Canadian Cricket Field Volume 1 1882

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF CRICKET IN CANADA. VOL. I. JUNE 28, 1882. No. 6 ia begins for examinations, and May finds the students plentifully occupied im these delightful tasks. It is a wll be publstId twce i May twlc n Se ember, and weekly durig the în- noticeable fact that there are undergraduates of this institution on many of the country elevens, who, if they Correspndentsare regueted tosend in contributionqby/,efirst mail On could be concentrated into one whole, would make a Monday to 6s ln tlrme for Wedm:sday's issue. suscriione p i .sop r annun, ,n advan«c. formidable plialanx. At Victoria College, Queen's and Advertising rate: o,. application. McGill, if there are cricketers we never hear of them in AU! com"nications to be adfdresd, connection with their colleges, and so inust suppose that THE CAN.4ADI4AN CRICKET FIELD, as at Toronto, their strength is disseminated throughout Rox sg, Toronto, ont. the country. TORONTO, JUNE 2 ST, 1882. In the States cricket bas of late years become aston- ishingly popular at the universities. Of course it plays second fiddle to base ball, but all the leading colleges, CRICKET IN CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES. jsuch as Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton have There is a wide thouglh not very unexplainable differ- their elevens, and they play intercollegiate matches. ence between the interest evinced by students of uni- 'Nothing is so strong an incentive to a college man to versities in this country and the United States and in pr",tise and play well as a prospective contest with a England in the gamie of cricket. In the latter country fellow institution, and especially in the States, where there are but four universities, and consequently a vastly championships are struggled f ir and held on to with the greater number of men at each institution who go in for greatest tenacity. There university cricket, it would the game than we have here, while-there the public seein, has taken a step further than in this country, school has already done the work of creating an interest where the game is left pretty well in the hands of in them. There studenLs have less to do and more professional and business men. money than we poor colonials, and su can better affoid It is a great pity that mure strenuous endeavours are, to indulge their tendencies; and then again public sup- not made to produce really strong university elevens, for port enables the imipecunious to do their part. Here no young men here have so much time on their hands as none of these agencies exist in anything like so marked college men during vacation. It is, no doubt, the means a degree, and we are correspondingly behind hand. One that stand in the way, and until they are forthcoming, circunstance that nilitates very strongly in any country 1 until we have a wealthier clasb of men at our Canadian against the developing of a strong university team is the length of the summer vacation. This holiday lasts over the whole sunimer, r more nearly, monopolises the cricket season, and su few others than those living at or near their college are on the eleven. In this latter respect, Trinity -College has the best chance of all Canadian colleges. Its vacation begins later in the year than that of any other, and it must be admitted that they take every advantage of the chance. Every year they open early and crowd in a good many games before July, and arc well seconded in the efforts by their graduates, because these have already played as undergraduates on the same eleven. Then here again the majority of men who graduate in Arts go in for Divinity afterwards, and so keep up a longer active con- nection with their college. At the University of Toronto elevens are ephemeral, and depend for their numbers on men residing in the city. At the end of April work universities, we will hardly look to them for good cricket elevens. EDITORIAL NOTES. The match at Upper Canada College last Saturday showed well what a great part is played by that institution in' develop- ing cricket. The best batting and bowling in Canada was there; and a stray tendril that has found his way to the States is about as good an all-round man as that republic can produce. .*. The following has at last appeared : We, the undersigned,-wish to state, with regard to the so.called cricket scandal in Australia, that wo emphatically deny that there is uny truth in the rumour that either we, or, as far as we know, any other member of the team, were offered a bribe to lose any of the Australian matches, nor did we hear any such report until after our arrival in England. (Signed), ALFRED SHAW, Captain. JoRN SELBY.