CRICKET. NOTES BY SLIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 1949, 2 July 1891, Page 29

CRICKET.

NOTES BY SLIP.

The Marylebone Club last year hada membership roll of 3666, including 218 life members.

H. Moorhouse, who played some brilliant innings during the past season for the Phoenix Club in Wellington, and who has since gone Home, baa some thought, I believe, of becoming a professional cricketer.

Surrey defeated Essex in their first match of the season by an innings and 69 runs, neither side being fully represented. Surrey scored 294 (Brookwell, not out, 48, Abel 46, Lobmann 45, W. W. Read 43, Maurice Read 87, Henderson 33), while Essex made 128 (R. P. Sewell 33) and 97 (H. G. Owen 37). In the course of the matob Lohmann took ten wickets of Essex for 93 runs, and Sbarpe nine for 84, A match, which was in progress when the last English mail left, between Lancashire and the M.O.C. and Ground was productive of small scoring only. The first innings of the County Palatine closed for 117 (A. N. Hornby 31), to which the M.C.O. replied with 128 (Lord Hawke 37). In the seaond innings Lancashire made 117 (Ward 32, Yates, not out, 30), aud when stumps were drawn at the end of tha second day's play the M.C.O. had twe wicketa down for 33,

Another match that was in progress when the mail kf t was between the Oxford University Eleven and a team of Gentlemen, captained by A. J. Webbe, and in this case the sooting was particularly heavy. The Dark Blues opened with 283, of which E, Smith scored 117, W. G. Olegg 35, and R. O. N. Palairet 30. The first innings of the Gentlemen realised 359 (G. F. Vernon 90, T. S. Pearson 70, T. B. Case 55, A. J. Webbe 37). Regarding the play in this matoh of Mr E. Smith (who is, by the way, qualified to play for Yorkshire), the Field remarks :— " Hitherto he may have batted wildly at times, but on this occasion he played cricket of a high-class character. He exhibited an unexpected amount of defence, whilst his hitting was aa powerful as ever, as it does not often fall to the lot of any batsman to hit a six and two fours in one over from J. J. Ferris ; whilst some idea of his punishing powers may be gathered from the faot that no lees than 92 of his runs were made from boundary hits." Some of the looal olubs in Manchester were busy one Saturday in the beginning of the present season, and that in one instance at least the eocenfcrio umpire waa (according to ths Guardian) on the war path again. R. G. Barlow was batting for his "Saturday club," Royston, against Littleborough, and the bowler appealed for leg before, " I didn't see it," replied the umpire ; but the bowler turned to him again and uaid, "What do you say?" This was too much for the umpire, and he announoed his decision in the following words ;— " I didn't see it, but I give him out 1

This decision is worthy to be bracketed with the famous "Not out, but don't do it again." Some remarkable cricket waa witnessed on the County ground at Taunton, on the 14tb of May, in a match between Somerset Club and Ground against Glastonbury and District. The last-named were dismissed in an hour for 86 runs, after whioh their opponents scored runs at a rapid rate, the total at the end of the day standing at 656 for nine wickets. Nichols, the county professional, carried out his bat for 311, while G. Fowler, after contributing 121, purposely disturbed his wicket.