CRICKETING NOTES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 145, 7 October 1876, Page 3

CRICKETING NOTES.

'.Clio Cvltfnrnian mail brings some very interesting items of cricket news from England. The Graco family have been niu'cicularly distinguishing therms-tws. Mr. W. G. Gracu started the- season very liiully, and every one thought the champion hart gone o!ft but as soon aa the grounds became hard ids form returned, tn a match played b.-fcwi-eu the O'nißort South of England and 22 of G'rvat

•Grimsby,, the champion wsts in t'"r nwrly li&tw dUys. and made fc ! it= vv»>riil,*ft!tt scor. of 400 not wulJ, Mr. VV. !t. iliH....rt King tlm noxS highest with UIJ. The Lletcn tugtttlief made 68-1 rurw. With the rx caption of the 404 obtained by Mr. E. F. & Tylecot--, in 186S r this is the largest individual innings ever known,, and the performance is the more remarkable fnmj the fact that tfc was made witH 22 in the fluid. Mi*. trace's score was made tip -is follows: —Four ft's, twenty-one 4s, six 3s, ftftyoight '£'&r and the rest singly*. The- wieket wits perfection,, and the bowling, though mostly amateur, quite tip to the average. A wood judge of tha game, writing to M Ys Lifer says " | ih»t Mr. Orace's play was acknowledged by all present (incittdinif th« members of the South team) to be such a* they never before witnessed-. He gave no chance- whatever during the first ind second d»s3 ;; »ti the third he gave two easy ones,, via., tt> short-slip and tong- \% but ha had then scored 2*o twu. Altogether, he waa at the wickets during tiio three day* thirteen hours and a halt', mid had no- teas than fifteen bowters in turn opposed to him." f>r. Grace—or, as ho is move familiarly town out here, lh\ E., M. Orace—has also been doing some "' tall"' things. He carried out his hat for 337 on the sth July against Chuton Ruynsham, his side only losing four ividtets for 6&J runs i but to show the jjloeiuua uncertainty of ttie game, when plivying against Clifton College soon at'tyr, hir scored only five, and the whole of his siiln were disposed of for twenty-three runs. The following week, however, he eume out of bis shell again, making I2'J not out. Mr. Cf. F. ftrace has also been assisting in keeping up the family reputation,, having on July 3 made t * ti>2 not out" against the St. George's Club-. A melancholy event occurred during the progress of the first match of the SBiwon, between Middlesex anil Nottingham. i>td Tom Box, the grottudkeeper at Prince's ground, but who will be better remembered as an English champion oviclceter of bygone days, suddenly expired in sight of the players and company. The match was at once abandoned, though it was mnch in favor of .Notts, tie was till) most celebrated wicket-keeper of his 'lay. tie matte- his first appearance in an important match in 1832,. when he played at Lord's aa wicketkeeper for his county, a posit'on which ha fitted for upwards of thirty years., tie was in his sixty-eighth year when he died. During the progress of the match lie was stipe.rinl'eniiin,' the Olograph board, and, waste so doing, be fooled round in lus chair, and droppod <lo\vit dead, it is supposed, from heart dUuiwe. Australian cricketers wilt regret to hear «£ the djathi of T. Hay ward, the celebrated Cambridge professional cricketer, who dim I at the comparatively early age of forty-one years. tn f*eo. .Parr's team Carpenter and ila;wwd, who generally w «nt in together, wore moat stubborn i'a'smen that Australian fcowttng has had *<» ci a end wit a. Both at Melbourne and ** Sydney they tired out all the opposing fowling, talent, and, with jj.xeii»nf»ry patience, kept their wickets ' "intact for Sours, being content with singles when thay came. Hayward was a. very beautiful batsman, at good SeMj. and a fair ch».ige bow lex. Of late ytars tua cricket deserted faxa.