Cricket 1888

844 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OP THE GAME. AUG. 16, 1888; CRICKET SHIRTS The ""3CLUB Bhirt, 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’ sizes ............ m 4/6 do. best Saxony Flannel,» ... 10/6 Worsted Twill Shirts, with or without Silk Collars .................................12/6 Carriage P a id to any p a rt of the United Kingdom . N otice .—Gentlemen are cautioned against buying so called Unshrinkable Flannels, but as in afl canes 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. 8 3 , M a n u f a c tu r e r s , FINSBURY PAVEMENT, T O N D O N . CRICKET AND TENNIS SEASON, 1888. 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" I thin k very highly of your new design for W icket Gloves.”—The H on. A. L yttelton . ‘ ‘Empire ’ W n t > battinggloves As spec ia lly M ade f o r the A ustralian T ea m . comb ination non - jarr ing b a t s . A lso o th e r S P E C IA L IT IE S A N D A L L R E Q U IS IT E S FOR C R IC K E T , T E N N IS , F O O T B A L L , •Etc., M anufactured by the Old-Established (1815) F irm E. J. PAGE & Co., KENNINGTON, LONDON. Wholesale. Export and Retail. C r ick e t : A WEEKLY BECOBD OF THE GAME. 41. ST. ANDREW’S HILL, LONDON, E.G. THURSDAY, AUG. 16 th , 1888. IgafrilktT The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— H a m itt. T h o u g h the Cape has not hitherto been regarded with special interest from a cricketing point of view, nevertheless, the game has been taken up most en­ thusiastically during the last few years in that Colony, which, as far as one can judge, can now produee some very high- class cricketers. That their capabilities w ill be very shortly tested seems more than probable, as I predicted some weeks ago. A t the present moment it is not decided whether the Australian cricketers now in England w ill break their home­ ward voyage by a short! tay at the Cape, or whether the English team, men­ tioned in a previous issue, w ill leave our shores in the autumn and make a more prolonged stay. In view of the latter contingency the services of some of our leading amateurs and professionals have been secured. Though I am not at liberty as yet to mention the names, without doubt the proposed English team will be a strong one— good enough to hold its own anywhere, and capable of giving the Cape Colonists an idea of first- class English cricket. Under any circum­ stances cricketers will be pleased to see a new field of enterprise open, and no doubt before long they w ill have the opportunity of welcoming a team from South Africa prepared to do battle on English ground, and to emulate the feats of their Australian brethren. A m o n g those we shall see no more at Lord’s or the Oval none w ill be more missedthan the late Mr.Basset,of Telnidge Unable to be more than a distant visitor of the cricket-field, his carriage or his chair were familiar objects to all votaries of cricket. I t was not alone his u n ­ bounded hospitality on the festive occa­ sions at Lord’s, but his personal courtesy to all brought in contact with him that will cause many a sigh of regret that we shall see him no more at his accustomed post. M r . P. H . G r e s s o n , the Oxonian, w ill have, I fancy, particularly good reason to speak well of the run-getting properties of the Surrey Cricket Ground. H is ex­ perience this summer, at least, should qualify him to bear testimony to the excellence of the pitch at the Oval, as well as to the ability of the Surrey eleven to make the best use of their opportunities when the ball comes along fast and true. Though he has only played twice at Ken­ nington this year, it has been his luck to have to field out on those occasions while 1,348 runs were got by Surrey for twenty wickets. The matches, I need hardly add, were for Oxford University on June 24, 25 and 26, when the County made 650, and last week for Sussex, when the latter had to field out for a huge total of 698. T h e r e is a rumour afloat that there is every possibility of the arrangement of a third meeting between Surrey and the Australian Team, to take place at the Oval on September 20 and two following days. I believe that both the parties interested are in favour of the match, but there is also a strong feeling that the Surrey men should try their strength against an eleven representative of the rest of E ng ­ land, and it w ill hardly be possible, I should fancy, to conclude both fixtures. I f there is any general disposition in favour of the latter, there is every ground for its decision before the close of this season rather than deferring it to another year. I n commenting on the brilliant per­ formance of Mr. John Shuter and Abel in commencing the innings of Surrey against Sussex at the Oval last Thursday, as far as I know none of the cricket critics called attention to the achievement of the two batsmen at the close of the first fixture of the season between the same counties, of which this was really, in a way, a continu­ ation. I t will be remembered that Mr. Shuter and Abel got the 118 runs wanted by Surrey to w in at Brighton without the loss of a wicket, and, as at the Oval, they