Cricket 1888

*S92 CRICKET i A WEEKLY EECORD OF THE GAME. SEPT . 6, 1888. THE STANDARD POLICIES Granted since 1865 have each year ex- ceeded£l,000,000 sums assured, a result maintained uninter­ ruptedly for so long a period by no other office in the United Kingdom. Funds 6| millions, increasing annually. S t a n d a rd L it e O f f ic e :— 8 3 , King W illiam Street, London, E .C ’ GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. SCARBORO’ CRICKET FEST IVAL. S c a r b o r o ’ C l u b v . T h e P a r s e e s , Aug. 27,28, 29 I Z in g a r i v. G e n t l e m e n o f E n g l a n d , Aug. 30, 31, a n d S e p t. 1. M.C.C. & G . v. Y o r k s h ir e , Sept. 3, 4, & 5. A u s t r a lia n s v. E n g la n d , Sept. 6 , 7, & 8 . EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE BETWEEN LON­ DON AND SCARBORO’. 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THURSDAY, SEPT. 6 t h , 1888. Dafriliott f e s t p . T he abstract and brief ohronicle of the tim e.— Hamlet. will muster in goodly numbers, to show their appreciation of the enterprise shown by our Indian friends in undertaking such a tour. The team leave Trieste for Bombay, I believe, on the 18th inst., by one of the steamers of the Austro- Hungarian line. T hough Mr. C. J. M. Fox has played regularly for Kent since the first match with Surrey in the early part of June, and with consistent success as a bats­ man, he has also found time to render most valuable assistance to the Crystal Palace, for which during the last few years he has been the heaviest run-getter. His batting summary for the Palace has again been a remarkable one, and as the following figures will show, his average is over sixty for twenty-one completed innings— Most in Inns. Notout. Total runs, an Inn. Average 30 ... 9 ... 1272 ... 177 ... 60.21 The reappearance—it cannot be called his introduction, as he played once for Surrey in 1876—of Mr. Fox, who it may be of interest to know, was born in Cal­ cutta, in first-class cricket has been one of the most noteworthy features of the County season, and every one will con­ gratulate the men of Kent on such a useful addition to their forces. T h e Parsee Cricketers completed the twenty-eighth fixture of their tour, begun at Leyton just three months ago, at Birmingham yesterday. To-day and to-morrow they are down to oppose the Gentlemen of Leicestershire at Leicester, and after meeting the Gentlemen of North Derbyshire, at Buxton, on Monday and Tuesday, are to play their last game in England at Kennington Oval, against the Gentlemen of Surrey. It will be of interest to state that of the twenty-eight contests in which they have taken part, they have been successful in eight, while ten have been drawn and ten lost—a creditable record considering that for the last few -weeks they have been without the services of their slow bowler, Mr. D. C. Pandole, who was summoned home on urgent business early last month. The eleven to represent the Gentlemen of Surrey at the Oval on Wednesday and Thursday next will, I learn, be a good one, and it is to be hoped that the cricket public The following sensational announce­ ment appeared in the Star of Tuesday last:— Mr. Abel, the Surrey professional, has accepted an offer of £1,000 to go to India and coach tbe Parsees in cricket, returning to England in time for his next season’s engage­ ments. He is very popular in the team, and is nicknamed the “ Surrey Midget.” I do not think any one will be more sur­ prised at reading this piece of intelligence than Abel himself. He ought to have the best information on this particular matter, but as far as I know, the little man is sublimely unconscious of the good fortune attributed to him, and which it is to be feared exists only in the imagina­ tion of the Star’s correspondent. As a matter of fact, Abel is engaged as one of the party of cricketers to visit South Africa during this winter, so that the “ cool thou ” is, as every one will regret, hardly likely to be added to his banking aocount for the present at least. Indeed, I have just heard from the Captain of the Parsee team now here, that there is no truth in the statement contained in the Star paragraph. M en tion of Abel in this connection reminds me that the negotiations between MajorWarton and the cricket authorities a t.the Cape for the tour of the English team in that colony have been brought to a satisfactory settlement. The receipt this week by the Major of a telegram from the Cape has settled any doubts that might have existed about the successful accomplishment of the project, and the coming winter will see a new country