Cricket 1887

88 CRICKET A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. APRIL 28, 1887. F irs t County Match o f the Season. K E N N I N Q T O N OVA L , M o n d a y , M a y 1 6 , SURREY v. HANTS Adm ission to G rou n d - • SIXPENCE. Thursday, May 19— S u r r e y v . W a r w ic k sh ir e . CRICKET SHIRTS. W . J . P I L E (L a t e GANN & CO.), Athletic Outfitter and Club Tailor, T o the Assyrian. the London Athletic, the Black­ heath Harriets, and other Clubs. Also by Appointm ent to the F o o t b a ll A ssocia­ tio n , and many other Leading Football Clubs. S ecretar ies K in d l y W rite for L ist . 1 7 1 , F e n c l i u r c h S t r e e t Clubs supplied w ith every requisite. QUALITY GOOD. PRICES LOW. S h run k F lan n el T rousers ... 10/6,12/6, 14/6. S h run k F lan n el S h ir t s ................ 7/6 and 9/6. OUR OWN MAKE. Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME 41, 8T. ANDREW’ S HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, APRIL 2 8 th , 1887. W E E K L Y SUMM ER N UM B E R S . T h e First of the W eekly Summer Issues appeared on THURSDAY, A PR IL 14, and the Series will continue till THURSDAY, SEPTEM BER 22. The twenty-four Summer NumVers 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 rick e t, at the Office, 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, D octors’ Comm ons, E.C. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet I h a v e received a long letter Irom a well-known cricket authority in Sydney on the subject of the action of the Trustees of the Association ground in that City in arranging for the visit of an English team to Australia next winter. As no one is better qualified to speak on this subject than my correspondent, and as his letter represents the case of the Trustees of the Association, I have great pleasure in giving publicity to his statement, especially as of my own personal knowledge, I am able to add that its accuracy may be thoroughly relied upon. Of course you will have heard long before this that Shaw and Co. are coming again next season with a team—amateurs and profes­ sionals—which will play under the auspices and management of the Trustees and Ground Committee of the Association Ground, Sydney* As we hear the Melbourne Club also intend to bring out a team, and as probably it may appear to you in England that Shaw and M.C.C. (as was the case last year) are again opposing each other re the bringing out of the team, it may be of interest to you if I tell you exactly how it comes about that Shaw and Co. are again to bring a team to Australia. Last year, youwill remember, the M.C.C. announced theirintention of bringingout ateam fromEng- land. They applied for and secured all the best dates on the Association ground here, which is the only ground in Sydney upon which Inter­ national matches could be played with any comfort to the spectators or profit to the promoters. Some time elapsed, and then it is suddenly found that the M.C.C. have aban­ doned their project, and that they will not require the Sydney ground. Fortunately Shaw and Co. did come with a team, and con­ sequently the ground lost nothing. Now the Association Ground costs a very large sum of money annually for its maintenance, and the most reliable source of revenue comes from the ground members, who pay two guineas per year. In order to maintain the roll of members (there are sometimes 1,000) it is found absolutely necessary to provide two guineas’ worth of attraction, and in off seasons, that is when there is no English team here, the roll of members materially decreases. A new Pavilion has just been completed which cost over £7,000, and as the management did not want their revenue to fall off they put their heads together to consider what was the best to be done in the way of attraction for the year 1887*88. 1888 beingthe centennial year of The “ CLUB” Shirt, specially prepared coarse W H ITE CANVAS with collar and pocket .................................................4/6 Flannel Shirts, twice shrunk, with collar and pocket ..................... 5 /A do. best Saxony Flannel ... 10/6 Worsted Twill Shirts, with or without Silk Collars .............................. 12/6 Carriage Paid to any part of the United Kingdom. N o tic e . —Gentlemen are cautionedagainst buying so called Unshrinkable Flannels, but as in all cases our materials are shrunk twice in water before being made Up, they will be found in after wear to shrink very little if at all. STRUTHERS & Co., M anu factu rers , 83, Finsbury Pavement, London. CRICKET, LAWN TENNIS, Sic. 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Address, stating age, terms, etc., Hon. Sec. Flowery Field Cricket Club, Hyde, Cheshire. IMPORTANT NOTICE ! T h k o u o h the kindness of Mr. Andrew Lang, and Messrs. Macmillan and Co., publishers of the English Illustrated Magazine, we are able to publish this week the first portion of a very in­ teresting article on cricket reproduced from the periodical named. We had hoped to have given a portrait and biography of Mb. O. Turner, the New South Wales cricketer who has bowled with such extraordinary success for his Colony this winter in Inter­ colonial matches, as well as against Shaw and Shrewsbury’s team, Circumstances overwhich we have had no control however prevent us presenting Mr. Turner to Cricket readers in the present issue. It will be of interest to English cricketers to know that we have received an ex­ cellent likeness of this famous bowler, who has certainly no superior at the present time in Australia. As we understand it is quite certain that he will be one of the leading members of the Australian team which is to visit England next summer, his portrait and biography, which will be published in C ricket of Thursday next, will be of additional value. We hope during the summer also to be able to give portraits and biographies of Messrs. B. Allen, II. Moses, and J. Ferris, three of the leading cricketers of New South Wales, all of whom, it is said, will in all probability accompany the next party of Australian cricketers to England. Mr. Andrew Lang’s article will be concluded next week. fj'O R SALE.—Wisden'a Alm anack for 1873 and 1874, Eleven issues o f Fred. Lilly white's Guide, &qd several rare prints o f old cricketers. Offers de&ired. Green, Bere»ford, Malvern, Messrs. A. J. REACH & Co., 23, S. Eighth St., Philadelphia, have been appointed agents for the sale of CRICKET in the United States. Subscriptions to and Orders for the Paper, can b e paid to or given to them.