Cricket 1886

13G CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. MAT 20,1886. GRAND CRICKET MATCH, K E N N I N G T O N O V A L MONDAY NEXT. SURREY v. YORKSHIRE. A d m is s io n t o G r o u n d .................S i x p e n c e , A U S T R A L IA N S v. O X F O R D U N I V E R S I T Y . On t h e . CHRIST CHURCH C R I C K E T G ROUND , O X F O R D . THURSDAY, MAY 27, & Two following Days. A dmission — O N E SHILLING. E nclosure —Two S h illin g s and S ixpe n ce . Members on presenting tlieir Tickets. KENN INGTON OVAL. First Australian Match in London. THIS DAY (Thursday). Australians v. Surrey ADMISSION TO GKOUND, ONE SHILLING C arriages not A dm itted . W . J . P I L E ( L a t e GANN & CO.), ATHLETIC OUTFITTER AND CLUB TAILOR, To the Assyrian, the London Athletic, the Black­ heath Harriers, and other Clubs. Also by Appointment to the F o o t b a ll A ssocia tio n , and many other Leading Football Clubs. S e c r e t a r ie s k in d ly w r it e f o r L is t, 1 7 1 , I T e n . c h u . r c l x S t r e e t . Clubs supplied with every requisite. Q u a lity G ood. P r ic e s Low . ^S hrunk F lannel T rousers , 10/6, 12/6, 14/6. S hrunk F lannel S h ir ts , 7/6 and 9/6. O U R O W N M A K E . C r i c k e t : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME 41, ST. ANDREW’ S H ILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, MAY 20 th , 1886. NOTICE. Correspondents are particularly requested to send in their scores either on Report Sheets (not on Scoring Sheets) or on plain paper , and to write on one side o f thepaper only. IJabHbtt ( f o a m y . The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. A r e c e n t number of the Morning Post contained the following announcement, which cannot fail to be of interest to cricketers generally—- The marriage of Mr. A. G. Steel, son of the late Mr. Joseph Steel, of South Hill Grove, Liverpool, will take place on the 1st of June, with Georgie, eldest daughter of Mr. J. P. Thomas, Warneford Place, Highworth, Wilts, and Calcutta. This new match, it is to be feared, will interfere with Mr. Steel’s participation in matches of another sort where his services would be invaluable. I refer to certain of the more prominent engagements in which the Melbourne Club Australian Team will take part. It will be a great loss, indeed, if his name does not figure in the lists of the players who will repre­ sent the Gentlemen or England this summer. Still every C r ic k e t reader will join heartily with me in offering Mr. Steel and his bride 'to be, the very best wishes of the hymeneal state. Hymen has just recently been very busy among amateur cricketers, and Mr. A. G. Steel will be a valuable addition to an imposing array numbering such stalwart represen­ tatives as Lord Harris, Messrs. W. G. Grace, W. W. Read, T. C. O’Brien, and many others quos enumerare longuni est. each of the open dates, and in every probability Liverpool, Chiswick Park, and Leicester will be the favoured localities. The match at Chiswick Park, I under­ stand, will in all likelihood be on July 1 and 2, following that at Chichester for Howard’s Benefit. In this case the Liverpool fixture will, perhaps, be on August 9 and 10, and that at Leicester on July 15 and 16. T h e statement which has appeared in several of the papers which have referred to the lamented death of Mr. H. B. Webbe, that he had been for a long timfe in ill- health, has caused pain to some members of the deceased gentleman’s family. There was, as I happen to know, no foundation for any such assertion. On the contrary, it was generally thought that he had quite got rid of the symptoms of heart disease which showed themselves during the course of his last year at Oxford. The doctors, indeed, were hopeful of his ulti­ mate recovery, and for some time past he had been in really good health. Last year, in a match at Dulwich, he made over a hundred runs, all of which, I may add, he ran himself. He was in the habit of walking to Lincoln’s Inn and back every day at no measured pace, and, in fact, everything pointed to the belirf that he was outgrowing the complaint which mani­ fested itself at the close of his University career. Besides being a capital cricketer Herbert Webbe was a good musician. Studious, too, in his work, lie had e\jery promise of a successful career at the bar. Naturally bright and cheerful he had a very large number of friends, to all of whom his loss will be a heavy one. As far as I can learn, Major Wardill, the Secretary of the Melbourne Club, has not as yet come to any definite decision as to filling up the dates left vacant before each of the three matches between Eng­ land and Australia. I have reason, though, to believe that it is contemplated to arrange fixtures for only two days in T h e Newsham Club recently awoke to find itself famous. To be received by Her Majesty the Queen is a distinction, I should fancy, never previously recorded in the history of a cricket club. The members of the Newsham Club can therefore claim to have been honoured in quite an exceptional fashion. Not to know the club in question is no doubt to argue one’s self unknown. Still I must confess to the soft impeachment and admit to my shame that, though tolerably well acquainted with cricket in the Liver­ pool district, I had never noticed anything strong enough of itself to mark the Newsham Club as specially deserving of such royal favour. S t i l l the members are able to claim a record quite unique, and every one will congratulate them on their particular good fortune. Her Majesty’s stay during her visit to Liverpool at Newsham House, in Newsham Park, no doubt suggested this tribute to the Newsham Club as appropriate, and the presentation of bouquets to the ruler of this great empire on the 12th of this month is not likfely to be forgotten by the members of the Newsham Club. The actual presentation was made by the Mayoress of Liverpool, Lady Badcliffe, but the cricketers them­ selves had the sutisfaction of an interview with the Duke of Connaught, who sym­ pathised with them in their ill-luck in not having cricketers’ weather for the occasion. As the incident was in a sense historical, the chief actors in the scene should be recorded for the benefit of posterity. The names of the members of the Newsham Club so distinguished were:—Messrs. J. IC. Pinnington (captain), S. Goss (sec.), G. Copland, H. Hurst, G. Schweitzer, G. Buchan, C. Hook, J. Aust, J. Barton, J. H. Jones, and H. M. Jones. I suppose it was in appreciation of their royal favours that the Newsham Club did a good performance on Saturday last, At least they succeeded in getting eight of their opponents, the Botanic Club, at Fairfield, out without scoring, and in dismissing the eleven altogether for an aggregate of nine runs. T h e Adelaide Observer of April 10 is responsible for the following curiosity, which it states was extracted from the Sydney Daily Telegraph Rather a remarkable thing occurred in con­ nection with a match played at Marrickville between the second elevens of the Marrickville and St. Peter’s Surrey Clubs. It appears that