Cricket 1893

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WRIGHT, at the Head Office, and crossed “ Union Bank, . Holborn Circns." Cricket: 4 W E E K L Y RECORD OF THE GAME. 41, ST. ANDREWS HILL, LONDON, E.0. THURSDAY, APRIL 20 th , 1893.] s t p . The abstr&ot and brief chronicle of the time.— HamleH, A C o l o n i a l paper is responsible for the statement that George Giffen got twelve months leave from the South Australian Government, without pay, in order to be able to accompany the Australian team. From the same source one learns that on the occasion of his last year he received full pay “ owing to the advertisement to the Colony.” H is brother Walter has not been anything like as fortunate. The South Australian Gas Company declined to give him leave of absence to enable him to proceed to England. In spite of this refusal he determined to make the tour, with the understanding that in the event o f a vacancy in the Company when he returned, an application from him would be favourably considered. R e g r e t was, and rightly, expressed in the Eastert'de articles in the Sporting ^ailies on the prospects of the com ing season that Somersetshire would lose the valuable services of Cres. J. Robinson this year. Cres. J., it appears, is off to the Cape Diamond Fields in search of the “ oof-bird.” His resolute batting has fre­ quently been of the greatest service at the tail of the Somersetshire innings. No respecter of persons, he punished at times the most effective bowlers without mercy A hitter of his class often upsets the best laid schemes o f the most scientific bowler, His batting was not orthodox, to use a phrase beloved of cricket critics. At the same time, if his ways, like that of the heathen Chinee, were peculiar, he came off frequently when orthodoxy was out ot it. I t has been erroneously stated “ in another place ” that difficulties had arisen which would prevent the Australian team having the privilege of practice on Mitcham Green as on some previous tours. To say the least of it, such a report was in any case just a little “ too previous.” A t all events, I think I am correct in stating that arrangements have actually been made, through the good offices of the hon. sec. of the Mitcham Club, whereby the Australians will be able to have theirfillof practiceon theexcellent wicket always to be found on the Green during the week or ten days they will have available before they begin the serious work of the campaign. This, as everyone knows, will be at Sheffield Park on Monday, May 8. As far as one can gather there seems, at present, at all events, little chance that the Earl of Sheffield will be able to see his way to fall in with the wishes of the Mel­ bourne Club and the New South Wales Cricket Association in the matter of taking another English team to Australia next winter. In a cable message sent to Major Wardill, the secretary of the Mel­ bourne Club, Lord Sheffield expresses his fears that it will be impossible for him to organise a representative team. T h e chiefdifficulty in his way is, itwould appear,that Shrewsbury and Gunn require too large a solatium to compensatefor their absence from business. Without them Lord Sheffield rightly considers no English combination to be thoroughly re­ presentative. Still he has promised to consider the matter. In the event of Lord Sheffield’s decision being adverse,the Melbourne and Sydney authorities, as I stated some time ago, will arrange to bring out an English team during the Australian season of 1893-94. With this view,Messrs. W . Bruce and J.M.Blackham are fully accredited to act on this side. In any case, it is hoped that Messrs. H. T. Hewett, L . C. H . Palairet, and A. E. Stoddart will be able to make the trip. The Australian public, it would appear, is particularly anxious to see Mr. Hewett perform. K e n n y B u r n , whose inclusion in the Australian team of 1890 was due to such a curious misunderstanding, has been piling up runs out at Hobart just lately with greater consistency than ever. Early