The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-31
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1tANA oHAhAtOA III tOlA CtO
2ie, in a letter from London to the Boston
Transcript, says
We have become as enthusiastic sports
men as our brothers and our cousins and
u uncles. We ride, hunt, swim, fish,
row, play lawn tennis and cricket with
the keenness OF connoisseurs, and | have
even heard it whispered that at a large
school i'll the North the boarders,
equipped in suitable costumes, have fierce
contentious at football. Only this sea-
son, at the marriage between Hon.
Thomas Brassey and Lady Idina Neville,
the bridesmaids were arrayed in serge
gowns with loose shirts and the colors of
the cricket club which the bride had so
often c~aptained with success; and mar
rlage does not seem to have interfered
with Lady Idina's devotion to the ma
tional game, for in spite of the counter
attractions Of the London season she APP
pears to be in very good form this year, at
any rate she has been scoring well.
Only a week or two ago Sunridge Park,
near Bromley, Kent, was en- fete for q
ladies' match, Miss Scott, daughter Of
Lady Edward Scott. captaining the
''home team and Lady Miner bringing
a strong eleven against her. The field
looked very bright and pretty, for all the
players wore white gowns n straw hats,
displaying their club colors, those of Miss
SCOTS eleven being pale blue, while the
visitors had a pretty combination of pink,
green and white. Miss Scott won the toss
and went in, but the inning of her eleven
was not a very successful one, chiefly
owing to the bowling of Lady H. Neville,
while the visitors We're more fortunate,
and ITO was scored before the last wicket
fell. the chief run getters being Lady
ldina Brassey and Miss Lawrence. Miss
Hankey, unlike most of the ladies for
this is u quality in which our sex are, as a
rule, rather defieient), proved herself a
very sinai field" and made a fine catch
at point.t
AT Calcot Park, near Reading, a game
WAS recently played which vas dignified
by the name of a county match, Lady Ed
ward Somerset bringing nm eleven of
Worcestershire ladies to play against
Miss Hargreaves'.
Although some good play was shown by
the latter Berkshire eleven, Gloucester
shire kept upits reputation. and Lady Ed
wards side was easily victorious, Lady
~Cholmondeley, a very enthusiastic crick-
eter, making t~wenty-throe and Miss Hunt
ffty-three. The bowling average was
much better than is usually the case with
ladies, for Miss Moore took four wickets
for twenty-four runs; Mrs. Wilson, three
for sixteen: Miss Beaucham, three for
seventeen, and Lady Muriel Howard,
three for thirty-four.
An interesting contest was talked of at
the Lyric Club, Barnes, earlier in the
year with the rival teams, ~captained re-
spectively by Lady Cholmondeley and
Lady Raincliffe, but the season proved too
busy to allow of its coming OFF.
In the absence of a sufficient number of
ladies' h opposing eleven is often COM
posed of men with their right arms in
sings, who, under pain of q very heavy
forfeiture of runs, are forbidden to re-
move them, even for an instant. | am
afraid, however, that these matches are
not always conducted with absolute fair
ness. for the umpires, who are usually of
the masculine gender. find it difficult to
resist the beseeching chances of the field,
when 'tleg before'i or a doubtful catch is
appealed for, and a Young man can
scarcely be expected to do his utmost to
bowl or catch the maiden whose heart he
aspires to win. 1t may crafty her when
the ball slips through his clumsy fingers,
or when she hits his bowling to all ends
of the field, but the other girls look on
a~skance-they did not have such chances
and the men will Indignantly grumble
that it's not cricket forgetting what a
stake the unfortunate player is trying for,
and with what joy he is bowling himself
into the affections of his lady love.
Miss CARROTS Business Head.
Robert CARROTS recovery of. mental
and physical health is the first ,gleam of
sunshine that has come to the Garrett
family for more than five years. No
household with millions in its possession
has ever been so afflicted as the CARROTS.
Within half Il decade Mrs. John w. Gar
retJ has been thrown from her carriage
and died from her injuries; her husband
Don afterWard succumbed to q malady
that was aggravated by the death of his
wife; then their eldest son, Robert Gar
rett, lost his mind, and while his ply
sicians We're taking him IN a tou of the
world in he hope that this would restore
his mental powers, his brother, Harrison
Garrett, was drowned by the collision of
his yacht with a steamer in Chesapeake
Bay. But the friends of Robert Garrett
have never ceased to predict that he
would one day be himself again and re-
enter the railroad and finance field with
vigor and wisdom. The prophecy may
soon be realized. The increase OF the
Garrett capital during the illness OF
Robert Garrett is an accepted fact in
financial circles, Notwithstanding that
the family holdings of Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad stock have drawn no
dividend for three years. This increase
is due altogether to the sound business
sense OF Miss Mary Garrett, the only
daughter of John w. Garrett ana sister
of Robert.
ut seems incredible, but it is the
TRUTH said a Baltimore lawyer to a
Philadelphia friend recently, chat this
young lady has virtually handled the
Garrett railroad and banking interests
ever since one of her brothers was at
tackled with disease and the other lost
his life. She is not yet thirty years of
age and is a handsome woman of the
blonde type. She obtained her business
training from her father, to whom she
was a constant companion in his later
years, and she turned it to good account
when the Garrett family was actually de-
prived of a male head. No woman has
ever had such a responsibility of this kind
placed upon her as that which Miss Gar
rett voluntarily shouldered, and if the
whole story Of her work could be told it
would be a narrative of the most extraor-
binary business qualifications that any
woman has ever shown. The millions of
the family have been added to during her
stewardship. She possesses some three
millions in her own name and she has
made Robert Garrett u Weather man
thar he was when he inherited his
fathers seat as president of the Baltimore
and OHIO Observation-Disclosures En-
qlttreT.
Vanity.
Not only does every woman who enters
an elevator containing a mirror turn
round Immediately, touch up her frizzes
and remove fakes of 500 from her face,
but men adjust their neckties. take a d e.