CRICKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 1812, 13 August 1886, Page 25

CRICKET.

NOTES BY SLIP.

An English sporting paper thus comments on the financial prospects of the Australian Eleven tour -.—". — " In the matter of finances the outlook can hardly be very charming for the Melbourne Club. Lord Sheffield gave them a nice sum for their first match, but the half-share of the 'gate ' at Nottingham would only be about £85, as the takings from all sources at Trent Bridge amounted to but £210. In previous years the receipts have been close on £1000. At Kenington Oval 20,176 people, at a shilling each, passed through the turnstiles. With fine weather double the number would have been present and the colonists' share £1000, instead of alittle over £500. The Surrey Club, as they manage to get in nine cases out of ten, had the best of the bargain for the stands and special enclosure accommodation must have increased their share by close on another £300. As the -match on Monday and Tuesday with the Marylebone Club was abandoned, and the game against Oxford at present progressing does not look like yielding an unmanageable surplus, the Australians have got very badly off their marks."

A letter received from Mr James Lillywhite by the last English mail states that the following players have been secured for a cricketing tour through Australia during next season : — W. E. Roller and C. W. Wright, amateurs ; Briggs, Barnes^Bates, Gunn, Flowers, Lohmann, Shrewsbury, and Ulyett. A wicketkeeper for the team had not been selected, but the selection will be confined to Sherwin and Pilliing. A private cable message was received yesterday in Sydney from Lillywhite, statimg that three gentlemen players had been secured.

The following cables regarding English cricketers for Australia have appeared in the Melbourne papers :—: —

Dr W. G. Grace has declined to join Major Wardill's team of English cricketers for Australia.

Shaw, Shrewsbury, and Lilly white's team is booked to sail for Australia by the Orient steamer Lusitania in October next.

A letter from Shaw is published in which he states that he does not believe that the Melbourne Cricket Club will refuse the use of their ground to the team which he, with Shrewsbury and Lillywhite, has organised.

He also hopes that English amateurs will not assist in furthering the unfair proceeding of Major Wardill in the mattpr of getting together an English team for the colonies.

Private information has been received in Sydney respecting Shaw's English Eleven to the effect that it will comprise Briggs, Barnes, Bates, Shrewsbury, Gunn, Flowers, Lohmann, a wicket* keeper not named, probably Ulyett, and three gentlemen, two of whom will be C. W. Wright andW. E. Roller. Lilly white and Shaw will be the managers of the team.

Cricket is not generally supposed to be a lady's game, but girls who have been accustomed to play with their brothers have developed into really good cricketers. And no doubt a good representative team could be gathered together in Australia which could hold its own against the lady cricketers of England. As long ago as 1874 a ladies' cricket match was played in Sandhurst (Vie.) between two elevens, and some £300 were raised by this means for the Bendigo District Hospital. Several of the players exhibited remarkably good form, and one young lady proved herself to be a round arm-bowler who would have been an acquisition to any team. Ladies' cricket matches have been played elsewhere at intervals, and last season two were played on Moore Park, Sydney. At these matches there were several good fielders and bats, but one player proved herself to be a very Spofforth of a bowler. Bowlers are, as a rule, , scarce among women, but no doubt a sufficient number could be found in the colonies to form a basis for a match team, and with some practice together, such a team would take a good deal of beating even by cricketers of the sterner sex. In connection with the portrait of Mrs Theobald, a London paper of a recent date said :— Do you know that a lady in Essex|played in a first-rate cricket match the other day, and made 44 runs in her second innings, without giving a single chance ? Mrs Theobald — this wonderful cricketress — is the wife of Mr James Theobald, of Bedfords, Lord of the Manor of Grays Thurrock, who contested the Romford division at the last election. I am assured by ladies, not by horrid men, who always magnify the feats of pretty women, who were present at the match that she not only played with much skill, and made some hard hits, but looked extremely graceful in an elegant costume designed expressly for her. Mrs Theobald bowls well, and makes an elegant captain, who insists on being obeyed. A gentleman prominently connected with cricket in New South Wales has received a letter from Spofforth, in which the latter gives the opinion that the Australians will be beaten in all their test matches. The demon bowler gives as the reason that the new blood in the Australian Eleven is not so good as was anticipated. So far the prophecy of Spofforth has turned out to be true.

Briggs, having signed an agreement to go out to Australia as a member of Shaw aud Shrewsbury's next team for the Antipodes, is busy taking lessons in horsemanship (said an English paper). He does not mean to let the buckjumpers have so much the best of him agniu. Dr W. G. Grace is the greatest cricketer the world will probably ever see, and one of the worst captains of an 11 that could be chosen. The excellence of his undoubted judgment is exhausted in arranging the bowling at the end which he has not made his own, In other words, he puts

himself on too soon, and omits to take himself off. When Gloucestershire has thoroughly digested this fact, it will stand a better chance of success than has attended its appearance of late years. This will probably only take place when the brilliant era of the Graces has become a thing of the past. — World. The following scores in the Australian team's matches are to hand :—: — AUSTRALIANS v. GENTLEMBN, (SECOND MATCH). GENTLEMEN. First Innings. Second Innings. W. G. Grace, c Trumble, b Garrefct 148 c Jones, b Garrett 24 W.H. Patterson, c Blackham, b Jones 44 b Evans v 0 F. M. Lucas, c Evans, b Giffen 8 absent (hurt) ... 0 W. W. Read, c Bruce, b Garrett 34 not out 12 Hon.M.B.Hawke.cJones, c Blockham, b bGarretb 56 Garrett .., ... CO W. E. Roller, b Jones ... 63 absent (hurt) ... 0 G. Kemp, c Jarvis, b Evans 83 c and b Evans ... 2 M. C. Kemp, c Evans, b c Bonnor, b GarGarretfc 19 rett 8 J. A. Turner, npt out ... 1 c sub., b Evans ...20 C. Toppin, b Garrett ... 3* b Garrett 0 C. B. Homer, b Garrefct 0 c Bonnor, b Garrett 4 Byes, 7; leg-byes, 4; Leg-byes, 4; nowide, 1 12 ball, 1 6 Total 471 Total 105 Australians. S. P. Jones, c Turner, b Homer ... 151 J. M'llwraith, b Roller ... ... 8 11. J. Scott, c Toppin, b Turner ... 29 A. H. Jarvis, Ibw, b Paterson ... 71 \V. Bruce, c Kf-mp, b Homer ... 46 G. J. Bonnor. c and b Toppin ' ... 47 G. Giffen, c sub., b Hornea ... ... 4 J. W, Trumble, c Grace, b Homer ... 18 * J. MC. Blackham, b Turner ... 26 T. W. Garrett, not out ... ... 49 E. Evans, c Head, b Toppin .... ... 27 Byes, 9 ; leg-byes, 2 ; no-ball, 1 ... 12 Total ... ... ... 488 Bowmns Analysis. Australians.— First Innings. Overs. Mdns. Huns. Wkts. Homer ... ... 75 24 153 4 Roller ... ... 23 10 45 l Toppin ... ... 42.3 13 96 2 Grace ... ... 40 13 80 — lurner ... ... 34 14 e« 2 Patterson... ... 7 1 26 1 Read ... ... 5 — 10 — Toppin bowled a no-ball. Gentlemen.— First Innings. Gfffcn ... ... 47 18 87 1 Bruce ... ... 33 7 69 — Garrett ... ... 92 34 131 c Evans ... ... 32 10 65 1 Jones ... ... 23 9 53 2 Trumble ... v ... 27 10 54 — •Brace bowled a wide. Second Innings. Garrett ... ... 38 ssl 38 5 Jones ... ... 10 2 26 Evans ... ... 27 14 38 3 Jones bowled a no-ball. Result: Drawn. AUSTRALIANS v. PLAYERS. Playkrs. • Scotton, b Giffen ... ... 9 Shrewsbury, c Bonnor, b Palmar ... 15 Ulyett, b Palmer ... ... 0 Barnes, 1.b.w., b Giffen ... ... 14 Gunn, b Giffen ... ... ... . 23 Barlow, o Palmer, b Trumble ... 113 Briggs, b Garrett ... ... 13 ' Lee, c Garrett, b Giffen ... ,„ 21 M. Read, b Palmer ... ... v . Flowers, st Jarvis, b Palmer ... 93 Sherwin, not out ... ... 10 Sundries ... ... .... jjji Total ... ... .„ 334 Australians. First Innings. Second Jtmings. Jonea, c Barnes, b Ulyett 22 runout 49 Scott, c Gunn, b Barlow 11 c Shrewsbury b Ulyett ... ' ... 9 Giffen, b Briggs 72 c Read, b Gunn ...78 Jarvia, b Flowers 15 b Briggs a Bonnor, c Ulyett, b , " Flowers 4 c Shrewsbury, b Kead 47 Bruce, b Barlow •. 19 b Gunn 14 Trumble, b Barlow ..., 33 not out ... ... 8 Palmer, Shrewsbury, b Barlow 1 Garrett, st Sherwin, b Barlow ; 3 Blaekham, b Briggs ... 14 Evans, not out 3 not out 8 Sundries 5 Sundries „'. 17 Total 205 Total ...256 Bowling Analysis. Australians.— First Innings. Overs. Runs. Mdns. Wkts. Barnes ... ... 11 14 7 _ Barlow ... ... 37-2 51 15 5 Ulyetfc ... ... 39 55 22 ,1 Flowers ... ... 25 56 7 2 ' Briggs ... ... 21 24 ;, 9 2 Briggs bowled 1 wide ball. Second Innings. Barlow ... ... 22 32 8 — Briggs ... ... 49 50 32 1 Flowers ... ... 23 42 8 Ulyett ... ... 21 41 9 1 Read ... ... 17 27 S — Scotton ... ... 13 16 8 — Gunn ... ... 17 11 12 2 Barlow bowled 3 wides and Ulyett 1 no-ball. Players.— First Innings. Giffea ... ... 94 91 -51 4 Palmer ... ... 78 101 36 4 Garrett ... ... 37 60 16 I Evans ... ... 6 8 1 Jones ... ... 5 9 — Bruce ... ... 14 33 3 _ Blackham... ... 2 4 Trumble ... ...10.1 21 4 1 Result: Drawn The Averages. The following are the batting averages of the Australians, compiled up t» the Players' match, played on June 21 and following days. The bowling averages are made up to and include the figures recorded in the first innings of the Middlesex : — BATTING. Batsman. .2 j «. S | S° g Jones ... 20 510 151 151 1 2ti-10 Trumble ... 11 191 56* 103 2 21-2 Bonnor ... 20 371 47 51 2 20-14 Giffen ... 10 307 78 150 3 19-3 Jarvis ... 16 2(51 OG* 110 1 18-12 Bruce M 199 s '* 8S 1 15* Scott "... 20 2015 57 66 — 12-16 Garrett ... IS -07 '19 49 2 12-11 Blackham... 17 -00 43 52 — 11-13 Evnns ... 14 83 27 27 7 11-6 M-Ilwraith 8 59 39 42 - 7-3 Palmer ... 12 53 17 23 1 4-9 Spofforth- 7 17 6 6 3 4-1 * Signifies not out. BOWLING. Balls. Runs. Mdns. Wkts. Av'rage. Spofforth ... 699 22fl 72 33 6-28 Giffen ... 1.828 585 202 59 10*15 Gnrreit ... 1,947 621 213 44 14-15 Evans ... 791 210 94 IB 15 Palmer ... 1,016 357 116 18 1915 Jones ... 172 97 13 2 48-1 Bailee ... 389 181 27 3 60-1 Trumblo ... 269 126 25 1 136 Blackham ... 8 4 — — —