Cricket 1894

Together 'joined in cricket’s manly toil.”— B y r o n • Beisteredfor XranBmiSonAbroad THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1894. PBIOB 2d. weekly jcurney. Thus, Sir A. W. L. Hem­ ming, the hon. sic. of tLe lneogniti Club, has wiitten supplementing remaiks on cricketers who have played in spectacles. He enume­ rates W. H. Andrews, “ wh) played for some years for Kent in the ‘ fifties,’ and always From a photograph by Symininis & Thiele, Chancery Lane. County, andt). D. I’onti'ex, who playel for two or three years for Surrey. Ihese latter, playing for Incogniti v. Gentlemen of Sussex, July, 1885, went in first together, and made 222 before they were parted—a ‘ record ’ at that time for the first wicket on the Brighton most generously asked my acceptance of the scores of the ei Incogniti,” fiom the founda­ tion of the club in 1861 down to the present time, which have been printed for private circulation only. Then here’s a letter from a parsjn at CRICKET^NOTCHES. By th e Bev. B. S. H olm es . Further timely htlp from strangers fur­ nishes me with another good start oa this wore glasses. He was a good bit and wicket-keeper, and I once saw him at Lord’s (I think in Gentlemen of Kent v. Gentlemen of England) have the glasses broken on his nose when keeping wicket; but he was not otherwise damaged. I may also mention the Kev. R. S. Thornton, late of Kent grcund, and quite unique as being got by two fpectaclei men.” W . G. Grace the second is another case in point, but he has yet to win his spurs in front-rank crickdt. Sir Augustus confesses to being “ as keen an enthusiast as ever, after watching and play­ ing cricket for foity years;” and he has KICHABDSON SMITH M. READ MB. K. J. KEY M B. D, L . A. JEPHSON HAYW ABD ME. W. W. BEAD LOCKWOOD BBOCKWELL