Cricket 1891

40 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. MARCH 26, 1891 CRICKET CLUBS Desirous of buying First Quality Goods at most Reasonable Prices, should send to J. DAVENPORT, 38, FINSBURYPAVEMENT, FOR NEW PR ICE LIST . AHANDLE BATS 12/6 " B E S T ! K E BALLS 5/6 pR ICK E T , FOOTBALL, & TENNIS GROUNDS (all thoroughly drained, October, 1888), TO LET 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 enham (Proprietor), 104, Rossiter Road, Balham. (Cycling and Running Tracks now ready.) (?<OOD CRICKET GROUND TO LET, Terms moderate, close to Palmers Green Station. Bus meets Trains and passes Ground. Luncheons, Dinners, Teas, &c. Splendid accommodation for Beanfeasts and Picnics.—Apply, The Proprietor, Cherry Tree Hotel, Southgate, Middlesex. 4 p R IC K E T , FOOTBALL & TENNIS GROUNDS. 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THURSDAY, MARCH 26 t h , 1891. Jjafcrxlifftt (Itosstp. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— __________________________________________ HamU fc T he Pall Mall Gazette of Monday contains an announcement that Mr.Evans Broad, of Edenbridge, has been selected as the Liberal Candidate for South Derbyshire in face of the decision of Mr. Wardle, M.l?., to retire at the next General Election. Mr. Broad has always from his youth upwards been an active suppo; ter of cricket, as, indeed, of all athletic sports. He is the head of the well-known firm of accountants, Broad, Paterson and Co., and in the financial circles of the city few men have a wider acquaintance. For the last two or three years Mr. Broad has done good service to the Surrey County Club as joint auditor. It will be of interest to Metropolitan cricketers to know that the London Play­ ing Fields Committee are not sparing any pains to increase the accommodation available for clubs who have not the means for renting grounds or going to any great expense in preparing special pitches. Just lately the L.P.F.C. have taken, close to Wandsworth Common, a ground of about six acres, which they propose to let out for the coming season, and in which they hope to be able to accommodate six clubs. The rent for each pitch is or was to be £12 for the season, and in the allotment of pitches preference was to be given to clubs which have usually played in the South Western Postal District. Mr. Arthur L. Baxter, of 37, Bromfelde Boad, Clapham, S.W., the Chairman of the South Western Sub-Committee o f tho L.P.F.C., has been the moving spirit in this good work. He fears, owing to the long continued frost, that tho ground will not be ready ior use till May 30. T h e papers have been lately much im­ pressed by the doings of a. batsman named Costello, of Castlemaine, who has been having a high old time of it during the present Australian season. He seems to have been scoring with un­ failing regularity, and a list of his innings includes such trivial contributions as 137 not out, 163, 102 not out, and 114 not out. About the end of January his average was said to be 358! I wonder whether he is one of the “ gentle tappers ” of whom Robert Thoms is so fond. I should fancy the following would about take the ca—I was only going to say take the careless in. The credit of NEXT ISSUE, APRIL 1C.