Cricket.

Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 128, 14 October 1886, Page 3

Cricket.

The Surrey Club having boeu drawn against tho Phoenix for Saturday, all members aro rcqucbted to practice every evening this wook. The following arc the " centuries " scored during tho tour of the Australians in England :— For Australia— Jones, 152, 108, not out; Soott, 126; Giffen, 119: Bruce, 106. Englishmen— W. G. Grace, 170, 143, 110; Maurice Read, 186, 109 ; Shrewsbury, 164 ; Abel, 144; Barlow, 113; F.Hearne, 111 ; G. Braun, 104; W. W. Rsad, 102, not out. In a cricket match played at Hampsted on 4th August, between Hampstead and Stoics, R. E. Stoddart, playing for the former, compiled tho marvellous score of 455, which is the highest individual innings on record, the previous best being 419 (not out) by J. S. Garrick against tho Priory Park. Stoddart was at tho wickets cix hours, and the only chance he gavo was when ho had made 421. It is to be hoped that the ground authorities of tho Association will not i>i.ruiit the centres pitches of the Basin Reserve to be used for Borne ten or twelve days. It would be very iniadinions in noV> nu nt *v-

only necessary to inhpect the pitches already nsod to Ken the bad effect of premature use. There will be several impoii*ant matches on tho Reserve during the present season— such as those against the English team and tho Auckland and Canterbury olevcna. Therefore wo hopo every oare will bo taken of the ground while in its present soft state. [I3v Teleobaph.J i united press association. i Ciiristchurch, This Day. Tho Canterbury Cricket Association have decided to play 22 men against the Australians, and have declined to agree to the suggestions from the Wellington Association for a reprehentativc team to play the Australians, or to hold a North Island v. South Island match.

'Die statement made to the effect that tbe tendon, for the new New Zealand Loan closed in London yesterday is incorrect. The tonders do not ckwe until to-day. Phipps, the steward of the Wave Queen, is reported to be showing slight signs of improvement. Constable Smith brought to the Terrace Gaol this afternoon a man named Henry Davioo, who has beon committed for trial by the Featherston Bench, for having unlawfully wounded Lawrence Dunn. Stone Clink, the horse which turns out to bo the winner of the Csesarewitch, is a four-year-old full brother to Stone Deaf, the horse first sent through as the winner, being by Speculum out of Stone Chat. He is the property of Mr. R. Vyner, and has run respectably this season, his best performance being winning the Northumberland Plato from Selby, Nightcap, and three others. Stone Clink also ran third for the Doncaster Cup, won by The Card. It will bo noticed from an advertisement in another column that our old friend Mr. J. B. Cokor desireß to retire into private life, and wishes to dispose of his Family Hotel in Christchurch. This ia admitted to be the best hotel in New Zealand, and it may be doubted whether it has an equal in the colonies. To a man fitted to conduct a firstclass establishment of the kind, the opportunity now ofEered is an excellent one. For continuation of reading m itter tee fourth page).