Cricket 1891

894 CEICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. SEPT. 3, 1891 HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARDS CRIOKET WEEK, 1891. T w o G r a n d Ma t c h e s W ill be Played on the C E N T R A L CRICKET GROUND, HASTINGS, As follows— Thursday, Friday, & Saturday, Sept.10,11,12. NORTH v. SOUTH, TEAMS NORTH S elected from the following— M r. A . T. K e m b l e M r . C . W . W r ig h t A t t e w b l l C h a t t e r t o n F l o w e r s o u n n H a l l P e e l P o u g h e r K h e r w in U l y e t t A . W a k d SOUTH Selected from the following— D r . W . G . G r a c e M r . J. J . F e r r is M r . W . L . M u r d o c h M r . W . N e w h a m M r . W .W . R e ad M r . A .E , S t o d d a r t M r . S. M. J. Woods A b e l B u t t L o h m a n n M a r t in S h a r p e W ood Monday,Tuesday,&Wednesday,Sept.l4, 15, 16 . Gentlemen v. P laye rs. TEAMS GENTLEMEN Selected from the following— D r . W. G . G r a c e M r . A . T. K r m b l e M r . J . J . F k r r is M b . W. L. M u r d o c h M r . W. N e w h a m M r . T. C. O ’B r ie n M r . H . P ig g M r . W.W. R e a d M r . O . A . S m it h M r . E. C. S t r e a t p e il d M r . A . E. S t o d d a r t M r . S. M , J. W o o d s PLAYERS Selected from the following— A b e l a t t e w e l l B e a n B u t t C h a t t e r t o n G u n n L o h m a n n M artin P e e l M . R e a d U l y e t t W o o d Wickets pitched at 12 the first day of each Match other days at 11.30- Dr. WG. Grace will captain the South and Gentlemen’s Teams. Umpires : Thoms and Carpenter. Cheap Fares on S.E.R. and L.B. & S.C.R. and Excursion Trains will run. Admission to the Ground - - O N E SH ILLING. Covered Grand Stand 1 s . extra. Carriages holding Five 5 s. Weekly tickets, including admission to the Ground, and a numbered reserved seat in the grand stand, September 10 to 16 inclusive, price 10s., can now be obtained from M r. G. 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No. 291—THURSDAY, FEB. 25. No. 292—THURSDAY, MARCH 26. The six Winter numbers will be forwarded im­ mediately on publication for Is. 3d. The amount must be sent to M r . W . B. W r ig h t , Manager of C r ic k e t , at the Office, 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Doctors’ Common, London, E.C. family. The abstraot and brief ohronlcle of the time.— ________________________ Hamlet, “ C e ic k e t ” readers old enough to remember the first visit of an English team to Australia will be glad to learn that one of the most popular members of that pioneer band is, even if out of date as far as cricket is concerned, keeping up his reputation for general utility as an athlete in another branch of outdoor games. You want to know what is his name? Well, you will guess it in once if you mention Charles Lawrence. As many will recol­ lect, after touring through the Colonies with H . H . Stephenson and his men under the auspices of Spiers and Pond in 1862, he settled down in Australia to revisit England for a time six years llater as manager of the team of Aboriginal Cricketers. G ettin g into the sere and yellow, like alas ! some more of us, the time came not long since when the painful evidence of shortening breath and stiffening muscles forced on him the ODly alternative of retirement from the cricket field. Since then, however, he has broken out in anew place. The ancient game of “ bowls,” which is “ catching on,” as our American cousins say, in the Colonies, has found in the veteran cricketer a brilliant exponent. A correspondent located in Newcastle, New South Wales, has been good enough to send me two extracts from the Morning Herald published in that town. From these I find that Lawrence, who by the way is universally respected in every cricket circle of Austtalia, has already, though in his novitiate, carried off two prizes— one a pair of bowls and the other the Gold Medal Championship of the Newcastle Bowling Club. It will be gratifying to C kicket readers generally, but more specially to those on this side who are sufficiently advanced in years to have personal recollections of Lawrence, to find that a veteran who has won his laurels on the cricket fields of both hemispheres still retains his nerve as well as his accuracy of vision. If age has withered to some extent his power as a cricketer, it has evidently not been able to stale his infinite variety as a sportsman. L ohd H aw ke informs me that his team for America has been finally settled. Mr. W .E . W . Collins, I am sorry to find, has after all been compelled to cry off, and his bowling will be greatly missed. The inclusion of Mr. G. W . Hillyard wiJl supply the void to some extent, but the following names will show that the Yorkshire Captain will hardly have either quality or quantity in the bowling at his command. The twelve who are to leave Liverpool in the “ City ofNew York” on the 16th instant will consist of Lord Hawke, Lord Throwley, Hon. H . Milles, Messrs. L. C. H. Palairet, H . T. Hewett, K. J. Key, G. W . Ricketts, C. W . Wright, C. Wreford Brown, K. McAlpine, J. H. Hornsby, and G. W . Hillyard. Mrs. Key and a sister of Lord Hawke will accompany the party. The first game is to commence on the 25th instant at Philadelphia, and after a second in tho Quaker City, the tour will be continued to Boston, New York, Baltimore, and possibly Pittsburgh. Chicago, which is mentioned as a likely place for a match, will I should fancy be just a leetle too far for the arrangements of at least some of the team. Since the above was written I learn by telegraph that the Dons at Oxford are disinclined to give Mr. Palairet leave to enable him to do the tour. It is to be hoped this difficulty will be over­ come, otherwise the prospects of the team will be seriously affected by the loss of his excellent all round cricket. I t is not a little singular as a coinci­ dence, that Somersetshire should have, in its first year of promotion, happened