Cricket 1887

456 CR ICKET A W E E K L Y RECORD OF TH E GAME . NOV. 24, 1887 FOOTBALL AT LEYTON. Essex County Cricket Ground. Nov. 26—London v. Berks and Bucks. Dec. 3—Old Carthusians v. L. Caledonians. „ 17—Old Harrovians v. L. Caledonians (The Association Cup) „ 26— Boxing Day. Birmingham Excelsior v. L. Caledonians. „ 31—Blackburn Olympic v. L. Crusaders. ' HORSE SHOE HOTEL," Tottenham Gourt Eoad (Comerof Oxford-st.) HANDSOME & SPACIOUS SALOONS FOR Cricket Club Suppers and Dinners. M enus , from 3s. per head, forwarded on application to the Manager. N EW BOOK ON C E I OK E T , At all Libraries and Bookstalls, Crown 8vo. 2 ,'- GAME OF CRICKET. B y FREDERICK GALE (“ T h e O ld B u f f e r ” ) W ith a Portrait of the Author. C o n t e n t s . I.— About an old Cricket ball. II.—A pipe in Fuller Pilch’s back parlour. III.—The cradle of Cricket. IV .—An old Cricketer’s tale. V.—Our county cricket m atch. V I.—Scraps from old Supper-tables. V I I —Cricket Homilies. V III.—Twenty golden rules for young Cricketers. IX.—The rights of wrongs o f Cricket. The Sporting Life says—“ There is not a dull page in the entire book, and those w ho read a chapter or two will, we are sure, not rest satisfied until they have devoured the entire contents.” SWAN SONNENSCHEIN, LOWREY & Co., Paternoster Square. E n g l a n d v. A u s t r a l i a a t t h e w ic k e t . One Shilling; post-free Is. 3d. At all bookstalls; of the Compilers, B r u m fit t & K ir b y , Ilkley, Yorkshire; or of W r i g h t & Co., 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, London, E.C. p R IC K E T G R O U N D W A N T E D fo r Season 1888. W ould take alternate Saturdays w ith a nother club. E asy distance from C haring-cross or V ictoria .— A pply, S e c r e t a r y , R egen t C.C., Y ork H ouse, W aterloo-place, S.W . /C R IC K E T G RO U N D fo r disp osal in N .W . district, n early 7 acres laid, 4 L aw n-tenn is courts, good P avilion, living room , S table, etc., seven years’ lease. 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The presentIssue isthe secondoftheMonthly Numbers, which appear on the last Thursday in each month as follows:— No. 169 .. DEC. 29. No. 171 .. FEB. 23. „ 170 .. JAN. 26. „ 172 .. MAR. 30. The six numbers will be forwarded imme­ diately on publication for Is. 3d., to be sent to M r . W . R. W r ig h t , Manager of C r ic k e t , at the office, 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Doctors’ Commons, London, E.C. AN SW ER S to CORRESPONDENTS. B. C. (Dublin).—“ I was playing the other day on a wicket that was none of the best, when a fast ball getting up very m uch hit the batsm an’s hat (a straw one) knocking it off. It fell on his wicket and removed the bail. W as he out Yes. E. W a r d (North Kensington).— A m atch was played on the ground of the Pitsm oor Club at Sheffield, on August 1,between Mr. W . L. W akes’ XI. and Mr. W aterfall’s XI. for the benefit of John Ulyett, the Pitsm oor professional. The players were attired in “ Ye Olden Tym e ” costum e, white top hats and braces, and the bow ling was restricted to underhand. Cricket: AWEEKLY BBOOBD OF THB GAME II, IT. MBREW8 HILL, LOUDON, E.O. THURSDAY, NOV. 24 th , 1887. f j a l n l b t t d k s s t p . The abstract andbrief chronicle ofthe time.— Samlet. I am glad to learn that the Committee of the Staffordshire County Club are bestirring themselves to improve the condition of the match wickets on the County ground at Stoke. Last season there were loud, and it must be owned well-founded, complaints of the quality of the pitches provided for Staffordshire cricketers. It will therefore be satisfactory to those immediately interested to learn that the executive have just relaid fifty yards square in the centre of the ground, at a cost of nearly a hundred pounds. Since the head-quarters of the Staffordshire Club were moved to Stoke-on-Trent there has been no stint in the money expended to encourage County cricket, and it ia gratifying to hear as the result of this liberality and enterprise that the game is well supported and prospering generally in the district. T he Chiswick Parkers are going to dis­ course eloquent music at St. James’s Hall on the evening of Thursday, the 15th of December. Mr. Sydney Beckley, an active member of the Chiswick Park Club, is to be the presiding genius of the affair, and from the programme he has sent me there should be variety enough to please every kind of taste. Ye Wandering Gleemen will open as well as close each half of the entertainment with a part song, and Mr. Beckley, who will sing Benedict’s “ Bage, thou angry storm,” and “ Hybreas, the Cretan,” in addition to assisting Mr. Charles Chilley in Balfe’s popular duet on “ Excelsior," has been fortunate enough to secure the help, among others, of Professor Joe Daniels, the well-known banjoist, and Mr. Frank Braine, one of the most amusing of reciters, already familiar to metropolitan C r i c k e t readers by reason of his humour­ ous representation of the laughable sketch “ My First and Last Cricket Match.” No doubt many C ricket readers will be only too pleased to respond to the fol­ lowing appeal. They could hardly apply their spare material to a better purpose. I am anxious to start a village cricket club here, but being short of funds, I should be very grateful for assistance in the way of material, and venture to ask through the columns of your deservedly popular paper whether any of your readers would assist us by sending their disused bats, balls, pads, gloves, foa., as the club will be composed entirely of working men and boys. Parcels should be addressed to Rev. Gordon Wickham, Bradford Abba*, Sherborne, Dorset. N E X T IS SU E , DECEM BER 29.