Cricket 1895

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No. 410.—THURSDAY, JAN . 30. No. 4 1 1 .-THURSDAY, FEB. 27. No. 412.—THURSDAY, MARCH 27. JJalnltcin ®o0£itjp« The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. A c c o r d in g to the latest advices from the other side, the intercolonial matches fo r the current Australian season are to be played on the follow in gjd a tes:— D ec. 13. Sydney, N ew South W ales v . Q ueensland. D ec. 26. M elbourne, V ictoria v. New S ou th W ales. Ja n . 3. A d elaid e, S outh A u stralia v . N ew South W ales. Ja n . 24. S ydney, N ew South W a les v . V ictoria. F eb. 28. Sydney, N ew S ou th W ales v. South A u s­ tralia. N ot only secretaries o f clubs, but Cricket readers generally, w ill find it of use to have the date of the m ost im portant E nglish matches fo r next season. The three great functions at L o rd ’s, M r. H en ry Perkins has kindly inform ed me, w ill take place as fo llo w s :— T h u rsday, J u ly 2. O x fo rd v. C am bridge. F rid ay, J u ly 10. E ton v. H arrow . M on d ay, J u ly 13. G entlem en v . P layers. This arrangem ent w ill enable the Surrey C omm ittee to fix J u ly 6 for Gentlemen v. P layers at the Oval. A ll these matters, how ever, w ill w ant confirmation at the annual m eeting o f the C ounty Secretaries, which is to be held at L ord ’s on Tuesday, D ecem ber 10. In view o f the visit o f another Austra­ lian team to E nglan d next summer, it w ill interest Cricket readers to k now that even b y the m iddle of last m onth, w hen the season was just comm encing, some o f the brigh t particular stars of Australian cricket had already proved themselves to be in a ru n -gettin g vein. On the first Saturday in O ctober, the M elbourne Club, in a m atch against Carl­ ton, scored 425, to which tw o cricketers w ell know n on E nglish grounds each contributed a hundred. T he centurions in this case were W. B ruce (104) and H u g h Trumble (100). In a m atch in Sydney, on the same day, or thereabouts, Y ou ill, w ho played for N ew South W ales against V ictoria a few seaso s ago, contributed 159 to G lebe’s second innings o f 494 for eight wickets against B urw ood. B ut up to the m iddle o f last m onth the best individual per­ form ance of the season b y an Australian batsm an had been Syd G regory’s 223 not out fo r South v. East Sydney on O ct. 12. B y the death, on O ctober 26, o f M r. Charles R . Tatham , at the ripe old age o f 77, the old Islington A lbion C.C. loses alm ost the last link of its members of fifty years ago. The on ly survivor, I believe, now is M r. F . G. H arding, of Hastings, who has been associated w ith the club, more or less, for half a century. M r. Tatham was fo r several years presi­ dent o f the A lbion, his connection with it comm encing when it had its ground and headquarters at the later and old historical place, C openhagen H ouse, where n ow stands the cattle market at Islington. M r. Tatham , some three or fou r decades since, was w ell know n in the yachting w orld as a m ember o f the old, and afterwards of the new , Thames Y ach t Club. T he Dulw ich C.C. loses a singularly active and intelligent officer b y Orm sby Jones’ resignation o f the office o f its hon. secretary. O rm sby Jones, I had almost said the on ly Jones, has done sterling service as hon. secretary o f the iE olian and D ulw ich Clubs fo r ten years, and it is only the pressure o f other and m ore im portant duties, I am sure, that has necessitated his retirement from the secre­ taryship of the latter. H is successor, I m ay add for the benefit o f all concerned, is E dw ard W hite, B radley H ouse, 285, N orw ood R oad, S.E . Secretaries of clubs which play D ulw ich w ill please note that C. P . Tregellas still retains his duties in connection w ith the preparation of the match list. S om e time ago I gave the first warning note o f the loss E nglish cricket and fo o t­ ba ll w ould sustain by the return o f G. L W ilson to Australia. A nd n ow it is my sad duty to have to record that he is actually on his w ay back. H e left L ondon on the P . and O.steamer ,Australia, on Friday, and should be due in Sydney in about six weeks time. The O ld B rightonians, it is pleasant to notice, did not allow him to leave w ithout the inevi­ table banquet, and from what I can hear there was a gathering o f the clans of association footballers at the Sports Club on Thursday n igh t in his honour. A thorough sportsman every in ch o f him, Cricket readers w ill hope that the A us­ tralian climate w ill restore him very soon to perfect health. B illy W ilson w ill be m uch missed in cricket and football circles over here. G eorge L ohmann , according to a letter from M atjesfontein received yester­ day, is lookin g forw ard in eager antici­ pation for the arrival o f L ord H aw ke’s team, w ho leave in the Guelph on Satur­ day next for Cape T ow n. T he South A frican public, he says, have taken very kindly to this latest visit o f E nglish cricketers, and he foreshadows the heartiest o f welcomes for the members of the combination. T he E nglish team are to open their programm e on B ox in g D ay at Cape T ow n with a m atch against F ifteen of the W estern P rovince, which includes the tw o you n g Surrey professionals F . E . Smith and A . E . Streut, the form er en­ gaged b y the Cape T ow n C.C., the latter b y the W estern Province. Another E nglish professional new to South A frica is A . E . H andford, o f N otts, w h o is in East L ondon fulfilling an engagem ent. T his communication from L ohm ann rem inds me that he is to have the match betw een Surrey and Y orkshire at the Oval next summer fo r his benefit. H e desires me to contradict m ost emphati­ cally the report that he intends to retire from first-class cricket after n ex t year. H e hopes to be in E ngland n ex t M ay, and has every intention o f taking his fu ll share o f the w ork for Surrey and in other matches. H e reports that both Sm ith