Cricket 1886

CRICKET i A WEEKLY RECORD OS’ THE GAME. JUNE 17,1886. KENNINGTON OVAL. GENTLEMEN * ENGLAND V. AUSTRALIANS. JUNE 17, 18, 19. ADMISSION TO GROUND, ONE SHILLING. Carriages not Admitted. The privilege of members to introduce a friend is withdrawn for this match. W . J . P I L E (L ate 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 ootball A bbocia tion , and many other Leading Football Clubs. S ecretaries kindly w r ite for L ist l T ^ l , F e n c h u r c l i S t r e e t . Clubs supplied with every requisite. Q u ality G ood . P rices L ow . S hrunk F lannel T rousers , 10/6, 12/6, 14/6. S hrunk F lannel S h irts , 7/6 and 9/6. O U R O W N M A K E . THE CRICKETE’S HAND-GUA D, P a t e n t . A S ubstitute for the BATTING GLOVE. TO BE OBTAINED OF ALL CRICKET OUTFITTERS, Wholesale of the Sole Manufacturer J. L I V E R M O R E , 27t Basinghall Street, London, E.G. GRAND CRICKET MATCH. K E N N I N G T O N O V A L THURSDAY NEXT. S U R R E Y v. C A M B R I D G E I IN I V . G r e a t N o r t h e r n R a i l w a y . CBICKET MATCHES: AUSTRALIANS V. PLATERS OP ENGLAND, A t N ottingham , J une 21st, & c . YORKSHIRE v. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, A t S h effield , J une 21st, & c . Express Train Service between London, Not­ tingham, and Sheffield. L ondon (K ing ’ s C ross )— Week Days— dep. 5.15, 7.40, 9.0, 10.10, 12.30 a.m .; 2 0, 3.0, 5.30a, 8.40*, 12 0 1 b p.m. Sundays —dep. 8.35 a.m .; 5.0,8.40 P-m. N ottingham — Week Days —arr. 8.2, 10.35, 12.31, a.m .; 3.30, 5.58, 8.10 a, 11.33 * p.m .; 4.25 t B a.m. Sundays —1.56, 8 45 p.m., 1.20 a.m. S h effield —Week Days-brr. 8.54, 11.12, a.m .; 1.47, 4.13., 5.12, 6.42., 8.50 A, 12.35*, p.m .; 4.10tB, a.m. Sundays —8.45, p.m. S heffield (V ictoria )— Week Days— dep. 1.24b, 7.58, 9.33, 11.15 a , a.m. ; 1.45. 3 3, 4.15, 6.15,10.30, p.m. Sundays— 9.15, a m., 6.15, p.m. N ottingham (L ondon R oad )— Week Days— dep. 5.&5, 8 40, 1010, 11.15, 1155, a m ; 2.15, 3 5, 4.55, 6 57, 7.20,10 0, p.m Sundays - 2-35, 6.25, p.m. L ondon (K ing ’ s C ross ) —Week Days— arr. 5 30b, ..50, 11.45, a m ; 1 0, 2.5, 2.45 a , 3.20,5 20, 6 15, 7.55, 9.55, 10.50, p.m .; 2.15, 2.50, a m . Sundays— 7.50, 10 0, p.m. * Runs 10 minutes earlier on Saturdays, t Not run on Monday mornings to Nottingham, a Dining Car for Sheffield on Trains marked a. b Sleeping Car for Sheffield on Trains marked b, London, King’s Cross, HENRY OAKLEY, June, 1886. General Manager. ALL CLUBS, HOTELS, SCHOOLS, & c, &c., SHOULD HAVE THE CELEBRATED COUNTY AND OTHER CRICKET ELEYENS, B y F. HAWKINS & Co., 108, K ING ’ S ROAD , BR IGHTON . The Most Interesting Photographs of the Age 3/6 each, Post Free. Size of Photo 12-in. by 10-in. A lso P hotos of all the P rincipal C ricketers rpHE HOLBORN C C., London, has open for J Saturday afternoon Matches July 31 and Sept. 4 away, and Sept. 25 hom e; also for its Tour Week in Kent, August 13 and 14 for Day Matches with Clubs between Canterbury and Margate. H on . S ec ., The Tufnell Park Hotel, Tufnell Park Road, London, N. __________________ rpHE HOLBORN C.C. requires Saturday after- noon Matches for its Second Team on Oppo­ nents’ Private Ground. H on . S ec ., The Tufnell Park Hotel, Tufnell Park Road, N. C r i c k e t : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME 41, 8T. ANDREW’ S HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, JUNE 17 t h , 1886. NOTICE. Insertion is only guaranteed of scores of those Clubs arranging for the publication of all their matches. The Editor wishes it to be distinctly understood that to ensure appearance in the next number scores must be received at the latest byfirst post on Tuesday morning in each week. JjabHtoit (Snsstp. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Samlet. be particularly hopeful. I was thinking of leaving the answer till next week, but perhaps it would be better if C r ic k e t readers were not kept in suspense for so long. So I give it now. Because there is a lot of Leyton ialent. Dulce est desipere in Icco, my con espondent adds. Whether he is right in his particular application of the words must be a matter of opinion. A f o r t n i g h t ago, in referring to the rumoured visit of another team of English cricketers to Australia under the auspices of Messrs. Shaw, Shrewsbury and Lilly- white, I pointed out what appeared to me to be likely to be a material obstacle to its success. From information I had received, I stated that as long ago as last August the Committee of the Melbourne Club had determined to invite a mixed teamof English amateurs and professionals to the colonies during the coming winter on the same conditions as were made on the occasion of the Hon. Ivo Bligh’s visit three years ago. A dmission to G r o u n d ............ S ixpence . A c o r r e s p o n d e n t , who I am glad to think has some little spare time to devote to the less serious questions of life, has sent me what he is pleased to call a cricket riddle. He asks me if I can tell him why the prospects of Essex cricket should M y statement has since been officially confirmed, and I am now authoritatively informed that Major Wardill, who, by the way, was sent to England mainly with a view to the organization of this English visit, has already the backbone of a thoroughly representative team of English cricketers. Of my own personal know­ ledge I can state that he has received promises of help from several of the leading amateur players ofthe day. I have, too, the best reason for saying that he has even now secured a sufficient number of good men-—amateurs and professionals —to enable him to carry out fully the wishes of theMelbourne Club, which, as I have already said, was one of the main objects of his visit to England. Whether two English teams will leave this country for Australia or not remains to be seen. Such policy would be obviously suicidal, and I am inclined to think that there is no chance of such a complication. I happen to know that the Committee of the Melbourne Club had, before the departure of the team now here, engaged most of if not all the principal grounds in the Colonies, and a programme had even then been carefully sketched out for the tour. I t has been stated in several papers that the one date still left open in the Australian programme, the days im­ mediately preceding the England match at the Oval on August 12, would be filled up with a second fixture at Derby. I believe there was a disposition to make such an arrangement, but it was not found practicable. Major Wardill informs me that he has decided to give the vacant date to the Warwickshire County Club, so that the sporting folk of Birmingham will have an opportunity of seeing the Australian cricketers on the new ground of the Warwickshire C.C. early in August.