The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-17
! Girls CRICKET MATCH.
.sn AND BLUE ELEvENs
THs .+gEr IN THE FIELD

MEEI ~
-, English Lady Cricket
The W,ndsor-rhe Game as
s s1sr.d by rhem-Miss WessOr so IKE,
Plas" stanley and other Women BAT
Wielders. -,.h,,
AS the train from
LoNDoNI ,.,,rt whirled last night toward
Hamp'on - station, fragment Oh the
the lion between two other occupants
CONVEX s arnnartment reached my ears. an
OF the 0UiHi ..,as demonstrating. A younger
older lady "aS ''---O
one replied: ,-;ctat is lust as femi-
I'm SUI s,;ng or golph. and, for my part,
Imean to play "H'A''
tunity.' hunting or golphl Shades
AS led the vinaigrette, OF Pamela ana
OF sal'' GU -.b.t a comparisonl Truly, the
CiarlSSa' "a before all things else, a race OF
bngllSD - their women share to the fun
athletes '',naI enthusiasm. Two years ago
the naI ro- .asiDg an eleven of lady crick-
T es Nav against an eleven Of young men
e'sis ,ipsanned with broomstlcKs' ou1 last
hAnl'II aaw at Windsor match OF quite
snotber description. .,s;,, :.
Inc SET this summer by the Red and
beng R1 Tt,ens of the "Original English
Blue Gtso;oEstersn arouse considerable
Lazy ~ enthusiasm, both because OF tne
deSroo s " hitting and fielding and because
ls !: Wy eposition of the girls VINO make up
o.! o. ' teams. Miss Daisy Stanley t1e cap
tain of the Blue Eleven, haS OuAIo s unS
lrlDly before she went in for cricket,
art, l suu the music gymnasium at South
I9usI performing several Tunes De
fore ..1 tes display. Miss Violet
n .h.noke the captain OF
Mes poGS is handsome girl of 20, who
tu e 81 ~ a county family" and Miss Ella
G TtueSsr Miss Sheffield, Miss Robinson,
~ Moss and the other crack Dowiers are,
N the English sense, "Iadies," VINO play
-, in public not to make dime sno"
snsctacle Of themselves, but partly from
70 SP' Of the sport, as the public school teams
Tve VI 'a as the great match was played of
E"yIond against Australia at Lords, and
~ L,,s 70 popularize the game among
Psn the two teams challenging all
atonr eIeyens of women and Offering
odds to arrange games.
vi Me- Heather Miss Moss and Miss Charles
,larad a good deal last summer, Miss
Esather IN particular making reputation
as . cspital wicket keeper, but Miss Stanley
never played until the Original Lady
Cricketersn organized last autumn. what
ever women take up nowadays 1t Is WITH a
resolve to win, and so the teams went lnIo
nractjce last September at st. Georges hall,
tysdsworth. not far from the Crystal Pal
ace South London. Here they were coached
ali winter by Mr.. Matthews, the Surrey
nrofessional. superinteuded by Maurice
Read. of the Surrey County Cricket Club,
s.d Gejrge Hearne, of the Kent County
Club. and before their first public
match at Liverpool was played this sum-
mer such reports of their proficiency had
been spread abroad that visitors assembled
by thousands to watch the spirited contest
Of the girls. They travel with matron
and an assistant matron who attend to the
proprieties and look after their comfort, and
making quite a triumphal tour of the king
dom with their jolly party Of two dozen and
more lassies, extra players being carried to
allow for cases of illness, their trainer,
umpire ard manager.
The grounds chosen for the exhibition
match at Windsor were very pretty, with
magnificent rows of old chestnutS forming
the background and shading the spectators,
and the gray, frowning walls of the palace
castle looking down from their nights and
dominating the scene. 1t was such bit as
one could see in no other country than Eng
land witt pond on the left among the
trees, where fantastic old Witty stumps
leaned over the water contemplating their
own reflection, their gaunt arms twisted
into the most curious shapes and
yCh nnt no
trunks were the young branches, fresh
aud aivivid green, IL strong contrast to
the gnarled grayness they grew from. IN
Ger these trees was grass of the intenssst
emerald It's color heightened by the black
shadows thrown on IL in this black and
green British island. Coming out from
under the lush foliage that dropped with its
own weight to the ground, one found the
sunshine all golden, aud the whites and the
pinkS and the mauves of the gayly dressed
s'sembaZe contrasting with the great tree
and sky background.
ID tne seat next me was young woma Il
muoU TOOK to be newspaper reporter
they re beginning to have women reporr-
eSeven here. Size protested that women's
cricket wasno novelty, said she had played
WIN Der brothers constantly until she
wss 20
ana why DO you stop at that age?"
AsEel 1er companion, a broad-snouldered
young Engishman.
A.. " we lost our money and had to settle
Gown to earn my living"
I've no objection to girls cricket con-
eLueu le OF the shoulders, IF only it's
a tE 70 look ar, but it's apt to be like
5.-i@ ureek, without the accents, and one
caturedn 0 0-' s"Aio "oi i
b,u uIav turther heresies the scoffers wonld
re a.~ ualoiaed were interrupted by the ap-
ra,'lU VI tne teams. 1t was al exceed
P s5 ianiIVeTeSt!ng spectacle as the Reds and
1ba@.Ni eu upon the ground lido not think
In NJ ever seen more exceptionally fine
goroe.1I gins, speaking now of their phy-
h. t+'as and bearing Most of them looked to
sria.Gl9 tne average hight, and they were
bmt -a aaoly prIoporticned, girlishly slender
sbort ~ duu with suppleness and swing
M 80 LEN That seemed to Indicate sorns
SnosE ota Zoe muscular strength and to
fptSa u lie In the open air. Indeed. the
thu oI. ones acquaintance proceeds VITA
ragb. 'A - q English girls who fill up the
MAJ. VI the feminine tennis and cricket
and i Iue 'ess one wonders at their nerve
gyo- 'NH IN the magnifcently eouipped
1p-r1.tu us and at their feats o. the RIM
da1, f1.u ana III the hunting field. The
any 80 English gentlemen-and. since
h6sI sNauhlan is legally entitled to call
4s gentleman if he has an income Of
term H. -. -. winch ne doesn't work for. the
comm. 'oe assimilation Of manners is be-
bono. very broad one-are fairly
Ilatir, ~ ~ ouI OF doors. / have seen them
teHGI" Tue thames aud trampinp in
aurora P,4a.Su:u Il nave learned that the