Cricket 1893

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But when ihe rain came pouring down, she sorrowfully cried, For her love for manly cricket lived half-a- day, then died. L eath er S cout . I t will not be the fault of W . W . Read and those who are assisting him if Reigate does not rise to the occasion in appreciation of the visit of so many of oar best cricketers to the town this week. The match between W . G. Grace’s and W. W . Head's elevens, as the names will show, will present, in the way of first-class cricketers*quite an embarrassment of riches to the good folk of Reigate to-morrow and Saturday. A dinner is to be held “ under the most distinguished auspices,” I believe that is the correct expression, to-morrow night. This will be enough to show that Reigate means to do the thing well. T h e players announced are— W . G. Grace’ s team : W. G. Grace, A. T. Kemble, C. T. B. Turner, W . Newham, W. L. Murdoch, and L. A. Shuter j Lockwood, Hav- ward, Maurice Read, Ayres, Abel, and Brock- well. W . W . Read’s team: W. W . Read, G. Brann, E. Smith, C. W. Wright, G. L. Wilson, and W. T. Graburn; Wood, Richardson, Peel, Sharpe, Henderson, and Baldwin. The Surrey men who are taking part in the game will, as I mentioned last Thursday, finish the Eeason next week on the Athletic Ground at Richmond. They are to oppose Twenty of the District there on Monday and Tuesday next. An old cricket correspondent of mine and a keen enthusiast at the game, Hubert Trough* ton, calls attention in yesterday’ s Sportsman to the fact that the partnership of F. S. Jack­ son and A. E. Stoddart, who put on 170 runs while they were together, in the first innings of C. I. Thornton’s England Eleven at Scar­ borough on Monday week, is a record for the first wicket in any match against the Austra­ lians in England. The performance was from every point of view such a remarkable one that it would be altogether unfair if two of the very best all-round crioketers we have should lose any part of the credit due to such a great achievement. CmcKtT has no politics, of course. Still, it may be of interest to remark, as an instance of the Conservatism which is such a dis­ tinguishing characteristic of the great bulk of cricketers, that the principal exponents of the game in the House of Lords were all on the side of the majority which threw out, perhaps it would be more correct to say “ run out,’ ’ the Home Rule Bill last week. Among them I may notice the Duke of Buccleuch, Lords Londesborough, Dartmouth, Lyttelton, and Willoughby-de^Broke, the majority of them pa^t masters, I mean Past Presidents, of the Marylebone Club, one of them, Lord Dart­ mouth, the present occupant of the presiden­ tial chair. The one bright particular cricket star on the side of the Government among the peers was Viscount Oxenbridge, the President of the Surrey County C.O. T he news that Capt. Orman has recently been added to the noble army of Benedicts will give pleasure to the large number of C r ic k e t readers to whom he is personally well-known. The Captain has been of great service to several clubs, more particu­ larly Kensington Park, and is also an Incog, of no small reputation. During the last two or three years, too, he has been a useful—I had almost said Lieutenant—assistant to L. G. R. Thring, in the development of the Bed­ fordshire County Club. He has also, unless I am in error, played for the Richmond Foot­ ball Club under Rugby Union rules. He was married last Tuesday week to Miss Blanche Lintorn, the youngest daughter of Field Marshal Sir Lintorn Simmons.