Cricket 1897

A p r il 29, 1897. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 105 the other at Honor Oak Park. This summer the tour, which extends over the greater part of the Bank Holiday week, is in the home counties. It consists of five matches against Wolton Park, Crawley, Reigate Priory, second Betch- worth and Holmwood. L ietjt .-C o l . A l e x a n d e r W il l ia m A tjstru th e r was married at St. George’s, Hanover Square, on Tuesday, to Miss Morison Duncan, of Naughton Fife, N.B. The bridegroom, who commands the Royal Artillery in the Halifax district of Nova Scotia, was not only an excellent all-round army cricketer, but in the middle of the seventies did good service for M.C.C. and Sussex. Another Gunner Colonel who played a useful part in county cricket about the same time is also at Halifax now. I refer to Colonel H.B. Kingscote, the old Gloucestershire wicket keeper. T h e Surrey Colts up for test practice this month at the Oval in­ cluded A. Batt and A. Ball. Oddly enough, A. Ball came from Batte rsea. G. W. H il l y a r d , the Leicestershire amateur, looks as if he was not unlikely to make a big reputation at golf, as he has already at lawn tennis and cricket. In the Easter competition of the Leicestershire Golf Club he not only won the Hon. Sec.’s Silver Cup handsomely, but created a fresh amateur record for the links, doing the round of eighteen holes in eighty strokes. first-class matches more than once, or possibly twice, before July comes in. There is some doubt, too, whether R. O. H. Livesay, of Rugby football as well as cricket fame, will be seen at all in County cricket this year. He is just now stationed at Woking. T h e picturesque little village of Crow- hurst in Sussex was holding high revel last Thursday on the occasion of the wedding of the Rev. H. C. Lenox Tindall to Miss Muriel Caroline Papillon, daugh­ ter of Mr. P. O. Papillon, of Crowhurst Park. The athletic record of the bride­ groom is well known. Educated at Dane Hill School, Margate, and subsequently at Cambridge, he held for several years THE LION’ S HEAD, CAPETOWN, WITH SECTION OP RAILWAY RUNNING PROM THE TOWN TO SEA POINT. R u m o u r has t tnat, after all, George Loh­ mann will not be seen in English cricket this year. It was stated freely at the Oval, outside the pavilion on Tuesday, that a well-known Surrey player had received an intimation from Lohmanu that he would not return to England for the coming season. In any case, there is no news that he has left South Africa up to date. T h e Medway, with Lord Hawke and the cricketers who accompanied him to the West Indies, reached Plymouth safely yesterday to time. Several of the tourists, in all probability, will be actively a.t work on English cricket fields within the next few days. ' As far as he can see at present, Capt. Wynyard will not be able to take part in The pictures of the Lion’s Head, Capetown, and the obstacle race on the next page, are taken from photographs kindly lent by W. Brock- well. Their connection with the game of cricket may, perhaps, not seem very obvious, for we understand that cricket is not played either on the Lion’s Head or the railway, and certainly not in an obstacle race. Nevertheless, we believe that the snapshots will be interesting to our readers, as representing scenes with which cricketers who visit South Africa become familiar. cricketers who sent wedding presents were Lord Hawke, Mr. Richard Daft, H. B. Daft, R. P. Daft, Mr. F. S. Jackson, Mr. A. J. Webbe, Alfred Shaw and Arthur Shrewsbury. I t was found necessary to postpone the annual general meeting of the Emeriti C.C., which had been announced to be held at the Sports Club on Friday. T h e Duke of Norfolk is the new presi­ dent of the Sussex County C.C. At the annual general meeting a vote of thanks was given to Lord Sheffield, the retiring president. The home match with Middlesex is, as already announced, to be played at Eastbourne, while Notts appear at Hastings instead of Brighton, which must have been sad news to some of the Notts batsmen who have grown to love the Brighton wicket. As the Wanderers have no ground they might fairly be said to be always touring, even if the majority of their matches are within easy reach of London; the longest in distance indeed of the ordinary list is that against Leys School, at Cambridge. But the Wanderers have a real genuine tour on the accepted lines. This extends from July 23 to August 2, inclusive. The heavy work consists of four two-day m a t c h e s a g a i n s t R e i g a t e Priory, Eastbourne, Hastings Club and Ground and Ton­ bridge, with a one- day fixture against Epsom on August Bank-Holiday as a wind up. the quarter-mile amateur record. He was a good footballer too, and asa cricketer was decidedly above the average. As captain of the South Saxons he was a prominent figure in Hastings cricket and also did good service for Kent on a few oc­ casions. The bride too comes of a family which has done much for cricket, not only in the Hastings district, but also in Sussex generally. O n Thursday last the marriage of Mr. C. W. Wright, the famous Cambridge Blue, with Miss Francis Harriett Terry, eldest daughter of Sir Joseph Terry, took place at the village of Dringhouses, in Yorkshire. Mr. H. T. Hewett was the best man. Among the well-known local prefix of Wanderers, have Until the end of with a weekly to one on Whit T h e Nondescripts, who some years ago dropped their old Hampstead, like the no local habitation. July they are content match, in addition Monday within easy reach of London. Then they flit to the far west, where they know from past experience that they find excellent grounds, as well as real sportsmen for their opponents. Their tour, as in 1896, is in Somerset and North Devon. It consists of four matches, against Wellington, F. Townsend’s Eleven, at Barnstable, North Devon and Westward Ho respec­ tively. The Nondescripts are this year celebrating their twentieth season. For the last ten years the club has been fortunate enough to have the same hon.