James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Annual 1876

43 minster men at tlie Universities. Their match with Charterhouse was this year spoiled by wet, and left drawn. From all we can hear there is no reason for Charterhouse to repent of the change from Smithfield to Godaiming from a cricket point of view. We expect to hear more of their prowess when the now ground gets settled, as bad practice wickets are not calculated to inspire confidence in young players, and the eleven that has got its fair amount of runs has a lion’ s share of that necessary adjunct, so that we can understand the feelings of the Charterhouse boy who before the school match with Westminster lamented to us the small scores made by their best batsman. Nothing of importance reaches us from schools other than the above mentioned. Merit, as we have endeavoured to show, will force itself to the front, and in an article of this kind it is impossible to take for granted all you are told, so for general information as to individual prowess at rising schools, we are obliged to refer our readers to the list of each eleven of any note given in another part of the book, and in taking leave of Public School Cricket can only hope that the author of next year’s article may have a more extensive task, and not a less agreeable one than has fallen to the lot o f the present writer. PART II. CH A PTER I. THE MARYLEBONE CLUB IN 1875. O ff icers for 1S75.— President , Sir Charles Legard, Bart. Treasurer , T. Burgoyne. Secretary , R. A. Fitz-Gerald. Trustees , the Earl of Dudley, the Earl of Sefton, Hon. F. Ponsonby, W. Nicholson, R. Broughton. Committee , *R. Forster, *E. W . Tritton, *J. M. Heathcote, Hon. C. G. Lyttleton, W . H. Dyke, C. E. Green, E. Rutter, Hon. R. Grimston, J. H. Scourfield, R. D. Walker, A. H. S. Barry, C. Marriott, Lord Harris, Hon. S. P. Fane, Col. Taswell, and Capt. Kenyon-Slaney. Auditors, G. Du Pre Porclier, R. J. Ward, and Rev. J. Randolph. *Retire by rotation. A prosperous season awaited the Marylebone Club in 1875, offering a marked contrast to the results of that of 1874. Forty-seven matches were played, of which 20 were won, 20 drawn, and only seven lost. In some cases the Amateurs supported the club more readily than in previous years, but, still there was need for great improvement even in this respect. Much of the success that attended the club in its matches was due to Alfred Shaw’ s