Cricket 1892

74 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME; APR IL 21, 1892 THE LONDON CLUBS IN 1892. As some of the chief London Clubs will be com - mencing the season on Saturday next, a few particulars w i'h regard to their programmes lor the summer will be of interest. As we propose to continue our remarks next week it will be necessary to premise that the Clubs are taken haphazard just as the information has come, and without any attempt at arrange­ ment, much less of alphabetical order. C h a r l t o n P a r k does not open until the 30th inst., and ends its season on Sept. 10th. The programme consists in all of fifty fixtures, ex­ clusive of a tour in Sussex from August 15th to 20th, consisting of matches with the Blue Mantles, Hastings Alexandra, South Saxons, and Devonshire Park. C r o y d o n has as usual a lengthy list, embracing no less than seventy matches. A home week has been arranged, commencing on the August Bank Holiday. Matches will be played against Addiscombc, Burlington Wanderers, M.C.C. and Ground, Granville (Lee), Kenley, and Brixton Wan­ derers in these six days. This will be suc­ ceeded by a tour on the South Coast the following week, embracing engagements with Littlehampton, Bognor, Broadwater and Worthing, and Priory Park. The ground bowlers are F. Beaumont and A. E. Brooker. The C r ysta l P alace card contains sixty-eight fixtures inclusive of the Devonshire tour, which commences on August 8th and continues to the 25th. Eight two-day matches form this outing, against Seaton, Sidmouth, Exeter, Exmouth, South Devon, Plymouth, United Services respectively, with a match at East­ bourne to complete the tour. Mr. A. W. Gardner-Woolloton, the honorary treasurer, will have charge of two fixtures against the St. Lawrence Club and Shorncliffe Camp, in the first week of June. The good old trial of Married and Single will open the season of the E a l in g Club on April 30th. Thirty- six other fixtures have been arranged, of which six will be in succession, commencing on August 1st. These will form the Week, when the visiting Clubs will be represented by the Australians, Aslidown Wanderers, Slough, Ealing Dean, Clapton, and Hampstead. Forty- six matches form the complement of th eH oR N - se y Club, irrespective of the Southern tour. This opens on July 18th against the United Services at Portsmouth, and ends on July 30th with intervening fixtures against Isle of Wight at Shanklin, Willingdon, Lewes Priory, Hastings and St. Leonard’s, and South Saxons. The home week is made up of six one-day matches against Butterflies, Clapham Wanderers,Hampstead, ChiswickPark, M .C .C . and Ground, and Old Kugbeians. The ground men are Thomas Brown, of Hathern, Leices­ tershire, and Stephen Bradford, of South Normanton, Notts. W im b le d o n has arranged matches with most of the leading Surrey clubs, as well as with M.C.C. and G., Blackheath, Chiswick Park, Incogniti, and Mr. W . E . Martyn’ s Eleven, twenty-three in all. In addition, we may add, there are a number of half-day matches. As the club has only been re-constructed within the last two or three years neither tour nor home week figure on the list, though they are probable develop­ ments of the near future, with a steadily increasing number of members. This year the club will have the advantage of the help of Stanley Christopherson, of England and Kent fame, as well as of C . E. Horner, of Surrey, th e two brothers Westray, of Upping­ ham, and th e two promising young wicket­ keepers, R. P. Lewis, of Winchester, and J. C. Burleson, late of Uppingham, of whom H. H. Stephenson thinks very highly. S u r b it o n , which has th e Rev. A. E. Beavan as Hon. Sec., and G. B. Windeler Captain of the team, opens its ground for practice on the last day of the month. Oatlands P.trk sets the ball rolling on May 3, and with the match against Long Ditton Village on September 3 “ the balls are over,” at least for the first eleven. Besides these the second team have nine fixtures, ending on September 17. The Surbiton week consists of matches against an Eleven of Kent (two days), Streatham, Wimbledon, Surrey C. & G., and M.C.C. & G. Among the managers of the matches are A. R. Holdship, R. P. Sewell, C. A. Trouncer, B. and R. Howell, G. H. and F. B. Windeler. W. Strachan is ground man and bowler. (To be continued next week.) BLUE MANTLES CLUB. May 14—Southborough, v. Southborongh May 30—East Grinstead, v. East Grinstead June 1—Sevenoaks, v. Sevenoaks Vine June 4—Tunbridge Wells, v. Brighton June 18—Tunbridge Wells, v. Southborough June 30—Eastbourne, v. South Lynn July 2—Tonbridge, v. Tonbridge School July 7—Tunbridge Wells, v. South Lynn July 14—Tunbridge Wells v. East Grinstead July 18,19—Tunbridge Wells, v. Authentics July 21, 22—Larcing, v. Lancing College July 23—Brighton, v. Brighton College July 29, 30—Tunbridge Wells, v. Authentica August 5—Oxted, v. Oxted August 8, 9—St Leonards, v. South Saxons August 10, 11 —Eastbourne, v. Eastbourne August 12,13—Brighton, v. Brighton August 15—Tunbridge Wells, v. Charlton Park August 16, 17—Tunbridge Wells, v. Marlborough Blues August 18—Tunbridge Wells, v. H. Leveson- Gower’s XI. August 22, 23—Newbury, v. Newbury M r . C. E. G reen has just resigned the mastership of the Essex Hounds. A n Inter-collegiate International match between the United States and Canada has been arranged. T he Halifax (N.S.) Wanderers, it is said, will send a cricket team to England in the summer. A b e l was two hours on horseback at Sale in pursuit of the wily kangaroo. It was his second appearance in this particular character. I n the' match between Lord Sheffield’s Team and Twenty-two of Camden (N.S.W.), forty wickets fell on the second day for 123 runs. I n a match at Houghton, South Australia, on Feb, 6th, the Gilbertons lost their last five batsmen for nothing, and Houghton won by one run. L ohm ann took twelve wickets for 17 runs, and Briggs thirteen wickets for 29 runs for Lord Sheffield’s Team v. Twenty-two of Camden. M essrs . B oyle and Scott, the well-known Australian cricket outfitters, have given up the business they have carried on for the last thirteen years in Melbourne. D. W. S a u n d e r s , the wicket-keeper of the Gentlemen of Canada, who visited England a few summers ago, had the best batting average (23) for the Toronto C.C. last year. T h e Freshmen’s match at Cambridge will commence on May 2nd, the Seniors’ on May 5th, Perambulators v. Etceteras on May 9th, and First Eleven v. Next Sixteen on May 30th. H . A. H u g h e s , a well-known junior player, recently did a remarkable performance in South Australia. He made three 100’s in consecutive innings — December 28th, for Ramblers v. Clarendon, 111 not out; January 1st, Savings Eank v. Hahndorf, 105 ; January 16th, Kent Towns v. Norwood 2nd XI., 173. W e s t ’ s P ocket S core B ook contains ample room for keeping Bowling Analysis, &c., for 48 innings. In use by all principal Clubs. Post firee Is. l£d., of Wright and Co., 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Doctors’ Commons, E.C. **+ “ U n iv er sity C r ic k e t " ivill be critically dealt ivith in CRICKET daring the summer term. REMARKABLE BOWLING. On Monday last “ down Kingston way,” All in the Easter weather, Some ardent bats went out to play, Resolved to spank the leather, And grace their scores with many fours— When once the ball was rolling ; But “ bent-laid schemes,” and batsmen’ s dreams. Go wrong—with certain bowling. On Tuesday (still “ down Kingston way ” ), Undamped by bad beginnings, The Eighteen, heated in the fray, Began their second innings. Then Richardson and Mead went on, And there was no consoling Those batsmen m ore- for “ nine for four ” And “ six for nine ” is bowling! C.P. ANOTHER SEASON. T ime was when the cricket season came in unannounced by any preliminary flourish of trumpets. Cricketers were content to set to work in a practical and unpre­ tentious style, without the pomp and ceremony of end-of-the-century sport. But we have changed all that. The New Journalism has prescribed an Easter offering for cricketers in the shape of an analysis of the coming season. Elaborated to the minutest detail, it has come to be recognised as a suitable text for Good Friday’s meditation. And yet there is generally “ but one half-penny­ worth o f bread to an intolerable deal of sack.” Such a reproach shall, at all events, not be ours. W e shall therefore get at once to the subject without more ado. In any question of cricket precedence, M.C.C. would by virtue of its antiquity, as well by its influence, be allowed the priority. In any case, it is safe to pre­ dict a more than ordinarily busy season at Lord’s. Any club desirous of a fixture with the premier club, as a rule, has its wish gratified, always provided of course it has a certain position. The club has carried out religiously its mission to encourage cricket. Last summer, no less than a 155 matches were played under the auspices of M.C.C., this year there must be quite as many if not more. One season, however, is very much the same ns another at Lord’s, in fact, there is little room for any great variety. A new departure has, however, been made in the alteration of date of the Inter- University match. Hitherto Oxford and Cambridge have always met in the first half of the week, generally commencing the game on the last Monday in June. This year, for some reason or other, the old arrangement did not appear to suit Oxford, and the match is to begin on Thursday the last day o f June. A revision of old arrangements is generally calculated to prove inconvenient to some one. In this case the order of the matches between the Gentlemen and Players has