Cricket 1893

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In his work he has, in place of average tables and merely statistical matter, preferred to give personal sketches of the chief players of whom he has had actual knowledge. “ Kings of Cricket,” indeed, forms a history of the progress of cricket during the forty years Daft’s experience covers. Full of interesting anecdotes and incidents, too, and with the additional advantage of a goodly quantity of appropriate illustrations, it should enrich the library of every cricketer. Moreover, a preface by that most genial of crioket writers, Mr. Andrew Lang, should stamp the literary character of the book. T h e Surrey captain, I have reason to believe, received by the last mail a letter of a reassuring character from George Lohmann. After leaving Ceres, where he had been staying for some weeks, Maurice Eead and he went further afield and settled down at Mat- jesfontein, which is on the Karoo. The air there is extremely dry, and Lohmann has found most beneficial effects from his stay. He speaks, it is pleasant to be able to add, in the highest terms of the kindness both Eead and he have received at everybody’s hands since they have been in South Africa. Lohmann’s health, C r i c k e t readers will be glad to learn, is steadily improving. His present intention is to leave for home in the s.s. Athenian, towards the end of next month. In this case he should be in evidence again at the Oval about the middle of June. I t will interest C r i c k e t readers to know that the giant of previous Australian teams, the great Bonnor, to wit, is still able to “ lay the wood on ”— I think that’s the phrase used by Colonial critics— with much the same power as of old. At least, the latest advices show that he has been doing some gentle tapping up in Orange (N.S.W.), where he is now located. In successive matches recently, against local fifteens, he scored 148 and 158, in each case not out. On the strength of this duuble performance he was selected to represent New South Wales against V ic­ toria. This invitation, however, he was unable to accept. U n t i l the eleventh of February last, the distinction of the highest individual innings in Australia had rested with W .