Cricket 1885

440 CRICKET ; A W E EK LY RECORD OF THE GAME . oct . ail. ran. PHOTOGRAPHS or EMINENT CRICKETERS- M esses W e ig h t & Co. of 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, London, E.G., have pleasure in submit­ ting^ the following list of Photographs of Eminent Cricketers:— D r . W . G. G race . G rimshaw . M r. A. N. H ornby. H u n te r . M r . J. S h uter . P e e l . M r . W. W. H ead. Emm ett. M r. W . E. R o lle r . A. Shaw. M r. P. M . Ldcas. A. Shrew sbury. M r . W . H . P atterson .T he F our H earnes . M r . W . N ewham . B arlow . M r . W . R . G ilber t , i'll. ling . U lyett . W atson . P eate . H all . B ates . I{. T homs (TJmpier). Mn. W y a tt, P h illip s , Humphreys (group,) M . P. and F . M . Lucas (group.) _ Splendid Pictures , 12 X 10 inches, 5s. each ; Three jor 12,*, post free; al o groups of most of the County Elevens, 3s. Gd. each. Also Cabinets, price 2s. each, Three assorted, 5s., Six assorted, 9s., Twelve assorted, 15s., all post free. 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Cambridge University HPO BE DISPOSED OP, W isdbn ’ s 1870. ’71, ’72 and ■*- ’73 ; L illtw h ite ’ s 1S73, ’79, ’fo, ’SI, '82, \S‘(, 84. ’85 ; C ricket , Vol. 1, 2, 3, bound, firBt No. in Vo’. 1 miBsing. Lot/or 80/-, or offer. H. Brand, tforfo k Honso, Alleyn Roid, Weet Dulwich. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 41 8T. ANDREW’S HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1885. ^ 1 c P7IYIM0N v G ^ I P ^ The abstract and briefchronicle of the time.— Hamlet. T hough tlie time for the annual conference of County secretaries, which I take it will be held as usual on the second day of the Cattle Show week (Dec. 8) at Lord’s, is fast ap­ proaching, I am able to state on the Dost authoritythat no definite informa­ tion has, as yet, been received by the Secretary of the Marylebone Club to enable any one to say that the visit of an Australian team to England next summer is a certainty. T he Annual Report issued by the Committee of the Melbourne Club, presented to the general meeting of members on the 12th of last month, contains the following allusion to the subject—“ The Committee have had under consideration the question of forming an eleven to visit England under the auspices of the Melbourne Cricket Club in a tour throughout the United Kingdom, and it is proposed to call a meeting to consider the advisability or otherwise of carrying out the undertaking, so soon as the Committee is in a position to submit a definite proposition.” A g o o d friend of mine in Adelaide, writing about the same time, informs me that the Melbourne Club had then done, andwouldprobablydonothing in the matter until November. He adds ’ thatpublicopinionisaltogetheropposed to any idea of sending a second-rate team to England. The whole man­ agement of the trip will be in the hands of the Melbourne Club—the M.C.C. of Australia—and should the neccssary arrangements have been completed cricketers on this side ought soon to be in possession of the news. As it is several of the leading clubs are already commencing the arrange ment of their programmes, and the absence of any reliable intelligence from the Colonies is a little awkward in some cases. To see ourselves as others see us is not always, perhaps, an unmixed pleasure. The English team just re­ turned from America, though, must have derived very considerable enjoy­ ment from the original way in which they were presented to the public of America and Canada during their stay. In “ Gossip ” of Sept. 24th I gave a few quaint extracts fromTransatlantic papers on the movements of the English amateurs. A few more will, I hope, be read with interest:— A l l the players are young men, and mostof them are of strong physique. Roller, the champion batsman of the team, is of the giant order. His six foot two or three inches is counter-balanced by immense breadth of shoulder, with great muscular development. His fellow Surrey man, Horner, is slightly different. What he lacks in length he makes up in breadth. Horner is the fine bowler of the team, but if he could be hailed as a bats­ man , the dream of his life would be accom­ plished. A paiity of very English-looking youths hurried into the grand stand at Recreation Park last night, and eagerly drank in the har­ rowing scenes of the wild beast show. They wore the conventional eye glasses, mutton chop whiskers, short overcoat, exposing the tails of their under coat, and all the habili­ ments of thorough bred London Swells. T hey can D ance Too. T he CitiCKETEiis adjourn from a B all F ield to a B all R oom . T h e English cricketers after playing with the cricket ball all day, danced to the sound of merry music at the cricket ball last night. Wissakickon Inn never looked more beau­ tiful, and lay upon the level sea of grass like a great vessel of war, with red port-hole eyes streaming into the night. Chinese lanterns hung about porches and grounds, eclipsing with brilliant colors the moon’s silver light, which cast stealthy shadows between them. Why do not the sporting dailies treat us to some of this picturesquewriting ? A notheii paper adds that at a concert given on the voyage out, “ C. E. Horner, the great Surrey bowler, made his first bcw to the public, sang a comic tong with wonderful facial distortions, and consequently was the only one to obtain an encore.” T he interestirg narrative of tho tour written by a prominent member of the team, which appears in another Next Issue November 26-