Cricket 1890

24 CRICKET: A WEEKLY EECOED OP THE GAME. FEB. 27, IP YOU WANT SOME G O O D B A T S For coming season, you can­ not buy better than J.DflVEHPORT'S ALL-CANE HANDLE (WABBANTED) AT 10/6 N E T T CA8H. EACH 38, Finsbnry PaYement, E.C, HEW PRICE LIST NOW READY. Now Ready. On all Bookstalls. W IS D E N ’S Cricketers’ Almanack For 1890. I * x * ic e O n © S h i l l i n g . Or Post Free, 1/3. Special Photographic Portraits of the Great Batsmen, Shrewsbury, Gunn, Barnes, Albert Ward, Louis Hall, Frank Sugg, Abel, Hender­ son, and Maurice Bead. The opinions of experts on the new laws and other cricket questions. Fnll Scores and Records of all great matches played in 1889. Edited by CHARLES F. PARDON. A few laele eopie»,1879 to 1889,sUU on sale, Ss. each 21, CRANBOURN ST., LONDON. PRICKET, FOOTBALL, & TENNIS GROUNDS ^ (all thoroughly drained, October, 1888), TO L E T at Hyde Farm, Balham, for Season, Day, or Saturdays, close to Railway Station. Special reduced return railway fares from Victoria, 5d. London Bridge 7d.—Apply H. B en h am (Proprietor), 104, Rossiter Road, Balnam. [N.B.—Splendid Cinder Track Ready in March.] piRICKET I! I Recreation Grounds, Romford. ^ A Club wanting ground for coming season and willing to share with Local Club, can have alternate Saturdays, and one Bank Holiday, with practice pitch if necessary, and use of Dressing Rooms. Easy terms.—Apply, C. M. C o llin g s , Romford. Guineas the Season on Masterman’s Grounds, Green Lanes, 29 minutes' ride from Moorgate.— Apply W. M a stek m a n , 728, Holloway Road, N. C R IC K E T , 1890. ATB. W. MABTERMAN, the Proprietor of the Green Lanes Cricket Grounds, will fire a Silver Cup to be played for by all Clubs on his Grounds, tobecom# the property of the Club that wins it the first year. Apply, 798, Holloway Road, N.,or on the Ground, pR IC K E T PITCHES to LET, adjoining Raynes ^ Park Station, L. & S.W.R. Pitches from £ 1 0 ; half pitches from £5 5s. Fares, return Waterloo and Vauxhall, 8d.; Clapham Junction, 6d.—Apply, T. H ash in gs , 28, Rayenswood Road, Balham, S.W. /CHALLENGE.—The Old Cranleighans Cricket Club will be glad to arrange out matches during the coming season.— S id n e y F. C h arlton , Hon. Sec., 16, St. James’s St., S.W. TTMPIRE.—Wanted an engagement to umpire for a FIRST-CLASS Club in its day matohes of coming season.— P o in t , c/o W.R.W., 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Doctors’ Commons, E.C. pR IC K E T and TENNIS GROUNDS to LET, ^ St. Ann’s-road, Stamford Hill, between St. Ann’s Station (Midland), West Green (G.E.R.), and Harringay (G.N.R.) All drained and re­ turfed.—G. vrner , 4, Lansdown-road, West Green, N. T^OR SALE, J r ic k e t Vols. I. to V I.: Lillywhite’s x (Red),complete set (Green V72 to '85; Wisden’s ’73, 76, 78. Scores and Biographies, Vol. 1. What offers ? WANTED- EarlylWisden’s ; Scores and Biographies, Vol. IV.—“ B.,” care of Manager of C r ic k e t . TX7ANTED.—A practice pitch for cricket—near City—or few young men would join club with private ground.—“ C ricket ,” 2, Warwick Villas, Hanover Park, S.E. T yA N T E D .—“ Lillywhite’s Guide,” 1853 and ’51; * Y “ Denison’s Companion,” 1846 ; “ Lawrence’s Irish Handbook,” 1867, ’73, ’78, ’78; “ Spybey’s Notts Register,” 1879 to ’83. FOR DISPOSAL.— Early volumes of C r ic k e t , and sundry early annuals.— G r e e n , Beresford House, Malvern. YXTANTED.a Professional Cricketer for theGeorge- v * town Cricket Club, Demerara, British Guiana —to take charge of the ground (5£ acres), labourers, plant and belongings, in addition to actual cricket services as Professional to two Elevens and the Juniors and Associates of the Clubs. For a satis­ factory man, the Club would be ready to arrange a three years’ engagement, paying passage out and home if at the end of the time the result of his services are approved of. Salary £150 per annum. Applications, with certificates and recommenda­ tions. to be sent promptly to the undersigned, and personal interviews to be arranged and made, before application if possible, with M r . W a lte r B agot or M r . C. W . A x c o c k , Surrey County Cricket Club, Kennington Oval, S.E. G W y a t t , Pavilion, Georgetown Cricket Club, Demerara, 30th January, 1890. TfiT ANTED.—The Manager of C r ic k e t is desirous of procuring the following books : “ Wisden’s Alm anack” for 1866, ’68, ’69, ’71, and ’75; Vols. III., XI., and XIII. of "Scores and Biographies” ; Vol. I. of C r ic k e t , and “ Canterbury Cricket Week.’’—Address, Manager of C r ic k e t , 41, St. Andrew's Hill. London, E.C. Cricket: A WEEKLY BEOOBD OF THE GAME. 41, ST. ANDREW’S HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, FEB. 27 t h , 1890. IMPORTANT NOTICE. The present Issue is the fifth Monthly Number for this winter. The remaining Issue will appear on THURSDAY, MARCH 27. The six winter numbers will be forwarded im­ mediately on publication for Is. 8d. The amount must be sent to Mb. W . E. W r ig h t , Manager of C r ic k k t , i t the office, 41, Bt. Andrew’s Hill, Doctors’ Commons, London, E.C. The weekly summer numbers will com­ mence on APRIL 17, and appear every Thursday until Sept. 25. The abstract andbriefchronicle ofthe time.— _________________________________________ Samlet, P ublic school cricket has suffered a heavy loss by the death of C. H. King, the captain of the Charterhouse School Eleven. A son of the late H. S. King, the well-known publisher, and of Mrs. H. E. Hamilton King, the authoress, he followed the example of his three elder brothers, Henry Seymour King, M .P . for Hull, H. R. and A. H. King, who were all Carthusians before him. Entering the school in 1886, he became captain of the cricket eleven last year. As wicket­ keeper to the eleven of 1889, his was a very familiar figure to present Carthu­ sians ; and his loss will be sorely felt by those, and they were many, who knew him personally. He was buried at the churchyard of Chigwell on January 18th, a few days before he was to have returned to Charterhouse. He was only eighteen at the time of his death. I may add that the captaincy devolves on Gr. O. Smith, who is the only member of last year’s eleven left. A frie n d sends me th e fo llo w in g au th en ­ tic a n d a u th orized in form a tio n , w h ich w ill p ro v e o f un usu al in terest to m y re a d e r s : W. G. Grace is hard at work on his Cricket Reminiscences. The title of the book will bo “ Forty Years of Cricket : 1850-1889.” The opening chapters will be devoted to a survey of the game from its earliest beginnings, but the larger portion of the book (and there will be some twenty-five Chapters in all) will be descriptive of the game during W.G.’s lifetime, and will contain sketches of the players he haB personally met. Many an unpublished story concerning his confrt.ru will be given. But undoubtedly his “ Family Sketches,” in which he purposes to show how, and where, and when he learned to play, and which wili be quite new to the world of cricket readers, will be most eagerly scanned, and most highly valued. As the cricket of the past twenty-five years resolves itself very largely into the history of the Doctor’s own share in the game, his book cannot fail to be the most important con­ tribution to the literature of our National pastime. A rum our reached me in time for the last number of C r ic k e t , though I forgot to mention the fact in “ Gossip,” that we might expect to see Mr. C. A. Smith, who, as most C r ic k e t readers are aware, re­ mained in South Africa on the completion of the tour of Major Warton’s team in that continent, very shortly with us again in England for a permanent stay. The accuracy of my information is verified by an announcement in the Racing Calendar, Sporting Journal, & Breeders' Gazette of January 30, a sporting journal published in Port Elizabeth, and pur­ porting to be the official medium of the Jockey Club of South Africa. But, per­ haps, I had better give the announcement as it appeared in the B. C., S. J. d B. G. Mr. C. Aubrey Smith, one of the chief pro­ moters of the Wanderers Club, Johannesburg, and an enthusiastic supporter of cricket, athletios and sport £;enerairy, is about to leave for England, where, we learn from the Rand papers, he has acceptedan important appoint- NEXT ISSUE, MAB0H 87.