Cricket 1896

G e o . G . B ussey & C o . , THE LEADING CRICKET AND SPORTS MANUFACTURERS, 464 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. Nov. 26, 1896. C O . Q _ l fiC o s LU £C b l > o -J m J < GO I - Z H I C3 < E C O CRICKET ANNUAL, RECORD OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP. (40 pages, 4to.) Over 50 photos of Leading players; full of interesting cricket matter. 2d,; post, 3d. “ YORKSHIRE OWL” OFFICE, 48, B R IG G A T E , L E E D S , And at the Offices of this Paper. W HAT OFFERS for Yols. II. to X III of o ricket — O.P.Q., Ellesmere Villa, Bulwer Road, New Barnet, Herts. W ISDEN’S ALMANACK.—The Editor of Cricket is anxious to obtain Wisden for 1875 to com­ plete a set. C r i c k e t : A WEEKLY RECORD OF TEE GAME, 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LOUDON, E.C, THURSDAY, NOV. 2 6 t h , 1 8 9 6 . IMPORTANT NOTICE ! Six numbers will be published during the Winter as heretofore, from October to March inclusive. The four remaining dates will be:— No. 439.—THURSDAY, DEC. 31. No. 440.—THURSDAY, JAN. 28. No. 441.—THURSDAY, FEB. 25. No. 442.—THURSDAY, MARCH 25. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— Hamlet. O n the 12th inst. J. T. Heame left England for Patiala to fulfil an engage­ ment with the Maharajah. It will be remembered that Hearne visited India to coach the subjects of the Maharajah in the winter of 1894 and 1895. I n one of the first matches of the season in Australia, Hogan, a Paddington Electorate (Sydney) bowler, took six wickets for niDe runs against St. Ignatius College. T h e famous Australian bowler, G. E. Palmer, has left the South Melbourne C.C. to go to Launceston (Tasmania) as coach and ground man. This ought to give a great impetus to cricket in Tasmania. In the interview which appeared in Cricket on September 11, Mr. Eady said “ They play cricket at Zeeham, where the mines are.” According to “ Felix,” of the Australasian, it appears that Harry Boyle, the great Australian slow bowler, is captain of this club for the ensuing season. One of the rules of the Southern Tasmanian Junior Cricket Association is as follow s:— “ All clubs whose playing grounds are within a radius of 10 miles from Wellington Bridge, and in com­ munication with Hobart by train, tram, coach, or steamer, when the time taken to reach such playing grounds does not exceed 60 minutes, starting from Welling­ ton Bridge, shall be eligible to join the association.” The rule seems quaint, but it doubtless works well, for a proposal at the last general meeting of the Association to reduce the radius to five miles was not carried. A f t e r practically giving up cricket in the last Australian season, Alec Banner­ man, it is said, will take his place again in the Paddington Electorate Team at Sydney. At Melbourne, cricketers have been greatly interested at the prospect of seeing J. M’Blackham once more keeping wicket; he has a bad thumb, but has expressed his intention to play again if possible. “ K in g W il l o w ” writes as follows in the N ilgiri News :— “ It is a bit dangerous, as a good many writers about cricket have ere this found to their cost, to attempt to correct mistakes in the “ Pavilion Gossip ” of Cricket, so that when a correspondent wrote to me the other day about one he had discovered in a recent issue of “ the organ of the game,’ ’ I was ware of it and verified his facts. It was, too, just as well I did, as he was wrong and the “ Pavilion Gossiper” quite right. Or rather the latter’s statement was not wrong in the particular my corres­ pondent said it was. The point was as regards the last time the Surrey Second XI. suffered defeat. Cricket said in August, 1892, at Luton; my correcting correspondent in August, 1891, at Luton. As Bedfordshire did beat Surrey Second in 1892, at Luton, the correction was wrong, though they also beat Surrey Second the previous August at Luton.” A w h it e r in Australian CricJcet is responsible for the following anecdote :— “ I remember playing in a match at the pretty village of Minster, in Kent. I was bowling, and at my end stood a son of the soil—perhaps I should say grandson —attired in smock-frock and general holiday garb, who had been pressed into service as umpire, owing to our opponents’ man not having arrived. My friend’s knowledge of the game soon proved to be very crude, and on two occasions I quietly rebuked him. In return, he sagely remarked, ‘ We are never too old to learn.’ The climax, however, arrived when I appealed for l.b.w., and my old friend said to the batsman, ‘ Take your dummed fut away, I can’t see the sticks! ’ ” M r. G. L. W il s o n , the well-known Sussex amateur, intends to play for the Melbourne C.C. this season, and Mr. Ferris, who is now at Sydney, may appear in the South Sydney team, as well as Mr. H. H. Massie. G. J. Bonnor is also in Sydney, and expresses himself as being as well able to make big hits as ever. The “ Yorkshire Owl Cricket Annual ” for 1896 is full of interesting matter, chiefly pertaining to Yorkshire cricket. The annual, which is published at 48, N E X T ISSUE, THURSDA Y , DECEMBER 31.