge, between Caius and Magdalene, the former scored 444 ruins for two wickets ih three hours and a ‘half, and Bichmond made 510 in four hotirs and a quarter against Pallings'wiek. The following cases of rapid scoring in order to win a match may he found interesting i —Kensington Park, on June 2, wanted 110 runs to beat the Nondescripts, and goTthem in 46 minutes off 89 balls within two minutes of tim e; while Sidmouth made 82 runs, necessary to win, against Seaton Buccaneers in thirty-five minutes. , ,*r , _ . A “tie” match tookplace at Bristol, on July 19, between the Bohemians and Bedminster, each side scoring 84, while, at Brighton on 1/ May the Brighton Grammar School eleven and Cleveland Club both c>b amed 87 runs in their first innings. East Melbourne and Sixteen of 1 anc emong both scored 71 at Melbourne on February 21, and m a game at Eltliam the local club and Buckhurst Hill tied with 85. A fifth “lie” match occurred at Broadwater, on August 13, Bioadwaf ei r. Oatlands Park, each scoring 101. T. Britten for the latter club, took six wickets (5 clean bowled) for 17 runs, and diqnu^ed one of the Broadwater team with a hall which sent the bail Hying 42 yards. U. R. Wood a fast right-hand bowler, playing for Kilbuyn against The Elms