Cricket 1894

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THURSDAY, MAY 10 t h , 1894 Subscription fo r Twenty-four Summer Numbers. 51- vost free fo r twelve months, 61- U a f r x l m n , She abstract and brief chronicle ol the time.— Hamlt'n T h e official pronouncement that the committee of the Marylebone Club have formally accepted the terms of the re­ quisition framed by Lord Hawke, the Yorkshire captain, and signed by the captains of the Gloucestershire, Kent, Lancashire, Middlesex, Notts, Som­ ersetshire, Surrey, and Sussex elevens, having as its object the practical elevation of Derbyshire, Essex, Lei­ cestershire, and Warwickshire to the ranks of first-class, brings presumably to a close another chapter in the history of County cricket. I say presumably because one is not quite able just at present to satisfy oneself that the difficulty which has troubled so many great minds for some little time, the classification of Counties, is really solved by this move of the nine captains, whose strategy seems to have caused such innocent delight to at least one cricket critic. S t i l l , this same question of classification his been so long a caise, not only of vanity, but of vexation of spirit as well, to so many of those who trouble themselves about many things in the matter of County cricket, that any movement calculated to bring relief to their minds should be heartily welcomed. Besides, anything which can tend to the development of County cricket,as the action of the captains in question is bound to do in a way, can­ not fail to give general satisfaction. In any case, it has at least given unqualified gratification to the four Counties most concerned, which should be tidings of comfort and joy to those who have ministered to their advancement. O ne of the very first resolutions of the Cricket Council I may remark, if only by way of a reminder, was to the effect that there should be no dis­ tinction among Counties. C r ic k e t more­ over has always gone so emphatically for a broad policy in this direction that the removal of any barriers which mght tend to check the reasonable advance of Counties of any class would always meet with its heartiest approval. S t il l , if even in the present instance the end may be considered to justify the means, none the less exception may be taken, and fairly, to the methods. In season and out of season C ric k e t has advocated the policy that all matters connected with County cricket should be managed by the Counties themselves, as the M.C.C. should be the maker of the Laws and the high court of appeal on all questions connected with the general administration of the game. As it is, just lately the readiness of the executive of the Marylebone Club to entertain and accept any suggestions, even to the extent of ruling on points solely and wholly connected with County cricket submitted to them is in curious contrast with their extreme caution in dealing with any proposition having for its object an amendment of the authorised version of the laws of the game. T h is latest departure, too, seems to open another question, tbe competency of Captains of County elevens to take the initiative in matters affecting the status of counties themselves, and quite distinct from any question of practical cricket or the direction of the game itself. Personally I am of opinion that in the latter the captain should be absolute and subject to no control. But if in p rely administrative points he is to be also dictator, then tbe hitherto accepted forms of management are obsolete, and the sooner the supersession of committees and effete institutions of the kind becomes an accomplished fact the better. R ig h tly or wrongly, too, the selection of the four counties seems to have produced something of a grievance. The bitter cry of outcast Hampshire has, indeed, already found expression in the columns of the press. There is indeed a good deal of reason in the case stated in the Sporting L ife of Tuesday last for Hants. As a matter of fact, the probable effect of this translation of the four counties to Hampshire had a practical illustration in the abandonment of all its fixtures of minor importance by Somersetshire, when that shire was taken up into the upper house of county cricket. Hampshire, it may be well to remind C ric k e t readers who are not acquainted with the early history of the game, was the nursery of cricket. Moreover, last year it was by no means to be despised, as its victories over Sussex. Warwickshire, and Essex fiillv showed, At all events, the case of Hampshire seems to suggest that the vexed question c ( _ tu -Y W H ir e * c REGISTERED TRADE. MARK.