Cricket 1892

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By the light of subsequent experience it would seem as if the disparaging remarks on the quality o f Australian cricket at Lord’s last month were a little too pre­ vious. At all events, the victory of the Combined Australian team over Lord Sheffield’s undoubtedly powerful com­ bination shows conclusively enough that the pick of Colonial players is, after all, not such a puny opponent as some of those who spoke so slightingly at the meeting of the County Secretaries in December would appear to think. Granted that in this instance luck may have been with our friends the enemy, it is equally fair to retort that Lord Sheffield’s eleven required all the best of the luck to enable them to beat New South Wales at Sydney just a month before. Whatever the re­ spective merits of English or Australian cricket, however, matters little. In any case, everyone who has the best interests of the game at heart will be heartily pleased to find from the experiences of Lord Sheffield’s Team that good cricket is still able to draw in the principal centres of Australia as well as it lias ever drawn. It is pleasant, too, to think that after all the decadence of cricket in the Colonies is not as yet quite so much in evidence as some of the pessimists over the seas would have led us to believe. At least for this relief much thanks. A good all-round sportsman, of quite the prehistoric days of University cricket, went over to the majority in the early part o f this month at Brighton. The death o f Mr. Henry Blair Mayne indeed removed a personality of an old School of Sport now almost if not quite extinct. Educated at Westminster and subsequently at Christ Church, he became stroke of his College boat, as well as captain of the eleven. According to the Standard he was after­ ward captain of the University eleven. Later on, at all events, he became familiarly associated with cricket as a member of the Marylebone Club and I Z. A contemporaryand friend o f Admiral Rous, George Payne, LordWestmoreland and other sportsmen, he also assisted to frame the rules of short whist. He was head of the Private Bill Office of th9 House of Commons. The Melbourne Standard of November 28 illustrates an article descriptive of the match between Lord Sheffield’s Team and Victoria with various portraits of the leading members forming the English combination. The counterfeit present­ ment is in most cases good, and as a rule the cricketers are easily recognisable. The exception to the rule, however, is furnished in the case of Maurice of that ilk. It is undoubtedly J. M. Read —the Standard , by the way,has himReid —who is at present starring with Lord Sheffield in Australia. But the face in the M el­ bourne Standard is, undoubtedly the face of W . W . It is not only a difference in the letterpress of an I, but in the picture of two eyes. “ T he Master ” during his stay in Melbourne, while the match between Lord Sheffield’s Team and Victoria was in progress, was duly initiated into a new office with all the imposing rites and ceremonies becoming such an induction. At the close of the formal reception in the Mayor’s Chamber, W .G. and the rest of the party were taken into the Council Chamber. A little tired with the morn­ ing’s festivities His Grace of Downend threw himself into the Mayor’s chair. There the company insisted on his stay, and Alderman Amess, taking the seat of the Town Clerk, called upon the first order of the day. Mr. Heather, amidst great laughter, proposed Dr. Grace as first Mayor of the Cricket Field, which Mr. Best seconded with due solemnity. The motion on being put to tho meeting was, it goes without saying, carried with acclamation. On being called to take the oath, Dr. Grace, with his usual readi­ ness, declined on the ground that he did not swear. That particular mayoralty, I take it, has therefore still to be filled. N ottingham cricketers will have heard with unfeigned regret of the death of the Rev. Joseph Stonehouse, for nearly twenty years vicar of St.Saviour’s,Notting­ ham. Mr. Stonehouse, who was rarely absent from a match on the Trent Bridge Ground, was a great supporter of cricket in the County generally, and in addition was always to be seen at Scarborough during the festival. His familiar face will indeed be sadly missed, in Notting­ ham cricket. It may interest C ricket readers to k n o# that William Gunn, the NEXT ISSUE FEBRUARY 25