Cricket 1892

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THURSDAY, MAY 12 th , 18S2 Sb* abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Sami* & I f the report be ^true that the c o m mittee of the Notts County C.O. agreed, on Tuesday night, to favour the proposal for a visit from an Australian Team next year instead of in 1894, their decision will, it goes without saying, have an important effect in removing the possi­ bility of anyserious difficulties. “ There is much virtue in an if,” particularly in the present instance, because the accounts of the' meeting in the two sporting dailies of yesterday do not quite coincide. I n any case, I think I am not betraying state secrets when I say that a majority of the principal counties have already expressedthemselves as ready to welcome the combination Mr. Victor Cohen, the Treasurer of the New South Wales Association, proposes to personally con­ duct next summer ore one important con­ dition. The reservation takes the form of a stipulation that the coming teamshall be thoroughly representative of Austra­ lian cricket. Such a stipulation, from what 1 have heard, will meet with the approval of those who have the conduct of the negotiations in Australia. From information I have received I am indeed justified in saying that the co-operation of the players who would be regarded as the backbone of a really representative Australian Team has been practically assured. C ricketebs will read with no small amount of interest the sketch of Notting­ hamshire cricket which Arthur Shrews­ bury has contributed to the May number of the Ludgate Monthly under the title of “ The Trent Bridge Cricket Ground.” But surely what is worth doing at all is worth doing well. At least it would seem to be only ordinary consideration, when the conductors of the magazine had been fortunate enough to secure the assistance of such a brilliant exponent of the game, to ensure the presentation of his views with some slight attention to detail. I f this had been done there could hardly have been such errors as are noticeable in the names of the Australian cricketers who were prominent ten years ago. Percy McDonnell, e.g., is put down as McDonald, Frank Allan, “ the bowler of acentury,” as Allen, Garrett asGarratt. The faults are trivial, it may be, but none the less they annoy the eye. Even these, though, would perhaps be insignificant in comparison with the derangement which occurred in the report of the last test match of Lord Sheffield’s team in an