Cricket 1889

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A. E . STODDART ABEL BEAUMONT LOHMANN M onday ,Tuesday &W ednesday ,Sept. 16,17,18. G E N T L E M E N v. P LA Y E R S . GENTLEMEN. DR. W . G. GRACE MR. K. J. KEY MR. E. J. M'CORMICK MR. E . A. NEPEAN MR. W . NEWHAM MB. H. V . PAGE MR. H. PHILIPSON MR. H. PIGG MR. O. G. RADCLIFFE MR. W . W. READ MR. A. E. STODDART PLAYERS. ABEL a t t e w e l l BARNES GUNN LEE LOHMANN PEE L RICHARDSON SHERWIN U LYETT A. WARD Wickets pitched at 12 o ’dock first day of each Match; other days at 11 .30 - Dr. W . G. GRACE w ill Captain the South and Gentlemen ’s Teams. Umpires: T h o m s & C a r p e n t e r . Cheap Fares on S.E.R. and L.B. & S.O.R., and Ex­ cursion Trains will run. Admission to the Ground 1/-; Covered Grand Stand, 1/- extra. Carriages holding five, 5/-. PRICKET, FOOTBALL, & TENNIS GROUNDS (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, 5d. 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KENNINGTON, LONDON. Wholesale, Export and Retail. C r i c k e t : A WEEKLY BE CORD OF THE GAME. 41, 8T. ANDREW’S H ILL, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, SEPT. 5 t h , 1 8 89. U»fcrHimt Gossip , T h e a b s tra ct a n d b r ie f ch ro n lo le o f th e tim e.— ___________ ______________________________ Bamlet T hough the battle for the premiership of County cricket is at an end, and the contestants themselves are, no doubt, all thankful to be at rest after the severe strain of an unusually arduous campaign, peace does not reign in the cricket world. The critics who have constituted them­ selves the tribunal for the apportionment of honours to the various claimants, have been sorely exercised by the somewhat unexpected complication created by the result of the closing fixture of the season between Kent and Notts last week. Newspapers which, as a rule, do not give much of their valuable space to the dis­ cussion of matters of comparatively so little interest as cricket, have devoted a considerable part of their columns to correspondents anxious to air their opinions as to which of the three Counties who have tied for first place this year is entitled to the highest honours, Surrey, Notts, or Lancashire. To an ordinary everyday kind of mind it is not easy to understand how, if certain points are recognised in the calculations for the allotment of the various places, and two or three, or any number in fact, of the competitors are equal in aggregate, there can be any real difficulty. If, in fact, a win constitutes one point, a draw half a win, and three Counties, as is the case this year, Notts, Lancashire, and Surrey, to wit, claim on this basis ten and a half points, it does not seem easy to separate them, at least to admit of any logical or mathematical conclusion. T he great majority of cricket critics, however disappointing such a result may be to some of the number, have, in fact, accepted the situation that the three Counties named are equal according to the principles they themselves laid down, and as there is practically not the smallest chance of the three Counties meeting to settle the question—as it has been suggested they might do, for the benefit of the Cricketers’ Fund—there the matter must rest. M yself , I cannot see what the dis­ advantage of such a finish as has been recorded this year can be. On the con­ trary, the public interest is likely to be considerably increased by the keen struggle for the first place, and County cricket, in all probability, will receive an additional stimulus. Lancashire, Notts and Surrey can only be bracketed equal in the matter of points, and, as I have already said, the critics generally can see no other course open to them if they are to be at all consistent. One writer, it is true, has ventured to place Notts first, Lancashire second, and Surrey third, but, it is equally safe to assert, he is almost, if not quite, alone in his views. If all kinds of outside arguments such as he adduces in adjudging Surrey to be inferior to Lancashire, because, though each lost three matches and drew one, the latter beat Surrey twice, are con­ sidered, it would be easy to carry out this line of comparison to an almost indefinite extent. Surrey’s draw with Gloucestershire, for instance, was to all intents and purposes practically a victory, and the contention