Cricket 1888

440 OBIOEET i A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. NOV. 1, 1888. (BOUGH) RUBBER-FACED (PATENT) W I C K E T GLOVES. ' I think very highly of your new design for Wicket Gloves."—The Hon. A. L yttelton . 1‘Empire ’ ’catent) B ^ r r / iv e gloves As s p e c ia lly M ade fo b t h e A u s tr a lia n Team. COMBINATION NON JARRING BATS. A l s o o t h e b SPECIALITIES AND ALL REQUISITES FOB C R IC K E T , T E N N IS , 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. E xport and R etail W. J. P ILE Athletic Outfitter and Club Tailor, By Appointment fco the London Athletic Club (L.A.C.), Blackheath Harriers, and other Large Clubs. 171, FENCHURCH ST., E.C. W . J . PILE’S SPECIALITIES are S h r u n k F l a n n e l T r o u s e r s at 8/6, 10/6, 12/6. F l a n n e l S h ir t s at 7/6 and 9/6. F l a n n e l C o a t s at 10/6 to 15/-. F l a n n e l C a p s 1/-. W . J . PILE’S “ Perfec­ tion ” Straw Hat, weighing only 2 oz., and made of Grass Straw is a wonderful invention, price only2/6. SEND STAMP FOR ILLUSTRATED LISTS. W . . T . P I L E 171, FENCHURCH STREET, E.O. pR ICKE I', FOOTBALL, & TENNIS ^BOUNDS ^ (all thoroughly drained, October, 1888), TO LET at Hyde Farm, Balham, for Season, Day or Saturdays, close to Railway Station. Special reduced return railway fares from Victoria, Sd. London Bridge 7d —W. B a r t o n (Groundman), Holly Cottage, Holly Grove, Balham. T^DUCATTON.—SUNDRIDGE COLLEGE, HAS- TING^. Thorough Arithmetic, Book-Keeping, Correspondence, English, French,German, and all other subjects necessary for a Liberal and Business Education. Health carefully studied. Delicate and backward boys taken special care of. Sea­ bathing, Cricket, Unlimited Sea Views, &c. Terms Moderate.—Principal: R. L y d g a t e , A.K.C., Late Member of Oval Committee. 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. 8d. 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To Borneo, Ceylon, China, India, Japan, Hong’ kong, Siam, Zanzibar, &c., at 7s. for Summer Isumbers, or 8s. 9d. for the year. Subscriptions should be sent to the Publisher, W. R. W r ig h t . Dafrilbtt dkssxp. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. I t will be gratifying intelligence to English cricketers, but more particularly to those who have had the good fortune to have a taste themselves of Transatlantic hospitality, to hear that the fathers of'the game on the other side of the big drink have definitely decided that a team of American amateurs shall visit England next summer. The arrangement of the programme has been placed in the hands of the Secretary of the Surrey County Club, but his task will this time be only a light one, as the matches will be but twelve in number. The team will sail from New York about the 19th ofJune, and be due to reach Dublin eight or nine days later. It is proposed to have two fixtures in the Irish Capital and one in Scotland, then journeying down through England to the South, where the tour will be com­ pleted. Only two matches will be played in each week, though the Americans are anxious that any game incomplete on the second night should be finished, if possible, on the third day. A special feature of the tour will be that no portion of the gate receipts will go towards the defrayal of the expenses of the tour. All the money necessary to pay the hotel and travelling expenses of the team will be provided by the Com­ mittee who are responsible for the arrange­ ments on the other side, and it is their intention that the share of the gates, which would in the ordinary course be given to the visitors, shall go direct into the hands of the Secretary of the Surrey Club to be handed over to some deserving institution or object in connection with our national game. Under such auspices, and with such aims, the visit of the Gentle­ men of America to England next year will commend itself with special force to the notice as well as sympathy of every well-wisher ol cricket on both sides of the Atlantic. I t is satisfactory to find, as anotherillus tration of the ceaseless march of cricketi that the game is creating a very consider­ able amount of interest in Colorado, and that it bids fair, in fact, to become in time in its own way one of the shows of the Wild West. In another part of the paper will be found the scores of two matches played recently in Denver City, Colorado, and kindly sent me by Mr. F. F. Kelly, well-known to Metropolitan and other cricketers as an active member of the Stoics and Emeriti Clubs. The Denver Club, which is composed chiefly of Englishmen, numbers about sixty members, among whom are several well- known old Public School players, as the following list of the more influential of them will show :—G. M. King (Clifton), H. A. W. Stubbs (Harrow), C. E. Moon (Uppingham), A. S. Isaacs (Blackheath Club), F. F. Kelly (Stoics and Emeriti), A. Webster (Darlington College), H. A. Piper (Dulwich College), Dr. J. H. Gower and S. Weston (Trent College), andA. W. Powell (Toronto Club). F or real zeal, though, commend me to the Battleford Club of Saskatchewan, in Canada. I have just recently had a com­ munication from a keen cricketer located out in that remote part of the lone North- West, which shows how Englishmen maintain their devotion to the grand old game in spite of every difficulty and obstacle. My correspondent claims, and I for one have not the smallest inclination to dispute so laudable a boast, that the Battleford Club is the most northerly cricket club in the globe. Its nearest neighbour as a cricket club is 180 miles off overland, and the nearest railway station is Swift Current on the Canadian Pacific Railway, which is only distant a small matter of two hundred miles. The Battleford C.C. numbers forty members, and in case any touring club is ambitious enough to desire to make a NEXT ISSUE, NOVEMBER 29.