Cricket 1887

40 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. MAE. 31, 1887. K E N N I N G T O N O V A L - S a t u r d a y N e x t . FIN A L TIB , FO O TB A LL ASSOCIATION CUP WESTBROMWICH ALBION A S T O N V I L L A . K ic £- o F f 3.30 p.m. Admission to the Ground, One Shilling. T ickets (2 s . 6 d.) for Covered Stands (seats num bered and reserved), can be had at the offices o f the Football Association, 51, H olborn Viaduct. A separate entrance for those holding tickets to the ground (Is. each), to be had as above. CRICKET SHIRTS. The “ C L U B ” Shirt, specially prepared coarse W H ITE CANVAS with collar and pocket ... .................................................. 4 /6 Flannel Shirts, twice shrunk, with collar and pocket .......................... 5 /0 do. best Saxony Flannel ... 10/6 Worsted Twill Shirts, with or without Silk Collars ..................... ... 12/6 Carriage Paid to any part o f the United Kingdom. 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THURSDAY, MAR. 31st, 1887. W E E K L Y SUMMER NUMBERS- No, 142, published to-day, is the last of the W inter Numbers of 1886-87. The W eekly Summer issues will comm ence on THURSDAY, APR IL 14, and continue until THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. The twenty-five Summer Num bers will be for­ warded by first post on Thursday m orning in return for postal order for five shillings to W. R. W r ig h t , Manager o f C ricket , at the Office, 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, D octors’ Commons, E .C. D a b i l k r t r f e s i p , The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— ___________________ ______________________________ Sam let, M a u r i c e R e a d , the popular Surrey cricketer, according to “ Felix,” the critic of the Australasian newspaper, seems to think that the opinion of a certain class of the public which frequents Australian grounds and constitutes a kind of order of merit of its own for cricketers, is not only “ Dosset ” but “ very inferior Dos- set,” to quote the words of the worthy butterman in Our Boys. C r i c k e t readers will, though, I think, be inclined to apply the strictures of the Surrey player more generally, and not regard the superficial critic of cricket as a plant of purely Australian growth. I could myself, indeed, name not a few players now at the very head of their profession who would never have come to the front had not the authorities refused to accept the common estimate of their capacities, but acted instead on convic­ tions of their own that there was real cricket in them, only awaiting a fair chance of development. T h is is how Maurice Bead is said to have summed up certain judges of Aus­ tralian cricket:— If you have a bit of bad luck and make no­ thing two or three times, you are not much account in Australia, and out of the team you should go, even if you have scored excellently on occasions. It is not like this in England. There, if you are a recognised player, half-a- dozen successive noughts will not exclude you from a team. For instance, in my own case, I once did very badly in four or five successive innings, but I was not left out. I was chosen against the Australians and scored over 100 against them. M r . W. J. F o r d , the old Incog., seems to have impressed the Melbourne critics, during his visit to Melbourne, to judge by some of the comments I have seen. He assisted the Melbourne Club against the Eichmond Club, but was not in long enough to give the spectators much taste ot his extraordinary powers of hitting. He was stumped, indeed, when he had got ten, which included two splendid drives into the pavilion. At the practice nets, however, he must have been in great form, for the Australasian accredits him with some of the biggest hits ever seen on the Melbourne ground. His physique “ Felix” declares to be magni­ ficent, and in appearance describes him to be not unlike the champion, Dr. W. G. Grace. T h e following description of Messrs. Turner and Ferris, the two bowlers who contributed so largely to the two vic­ tories of New South Wales over Shrews­ bury’s team, the only reverses, too, ex­ perienced by the Englishmen in Australia, will, I think, be read with interest on this side. It is taken from the Adelaide Observer. J. B. Turner is a player brought from the country by the New South Wales Cricketing Association. As a youngster he made a name for himself in Bathurst, and when the Hon. Ivo Bligh’s team was in Sydney he was invited to play against them. Three years since he came to Sydney to reside, and has sinoe played with the Carlton Club. So suc­ cessful was he that he played against Shaw and Shrewsbury’s last team and in both matches with Victoria last season. This season he has done remarkably well, both with bat and ball, for his club, but his great suocesses have been against Victoria and the Englishmen. Against these opponents he has played in six matches, and has taken 49 wickets for 476 runs—an average of 9 5-7th runs per wicket. It is, however, only fair to remind readers that he was several times assisted by wet wickets. He has a very taking Next Issue April 14