... CRICKET. THIS year's cricket season promises to be full of interest, and the doings of the counties in tile championship, competition will attract more attention than ever. Yorkshire will have the services of all last year's eleven, and the Northern county ...

... CRICKET. ENGLAND V. AUSTRALIA. FOR several reasons, some of them not actually connected with the play, the third test match between England and Australia will take considerable prominence amongst the matches of the present season. The difficulties of ...

... CRICKET. THE hope of seeing Dr. Grace make another big score induced a great many people to go to the Oval last week. They were disappointed, as in two innings he made only 27. Luard, Kitcat, and Jessop hatted with some confidence, but the failure of ...

... CRICKET. MR. STODDART'S Eng lish team scored a won derful victory over South Australia, win ning on Tuesday by ten wickets. Mr. Stoddart and Humphreys stood out of the English eleven. The Colonials batted first, and kept up their wickets for tlie greater ...

... of training young cricketers, Mr. Fred Gale chats on County cricket, and Mr. Andrew Lang pens the opening pages, his subject being, as a matter of course, the History of the game. Further on Mr. Lang discourses on isomer cricket not, be it said, ...

... THE NURSERY OF CRICKET. ON the eastern edge of Broad Halfpenny Down, midway between the villages of Clanfield and Hambledon, in Hampshire, stands a solitary, unpretentious, old-fashioned inn, the Bat and Ball. This was the earliest home, in fact the nursery ...

... CRICKET REFORM. THE enormous scores which have been made during the past season have attracted the attention of a number of cricket reformers, nearly every one of whom is clamorous for some kind of radical change in the constitution of the game, in order ...

... THE CANTERBURY CRICKET WEEK. SPLENDID weather throughout, a big victory by Kent over the Australians, and a good win by Middlesex over Kent, some capital music on the ground and in the ball-rooms, and some very moderate theatricals-- these made up the ...

... CRICKET, ATHLETICS, &c. CONSTANT rain and a biting wind quite spoilt cricket last week, and the only important match that was played out was that between Surrey and Derbyshire. The latter eleven would doubtless have given a good deal to have been able ...

... should encourage the growth of cricket in the younger counties by playing home and home matches with one at least of them every year. A telegram from Melbourne announces that the proposed visit of an Australian team of cricketers next year will probably not ...

... CRICKET, ATHLETICS, AQUATICS. BOTH at Lord's and at the Oval the cricket season has been opened with matches against untried youngsters, but the Middle sex county executive cannot be much encouraged at the display made by their Colts against a very moderate ...

... CRICKET, ATHLETICS, tftc. THE Australian cricketers arrived in Liverpool at about eleven p.m. on Monday night in the Inman Company's steamer, the City of Berlin, which sailed from New York on Saturday, the 4th. They wisely stayed on board all night, and ...