Cricket 1894

22 CRICKET s A WEEKLY EECOED OP THE GAME;, FEB. 22, 1894 W ic k e t -K ee pers since 1861.—E. Stephenson, G. Pinder, J. Hunter, and | D. Hunter. B en efit M a tc h e s . 3870IE . Stephenson 1883 G. Pinder 1572 'R . Iddison 1882 E. Lockwood 1873 J. Rowbotham 1884 A. Hill 1874 2 L. Greenwood 1887 G. Ulyett 1875IJ . Ihewlis 1891 L. Hall 1878 T. Emmett A fund was raised for W . Bates, which was formed into an annuity, which yields him, I have been informed, .£1 weekly. B. Peel is to have a benefit in 1894. In 1865 G. Wootton took all the York­ shire wickets in the second innings, when playing for the All-England Eleven. Ulyett is the oldest man in the present County team—born October 21, 1851 Hirst, the youngest, born September 7, 1871. CRICKETERS WHO HAVE PLAYED FOR YORKSHIRE. I n t h e o r d e r in W. H. Woodhouse E. Vincent G. Smith T. Marsden G. Dawson G. Rawlins W. Lupton P. S. Johnston T. K. Barker T. Deakin J. Dearman Wilson J. Woollen J. Hyde H. Hathersley Shackerley Captain M’Coy Shaw Hall F. Barton Wheatley Wilkinson T. Hunt G. Coates S. Baldwinson B. Wake R. F. Skelton G. Armitage T. Ellis M. J. Ellison G. Chatterton John Bury A. Crossland H. Wright G. Anderson W. Kaye H. Sampson E.B . Kaye R. Iddison I. Hodgson E. Stephenson W . Wadsworth W. Waterfall J. Rowbotham Joseph Berry G. Atkinson W. Slinn L. Greenwood W . Halton C. Webster W. Prest T. Robinson T. Dakin B. W. Waud J. Thewlis W. Cuttle E. Dawson T. Brownhill Ashley Walker 3. Hall T. Darnton C. H. Prest J. Joy A. J. Wilkinson Scott G. Thorpe A. Appleton J. D*wes D. Pollard G. Holgate J. Smith W. Smith H. Hocking G. Shotton G. Freeman T. Emmett E. Maude G. binder f WHICH THEY APPEARED. T. S. Dury S. Haggas M. Riley A. Sowden Jos. Hunter Whatmough C. W. Landon H. Pearson J. Bottomley W. Haywood H. Wood T. W»lker E. Peate J. Thewlis jun. H. Taylor J. Taylor G. H. Lee A. Ackroyd R. Crookes Dobson I. Grimshaw C. Gifkins F. Blake W. Aspinall B. Hudson F. Burrows J. T. Bawlin S. Ellis H. Clegg E. W. Hirst A. Thornton W. R. Wake Moseley O. Wheater M. J. Wood W .Sugg J. W . Thrapleton a . M. Corbett S. Ilaxington Lord Hawke R. Wright A. Motley Boden J. Padgett T Brackin L. G. Hill R. Peel J. Frank H. E. Rhodes G. P. Harrigon F. H.Sugg W. H. Bowers Crossland W. H. Woodhouse W. Harris G. R. Paker I*. Puliai F. Leo J. M. Preston A. Wormild A. Soden H. Deadbeater A. G. Day S. Wade H. Ambler Albert Ward Wraithnell J. Wilson H. Hill J. Denton D. Denton T. Wardall H. Dyson Harris E. Robinaon •I.E. Ellis Littlewood H. Tinsley J. E. Lee Hart E. B. Rawlinson Pride G. Britton H. Hayley J. Burman E. Waiawright G. Haville R. Mtorhouse G. Lynas J. Yeadon A. F- Smith Creighton J. West Ubher H. W. Vcre’st W. Middlebrook C. Udithorne W. Coverdalc H. Webster A. W. Dixon E. Lockwood Ernest Smiih A. Greenwood David Hunter A. Firth H. W. Hart K. Butterfie’d A. Sel!e 8 S. Waring A. Smith-Parrail D. Eastwood F. E. Barnes R. Clayton Horsfall A. w. Dawson Towler A. Hill Driver W. Law Barton A. F. Smith E. T. B. Simpson H- Kaye W. H. Harrison C. Baililey Eawden A. Brown H. B. Wilson T. Armitage J. Redfearn W\ Bosomworth B. C. Bolton L. Hall F. S. Jackson E. Lumb J. Tunnicliffe J. Flicks Cuttle G. Ulyett K. J. Whitwell C. Armitage Shilbeck G. Belts Earnshaw Dewse Berry R. Baker Iveson W. Oates F. Crowther G. A. B. Leatham J. Mounsey a . Marsha’l A. P. Cross and Byron W . Cartman H. M. Sims J. T. Brown C. M. Sh«rpe G. H. Birst W. Robinson Ii. W. Frank M. Myers F. E. Woodh9ad J. Blackburn Luther Whitehead E. S. Carter G. Waller A. Champion G. Thornton B. Lister H. Tinsley H. Lockwood A. Fletcher W. Bates 8. R. Jackson E. T. Hirst Bulmer E. Blamire8 Penny J. Beaumont Ost'er W. Bates Wordsworth L. W. Wallgate Nichol on E. Roper Lancaster L. R. Havers P .S .--It will be a pleasure to have any omissions or mistakes pointed out in these papers on Yorkshire Cricket. AUSTRALASIAN CRICKET COUNCIL The annual meeting of tlis Australasian Cricket Council was held at the Vienna Cafe on December 28. Mr. H. W . Best, M.L.A., |was vo! ed to the chair. Letters were received from Mr. J. Cres- |well, of Adelaide, and Mr. D. Scott, of Melbourne, asking that they should be appointed managers of the next team of Aus­ tralians to visit England. A discussion took |place as to whether a definite.date for sending the next team to England should be fixed. Eventually, it was decided to postpone con- |sideration of the matter for a year, and it was also resolved that the council should I have the right of selecting all the future ] teams. It was decided that owing to the probable visit of an English eleven next season the patronage of the council cannot be given to a Parsee eleven. Mr. Victor Cohen, the manager cf the Aus­ tralian Eleven, read a report in connection with the tour of the team. The report dealt with the play, aud the following reference was made to internal troubles :— “ I trust I shall not be expee'ed to enter into details with regard to the comments corcerning tbe team, which have from time to time appeared in the Australian press. Undoubtedly much has been said that would have been better left unsaid, gaining as it has undue importance owing to tbe highly- coloured and sensational manner of its pub lication. Dissensions did ari'e botb on and off the field, but in this respect I am i' formed the members of this team were not singular. Dissensions such as occurred are greatly to be deplored, but as most of the disputes par­ took o f a private and personal character, it is my opinion undesirable, in the true interests of cricket, that the same should be further publicly discussed ; the good fellow­ ship and loyalty which should exist between members of a cricket team returning from England, whither it had gone to uphold tbe prestige of Australia, should be sufficien ly strong to allow a settlement of such internal disputes by the members themselves without reference to your councilor the general public. “ In conclusion, I think it may be fairly said that as a whole the team has continued to uphold the excellence of Australian cricket. Most of the matches were contested under circumstances not always favourable, the loss of the toss, unpropitious weather, and having to bat on the worn wickets being very frequent, facts which the brief cablegrams to Australia did not adequately describe.” A letter, signed by twelve members of the team, was received complaining that they had been unable to obtain a satisfactory statement from the manager in connection with the fir.ance3 of the team, and asking that the council should authorise a special audit of tbe bools, three of which \\\-re in the pos­ sesion of Mr. M‘Leod, and the others pre­ sumably in the bands of Mr. Cohen. The council heard a statement from Mr. Cohen as to the complaints made against him. He said he had never been unwilling to give information about the finances of the tour. The matters the team now wished to challenge were those which through their executive committee they had already approved. On the motion of Mr. C. W . Beale, seconded by Mr. W . H. Moule, the following resolution was carried, viz. :— “ That tbe books in the possession of the members of the executive committee of the Australian team, and the books, still held by Mr. Cohen be placed in the hands of Mr. Portus, honorary secretary of the council, to be held in trust; that each pirty have access to such books : that Mr. Coh n be asked to prepare a financial state­ ment of the tour, and submit a copy to each member of the team, and that in the event of the members of the team being dis­ satisfied with such statement, the council will take further action.” The council also inquired into the statements as to the alleged disorganisation in the Australian Eleven, taking par­ ticularly the statements attributed to Mr. Cohen, the manager, and Mr. C. T. B. Turner, a member of the team, after their return to Australia. Neither Mr. Cohen nor Mr. Turner would, however, either substantiate their statements or withdraw them, Mr. Cohen stating that he did not intend to go beyond his report to the council, while Mr. Turner confined himself to the broad assertion that there had been some disagreements in the team, as there would be always with a number of m tn travelling together. A number of statements affecting generally the conduct of players were taken in detail, and some of these received a flat contradiction, while others, it was stated, had been grossly ex­ aggerated. The tiffs that occurred in the team were private and unimportant, and as far as the English pres3 and public were concerned they remained so. Tbe team, it was asserted, had not by any misconduct brought discredit on Australian cricket or in any way damaged the interests or reputation of teams from Australia which might in future visit England.