Cricket 1882

310 CRICKET; A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. SEPT. 28, 1882 C R I C K E T ! L A W N T E N N I S ! ! F O O T B A L L ! ! First Prize Medal at Melbourne Exhibition, 1880. JAMES LILLYWHITE, FROWD & CO., Manufacturers of all articles used in the above and other Athletic Sports. Speciality for the highest class Goods. Bats specially seasoned for hot climates. Price Lists and all parti­ culars may be had post free. Shipperssuppliedat wholesale prices. J. L., F. and Co. are the sole Manufacturers of Frowd’s new patent “ Special Driver ” Bat, which drives better, jars less, and averages l.£ ounces lighter than any other B at; universally allowed to be the greatest improvement made in Bats since cane handles were introduced. Publishers of JAMES LILLY­ WHITE’S CRICKETER’S ANNUAL. Manufactory and Ware­ house:—4and G, Newington Causeway and 73 and 74, Borough Boad, London. F O O T B A L L 7 he very best quality Football Outfits. LARGESTSTOCKINTHEWORLD. 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BO X IN G G LO V E S , Single Sticks, Foils, Masks. Fencing Gloves, Jackets, Dumb-bells, Iron Shot, Indian Clubs, Hammers, Wristlets, Quoits G YM N A S T IC Apparatus of all kinds. L A W N T E N N IS Jerseys, Hose, Caps, Knick­ erbockers, Nets, Balls, Bats, and Shoes. GEORGE KENT, 149, FENCHUECH STREET , LONDON C R I C K E T . A W c c k l y U c c o n l of t l i o G a m e THURSDAY, SEPT. 28, 1882. s w i l l , After the end of October all back numbers of C ricket will be charged 4d. each. We hav9 already made arrangements with some of the best writers on Cricket for articles on the theory and practice of the Game for next summer. Though just completing its first season, C r ic k e t can boast the largest circulation of any weekly paper of the kind, and every effort will be made to main­ tain the' reputation it has already won in every part of the world. T H E A U S T R A L IA N C R IC K E T R E S . No. 21, to be published this morning, completes the series of portraits of the Australian Team. It contains portraits andbiographie s of W.L. Murdoch, the Captain, and C. W. Beal, the Secretary. A full record of the tour of the third Aus­ tralian Team in England will be published next week at the office of “ Cricket,” price 6d. It will contain a portrait and biography of each member of the Team,and of Mr. C. W. Beal, the Manager; Shakspearian quotations, results, averages, and an article on the Tour-generally. IM P O R T A N T N O T IC E . The first season of C r icket ends with this number. The second season will begin on April 20, 1883, and end on September 29. Subscription for the season of 22 weeks will be 4s. 7d. post free. m v §tiBgc^iPFf0N« “ C r ic k e t ” will be published during 1883 at 17, Paternoster Square, London, E.C., and will be forwarded to any address in Great Britain, post free for 4s. Id., in time for first post on Thursday Morning. VALE ! Actum est. It is all over. Tlie time lias come when the pen which has for many weeks been engaged in dealing with matters solely of cricket interest has to seek other trains of thought . The pen which welcomed the coming has now in its turn to speed the parting guest. To descend from the heights of metaphor, the Editor of this paper has to say good-bye for a time to the thousands of readers C k ic k e t has gained since it first appeared, an unpretentious aspirant for public favour, a little more than five months ago. He would be very unmindful to the legion of kind and considerate friends who have from every part of the world testified their appreciation of the aims of the paper, so much lacking in ordinary gratitude, were he not grieved at the necessity of even a momentary separation. The relations be­ tween C k ic k e t and the class for whose special amusement or edification it was pro­ duced have, it is his pride to say, been of the most cordial kind. In spite of the brief existence of many journals professing to represent England’s national game, C r ic k e t has shown that there is an ample field for a paper solely devoted to the interests of the sport. Though little advertised it has even in its first season proved a distinct success. Its circulation already exceeds that of any other paper of a similar kind. To judge, too, by the systematic mannerJin which its information has been reproduced, no less than the fidelity with which some of its principal features have been copied, its arrangements have at least borne the severest ordeal, that of interested criticism. So much hearty encouragement has been received from every section of cricketers that the dissolution of the ties between those responsible for its production, and the many whose support has mainly conduced to its pronounced success, must be, we are bold enough to think, equally regretted by both. C r ic k e t has numbered among its contributors many of its most influential and experienced judges of the game, as well as some of its most capable writers. On all sides it has met with a warmth of welcome far exceeding the most hopeful anticipation. To the best of its ability it has striven to consider the highest interests of the game. It has consistently advocated certain re­ forms, and in some measure with success. It has “ Nothing extenuates nor set down aught in malice.” The main aim of its promo­ tershas been to give an unbiassed and accurate history of the season’s play, which shall be at the same time instructive and entertain­ ing. To those, and they are not a few, who have given to the paper the benefit of great experience ancLripe judgment, the manage­ ment lias to tender its best thanks. Their active and kindly help has done much to lighten a task naturally of considerable anxiety. To them and to all who have directly or indirectly aided in its prosperity, the Editor of C r ic k e t is most deeply grate­ ful. Until next April it is his painful duty to wish them all Farewell! -^P7IYm i0N :g0g$IP^ They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of our time.- Hamlet. A n o t h e b season gone, Eheu fugaces “ Another footprint on the sands of time,” to use Longfellow’s expressive figure. A heavy print too, and one that will take some obliteration— the tread of victorious Australians, as they leave our shores with the blushing honours of their first triumph over English cricket thick upon them. I t is within a few weeks of twenty-one years ago since the first English eleven set sail from Liverpool for Melbourne, under the leadership of H. H. Stephenson. Who would then have dreamed that before Australian cricket, so far at least at it was learned from English professors,had attained its majority, its representatives would be able to claim a triumph over the best eleven the old country could place in the field ? I t w a s from English masters that the boy­ hood of Australia learned its first lessons in cricket. I t was the style of such batsmen as Stephenson and Caffyn, tlie latter a model on which many a youngster in the Colonies shaped his play, that gave tliefirst definite impression to Australian batting. And now the pupil has outwitted liis master. The advance of cricket in our Australian Colonies is rather a subject for congra- ulation than one for national lamenta-