Cricket 1893

m QBlOKETs A WEEKLY HECOED OS' T S M GAME, SEPT. 21 , 1898 Jes.LillywHitejrowflsCo. (The Original Old Established Firm of LILLYWHITE). ACTUAL MANUFACTURERS OF FINEST QUALITY Cricket and Lawn Tennis Goods, Racquets, Footballs, Golf, & c & c , The largest stock of Fine Old Seasoned Bats in the W orld. | FEOW D ’S SPECIAL D RIVER BAT IS THE KING OF BATS »>. L. F. & Co.’s MATCH BALLS surpass a il o th e r fo r perfection o f shape and d u ra b ility . Price Lists Post Free. L it eral Cash Discount. W A N T E D by a N orth London Club a CRICKET * * FIELD near a Station on the G.E. Railway or O.N. Railway —Reply, stating terms, to Mr. J asper N ewson , 315, amhurst R oad , N. 2,4 &6, Newington Causeway,S.L J. L., F. & Co. are publishers of Jam es Lillywhite’ Cricketers’ Annual, 1/* P R IC K E T , FO O TB A LL, & TENN IS GROUNDS v-; (all thoroughly drained, O ctober, 1888), TO L E T at H yde Farm , Balham , for Season, D ay, or Saturdays, close to Railway Station. 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CAPE TOWN-^R. A. Thom pson & Co., 3, Church Street. feRI8BANE-~-Ri AiTbompfion <!fcCo., Edward Sfc. Cricket: 4 W E E K L Y R E C O R D O F T H E G AM E , 41, ST. ANDREWS HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY, SEPT. 21st, 1898. IMPORTANT NOTICE I This Issue is the last of the Weekly numbers for the year. Six numbers will be published during the Winter as heretofore, from October to March inclusive. The dates will be i— No. 347—THURSDAY, OCT. 26. No. 8 i 8 —THURSDAY, NOV. 80. No. 349—THURSDAY, DEC. 28. No. 350—THURSDAY, JAN. 25. No. 3 5 1 -THURSDAY, FEB. 22. No. 352—THURSDAY, MARCH 22. The six Winter numbers will be forwarded immediately on publication for Is. 3d. The amount must be sent to Mr. W . R . W e ig h t, Manager of C r ic k e t , at the Office, 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Doctors’ Commons, London, E .C . Results of the Season and Averages of the Principal Clubs will be inserted in the earlier Winter numhers, at the rate of 83 . 6 J. a column, with a minimum charge of 2s. 6 d. To ensure insertion in the following number, particulars must be received not later than the Saturday previous to day of publication. In the W INTER ISSUES we shall give SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS of high quality by new process as well as numerous illustra­ tions. I hey will also contain Special Articles of interest by some of the best known writers on the game. Habilnro € 05 % ’ShB abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— _________ ^___ _ Hamlek To judge by the keenness of the competition and the number of applicants who have already asked for the assent of the Australian Cricket Council, the post of manager to an Australian team, seems to present consider­ able attractions. At all events, three well- known personalities in Australian crioket have signified their desire to personally con­ duct another team of Colonial cricketers to England in 1895. T h e threecandidates, each and all of them competent men, in question are Mr. John Portus,the hon. sec. of the Australasian Cricket Council, of New South W ales; Mr. Cres&well, the hon. sec. of the Australasian Cricket Association, of Adelaide ; and Mr. D. Scott, “ the Almanac” of Melbourne, for many } ears a prominent member of the V ic­ torian Cricket Association, and junior partner with H. F. Bojle, the w ell-known Australian cricketer, in the firm of Boyle and Scott. The application in each case is of course accompanied with one very important prcviso, the assent of the Cricket Council on tbe other as well as of the counties and principal clubs on this side. The intimation of this excess of zeal to arrange for another visit, after an interval of two summers,reads a little strange in the face of the confident opinion expressed recently by J. M. Blackham to an interviewer, that in all probability it would be many years before another Australian team would visit England. In any case it is a little too previous to be contemplating even the first step towards the formation of another touring party of Australian player 3 . Many difficulties will have to be overcome, I am afraid, before such a trip, that is to say in 1895, comes any­ where near within the scope of practical politics. A ct’ Rious coincidence in connection with the Hastings and St. Leonards Week is the singular equality which has marked the matches between the North and the South, Of the seven matches which have so far taken place, no less than four, indeed, have been decided by majorities varying from 47 to 9 runs. The management of the Sussex festival have, indeed, been wise in their generation in adhering, “ in spite of all temptations,” to the time-honoured fixture which seems to have fallen into comparative disuse ebewhere. A he c o r d of the North and South matches at Hastings, for which I am indebted to an old and valued co-labourer in cricket lore, will show for itself how well handicapped the two sides have been. 1837. North won by 27 runs. 1888. South won by 47 runs. 1889. North won by 152 runs. 1890. South won by 9 runs. 1891. Drawn, after three full days’ play, with the North wanting 170 to win. 1892. South won by an innings and 10 runs. 1893. North won by 25 runs. A summary of the seven matches so far played shows that each side has won three times, while the result of the odd game was a draw with certainly no great advantage to either. It will be gratifying to the large number of C r ic k e t readers to whose enjoy­ ment the managers of the Hastings and St. Leonard’sweek have ministered so assiduously for the last seven years, that the function just over has proved the most successful of the whole seven. The surplus this month I am credibly informed will amount to between two and three hundred pounds. This will bring the fund in hand to about seven hundred pounds. The executive will in any case have a good reserve in store for the rainy day cf which the cricket fathers at Hastings have happily up to the present time had a very limited experience. T h e G.O.M. had, according to all accounts a really high old time of it at Reigate, t*t the end of last week. Every step he took in the town produced a fresh accession of enthusi­ astic local admirers, and, indeed, his whole stay there was a long triumphal march. Good as his innings of 135 was, though, it was noton the field that he showed to the best advantage. His versatility, which is in its way as remark­ able as that of another old parliamentary hand who shall be nameless, was nevermore fully demonstrated than at the dinner on the Friday evening in the Town Hall*