Cricket 1893

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Cricket: 4 W EEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME, 41. 8T. ANDREW’S HILL, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, DEC. 28rH, 1893. IMPORTANT NOTICE ! Six numbers will be published during the Winter as heretofore, from October to March inclusive. The remaining dates will be No. 350—THURSDAY, JAN. 25. No. 351—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 rig h t, Manager of C rick et, at the Office, 41, St. Andrew’ s Hill, Doctors’ Commons, London, E.O. Results of the Season and Averages of the Principal Clubs will be inserted in the earlier Winter numhers, at the rate of 3s. 6d. a column, with a minimum charge of 2s. 6d. To ensure insertion in the following number, particulars must be received not later than the Saturday previous to day of publication. In the NEW YEAR we shall give SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS of high quality by new process as well as numerous illustra­ tions. They will also contain Special Artioles of interest by some of the best known writers on the game. Slsa abstract ana brief oiuonlci* cf the time.— _ ___ __ HamUti T h e appointment of Mr. J. F. Leese, Q.C., to the Recordership of Manchester, adds another to the list of old-time cricketers who have to administer the law within the limits of the sport-loving county of Lancashire. Nor could there well have been a selection more popular with Lancastrians for the high office to which he has been promoted than Mr. Lee?e. A Manchester man by birth, he was in his day, that is, at the end of ihe sixties and early in the seventies, one of the best of Lancashire’s cricketers, a dangerous batsman aswell as an excellent field at point. More than one of his sons, too, have made reputations for themselves as cricketers at Winchester College, as well as acquitted themselves creditably, subsequently, in University cricket. Another old Lancashire amateur of even greater capacity as a cricketer, Mr. J. Makinson, to wit, has been for years stipendiary magistrate at Salford. T h e death of the Hon. Edward Stan­ hope last week has removed another member of that fine all-round eleven which represented Harrow against Eton with such brilliant success at Lord’s in 1859. A batsman of the steady type, he went in first for Harrow with a very use­ ful companion in the person of R. D. Walker, about as difficult a wicket to get as a bowler could possibly have. Until the cares of political life caused him to be troubled aboutmanythings, Mr. Stanhope kept up an active interest in the game. In 1865 he was president of the Christchurch Eleven at Oxford, and, unless I am very much mistaken, played for Kent, with which county he was identified not only by residence but by family ties. Besides being a good batsman, he was also a use­ ful round arm bowler of mediumpace, as well as a safe field. As if a South African team in addition to the Gentlemen of Philadelphia were not sufficient in the way of outside attractions for one season, a team of amateurs repre­ senting the pick of Dutch cricket is to visit England next year. TheGentlemen of Holland, though, will onlymake a very brief stay, and as their programme will consist mainly of matches with puiely amateur clubs, their presence will in no way dislocate or even inconvenience any class of English cricket. The Earl of Sheffield, who took an English team to Holland a few years ago, has invited the Dutchmen to be his guests for the open­ ing match. The other engagements for the tour, which will only extend over the first fortnight of August, will be against Gentlemen of M.C.C., Gentlemen of Surrey, the Hampstead, Richmond, Blackheath, Norwood, Tottenham, East­ bourne, SouthSaxons, andHastings Clubs. So far as I can hear, the reception by some of the leading county clubs of the suggestion sprung upon the meeting of secretaries at Lord’s by the Yorkshire President, with regard to the classification of counties, has not been quite as en­ couraging as its sponsors could have wished. From more than one, it is rumoured, has come an intimation of readiness to discuss such a proposal “ and nothing more.’ W h at seems to be of more importance, is the disposition shown by several of the