Cricket 1892

JeJc “ Together joined in cricket’s man ly toil.”— Byron . Vo. 308 VOL. XI. R eelfired for Transmission Abroad. THURSDAY, JULY -28. 1892 PH .m w 2 d . CRICKET NOTCHES. B y t h e R ev . R . S . H olmes . I t is now thirty-seven years since the erection of one of the most conspicuous monuments in Highgate Cemetery in the North of London. How many The epitaph is worth transcribing, line by line; there is a simple dignity about it worthy of the man and cricketer it serves to keep in remembrance. “ Lillywhite ” Born June, 1792— Died August 21st, 1854. Thus it runs. There is no Christian name. business is nobody’s business. The “ Non­ pareil’s ” three sons—Frederick, James, and John, are no longer with us. And perhaps it is asking too muoh of the M.O.C. to request that they should set this very noteworthy inscription right. Somebody ought to take it in hand. I shall be very willing to start a subscription with a modest sum o£ From a Photograph by R. W. THOMAS, 121, Chaapside. A R T H U R S HR EWS BU R Y . modern cricketers have seen it? You cannot miss it, as it stands very close to one of the en­ trances. It was put up under the patronage of the M.C.C., by means of a subscription limited to five shillings. Perhaps no other cricketer has been so characteristically immortalized. None is needed. There is but one Lillywhite in cricket, or for the matter of that, iu all history. I am truly sorry to see that the epitaph is almost illegible. Cannot it be restored in imperishable letters? What is everybody’s five shillings. This neglect of past worthies pains me. Perhaps the Editor of C ricket might be induced to convert himself into an offertory for this moRt honourable work. A monument that cost £50 is surely deserving of being preserved in decent, religious order.