... CRICKET. SUCH heavy scoring as there has been so far this season is only to be accounted for by the excellence of the wickets on which bowlers have naturally fared badly. R. Abel made his highest score in county cricket against Essex at the Oval. It was ...

... THE CRICKET SEASON OF 1888. Tub annual meeting of representatives of the chief counties to arrange the fixtures for the coming season was held in the Pavilion at Lord's Ground on Tuesday, and amongst the large number attending were Messrs. A. J. Webbe ...

... laws as amended 1. This a-soeiation shall bo styled the County Cricket Council, and shall consist of one delegate from each affiliated county cricket club. 2. The original county cricket clubs affiliated are as follows Notts, Yorkshire, Surrey, Kent, ...

... OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC. AMONG THE CRICKETERS. THAT was the all-important question at the beginning of last week. It met one everywhere, and at all times and seasons. Politics were no where. Getting Gordon out of Khartoum was a trivial matter compared to ...

... M.C.C. CRICKET SCORES AND BIOGRAPHIES. By Arthur Haygarth. (Longmans and Co. The appearance of Volume XIV. of this interesting series will be welcomed by all interested in cricket and more especially with the cricket of 1877 78, which is the period dealt ...

... bowling, or, indeed, aboutmodem cricket generally, than Mr. A. G. Steel Mr. R. H. Lyttelton is one of a famous cricketing family Dr. W. G. Grace has for some twenty years been the leading personage in the world of cricket there is no subject on which Mr ...

... bowling, or, indeed, about modem cricket generally, than Mr. A. G. Steel Mr. R. H. Lyttelton is one of a famous cricketing family Dr. W. G. Grace has for some twenty years been the lending personage in the world of cricket there is no subject on which Mr ...

... originality defying cathedral to do its worst. I went to Canterbury to see cricket, not cathedral, but I immediately came under the all-powerful influence, and my attention to the cricket has been all but destroyed, for the present at least, by the archi tectural ...

... The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. Deae Sie, Will you kindly publish enclosed, which comes from a good, honest cricketer-- who hits fair with bat and pen and also this letter I did not know till I received Mr. Ford's letter that he agreed with ...

... articles, we find a Review of the Season, by the editor An Old Player's Maxims, by the author of The Cricket-hield The Abuses of Modern Cricket, by Frederick Gale; The Schools' Match, by P. M. Thornton The English Twelve in Australia and New Zealand ...

... gentlemen who, during the summer, alternate the sward with the stage, the sun with the footlights, are, I think, known in their cricketing capacity as The Thespians, and consist, for the most part, of the youth, not to say beauty, of the London theatres. The ...

... Coursing. After Racing, the largest division of the book is occupied by Cricket. Mr. F. Gale has under taken this department and after a short introductory essay on the cricket of the period, gives scores of all the important matches which have been ...