Cricket 1891

474 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. NOV. 26, 1891 PRICKET, 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.—ApplyH. Benham (Proprietor), 104, Rossiter Road, Balham. (Cycling and Running Tracks now ready.) PITCH TO LET AT HONOR OAK for Searon 1892. Good Wickets. Apply T. E. S w a in , 103, Upland Road, East Dulwich, S.E. WANTED A PRIVATE CRICKET GROUND near S.E. district. Communicate immedi­ ately with A. T a y lo r , 52, York Street, York Road, Lambeth. WANTED, PROFESSIONAL BOWLER and Groundman, Season 1892, capable of playing In matches preferred. Apply H o n o r a r y S e c r e ­ t a r y , Clackmannan County Cricket Club, Alloa. TXTANTED for Season 1892, a groundman and good practice bowler. Terms 80s. per week and extras for bowling. Address, J. B. S o o tt, 1on. 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Six numbers will be published as heretofore, from October to March inclusive. The dates will b e:— No. 289—THURSDAY, DEC. 81. No. 290-THURSDAY, JAN. 28. No. 291—THURSDAY, FEB. 25. No. 292—THURSDAY, MARCH 25, The six Winter numbers will be forwarded im­ mediately on publication for Is. 3d. The amount must be sent to M r . W . R . W r i g h t . Manager of C ricket , at the Office, 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Doctors’ Common, London, E.C. Jgainlfon faamy. fn e abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— In the last number of C ricket I had occasion to mention that W. G., as a biographer, had found an imitator in another Grand Old Man of Cricket, the veteran Bichard Daft. I am now able to state, and on the best authority, that Daft is busily engaged on the work, giving the finishing touches to his M.S. before handing it over to the capable hands of Mr. Andrew Lang. Through the kind­ ness of a valued correspondent, who has taken an active interest in Daft’s labours, I am able to give an idea of the various chapters in which the book will be divided:— “ Early Days.” My early cricket, with de­ scriptions and anecdotes of the old players whom I knew personally, some of whom I played with. “ My First Appearance in the Best Com­ pany.” Cricket generally at the commence­ ment of my public oareer, with anecdotes and descriptions of matches and of the chief players of England. “ The Golden Days of the All England Eleven.” Descriptions of its matches and its players, with many amusing anecdotes. “ The Famous United Eleven.” Descrip­ tions of its players, with anecdotes, &o. “ The Gentlemen During my Earlier Days.” Descriptions and anecdotes, including two stories connected with the visit of George Parr’s team to Australia. “ The Counties from 1860 to 1871.” W ith descriptions and aneodotes of matches played and of those who took part in them. “ Cricket Generally from 1871 to the end of my Public Career.” With accounts of matches I played and of men I met. “ My Tour to Canada and the United States.” With anecdotes. “ Mv Oricket from 1880 up to the Present Date.” W ith anecdotes of matches played and players I have met during recent years. “ Hints on Crioket.” Batting, bowling, fielding, and training for the game. Daft's intention is to give, in addition, pithy sketches of the best professionals and amateurs of his early days, thus sup­ plying a link between Denison and W. G. which should make the chain of cricket history complete. In the October and November issues of the English Illustrated Magazine, three writers, Judge Hughes, Mr. H. Lee Warner, and Mr. Lees Knowles, M.P., describe the history and prospects of Rugby School. The author of “ Tom Brown’s School Days,” (who, by the way, attainedhis sixty-eighth year a month ago) wrote on the theme in the October number. Among other good stories, he tells one about the expulsion of several boys for the crime of ducking an objectionable gamekeeper. As this serves to introduce a good cricket performance I venture to reproduce it. A tremor ran through the school as Oswell, handsomest and most renowned of athlrt.s, passed out; but he was not recognised, and stayed on for some two years, accomplishing before he left a feat which I can scarcely now believe, though I saw it done myself forty- eight years ago. This was the throwing of a cricket ball from little side giound over the elm trees into the school house garden. Parr, the famous cricketer, some years later threw a ball upwards of one hundred yards each way, an unrivalled feat as it was thought, but I am oonvinced that Oswell would have beaten it. Mr. Lees Knowles’ paper is on “ Games at Bugby,” and appears in this month’s number. In it he does not devote so much space to cricket as one would think, but what he does say is to the purpose. T h e old wood block from which the accompanying sketch is taken, came into the possession of Mr. C. P. Green, of Malvern, by whose courtesy we are able to reproduce it, at the dispersal of the celebrated collection of Mr. T . C. Noble. As it is of the reign of George I., and believed to bo the earliest wood-cut of the game, it cannot fail to be of interest to all students of cricket lore. No one who was present at the anni­ versary dinner of the Marylebone Club three years ago can have forgotten the felicitous remarks of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, illustrative of the unrivalled interest taken in cricket, in the course of his reply for the Houses of Parliament. Another prominent member of the Gov­ ernment—Mr. C. T. Bitchie—was hardly less happy in his phrases on the occa­ sion of the presentation of prizes to the winners of the Victoria Park Association Cup on the 12th of this month. He was not sure that, as a politician, one should not feel jealous of the place which cricket held in the hearts of the people. To support his case, he instanced one case in which cricket was directly responsible for the defeat of the Government. NEXT ISSUE DECEMBEK 81