Canadian Cricket Field Volume 1 1882

E4t €naabian dîidkd feß A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CRICKET INCANADA. VOL. I. SEPTEMBER 13, 1882. No. 15 to play for Gloucester this season, and refused on account of his coming to this country. He has fallen a little ont of WIlbe pubshed twice in May CeLa Septe fr, andWeekly during the in' trim by living where there was no practice, but a week requste tatendj,>eonri6uiou t,- sould put him ~in good forni. HAMiiLToN'S wvill ho as bard Correspndenits are 1:ested to senu in contributions by thekirst mail on h Monday ta be in time for Wednesday's issue. a wicket to get as any. OGDEN will be a source of great SubscrptionIrice, $r.ops atnun, jn advace. strength to the team, if he can be induced to play at this Advertising rates on afflication. late date. 41 cornuniations ta be addressed, TIHE CANADIAN4 CRICKET FIELD, HELMCKEN's choice may be attributed to two things: Box 37, Toronto, ont. first, the narrowness of the field of information at the dis- posai of the Committee, and second, the disinclination TORONTO, SEPTEMBER 13TH, 1882. engendered in the minds of some by the freezing out policy of this body. The choice cf the last four men bas been (] O I (MI. virtually in the hands of the Toronto members, who as a matter of fact, with one exception, lnow little of what bas In order that Subscribersmay bo enabled been going on in the country this season. The only other to preser've T'HE CAN.IJV CRICKET places represented on the Committee are playing two FIELDmembers ac. Tru STRFORD and GILL LMEh ti binderS ca~pable of contctining t/he first meoakr inbolch brut,St esoIdd at GLEI sboutheld volume at $1.25. The name and year have .n b. will beprinted ingoldon.theback. ,Mis.- have been selected when it is so notorious a fact that ingnumbers Io complete the volume will Toronto is very w3ak in trundlers. There are many good bc furnished at 15c. apiece. men in the country, such as ATKINsoN of Chatham, who is .4eddress, also a good bat, DUDLEY of Napanee, SIMPsON of Galt, "The CanadianCricket Field," FRAsER of Montreal, and many others. Box 347, Toronto. If the Committee were more representative better mon would be got, and the root of reformation Mil1 have been THE INTERNATIONAL TEAM. attacked when such an object is attempted. Four men from Toronto, and two from Guelph and Brampton, looks At the last moment the Secretary of the Association bas like monopolizing things, and shows rather a contempt for been handed the refusais of four more of the original eleven, the abiities of outsiders. Montreal bas been tabooed, and which, with the previous two, leaves but a small percentage Ottawa neyer tbougbt of, more bocause they are too far of the favourites to represent us in the coming match. We away to Lnow about than for any othor reason. Port Hope presume that the reasons assigned are justifiable excuses,yet cm furnish a mar te replace one of Toroutos coiebrities, it scems rather hard that so many disappointments should and s0 could eithor of the teams in the final association tic, have come about. It should be a very extraordinary occur- yet they have nover beon asked te suggest any one, though rence that would doter a mari from representing his cour :y one of the two ostensible onjects of tbe Association is to inx an international struggle. WRcnr would bave a long find the best mon and the hst eoven in the country, with way to go and (iLLEA.N cannot gnt away. STRATFORD Wil a View to selcting a represntative International eleven. ho near the sceno of action at the -tue, thougcliae cannot The present choico is the selection by too linited a number, play because tho Winnipeg captain was not asked, and vitha to limited an amount of positive information in ther BROWNING le the last dolincjuent. possessIi. In substituting the Committee have overlookyed good The American tean dos kot appear qute onstrong as Men. BEHAN Of course could dt t eo inducd t go at so tat of last year. Theb absence of LoR , the slow left- iate a dater and as ns one peraps should havebeen asked hauded bowler, wh did se uch twards wining the booner this is least toe twondored at in his cs RoPER 1881 match, weakeus the tea consierably from a Cana- of Bracebridge should haveccurred te them Te choice dian's point of view. C. A. NEWALL and LAw make the bas fallen on 1OC.KWOOD, F071), AM~fILTON, OGDEN, and team very strong in fat bowling, but it is doubtful whethor HELMCKEN. The first of tibese bas bgen doing well this year, their combined efforts wihl e so effective as wil aOnrY's ,doone thinQct uiet to 49 we re askin h cae RPER 188 1 atch weapkiens e ptahreayer a