Cricket 1892

484 (OEICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE 0AMB; Nov. 24, 1892 E.J.PAGE&GOu KENINGTON PK. RD„ LONDON, S.E. THE COMBINATION FLEXIBLE Hill BUT. These Bats find increasing favour with Gentlemen and Professionals. For driving power they are unequalled. The jar, or sting is entirely obviated and the hardest hit can be made with­ out feeling any unpleasant sensation, The words “ Combination Flexible” are stamped on each bat. CRICKET BALLS OF THE VERY BEST QUALITY LEG GUARDS, BATTING GLOVES, FOOTBALLS, And all kinds of Indoor and Out­ door Games. List of Prices on application, post free. \ yA N rE D—Wisden’s Cricketers Almanack for 18G7.—Send lowest price to W . K. W r ig h t , Manager of C r ic k e t , 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Lon­ don, E.C. T)ULW ICH C.C. have Whit Monday, May 23, .v a c a n t for a whole day match at Dulwich, With strong club. W rite-C . P. T r b g e l l a s , 17, Macaulay Road, Clapham Common, S.W. 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Cricket: a W EEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, *1, ST. ANDREWS HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2 4 t h , 1892. IMPORTANT NOTICE. Six numbers will be published during the winter as heretofore, from October to March inclusive. The remaining dates will be No. 319—THURSDAY, DEC. 29. No. 320—THURSDAY, JAN. 26. No. 321—THURSDAY, FEB. 23. No. 322—THURSDAY, MARCH 23. The six Winter numbers will be forwarded immediately on publication for Is. 3d. The amount must be sent to Mr. W. R. W b ig h t , Manager of C r ic k e t , at the Offioe, 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Doctors’ Commons, London, E.C. In the WINTER I8SUE3 we shall give SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS of high quality by new process as well as numerous illustrations. They will also contain special articles of interest by some of the best-known writers on the game. With this number of C r i c k e t is presented a Supplement-Portrait of L. C . H. PALAIRET and H. T. HEWE IT—a Memento of the First-Wicket Record, which should be found enclosed in every copy of the paper. IJabiftmt dtossip. ® i a a b s tra ct amd b r ie f ch r o n ic le o f th e tim e.— _____________ 3amle9c T h eke are not many clubs in the King­ dom which can boast such a record as the Leinster, one of the most prominent of the Dublin cricket institutions of the day. Even with the thousands of cricketers located in Great or Greater London, there are few instances in which two teams are placed in the field simultaneously, very few in which a club can claim three elevens regularly at work. Leinster is one of the few who can claim this distinction. The summary for the year is one indeed of no mean merit. In all the club took part in fifty matches, of which thirty-six were won, six drawn, and eight lost. But the most conspicuous feature of an ex­ ceptional season was the clean bill of health presented by the second team. They actually went through the summer without one defeat, a remarkable amount of success with a list of twenty-four matches. The third team was only beaten once. S uccess it is that makes the man, the want of it the villain. If the same remark applies to other bodies, corporate I mean, the Kensington Park Club can hardly be charged with even the appearance of a villain. The statistics which appear in another part of the paper are sufficient evidence of the amount of work the K.P.C.C. has accom­ plished during the season. A programme of thirty-eight matches requires, if it is to be carried out without a hitch, some­ thing more than an average capacity for administration. Few clubs, indeed, are so lucky as to possess an executive officer not only gifted with such perseverance, but with suchpowers of organisation and business habits as the Hon. Sec. of the K.P.C.C., who, like other Brooks, it is to be hoped may go on for ever in the good work of cricket development. At all events, if a steady increase in members, a successful season, and the possession of what seems likely to be a fixed resting place are signs of permanence, the Ken­ sington Park Club has every chance of a long lease of life. I f the functions which were arranged for them in Colombo are to be accepted as an indication of the spirit in which they are to be received everywhere during their tour in the East, Lord Hawke and the Amateurs who form his party will have their fill of social enjoyment. The opening day of their first fixture in Colombo was a public holiday, and on the occasion of the match against the Colts an arrangement was made that the Government offices should be open on the two days from seven o’clock in the morning till noon. Besides being the guests of the Colombo C.C. during tlnir stay there, the team were entertained in succession to a dinner by the officers of the Boyal Warwickshire Begt., a smoking concert by the Amateur Orchestral Society, a dinner by the Colombo C.C., in addition to being the guests of the Governor at Queen’s House at a dinner and dance. B ut even a more gratifying feature of the news we have received of the doings of the team in Colombo is of their success from a cricketing stand­ point. That they won two of three matches, and had all the best of the draw in the third case, well hardly be a surprise to those who can appraise the quality of the all-round cricket to be found in the team. No one who has had any practical experience of the character of the cricket grounds in Ceylon, however, can gainsay the excellence of the performance credited to the team in two of the three fixtures at all events. Scores of 252 and 237 are not very easy of attainment under the condition of grounds as they are in Ceylon. If the result of the matches in Colombo are to be accepted as an index to their success in the future, the Parsees and the Anglo-Indian Com­ binations, which are to oppose Lord Hawke's team in India will have to look to their laurels. T he annual meeting of Secretaries of County Clubs, I take it, in the absence of any official communication to the con­ trary, will be held this year as usual ou the second day of the Cattle Show Week, the 6th of December. So far as I have heard there is not likely to be any great novelty in the English programme, indeed the necessity of reserving space for the