Cricket 1889

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WEEKLY SUMMER NUMBERS The twenty-four Summer Numbers willbe for­ warded by first post on Thursday morning in return for postal order for five shillings to W. R. W r ig h t , Manager of C r ic k e t , at the Office, 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Doctors' Commons, E .C ., and crossed Union Bank, Holborn Circus. JJafrxIimr dasstp. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— _____________________ _______________________ Ham let, C r ic k e t readers will be very glad to hear that Lord Harris, who has been laid up for some little time with a severe attack of diptheria, is nowfairlywell on the road to recovery. It was his intention to assist the Kent eleven in their matches this holiday week, and naturally, so keen a sportsman was bitterly disappointed at his inability to take advantage of per­ haps the only opportunity he may have for participating in County Cricket this summer, or at all events for the greater part ot the season. Considering, though, the experience of the first fixture of the week, and the present anythingbut genial weather, his disappointment may after all be not unmixed with a feeling of satisfac­ tion. I t was quite in accordance with the eternal fitness of things that Mr. John Shuter should have been the first to utilise the newrule empowering a captain to declare his innings at an end in an important match. As everyone knows, it was Mr. Shuter’s action in the fixture between Surrey and Notts, at Notting­ ham last year, which really brought this particular question to the front of practi­ cal politics, and, in fact, gave rise to this special legislation. There was some­ thing, therefore, more than usually appro­ priate in the first application of the closure coming from him. M e. S p o ffo r t h has never been averse to confiding his opinions to the inter­ viewer, as those who have had opportu­ nity of reading his views, expressed at different times to representatives of English as well as Australiannewspapers, will be aware. The wordy warfarewhich has taken place over the attempt of the Derbyshire Committee to include him regularly in their eleven has shown, too, that he has not, by any means, been reticent in expressing his thorough dis­ approval of the action of those who have, in upholding the decision of the County Council last December, been un­ fortunate enough to come under his dis­ pleasure. M r. S p o ffo r t h ’s latest interview with a representative of a Birmingham paper, though,rather tends to prove that it might have been to his advantage had he acted on the principle that “ speech is silvern, but silence is golden.” “ I do not deny the right of the M.C.C. and the Cricket Council to disqualify me,” he says to his latest interviewer, “ on the contrary I am loyally prepared to accept anyruling they may choose to make.” And yet, though the County Council decided by twelve votes to two, that he was not qualified, with “ charming inconsistency,” to quote the words of the Derbyshire Secretary, he plays against Yorkshire.