CRICKET.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3034, 22 October 1888, Page 2

CRICKET.

The match niarrinil'v single by the members of the Maßtertoh Club hud ■ again to be |inHli>iined on Saturday last, : and a scratch mutch wok played, the Captain and Vice-Captain selectini; teatns, the' latter side winning after a pleasant gnnio. A good pitch wiias.'cnred,' winch played very nicely.. Fur the winners, Rowlatt 31, Perry 23,, and Iggulden 12, were the'prinoiscorers, Jmlil • doing most, execution with the leather. For the losing side Bremner 21, and MclCenzin 15, were the only two toget into double figures, Iggulden'beirig'well on and proving Very effective. The following are tho scores:— Vice Captain's Side,,; / Hawke, o Aitkin, b Judd '.;.., 7 Haigh, b Judd ... ..., ... 4 Smith, b Aitkin ;.,_• ; ...■ ~. 8 Mathias, b Judd. „ 6 Perry, b Erskine... ...,. ~,,, 23 Bowlatr, b.Judd ... . : ..' ~! 31 Kibblowbite, bH. Pftiry... ~,,.v3 Hirßchberg, b Pownall ... ~',4 Gf. H, Blsokburne, not out ;., -0 Blapkbuino, o and li Judd ... 0 Iggulden, b Pownall ... ... 12 ,;.,■' ~...:/... 11 .Legßyca ... '\„ "..,' 3 T0ta1..;.". ... ... ,;,;ii2 ■•■•' Captain's Side. Aitkon,.blggulden ... .„• 0 •McKenz'tß, b Iggulden IB Judd, b Iggulden.,.: ~. ~, 5 Moore, o Hawke, b Perry ,„ 8 Pownall, b Iggulden •... ... 0 Erskine, blggulden ....,,, 2 Bretuuero SmithbKibblewliito 21 Jackson, b Iggulden "...-, ... 1 H. Perry, o and b 0. Perry ' ... 1 Eton, o and bHuigh ... . „, 9 Milne, not out ~. 1 Byes ... ... ~, ' „. 1 Total ,„ ~ 64 The Star Club had a good practice on the Oval on Saturday afternoon, sovoral.uf the members showing excellent form both' in battingand bowling, We liear the M'.C.O. ara likely to play a match with Grey town next Saturday week, so that in view of this game and the one with Wellington, on 9th November, it. behoves members to get as much practice as possible, . ..The Pall Mall Budget in reviewing '! Cricket," the tot addition to the Badminton Library says:—Eton seems to havo been ono of the. first public schools to make cticket popular, Gray speaks ofLord Sandwich and Halifax as ho remembered them —" Dirty boys playing at cricket." The tossUeterniiuKd, it would almost appear, the right to select the plaof. for pitching the wiek»t; jerking or twiiting was introduced by Lambert, and perfected by "that excellent man, christian, and cricketer, David Hnniß," us Mr Lang describes him. William Lilly white introduced', round arm bowling, ami bis exploits with the\arm just above tho shoulder caused 'muclj discussion in 1827. For-. jjard. jdaywaa first practised in 1800, by Fennax ; and ■otliors, - -Byes aud overthrows date from 1776. ;The bat, straight, as now, was is novelty in 1827/; : Tbpburaingpt'tbeM.C.a; pavilion in' 1826 'destroyed, many cricket records. Sootoh crioket dates frorß tho present century; The first infer-TJniyersity match wa& in 1827. Bishop Wordsworth sonds a curio.ua ajiecdole about it: "I had to present njysolf to the Dean and tell him that 1 .wished to be allowed to go to Lotti don,not to play a game of cricket (that would not bavo boen listened to) but to consnlt a dentist,. a piece of Jesuitry which was'understood,! believe, equally well on both sides; at all events, my tutor, Longley—-after. wards Archbishop of.Canterbury—was privy to it." This is a better story than Mr Gale'a'accolihtof ahold iady which we literally transcribe;—" She ', was a good Christian, as", her house Btnod deep long-leg, and iraany a tinie has 'a four' boen scored.for a hit through berwindow—ahdthisis'afact."Short'leg," wo are told should be taken by a \ylt, ; becausb it is a "-convenient spot for cracking jokes j" but it is more origliisl to dub ah oldV lady because, herliouse.'f stood deep.joiig-legi"''->.'Thq^more .practical chapters; arb ; ■ well-wiittort and Buggestivo; they;iridicate the .changes cricket .vis.;; .undergoing ■ under our ':We :loara.why. iong-leg has gbne-ouihowitjs'that fast-bowlers a|||o' ; why |aftin'g ; .'cfjoket, fact |g|jn|||f|st| flfdjj™il as

duis Mi A.'G-.'Sieef suggests lutliei than bays, thit/'Eiiglish tenui.s taught the Australians their science, and ilm tubleb ut ureragts in batling and bowling be given uro agietable lo English prick', an we liave four bats men ul llio top and llireo bowlcis, lku hints to players by the several I writers stub us as being shrewd and useful, and some of tho letomis suggested, notably that "of two fiei boundary, nets and 1 mining out balls that do not go over, will shortly command acceptance, - >

Tin following peculiar incident is iccorded by the Loudon sporting life of August 15, in its account of the second match between the Australians and All England:—Fen is had started bowling at the gasworks end on Monday afternoon, and bcfoio the drawing oi stumps had changed ends, Yosteiday morning ho bowled from the gaSwotks wicket, and had so changed hands twice, Now, as every sohoolboy knows, or peihaps it would bo more coricct to say should know, a bowler, according to tho laws of the game, can only change ends twico in an innings, yet here was England v. Australia—the gieatcst match of the season—and after tins punishment Ferns was actually allowed to go on at the Pavilion wicket i. c, to change ends for the third time," The lefthander .had scarcely completed the infringement of the law (he had only bowled;one ball), when Carpenter, theiUmpirp, recollected that Ferris could hot legally bowl nt 'the Pavilion ellwand stopped him. Then of course iirose a difficulty as to whethei the over should be finished 1 or no. On the face of itjra over once staited bad to bo completed, but againßt this was the .fact that tho ball, which Ferris'; had sent down was no ball at all,' Eventually, after some consultation, in which W. Q. Grace participated, it was agreed not lo reckon the ball which Eenis had bowled, and. Turner resumed. No better course could, perhaps, bo suggest! d, yet we do not doubt that if Fen is had bowled Lohmann with that ball tho batsman would have had to go,