Cricket 1885

8 CRICKET; A WEEKLY KECORD OF THE GAME. ja n . 29 , 1885 . N O TJ^C E S . ' Tlie two remaining Winter Monthly Issues will appear as under :— No. 81, FEB. 26. No. 82, MAR. 26. The six Winter numbers will be forwarded immediately on publication for 1/3, to be sent to W . R . W eig h t , Manager of C bicket , at this office. The Weekly Summer Numbers for 1885 will begin with No. 83, O n THURSDAY, APRIL 16, and terminate with No. 107, O n THURSDAY, SEPT. 24. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. THE HAMPSHIRE CRICKETERS’ GUIDE, M att be O kdebed A p r il IB, 1885. W . J . P I L E , (L ate GANN & CO.) ATHLETIC OUTFITTER, 171, FENCHURCH STREET. Supplies Clubs with every requisite. Quality Good—Prices Low. Write for Price Lists. FOOTBALL MATCHES T" OVAL Jan. 31.—Upton Park v. West End. (Semi-Final, London Cup.) Feb. 7. —Old Carthusians v. Queen’s Park, Glasgow. 11.—Brentwood v. Oxford Univ. 14.—London v. Cambridge Univ. 21.—Oxford v. Cambridge. 25.—Cambridge Univ. v. Sussex. To AUSTRALIAN CEICKETEBS. 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Id, T h e Colonial newspapers generally liave, and with some reason, ex­ pressed their disapproval of the action of the Australian team, in try­ ing, immediately on their arrival home, to induce the New South "Wales Asso­ ciation to arrange a match with them at Sydney a week before the date of the fixture between an eleven of tlie Colony and Shaw’ sEnglish team. As every one knows, the relations between the Australian teams which have visited England and a section of our profes­ sionals, have been always very strained, and the action of Shrewsbury, Barnes and Flowers in refusing to represent the Players against Murdoch’ s Eleven at Sheffield last summer, it must be admitted, did not tend to reduce the breach. CRICKET : A WEEKLY BEOOBD OF THE GAME. 41, 8T. ANDREW’S HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1885. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. M r . I. D. W alker , who, it will be remembered, left London in the “ Ganges ” last October for a winter’s tour through the Australian colonies, duly arrived at Melbourne in the best of health. A correspondent in Adelaide informs me that he arrived in that city early last month for the purpose of witnessing the match be­ tween Murdoch’s Australian Team and the English professionals, com­ menced on the 12th of December on the Oval at Adelaide. From the same souree I learn that he had just been elected an honorary member of the Norwood Cricket Club, one of the leading institutions of the kind in South Australia. I notice, too, that he scored 81 out of a total of 226 for an eleven representing the English Public Schools and Universities against the Bohemians, the I Z. of Australia, at Melbourne on December 5. Mr. D. G. Spiro, another old Harrovian, who played for Cambridge against Oxford last year, was on the same side. He contributed 84, so that the two old Harrow boys sub­ scribed more than one-half of the aggregate. I k n o w myself that the Australians were desirous of arranging, before they left England last summer, the fixtures with Shaw’s team to be decided on their return, and the disinclination shown by the English managers to come to any decision before they reached the Colonies, was resented by the Australian directorate. I merely mention this to show that the English promoters were aware of the pos­ sibility of a liitch in their relations with Murdoch and his comrades. I h a v e not, of course, nor can any one have, I think, the smallest sym­ pathy with the unsportsmanlike atti­ tude of cricketers, whatever may be their status or wheresoever they belong, in refusing to uphold the reputation of their country under any circumstances. It is much to be regretted, indeed, that any disagreements should arise to check in the smallest degree the interest in the reciprocal visits between English and Australian cricketers, visits which should be and have been in the past productive of much moral good in strengthening the already strong ties which bind England and her Colonies. I t is pleasant to be able to i ecord that Murdoch’s team on their return home all spoke in the highest terms of the kindness extended to them in Eng­ land last summer. Their attempt, though, on their return, to forestall our men at Sydneywas, it must be admitted, not calculated to relieve the tension existing in their diplomatic rela­ tions with the English professionals, and it must be owned that their .Next issue of Cricket Feb. 26-