Cricket 1890

88 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. MAY 1, 1890 IF YOU WANT SOME G O O D B A T S For coining season, you can­ not buy better than J.DJIfEJPORT’S ALL-CANE HANDLE (WARRANTED) AT 10/6 EACH IMETT CASH. 38, Finsbury Pavement, E.C. NEW PRICE LIST NOW READY. PR ICK ET, 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.—ApplyH. B e n h am (Proprietor), 104, Rossiter Road, Balham. [N.B.—Splendid Cinder Track Ready in March.] "PROFESSIONAL BOWLER, Good medium Pace, requires engagements to play in half or whole day matches. First class references and testi­ monials.—Apply A. J. W e l l s , 1, Elm Grove, W oodford Green, Essex. *I?OR SALE, complete set of SCORES and BIOGRAPHIES; complete set of JOHN LILLY WHITE’S GUIDE (bound in cloth); Vols. I. to VII. of CRICKET, handsomely bound.— Offers, in writing, to “ A. 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H e played also a great deal with the Surrey Club in its earlier days, and his name is frequently to be found in the scores o f its matches at the Oval in conjunction with Fred Burbidge, the late Fred Miller, the late John Walker, and other good men and true who helped to lay the foundation of a Club which has jlayed perhaps the most important part in the development o f County cricket during the last quarter of a century. Mr. Vyse’s first match at Lord’s, for the Surrey Club against M.C.C. on June 12, 1854, was, singularly, the occasion on which Mr. F. Burbidge, H . H . Stephenson, and W , Mortlock made their debut on that his­ toric ground. Earnestly devoted to the game, there was hardly a match of any importance within reach of London at which he was not present, and for years he was one o f the most regular attendants in the pavilion at Lord’s and the Oval. The announcement that a Dutch Eleven would visit England during this year seems, as far as I can learn, to be rather premature. Up to the present, at least, no definite conclusion has been arrived at in the matter, and several obstacles will have to be overcome before the visit can be considered to be assured. Mr. W . J. Paramor, the captain o f the Hague Club, who has taken great interest in tho development o f the game in Holland, and is one of the prime movers in the scheme for sending a Dutch eleven to England, writes me that a member of the Dutch Cricket Union is trying to form a team for this purpose, but his success is by no means certain. There is no lack of Amateurs ready and eager for the trip, but there are other weighty considera­ tions which have to be discussed. With his usual generosity the Earl o f Sheffield has placed his lovely ground at the dis­ posal of the Dutch Amateurs in the event o f the tour being undertaken. T h e following announcement will bs read with interest by the majority of London cricketers, to whom “ Bam ” is thoroughly w ell-known:— B a m b r id g e — B a il e y —On the 26th inst., at Immanuel Church, Streatham Common, Edward Charles, son of the late William Bambridge, Esq., of Spencer-road, New Wandsworth, and formerly of Windsor, to Kathleen Sylvia Bailey, daughter of the late Edward Bailey, Esq., Springfield, Streatham. The bridegroom, it is hardly necessary for me to add, is the well-known Inter­ national Association footballer who has been prominently identified with the Streatham Cricket Club for the last few years, and has also on occasions done duty for the Gentlemen o f Surrey. Sport is indeed well represented in the partnership, as Mrs. Bambridge is a sister of another and, perhaps, better known football player, N. C. Bailey. The latter captained the English Associa­ tion Eleven for many years, and has also done good service for Streatham on the cricket field.