Cricket 1888

248 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. __________ ____________________________ _____________ ______ JULY 5, 18S6. CRICKET SHIRTS The CLUB Shirt, specially prepared coarse WHITE CANVAS with collar and pocket,*best quality ................................ 4/6 Flannel Shirts, twice shrunk, with collar and pocket ...........................5/6 do. in Boys’ s iz e s .............................4 /6 do. best Saxony Flannel................ 10/6 Worsted Twill Shirts, with or without Silk Collars ...................................12/6 Carriage Paid to anypart of the UnitedKingdom. N o t ic e — Gentlemen are cautioned against buying so"called Unshrinkable Flannels, but ad in all ca«es our materials are shrunk twice in water before being made up, they will be found in after wear t->shrink very little if at all. STRUTHERS & Co., M anufacturers , 8 3 , TINSBURY PAVEMENT, t O N D O N . CRICKET AND TENNIS SEASON, 1888. 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F lannel C aps 1/-. W . J. PILE’S “ Perfec­ tion ” Straw Hat, weighing only 2oz., and made of Grass Strawis a wonderful invention, priceonly2/6. 6END STAMP FOR ILLUSTRATED LISTS. W . «T . P I L E 171, FENCHURCH STREET, E.C. pillCKET AND FOOTBALL GROUNDS for v->' Season, Day or Saturday Matches. To LET at Hyde Farm, Balham (under new management), close to Railway Station.— W . B arton (Ground- man), Holly Cottage, Holly Grove, Balham. PADDINGTON CRICKET GROUND.—Ports- down Road, Maida Vale. Half mile from Lord’s.—A first-class wicket can be engaged for matches, Saturdays excepted. Nine acres. Only one match allowed. Excellent pavilion accommo­ dation.— J ames B ates , Hon. Sec. 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. A t all bookstalls; of the Compilers, B rum fitt <fe K ir b y , Ilkley, Yorkshire; or of W r ig h t & Co., 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, London, E.C. TTDUCATION.—SUNDRIDGE CpLLEGE, HAS- -LJ TINGS. 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A lso otheb SPECIALITIES AND ALL REQUISITES FOB C R IC K E T , T E N N I S , F O O T B A L L , Etc.. Manufactured by the Old-Established (1815) Firm E. J. P A G E & Co., KENNINGTON, LONDON. W holesale. Export and Retail. Cricket: A WBBKLT BSOOBD OF THM QAMM ( I , IT . ANDREWS HILL, LONDOR, E.O. THURSDAY, JULY C t ii , 1888. D d n l m t t The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— HamUt, T h e International cricket match be­ tween Canada and the United States, which was to begin yesterday at Toronto and end to-day, will be of special interest if only to see how far the visit of the Gentlemen of Canada to England in 1887 has conduced to the improvement of their all-round cricket. Of the seven players selected by the Ontario Association as the nucleus of the Canadian team, no less than five, to wit—Messrs. Ferrie, Gillespie, Ilenry, Little, and Saunders, were with us last year, while four others, A. C. Allan, W. J. Fleury, G, W. Jones, and W. W. Jones are among those to whom the four last places will be open. One important omission will occur to everyone in the absence of Dr. E. E. Ogden, who captained the Gentlemen of Canada so ably here last summer. The ex­ planation, too, which someof the Canadian papers suggest of the non-appearance of his name—that he is not a native of the Dominion—can hardly be the correct one, as in his biography, which appeared in C ricket of June 9, 1887, and the details of which were furnished by himself, his birthplace is given as Oakville, near Toronto. has recently introduced several new departures in Canadian cricket, the result of the experiences of the Canadian team in the Old Country. At a recent meet­ ing of the Committee of the Toronto Club it was decided to have a bell placed at the top of the pavilion for the purpose of an­ nouncing the commencement, break up for luncheon, recommencement, and cessation of play. Following a now general custom on the principal English grounds the umpires, too, are to don tho long white coats which lately created so much amusement on their introduction to the Australian public. The Canadian papers congratulate the committee of the Toronto Club on their foresight in adopt­ ing two of the most useful accompani­ ments of English cricket, and I am sure everyone on this side will feel gratified to think that the customs of the Mother Country are reproduced by the cricketers of the thriving and vigorous colony across the sea. N o t many weeks since I reproduced a curious conversation between two Oxford rustics who got hopelessly mixed over W. G.’s profession, owing to a strange in­ ability to comprehend the fine distinction between thewords veteran and veterinary. I hardly think their ideas, though,were as funny as those of a cricketer who recently played against the Parsees, and on being asked how he was out replied that he was bowled by a fellow of the name of Gorgonzola. I presume he meant Mr. Bapasola. Many, too, find it difficult to believe that Mr. B. D. Cooper can be a Parsee. His “ hind name,” as the Yankees call it, and his initials have a good old English ring about them. His Christian names—Bastamji Dorabji—though, spoil the effect of the Cooper—I had almost said take the head off it. They certainly dispel any illusion which might have been created as to his English nationality. T alking of Toronto reminds me that the Toronto Club, on whose new ground the International match was to be played, C ricket in Holland has during the last seven or eight years received a great impetus from the periodical visits of Eng­ lish players. Por several seasons past a party of Metropolitan cricketers has been in the habit of spending a week at the commencement of August on tour over the cricket grounds of Holland, and with such agreeable results that the trip has come to be regarded as one of the regular outings of the cricket season. Mr. P. W. Hetherington, who has been the moving spirit in the arrangements for as well as the conduct of these tours, informs me that the trip is to be carried out next month on the same lines as heretofore. The Dalston Albert Club, after meeting the “ Concordia ” Club at the Hague on Wed­ nesday, August 8, is to play the Boyal United Netherlands at Amsterdam on the following Friday, and in all probability there will be other matches in Holland or Belgium. The members of the party will leave Liverpool Street Station by Great Eastern Bailway on Saturday night, the fourth of August, for Antwerp, and after visiting the Antwerp Exhibition and the field of Waterloo, will journey on to the