Cricket 1886

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My correspondent has satisfied himself that the portrait of Beldham, the old Surrey player, given with this number, is the hundredth of the series of Portraits and Biographies which have appeared in C r ic k e t . It will be interesting to know that of this number seventy-eight have been of English, and twenty-one of Australian cricketers, R. S. Newhall, the Captain of the Gentlemen of Philadelphia team which visited England in 1884, completing the hundred. C r ic k e t , I think I can claim, is cosmopolitan in its tastes. The veteran journalist, George Augus­ tus Sala, in an article on Australian Sports and Pastimes in the Daily Tele­ graph of Monday last, pays a just tribute to the athletic tastes of Greater Britain. “ G.A.S.,” though his sympathies, as far as I know, have never been in the direction of physical culture, has found the enthusiasm for athletic exercises in “ The Land of the Golden Fleece” too pronounced to be ignored. Any remarks from the pen of a critic of such experience and world-wide renown would be read with interest, and I therefore reproduce a portion of Monday’s article. The crazy fondness of the Australians for athletic sports is another proof of their affec­ tionate devotion to the mother country, but it also shows their mistaken estimate of the place which those sports hold in our scheme of civilization. Of our lives, cricketing, foot­ ball, racing, rowing, and the like are only a part; they are the Australians’whole existence. The fellow who wins a sculling race or comes off best in a bout at fisticuffs is to them a hero. The athletic sports, in which they revel to a degree almost inconceivable to English­ men, have certainly failed to refine or elevate the manners of the population at large. Nor do I think that this excess of athleticism has made the younger generation of Australians physically strong. But that is a matter for the doctors and the vital statistics to decide.