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... Cricketers. Within a few days of the writing of these lines the seventh English team to visit the charming islands in the Caribbean Sea will embark. Mr. A. F. W. Somerset captains it, as he did the side of two years ago, and a list of its members will be ...
... event took place—the first of the three West Indian tours abroad. The Georgetown C.C. (I believe the oldest club in the Caribbean) organised it, and it occurred in 1886. That the team sent was fully representative can scarcely be maintained. It lacked ...
... team now on its way. What these men did in the West Indies is of no consequence here, for it is with the cricketers of the Caribbean I am dealing, not with their visitors. But this much may be said, that, though it cannot be pretended that all of these sixty-odd ...
... side. As he is nearly 36, it is I not likely that very much more will be seen of him ; men reach middle-age sooner in the Caribbean than in England. In 70 innings, 2 not out, he has totalled 1,800 runs, giving him an average of over 26. Learmond's figures ...
... from the West Indies in New York and Boston; but that, of course, is not surprising, for cricket has a firm hold in the Caribbean. THE partnership of 235 between William Quaife and Septimus Kinneir is not the largest in which these two batsmen have been ...
... the United States does not mean, as so often, Philadelphia alone), of the great Dominion, and of the fair islands in the Caribbean Sea foregather at Hamilton, but for pure love of the great game. IT is pathetic to learn that William McCaffrey, the popular ...
... will take close on four months, and to visit the West Indies would need another two months at least. The one chance for the Caribbean cricketers to test their mettle against the Cornstalks would seem to be a failure on the part of the promoters to arrange ...
... WEST INDIANS ABROAD. The States and Canada have levied heavy toll upon the cricketers of the Caribbean. In New York, New Jersey and New England, West Indians are legion ; there are several cricket clubs composed entirely of men from the islands. Among ...
... the time ; but the West Indian matches of z 906 were, and as I am also including the principal matches of the tour in the Caribbean in 1897 (not, however, those against the smaller islands), it would be absurd to leave this out. Cricket Chirps. (BY E. H ...