James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1875

- • • o some tinie pa t ng.,,,,.,hm n . ,l,&.."9, he -- tumours of an invasio11 of merieans ,vith ·- to r mo o cerlain evident prejudice exi ting i the English mind on he ulSj ot i the national ga.mtl of ' Am ericm n t �.,ebali. The cry of Wolf w s o t � , -· , ! �i:i . ti t ---a, - - · - ol e'f er person even be� to oubt the e�ten oi the animal. The g on of 1874 will have to bo m �ked with °' r d le�ter �o;J th y e ar of lhe America · i ,;tY asio n. It was p eeful inv ion nougb: in all eo ......""cience. Ire chief artill - base balls � -orioket balls the only arms thos of the players. The hL,tory of the invasion i · lf tnust b brietly told. arly in 1874, • , G. · pa· mg; of e Bo ton Athle*· . , eball Club, the Champion Club of Am · ea, -n sent over to Englana to r00<>nooitre the Ian , and .tepott on ihe �hances of a. ba . ball trip to ihe old aouniry� Good j dges w.ete cons led, , _ ,.. , cting -on their advice palding telegraphed to Ametioa in f�Y<>ur of a l!l.nding. tr�a,ty hl;d·-eanwhlle been alecled 1rith the Seeretaey of the Surrey Cricket Ohlb to _...,,toh ver the American interest in anticipation oi the dis eml,irka ­ tion • . - - ·· ei and baaeb ll were to b co . bined as · the progr mm"' of tile tour; �d . t e Yankee set io work at once to rub u p their c ricket . . · paldin.g lo t no · e in enga ·n.g one .of the huge cricket f&milyof Nettingliaro ha: to ceo MDY hi m , and during J t tn e and mos t · p rt of . July the nglisll . -:.&.�m ......... studio ly affeoted by ambitious ba se ball er s. . Few of them hac.l · . 1 · touched a bat, though Har,ry W�ight � 1 then q ptain, and Georg� Wright ' ho t top' > ,t one of old Sam W r ignt, of Sheffield, were both ra4� pla.yer even according to _ English notions. Tlie Iaitlel:ione Club , wih i _. n tial liner lity, h&d granted free use of its ground for the first tw o d ys of h Canterbury week, a great concession considering that the fi.r.-.t � - Y 'W·· ·Banlr Holiday. Other engagement wer� m&de, generally favourable, an on the 28th of Jtily the American set foot on - E ng lis h groun at Livei-p oo l . f the baseball part of the ,ro ramme I h&ll say nothing, Cricket alon i my theme,, '' ting of .. arms and ihe man.' , The Yank: � came, a, • . . ............... eb'nquered e ..w h er e ! 'the were u · nde rrat ed t ' i t · is oert&in, but they pl yed, ith one exception, aiainst ,�e ry interior el ens, �na th�y we . �tted thr ougho ·i agau1st teams of a lo,ver 01�d � i· than third r ate : : At Prine s t e Oval, She:ffield, anrl Dublin, they j me t ioemen, &s even t s . proved, - u rtby of thcir teel, and the only sem\)lanoo of a suong oppoailio11 s { u the oooa ·on of their fir$" matoh at Lortl's. ace 'Will not allow m & · t rnte · to de ·1s of ever y · mateh, so that a fgw pemo11aJ. remarks +fill �umee 11 t eir 1ie1 ing much ,vas peoted, but it even exceeded th& g neral ,fttiti i .. p tion. Tlte catching ,v nre, the throwing · ll!lply p_erfeet. · Wfo��t ke e ping n. d n o t · bee n st 1died, and fus play was ab4orm�l, antl · somewhat · co entl 1e, t h ough not wan · t ing in efficacy. Har ry Wright bowled ex.trem��y 11, wit good judgmsnt an d eat p1·eci i o � , hi p �ea liitle over medium, " eBride ,. pitrlled '' eltecti\"eJyi 1 wi th .- a e ., ies of u.n�t: an sling ,h. 1 t , told ell f r om , ...._e � no�elty oi t�e aU&ck. . e o r g� W rig h i , s Jlo lin , ., , ,' w::::= above the aYerage, and he di played t t 1 m e � m�oh he din h· . deli er ,