Cricket 1894

JULY 19, 1894 GBXCxETs A WEEKLY EECOED OF TH® GAME; 265 referenoe in the matter ot cricket curios, to give the different cases in point. 1850 July 15—L ord s, N orth v. S outh 1872 M ay 14—L ord s, M.C.n. & G. v. Surrey 1874 June 18—P rin ce’p, M iddlesex v. O xford Univ. 1875 M ay 17—L ord e. N orth v. South J877 M ay 24—O xford, M.C.C. & G . v. O xford Univ. 1878 M ay 27—L ord ’s, M .C.C. & G. v. Australians 3884 M ay 26— B irm nghm . E ngland XT. v. AstrlnB. 18S6 M ay 18—L ord ’s, M .C.C. & G. v. L ancashire 1887 M ay 30—L o rd ’s, N orth v. South 1888 A u g. 2—M anch ester L ancashire v. Surrey 3889 Aug. 12—L o rd ’s, M .C.C.& G. v. Som ersetshire 1892 Aug. 8—M anchester, L a n cs v. S om ersetshire 1894 M ay 2—L ord ’s, M.C.O. & G .*. Sussex 1894 J u 'y 17—L ord’s, Lar.caehire v. Som ersetshire It is hardly news, perhaps, to a large number of C bicket readers to learn that Mr. W. Yardley, the old Cambridge oricketer, is now contributing crioket notes twioe a week to The Morning. The arrangement, which is only of reoent date, should be a good one for the paper. In any case the news will be of interest to C r icket readers. No one is better able to write on cricket with all the au­ thority of an expert than Mr. Yardley. Moreover, his literary capacity and journalistic experience are additional guarantees that what he has to say will be presented in a light and readable from. L ast week’s C ricket contained two scores of matches on the Pacific Slope. For these the paper was indebted to Mr. A . E. Coates, who I take to be the same A.E C. who played many summers since for Gloucestershire,and—I am writ­ ing from memory—was for years prominently identified with the Northbrook Club. C ricket reardes will be glad to know, on the au­ thority of our correspondent, that crioket is booming—good old boom —in California, A . B .C ., who writes from Penryn, California, U.S A., says that they are doing their best oat there for the grand old game, which tobody who knows the writer, at all events, will doubt for a moment. Cricket— the game, that is, not the paper—is spreading there, it is eminently satisfactory to learn. About the paper there can not, of course, be the shadow of a doubt. I had almost forgot­ ten to add that A. E .C . signs himself “ Captain and Secretary, Cetius Colony C.C.” It will certainly nob be his fault if orioket flags-or, perhaps, I ought to say, ceases to boom -out his way. May it boom ! As reoently as last Saturday, a statement appeared in one of the English sporting papers, to the effect that three cricked teams from Great Britain would b9 starring in the United States in the fall of this year. Suoh au announcement is incorrect, as the only combinations which are to visit the American continent from the old country ■will be one representing the Gentlemen of Ireland, who are to be the guests of the Belmont Club, of Philadelphia, and the other an amateur team, captained by Lord Hawke, who are going over on the joint invitation of the Germantown and Merion Clubs of Phila­ delphia, There w&s reajly up great danger names as now furnished by Mr. Stoddart are: — Mr. A. E. Stoddart Mr. F. G. J. Ford Mr. H. Philipson Mr. L. H. Gay Briggs Humphreys Lockwood Peel Richardson Albert Ward T he Australians, and with great judgment, have, so I understand, been very anxious that Messrs. L. C. Palairet and F. S. Jackson should accompany the party. The former hap, it is stated, definitely resolved not to make the trip, and my information is to the effect that Mr. Jackson at the present time is, to put it in the mildest way, a very doubtful starter. The official announcement adds that the three places still vacant- wili be filled up by batsmen. This would al­ most follow, as at present com­ posed there is rather an excess than a lack of bowling, and even as it is at the best it seems as if there will not be a superfluity of batting. The colours for cap and scarf seem to represent a judicious combination of the oolours of the Melbourne and Sydney cricket bodies, who are the joint promoters of the tour. The result of the blend is a background of dark bluo with a narrow band of light blue, red, and white. The team, who are to leave in the Orient steamer “ Ophir,” on September 21, are, it is said, due in Ergland again by the second week of May. T h e two new men, Messrs. M. Berkley and W .J. Gray, who played for Essex in the match against Yorkshire at Halifax last week, have been, and are, both closely identified with the County even if they were not both born within its limits. Gray plays for Chelms- f jrd, where he has lived all his life. Maurice Berkley, who is a son of the Hector of Navestoke, near Kom- ford, is the Old Fettesian now up at Hertford College, who has been successful on occasions in the trial matches at Oxford. It is some­ thing of a cricket curio, that the first two bills he, bowled forE ssix should have secured two wickets, and such good batsmen as Wainwright and Mounsey withal. T he Eton and Harrow match just over, as far as one oan judge, seems to have given new opportunities for two very likely all-round cricketers in C. C . Pilkington and F. H. E. Cunliffe, of Eton and on the other side a batsman of some promise in J. H. Scogdon, of Harrow. And if Eton had several familiar names in Bromley-Martin, Gosling, Lub • book, and Mitchell, Harrow had also Crawley and its Gore to keep alive the memories of the past. As most C rtck & t readers know,?doo- tors differ on the question of the number of matches whioh have been played between the schools. The papers mostly accept the notion that last week’s contest is the seven­ tieth. But to agree to this, it is necessary to inoltjd© the first meeting, that of 1805, in at any time of a triple display of British cricket concurrently on American grounds. In any case the good sense and feeling of the contracting clubs on the other side long since removed any possible doubts there m*y have been on the subj ct. To some of his many friends—and fe^r crioketers have had m o re -it will be sorrow­ ful news to learn that C. E . Horner's active cricket is over, at least for a time. In bowling for the Incogniti against the Blackheath C.C., at Blackheath, on the 23rd of last month, he twisted his knee so severely that he has been on his back ever since. Under the circum­ stances it will be readily understood that cricket is over with him, at any rate, for this season. More than that, it gees without say. W ALTER HEARNE. ing, that he will have to be very careful ia the future, if he is to resume his participation iu the game with the zeal which has always been oharaoteristio of his play. His return to the crioket field will be heartily weloomed by all who have had the ohance of estimating, p: operly, his keenness as a oricketer. T h e official pronouncement wlr’ch appeared in the dailies of yesterday, giving the names of the ten who are already certainties to accompany Mr. Stoddart to Australia this autumn, only goes to show how accurate was the information I gave with regard to the nucleus of the team some weeks ago. Atte* well, I understood at the time, was an uncer­ tain quantity, and the only addition is Mr. F. G. J. Ford, who, by seme ill-chance, I omitted to mention with the others. The ten