Canadian Cricket Field Volume 1 1882

E4 t~aa tahn kiddc idt, A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CRICKET IN CANADA. VOL. I. JUNE 14, 1882. No. 4 of time with which a man has been identified with any •t club, the greater, it nay be inferred, are the claims of Wil be pubUshed twIce ln May, twice ln September, and Weekly during the La. that club on his services. Not necessarily so. That club ervenIng months. has the best right to a man's services which holds out the Correspontdents arc requested to send in contributions by thefirst nail on greatest number of honest inducements. Cricket is hIonazy Io le in time for Wednesday's issue, cricket, and there will be no harm donc if the element of Suerzin rie, oanunn advance. .sentiment be entirely eliminated. Secure a suecessful All~' tornnunratronj to be addr.-ed, series of matches for the season, let a tendtenc in the THE CANADIAN CRICKET FIELD, members of your club to constantly practise between Box 37, Toronto, Ont. times manifest itself ; and if you offer a plaee in your eleven to any one, you have equally streng, if not TORONTO, JUNE 14TH, 1882. stronger, claims on his services than another haphazard club, though this man may not have been so long upon - your nembership list. Make it honestly worth a man's DUAL MEMBERSHIP. while to play for you, and it will require no further coax- ing to wean his interests from other localities and centre The letter from the secretary of the Pickwick Cricket them in your own. Club to the London Advertiser, copied below, brings early to our notice a case of very common occurrence-a cause of constant discord. EDITORIAL NOTES. " Sir,-In your issue of to-day there appears a stateient, over Mr the score of the match between the Asylun and the Pickwick . D. W. Saunders has opened his record for 1882 m Clubs, that the former club had 'their principal bowler' pitted grand style, by playing one of the best innings ever made by a ",Now I wish to state on behalf of the management cornmittee Canadian. To niake a century on a lively wicket is a great of the P. C. C. that Mir. John Gillean is a member of the Pickwick feat, and one of no common occurrence, but wlen the three Cricket Club, and as such played against the Asylum Club on figures are reached without a chance being given, on a dead Friday, 2nd inst. "I night aise add that the Pickwick team was mainly composed wicket with a miserable out-field, the performance is indeed of the second eleven, and that it was understood with the Asylum great. Club that it was simply to be a practice match, and, furthermore, it was mutually agreed not to publish the scores." " Outing " is the name of a new journal of recreation, pub- Waiving for the present the injustice.of numbering lished monthly by Mr. W. B. Howland, in Albany, N.Y. It Mr GILLEAN among the second eleven, let us inspeet has 24 pages, which contain a variety of interesting articles rather the motives that induee a man to play.vith more lating to recreations of all sorts. A small rtion onl is than one club, and investigate how far he is justified i reP adopting these. We are seldom in this country in a devoted to out-door sports. The business office is at 251 Broad- position to offer a continuous play with one teamn to any way, New York, where the subscription price, one dollar, one, and a good man naturally craves for cricket. He should be sent. will avail himself of every legitimate opportunity for a game, and rightly enough. It seems reasonable that Rumour lias had it up to date that NIr. C. J. Logan, of Port there should be in every good player a desire to have all Hope, being booked for the matrimonial match, had substituted the cricket he can, and there is just as reasonable a desire that for cricket. We are now glad to be able to contradict the in every approximate club to have that player on their busy dame, and toassure criketers in general that he wll nt eleven, while the number of askers will nultiply vith .ie e , the ability of the person asked. It is then possible for be entirely lost to cricket. this man to serve two masters without either clinging . ** too tenaciously to the one or absolutely abandoning the It seems that we must always be tanglit by exanple. We other. But this does not hold in the case of men inport- can hardly point to one instance in which cricketers on this bide ed for the day to play important matches. Nothing has of the lino have set it. No attention bas as yet been paid to such a cooling effect on the ardour of the tail that is the approaching international match, no definite plan of action removed to make way for the imported goods. Such wheroby to secure likely candidates for the eleven mapped out, procedure should be discouraged as savouring too much of'the professional, and lacking honest intention, no suggestion offered for bringing the men together for united Returning to the other view of the case, it is apparent play before the contest. On the other side our neighbours were that the rule comes, as in the case in point, when a mans long ago busy, and on the fourth and fifth of July next will be two elevens come to be pitted against each other, then played Old Countrymen v. Ainericans, a match gotten up with a let him cast his lot with that club which has the view to test the relative abilities uf the men uf the different strongest claims tipon him. And the greater the length clubs.