Cricket 1889

OCT. 31,1889. CRICKET: A WEEKLY EECORD OF THE GAME. 445 is stated that several fieldsmenused baseball loves tohelpthemfieldandcatohtheoricket all, the very act of them doingso —as the game was crioket —at once showedthat it was manifestlyunfair, toresort to extraneoushelp in the form of base-ball gloves. As regards what law “ puts the stopper ” on palpable infringements—there isthe grandone of fair and unfair play, which umpires can at once bring to bear onall trespassers. figure in London Society in his capacity of Secretary to the Hurlingham Club. He isnot only akeen supporter of all kinds of athletics, but is at home in other branches of sport, and is generally to be seen at Lord’s or theOval on the occasion of an important cricket match. It was mainly at his suggestion that the Crystal Palace Company arranged the fixture Bonnor had just left England in one of Shaw, Savill & Co.’s New Zealand steamers, the “ Orawa,”—thesame vessel, if I remember rightly, which carried the Melbourne Club Australian Teamon their returnjourneyin 1886—Englishcricketers would not have known that he had re­ turned to his native land, until the news of his arrival had comehere through Aus- THE LANCASHIRE TEAM OF 1889. W . CLARKE (Umpire) A. MOLD A. WARD A. PAUL F. H. SUGG W . DRAPER (Umpire) R. PILLING R. BARLOW Mp. A. N. HORNBY (Capt.) M b . J. ECCLES A. WATSON G. R. BAKER F. WARD J. BRIGGS T h e election for the office of the chair­ man of the Crystal Palace Company, vacant by the death of the late Major Dickson, M.P., has resulted in the ap­ pointment of a thoroughly good all-round sportsman, the Hon. D. J. Monson. Capt. Monson, who is brother of Viscount Oxenbridge, as well as heir presumptive to that title, is a thoroughly familiar between the last Australian team and an Eleven of All England at the Palace, and entirely due to his personal efforts that a strong eleven was secured in the face of many difficulties to meet the Colonial players. B ut for the announcement I made more than four months since, that G. J. tralian papers. As far as one can judge from the latest reports the appearance of the giant seems to have satisfied his friends in the Southern Hemisphere. He does not, at all events, appear to have suffered fromhis stay of nearly four years in the old country, andthe Sydneypapers describe him as in the very best health and condition. The latest advices from NEXT ISSUE, NOVEMBER 28.