Cricket 1883

42-2 CRICKET; A "WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. o c t . 25,1883. Sixteenth Year of Publication. T lie F O O T I i A L L A N N U A L FOR 18 8 3- E d ited b y C. W. ALCOCK, Hon Sec. Football Association. The only Official Organ of the Game PUBLISHED BY THE CRICKET PRESS. I T , P a t e r n o s t e r S q u a r e , LONDON, E.C. I t is strange that some of the English papers— usually thebest posted on cricket matters— seem even still to be ill-informed on the differenceswhich separate English and Australian cricketers on the subject of the projected trip. According to the Evening Standard of Monday “ the Australians have demanded that in future one-half of all the gate money received shall be paid over to them, whilst the counties are willing to give them only the half of the net receipts, the various necessary expenses being deducted.” I need hardly state that the Australians have received heretofore one-half of the gate-money, and it was only their addi­ tion of a claim to one-half of the stands as well which found general disfavour on this side. A n o t h e r sentence in the same docu­ ment, which by the way I have taken from the Australasian newspaper, will also be gratifying to English sportsmen. “ During the season,” it says, “ an Eng­ lish eleven, composed of eight amateurs and four professionals, visited us, the team being under the captaincy of the Hon. Ivo Bligh ; and it may not be out of place to sav that this eleven, by the fair and straightforward manner in which they dealt with any debatable point aris­ ing out of the game, established them­ selves as firm favourites, not only among cricketers, but with the general public also. The fourth and final match was played against the full strength ofVictoria, and the prestige of our colony in the cricket field was well maintained, for the English Eleven were defeated by an innings and 73 runs. Your association must congratulate the cricketing com­ munity of Victoria upon the possession of an eleven which, unassisted by players from any of the neighbouring colonies, accomplished a feat hitherto unknown in the annals of international cricket, this being the first occasionupon which eleven representatives of any one colony have defeatedanE nglishelevenin one innings. ’ The honours of the Victorians were won fairly and by sterling cricket, and the Colonists deserve the credit of an excep­ tionally fine performance. O n October 1 the marriage of Lieut. Col. the Hon. Neville GerardLyttelton, of the Rifle Brigade, with Katherine Sarah, youngest daughter of the late Bight Hon. James Stuart Wortley, was solemnised at Si. Margaret’s Church,Westminster, Co). Lyttelton was in the victorious Eton eleven against Harrow in 1862, and subse­ quently proved himself a good athlete at Cambridge. He was on the staff of Lord Wolseley during the late expedition in Egypt. A C o r r e s p o n d e n t at Hastings has sent me the following :— Two matches in which three centuries were scored, not merely in a single match but in a single innings, seem to have been overlooked by your numerous correspondents On August 1 and 2, 1864, at Fenner’s Ground, Cambridge, the Graduates of Cambridge University v. Under­ graduates scored 529 in their single innings (Hon. C. G. Lyttelton 104, A. W. T. Daniel 123, F. Lee 119). I fancy three hundreds in one in­ nings had seldom been obtained before this date. On August 11 and 12, 1868, also at Fenner’s Ground, Cambridge, the University Long Vaca­ tion Club v. University Servants scored 6®9 (W. J. Batchelor 289, A. E. Tillard 152, W. A. Prince 114). “ F r o m Cornet to Lieutenant-colonel in fifteen years and seventeen days is rapid promotion,” says the Figaro, “ and Lieu­ tenant-colonel Percy Barrow, of the 19th Hussars, may Be considered a lucky man. 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It contains Portraits and Biographies of all the members of the Australian Team of 1882, “ Crioketers of my Time," by J oh n N y re n , and a number o f interest­ ing articles by the best writers on the Game. The remaining issuesfor the Winter are Thursday, Nov. 29.Thursday, Jan. 31. „ Dec. 27. „ Feb, 28. Thursday, March 28. A limited number of high-class Advertisements will be taken on terms to bo obtained of the Manager. For ordinary Advertisements, the charge will be 3/- per inch narrow column, © r t c f t c t : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. THUBSDAY, OCTOBEE 25, 1883. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. T h e probabilities of the visit of another Australian team to England in 1884 are still causing considerable discussion. One of the London sporting dailies con­ tinues to assert most positively that their appearance here next summer is a cer­ tainty ; but all such announcements are premature. As a matter of fact up to the 15tli inst. no definite decision had been come to on the other side, and even as late as yesterday no official intimation had been received in London to authorise a statement that the trip had been deter­ mined on. P e r s o n a l l y I am of opinion that some concessions might with advantage have been made by the English authorities, but to the best of my knowledge the arrangements of the principal clubs in England with regard to the Australian cricketers were the same in 1878 and 1880 as in 1882, and I think I am correct in stating that the matches, at least atthe Oval, were all played under the same financial conditions on the occasion of each of the visits of the Colonists. I t is certainly a pity under any cir­ cumstances that there should be an obstacle in the way of the thorough ac­ cord of English and Australian players, and it is to be hoped that we shall soon have definite intelligence of the Colonists’ intention to visit England in 1884. I write thusly because no one can do other than admire the Australian thoroughness in the pursuit of our grand national game, or their loyalty to the recognised high tribunal of cricketin the old country. The closing sentence of the annual report of the Victorian Cricketers’ Association read at the meeting held at Melbourne on August 26th, may well serve as a text for a sermon on the hearty feeling which animates the cricket world of Australia towards the institutions of the mother land:— In conclusion your Association note, with feelings of pride and satisfaction, that the Mary­ lebone Club-—the Cricket Parliament of Eng­ land ”—has resolved to submit the revised rules of cricket for the approval of the cricketers of New South Wales and Victoria, and will he happy to reccive any suggestions or alterations which may by them be deemed necessary. Such a fact is, in itself, sufficient to prove the high estimation in which Australian cricket is held by the home authorities, and is an act of courtesy on the part of the Marylebone Club which will tend still further to cement the kindly relations now existing between cricketers of the Old and New World.