Cricket 1894

“ Together joined in cricket’s manly toil.”— Byron* B' giatered toT ra n am fafeon "A broad T H U R S D A Y , O C T . 2 5 , 1 8 9 4 .PRICE2d. CRICKET NOTCHES THE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP. B y th e R e v . R . S. H olmes . CHAPTER ONE. The publication of the “ New Cham­ pionship Scheme,” as drafted by the M.C.C., is proof positive that County Cricket is entering on a new stage, and that the old order has now come to an end. The finished chapter dates from the final adoption of the “ Rules of County Cricket” in 1873, so that twenty-two seasons have come and gone since then. It may be remembered that those Rules were passed in order to check certain irregularities relative to the qualification of counl y cricketers, some of whom used to play both for the county of their birtq and that of their adoption in one and the same season; Southerton, e.g., electing to play for Surrey except when they met Sussex, when he threw in his lot with his native county. The Rules adopted after various conferences on the part of the county delegates—which conferences T H E G E N T L E M E N O F H O L L A N D . L. J. VAN ERP TAAI j MAN KIP J. W G. COOPS W. R. SOLOMON W. F. PROOST E - G. S. BOURLIER J. W . VAN DEN BOSCH UMPIRE (The Hague) (The Hague) (Amsterdam) (Amsterdam) (The Hague) (The Hague) J. C. SCHRODER c . J. POSTHUMA J. E. WETFS P. R. TROMP DE HAAS (Amsterda n) (Haarlem) (Haarlem) Capfc. (Haarlem) e . A. h o e f f e l m a n (Haarlem) j. h is g e n (Amsterdam) F r m a p lcio b y Mr. A. C. Jeaffreson of Hampstead C.C.