Cricket 1894

408 CRICKET % A WEEKLY EECOKB QE THE GAME- SEPT 20. 1894 Ja s lllM ite jM e . The Original Old Established Firm of LILLYWHITE. ACTUAL MANUFACTURERS OP FINEST QUALITY Cr i cke t and Lawn Tenn i s Goods, Rackets, Footballs, Golf, &c . , &c . The largest stock of Fine Old Seasoned Bats in the World. FROWD’S SPECIAL DRIVER BAT IS THE K I N G OF BATS L. F. & Co.'s MATCH BALLS surpass all others for perfection of shape and durability. Price LiatB Post Free. Liberal Cash Discount. 2 , 4 d 6 , Newington Causeway, S. E James Lillywhite’s Cricketers Annual. Now ) Ready. Price 1/-, Post Free, 1/2. ) pR IO K E T , FC OT BALL, & TENNIS GROUNDS ^ (all thoroughly drained, October, 1888), TO LB T at Hyde Farm, Balham ,for Season, Day, or Saturdays, olose to Railway Station. Special reduced return railway fares from Viotoria, 41. —Apply H. 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W e i g h t , Manager of C r ic k e t , at the Office, 41, St. Andrew’s Hill, Dostors’ Commons, London, E.C. Results of the Season and Averages of the Principal Clubs wi'l be inserted in September 33 and 20, as we'l as ia the earlier Winter numbers, at the rate of 3s. 6J. a column, with a minimum charge of 2>. 6d. To ensure insertion in the following number particulars must be received not later than the Saturday previous to the day of publication. C ric k e t is the only paper in the world solely devoted to the game appearing regularly during the Winter months . ftbatrufc ms 4 bsrlsi oteoaiol* of t!s« time.— ______________________ HcmMk L ord H aw ke and the amateur cricketers who are on tour with him shared with the other passengers who crossed the big drink with them in the distinction of a record trip. The steamer “ New York,” in which they left Southampton on Saturday week, conveyed them to New York by six p.m. on the following Friday, which is the fastest up-to-date for the outward voyage from Southampton. The “ New York,” though, in making this best, was only beating her own record, a few weeks be­ fore which she did by two hours. As far as I know, only two, or at the outside three, members of the South African team, which made such a favour­ able first appearance in England this summer, are still left in the old country. One of the trio, C. Mills, the Surrey cricketer, is off on Saturday, and then there will only remain H. II. Castens, the captain, and the bowld—no joke—Irish­ man, C. L. Johnson. I personally helped to speed off at Waterloo, on Satutday mornin/, Davey, Haliiwell, and Glover, all of whom expressed their hearty appre­ ciation of the kindness they had received on all hands. H. D. Cadwalladtr, the hon. sec. of the South African Cricket Association, also left with them to join the Union Bteamer “ The Moor.” I also understood that T. R mtledge and Middle­ ton were to be of the party, aud though they did not come under my watchful eye no dcubt they were there or thereabouts. 41, 8T. ANDREWS HILL, LONDON, E.O. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 20 th , 1894 IMPORTANT NOTICE! Six numb rs will be published during tbe Winter as heretofore, from October to March jpp'usive- The dates will be No. 377 - THURSDAY, OCT. 25 No. 378—THURSDAY, NOV. 29 No, 379—THURSDAY, DEC. 27 No. 380—THURSDAY, JAN . 31 No. 381—THURSDAY, FEB. 2S No. 382—THURSDAY, MARCH 2 j W. A .S imicins , the manager of the South African Team, it may interest the many friends he made over here to know, is a person of light and leading in the football world at the Cape, as he is in the cricket world. He seems in any case to have ex­ ecuted a double mission during his visit. At the recent meeting of the South African Rugby Football Board, a letter was read from him, which led to the belief that he had been authorised, if not to make arrangements, at least to feel the way for the visit of another English Rugby football team to South Africa at the end of next year, A fortnigh t ago I had occasion to notice some exceptional run-getting, col­ lective as well as individual, in Phila­ delphia. The last week of August was remarkable for some of the highest scoring ever perhaps recorded ia that city. In three matches played at Elmwood, the ground of the Belmont Cricket Club, no less than 1,542 runs were made for 89 wickets, which gives an average of a little under 40 runs for each wicket. Five scores of over a hundred were recorded, three in an innings of the first match, and one in each of the others. G. S. Patter­ son, as is generally the case in Phila­ delphian cricket, was to the fore with 271 ; E. W. Clark, jun., made 117, W. Brockie 132, A. H. Graham 106, and D. H. Adams 103 (not out). It was on this same ground, I may add, about a year ago, that the Gentlemen of Philadelphia made their big score of 525 against the Australian team. I t will not be far, if at all, short of a record should it happen that three teams leave England for places far away from our own little Island, during the autumn or winter. Yet there is more than an outside chance of the triple event. Lord Hawke and his party have already played their first match in the United States,and will be home long before Mr. Stoddart’s combination set foot in Australii. It will not be for want of energy or tact on the part of Dr. Anderson, who is working matters over here, if a third trip does not become an accomplished fact. His graphic description of West Indian cricket and its surroundings in Wednesday’s Sporting L ife almost tempts one to pack up and be off to such favourei spots at once. Such a tour it is certain would not only produce good cricket but unmixed enjoyment as well as be advantageous from an educa­ tional standpoint. C rick et readers, who have any recollec­ tion of the first visit of a team of Canadian cricketers to England, will remember the muscular Christian who acted as their captain. Considering that the Rev. T. D. Phillips was even then, nearly a quarter of a century ago, I shou’d say, past his meridian, it is instructive as an instance of the enthusiasm, or at least the vitality, of cricketers to know that he is still playing the game, and with con­ siderable success. In a recent tour of the Chicago Wanderers he was one of the three principal run-getters. Indeed, with only one exception, his score of 56 against Hamilton was the highest for the Wanderers in the four matches they played. F. F. K elly , the old Stoic, was a parti­ cipator, if only to a moderate extent, in some pretty high scoring at Hoboken, New York, in the middle of last month. Bergen Point, for whom he was playing, were mostly composed of members of the New Jersey Athletic Club, with which Tyers the prolessional is connected. The dis­ missal of the Victoria team for 103 was N EX T ISSUE OCTOBER 2q