Cricket 1893

“ Together joined in cricket’s manly toil.”— Byron . Eegi^e°edlM°TranBnSaai?nAbroad. T H U R S D A Y , A U G . 3 , 1 8 9 3 .PR ICE 2d. CRICKET_N0TCHES. B y the Rev. R. S. H olmes . Making my first visit to the Huddersfield ground last week, as is my wont I took careful Btock of the pavilion there, in the hope of see­ ing something new in the shape of pictures rarely seen in these parts; one must go to Lon­ don for these. At Huddersfield, but not in the place of honour, there is a copy of the Jubilee picture, England v. Australia, pub­ lished in 1887. Was there ever a more dis­ appointing production from a cricket point of view? We were led to expect so much, and some of us were saving up for an Artist’s Proof. Crioket plays a subordinate part in it. are of the cricketers. W.G. one can spot, but no one else. It has occurred to me again and again that the time has surely arrived fora genuine National cricket picture which shall be a worthy companion to Mason’s famous Kent v. Sussex picture of 1849. We have never had anything to compare with that: all the 72 portraits are photographs from the life, and not a soul appears there that had not and other itt ms. One generally finds sundry groups both cf cricketers and footballers—the latter being :'n the majority on most of our northern grounds. An old cricket picture is Society fills the foreground, and overshadows the cricketers. Fancy a crioket pioture in which the most prominent figure is an actress I And then what miserable likenesses they some vital conre3bion with the game. It’s a pioture one never tires of. A dear old frieod, with strong art instincts, but with an almost brutal antiiat iy to cricket, often visits me. TH E PAVILION AT TR E N T BRIDGE.