... CRICKET, ATHLETICS, &c. ABOUT the most important cricketing event of the past few days has been the altogether unexpected defeat of Surrey by Yorkshire. The former county began the season none too well, losing matches with the Australians and Notts; after ...

... THE OLD HAMBLEDON CRICKETERS. MR. EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS has done well to give us a reprint of John Nyren's perennially charming cricket classic,' with various illuminative articles from his own sympathetic and other authoritative pens, and a number of ...

... CRICKET, ATHLETICS, &c. THERE was just a suspicion of flatness about the Amateur Championships at Huddersfield last Saturday. The entries were smaller than usual, the attendance of spectators was nothing like so large as had been anticipated, no existing ...

... THE OPENING OF THE CRICKET SEASON. Drawn by Hebblethwaite.. ...

... CRICKET, ATHLETICS, &c. THERE were no important county matches during the second half of last week, an arrangement that had been made in order to allow of thoroughly representative teams being selected for the Gentlemen and Players contest at the Oval ...

... SOME HINTS TO CASUAL CRICKETERS. Drawn by S T. Dadd. ...

... SOMERSETSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET TEAM. It was only last season that Somersetshire found a position j amongst our first-class counties, after having displayed most brilliant form in the lower rank during 1890. Unfortunately EMANUEL HOSPITAL. WESTMINSTER. ...

... ESSEX COUNTY CRICKET CLUB. IT is now twenty-five years since New Men and Old Acres was first produced at the Haymarket under the Buckstone régime. Mr. Dubourg, who collaborated with Tom Taylor in the authorship, kindly made some alterations in the dialogue ...

... IRIS CRICKET CLUB CONCERT. WITH the support of Messrs. J. N., W. J., H. J., and Stanley Mappin, as president and vice-presidents, the stall' of Messrs. Mappin and Webb formed the Iris Cricket Club three years ago. It was fairly successful from the first ...

... ATHLETICS, CRICKET, AQUATICS. &c. UNLIKE the old courtier, Le Beau, in As You Like It, my mouth is not full of news this week; but I must do my level best, as our American cousins say, to find some sort of chit chat with which to fill up my usual ...

... CLUB CRICKETERS' CHARITY HANDBOOK. THE Club Cricketers' Charity Fund has the double object of pro moting amateur cricket and helping charity. We should like to see the profits of the fund de voted especially to the better ment of past cricketers and their ...

... TO A CHAT ABOUT CRICKET Qi Bv Neville Cardtis PART of the charm of cricket is the season's fleetness; the game comes to us fresh in April, lives a butterfly life in the light of June -and July, and then passes from us with the passing of summer. I am ...