... CRICKET. IN spite of the torrential ending to a stifling day there was a good deal of finished cricket last Saturday. Out standing among the results was the defeat of Malvern on their own turf by the Rugby eleven, which is this year, as it was last, probably ...

... their only hope appeared to he a drawn game. Each man of the Midland eleven played sterling cricket, and L. G. Wright's 94 was a beautiful exposition of good cricket. Bagshaw's 34 and Chatterton's 13 were useful contributions, coming when they were wanted ...

... CRICKET. THE great advance made by Essex as a first-class county is very satisfactory to lovers of cricket in the south of England. Large crowds go to the Leyton enclosure, and the county has a following which it may well be proud of. The most important ...

... CRICKET. MIDDLESEX and Gloucestershire played a very even draw. There was only a difference of 27 runs between the first innings totals, the Westerners holding the advantage, and there was every prospect of an interesting day's cricket on Saturday. Rain ...

... CRICKET. THE popularity of Abel, who is known as The Guv'nor, would probably, had the weather permitted, have made his benefit at the Oval a record success. The attend ance on Monday reached nearly 20,000, and although the rain stopped play on Tuesday ...

... CRICKET. THE defeat of last year's champion county by Somerset was a great triumph for the western county, whose executive for once managed to put a fairly representative team in the field. V. T. Hill and R G. N. Palairet were absent from the winning ...

... CRICKET. hie ram on Tuesday and Wednesday lntertered with all tne cricket matches. The second meeting between the Gentlemen and Players, at Lord's, could not be completed, and had to be left a draw, when the former wanted 70 to win with six wickets to ...

... CRICKET. KENT'S position in the championship table does not suggest that it is amongst the strongest of the English counties; yet nothing could have been finer than the work accomplished by its representatives during the fifty-eighth Canterbury week. ...

... CRICKET. THE Winchester eleven completely mastered that of Harrow on Thursday of last week at Harrow. There was no mis taking the fact that they were, as a side, in a class above that of the losing eleven. Thus they were able to have their revenge f o ...

... CRICKET. MIDDLESEX should have played Kent at Catford on July 11th; but, owing to the death of Mr. I. D. Walker, the match was postponed until last Mon day. The game played at Lord's last week-end was, therefore, the first meeting of the teams this season ...

... CRICKET. So the second test match, after a rare straggle on the last day, ended in a victory for the Australians by three wickets. The win was not half so brilliant as it should have been, and this the Englishmen owe to Tom Richardson, who, rising to ...

... CRICKET. The Hastings festival opened last Thursday week, when strong elevens of the North and South opposed each other. On the first two days of the match the weather was favourable, but on the Saturday the game had to be abandoned. The North were the ...