Cricket 1890

st Together joined in cricket’s manly toil.”— Byron „ RegistoeafOT^anmSa^ion^b'road. THURSDAY, MAY 1 , 1890 . MR . DAN I E L S. N E W H A L L . S e v e n years ago, on the occasion of the first visit of Philadelphian Amateurs to England, we were able, in sketching the career of their captain, Mr. R. S. Newhall, to give some in­ teresting particulars demonstrating the im­ portant part the illustrious brotherhood of cricketers of which he is one of the junior members had played in the susten­ ance and development of our national game on the other side of the Atlantic. For twenty-five years, and in the face of very great difficulties, the Newhall brothers have worked unceasingly in the interests of cricket. The family was, indeed, represented in the first match in which an American team was pitted against English players. It is interesting to recall as an instance of the unbroken connec­ tion of the brotherhood with active cricket in America that one of them, Walter, figured in the Twenty-two which opposed George Parr’s team, the first English combination to visit the United States, at Philadel­ phia in the autumn of 1859. During the thirty years that have elapsed since that pioneer visit of English players the Newhalls have not only been actively and conspicuously identified with cricket, but con­ tributed very materially to secure for it the permanent footing it has obtained in Philadelphia. Born on April 7, 1849, Mr. D. S. Newhall is some three years the senior of the Captain of the first Philadelphian team. Impregnated with the love of the game, as all the brothers have been, it would have been sur­ prising if he had not shown an early aptitude for the game. As long ago as 1876 he had under­ gone his baptism of fire in the trying ordeal of an International match. Since that time no Philadelphian team has been considered complete in the absence of the sturdy, stout­ hearted crioketer who acted as captain, and a right good captain too, of the Gentlemen of Philadelphia who made such a good show on English grounds last summer. No record of the development of cricket in Philadelphia, which, though it may be traced back to the institution of the Union Cricket Club in 1832, is practically a growth of the last thirty years, would be complete were not prominent reference made to the unceasing devotion with which its best interests have been guarded by the true sports­ men of whom Mr. Newhall has been the recognised head. Anything like a summary of Mr. Newhall’s actual performances on the cricket-fields of America would require more space than we are able to devote just at the present time, when the visit of an Australian team is casting its shadows before. As we have already said, for a quarter of a century he has taken a leading part in American cricket. George Parr’s visit in 1859 found no imitators until 1868, when the late Edgar Willsher took a team over the Atlantic, and this was followed after an interval of four years by the tour of English Amateurs captained by Mr.W. G. Grace, and organised by the late Mr. R. A. Fitzgerald, then Secretary of the Marylebone Club. The autumn of 1878 saw the Australian team in America on their homeward journey, but until 1881,when Alfred Shaw captained a professional combination, with the exception of a tour of Irish Amateurs in 1879, American cricket had to depend solely on its own resources. The defeat of the Irish Amateurs at Philadelphia in 1879 had checked the so far discouraging record of American cricketers in their engagements with players from the Old Country. This first success had, too, as was only to be expected, an immediate effect in stimulating the leaders of Phila­ delphian cricket to renewed efforts. The result was soon visible, indeed, and the victory of All Philadelphia over the strongish amateur com­ bination taken over by Mr. E. J. Sanders and captained by the Rev. R. T. Thornton in the fall of 1886, furnished substantial proof of the benefit the American players had derived from witnessing the style of some of the best English masters. It was Mr. D. S. Newhall’s good luck to be Captain of the Eleven which succeeded in beating for the first time an English team, and he had in addition the satisfaction of knowing that his own individual efforts in the shape of two scores of 43 and 37, both not out, contributed very materially to the success of his side. The excellent cricket shown by the Gentlemen of Philadelphia here last year will be fresh in the minds of all, and it is not too much to say that the golden opinions they won here both on and off th ecricket- field were, in a great measure, due to his judicious management and the effect of his personal examplr. At the end of the last year we had occasion to write in terms of sincere regret at the announcement of his retirement from active cricket. In describing Mr.Newhall as a cricketer we can hardly do better than re­ produce the well chosen phrases of Mr. F, M. Bissell ,the Hon. Sec. of the International Committee of Philadelphia, in avaledictory speech accompanying the presentation of a testimonial subscribed for by his many friends in America. To day the name of Daniel S. Newhall is known and respected wherever the game of cricket is played asthat of a thorough American sportsman, always modest in victory, yet never beaten untii the last ball is bowled; always striving, both by precept and example, to maintain th 5dignity and