Cricket 1894

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Six nu:nb;rs will be published during tlie Winter as heretofore, from October to Marc^ inclusive. The remaining dates w ill be :— No. 379—FRIDAY, DEC. 28 No. 380-THUR SDAY , JAN. 31 No. 381— THURSDAY, FEB. 23 No. 3i2— THURSDAY, MARCH 28 The six Winter numbers will be forwarded immediately on publication for Is. 3d., or for 6s. for the year. The amount must be sent to Mr. W . R. W right , Manager of C ricket , at the Office, 6, 7, & 8, Creed Lane, Ludgate Hill, LondoD, E.C. Results of the Season and Averages of the Principal Clubs will be inserted in the earlier Winter numbers, at the rate of 3/6 acoiumn, with a minimum charge of 2>. 6d. To ensure insei\ion 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. § i x h i l w n tHis ftbairwi nai brlsf otajnlol* of ihs time.— ___________ _ HamMi I n Mr. John Maunssll Richards n, who is contesting the Brigg Division of Lin­ colnshire, to fill tho seat vacated by Mr. S D. Waddy, Q .C ., on his appointment to the Recordership of Sheffield, the great bulk of C ricket readers will recognise the good all-round player who repre­ sented Harrow, and subsequently Cam­ bridge University, in the middle of the sixties. H arrow just at that period had a good all-round eleven, and his first appearance for the School was coincident with that of another cricketer who subsequently gained a world-wide reputation as a sportsman, A. N. Hornby to wit. An excellent bat, a fine out-field, and a fair slow bowler, he gave every promise of developing into a really first-class cricketer. Another kind of sport, how­ ever, claimed him for its own. As a gentleman jockey he was in his day quite in the front flight. H e won the Grand National in 1873 on Disturbance, and a year later landed the same prize on Eeugny, a double first which will not soon be forgotten. A Lincolnshire man thew and sinew, it is certain, although he has had one fall, he will take alot of beating over this same Brigg course. T he chief, perhaps one might almost say the only, regret in connection with the first visit of a South African team t j England was the absence of A. B. Tan- cred, who is by common consent acknow­ ledged as the W. G. Grace of South Africa. Still, there is some satisfaction that he is doing full justice to his reputation in another place. Though the cricket season in South Africa has not long begun, he has been the chief figure in some abnormally high scoring in Pretoria. Up to the end of last month his average for five innings was a fraction under ninety-five runs. T hough the cricket programmes gener­ ally are still far from matured, rumour is busy on the subject of the benefit matches which are to take place in 1895. Abel is to have one at the Oval, most probably Surrey v. Yorkshire, as his fourteen years of loyal service to the County fully merit. The executive of the Notts County are trying to keep June 17 and two following days clear for Flowers, whose consistently good all-round cricket for Notts ought to meet with a much better reward at Trent Bridge than was Barnes’ fortune last year. The third benefit of which announcement has been already made is one for Nichols, who has, as everyone knows, played no unimportant part in Somersetshire’s advance in County cricket during the last few years. As far as one can judge, the result of the agitation with regard to the classifi­ cation of counties up-to-date has been to leave the whole question very much where it was before. The counties mostly are arranging their programmes on quite the same lines as heretofore, as I am bound to say was generally expected. Moreover, there seems already to be some doubt how the scheme as propounded by M.C.C., and endorsed by the counties themselves, will affect certain of the interests. O ne of the shires of more recent growth, at all events, is experiencing some difficulty in arranging the requisite number of fixtures to qualify for the Championship, now stamped with the hall mark of the Marylebone Club. After all, it would appear as if the elevation of Hampshire to the first-class will be the chief outcome of the recent movement. And in the face of the excellent perform- mances of the Hampshire eleven last year, it can hardly be argued that special legislation was requisite to achieve this. T h e Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, who has just been appointed to the Recordership of Oxford, can lay claim to the same dis­ tinguished record which Mr. C. B. Fry will be able to boast in the course of the next few weeks, that is unless by any accident he should be prevented from representingOxford in the Inter-University match. Mr. Lyttelton’s athletic record at Cambridge indeed was of a higher order than Mr. Fry’s at Oxford. Both repre­ sented their Universities in cricket and Association football, as well as in the athletic sports. If, as barring accident he will, Mr. Fry secures his Rugby cap this will be his fourth blue. But asainst this Mr. Lyttelton can set even a fifth, as he not only represented Cambridge in the singles as well as doubles at racquets, but also in the singles and doubles at tennis. A ltogeth er indeed in point of quality Mr. Lyttelton’s performances were of a higher order than those of Mr. Fry. In the former’s case it must be remembered that he was good enough to represent England against Australia, as well as in football to play for England against Scotland. Be­ sides this he has for some years been ac­ N EX T ISSUE D ECEMBER 28