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LIKELY 20 60 80 Gugtand.
II may be safely asserted that nothing tends
more to the promotion OF interest In sport or
pastime. or to bring IL into popularity. than in-
ternatlonal contests. Orlcketers. generally
alive to anything which will help to gain pop-
ularity for their favorite pastime, never fail to
seize an opportunity to BRING the game to pub
lilo notice and favor. But the progress Of
cricket In this country has been slow. and
never yet have we felt competent to put team
in the field against All-England on even terms
Within the past few years however. the sew
eral clubs throughout the country have be-
come more proficient, and while the game has
steadily advanced In PHILADELPHIA, whore
cricket may be said to DO successful rival
to base ball, It has increased wonderfully In
the last two or three years in New York. Chi
cago, Boston. and Pittsburgh, until now the
cricketers OF these cities think they could
raise a team OF sufficient strength to cope sue
cessIully with an eleven Of ALL England.
The popularity the game has attained in
Australia is In the main due to the frequent
visits Of English teams, who, availing them-
selves OF tho difference In seasons. made their
tours Of the colonies in the winter months
without interfering with their homo games.
The state OF the game In Australia may be i'm
aRined when the fret eleven OF EnRlishmen
played all their games against teams Of twenty
two. with tho exception Of one team OF eighteen
OF Victoria whom they defeated By an inning
and ninetv-six runs. The improvement in
play from the first visit OF the EnGlishmen was
rapid, and In 1877 an eleven Of Australia de-
fented an eleven OF England by forty-1vo runs.
In the following year the Australians visited
England. and met with great success. Out Of
thirty-ssven matches played they won eight
cen. lost seven. and twelve were drawn. The
d0in Of tha tan In Tn f,,ll
watched BY the Australians at homo. and from
thence on the game doomed. and has since be-
come their principal pastime.
Altogether elk English teams have visited
the United States. the first as far back as 1882
when George Parr brought over q team that
created sad havoc among tho Americans.
These teams, however, could play but few
matches. and their trips only extended for a
month or so. which gave them little time for
many exhibitions Of their superior skill Two
teams OF Philadelphia crioketers have visited
England, but their claims were modest and
they contented themselves with playing only
second class county teams. They, however.
over the Gentiemen OF Scotland and similar
tsSms 5Lns gave CAV them more So1itde1ce in In them
ShioS viii ao.
cricket as the yisit OF the. Australians did on
the SS gs%pSS pS, IN Iheir & country ofIt In 1878;
the world. and It is confidently stated that the
any Of the first-class county teams OF England
stubborn contest p.,n and perhaps hS beating be:
Ssd an e. o 0 sfS the
team which visited England last year. Il ".
CLARK. Jr. esides being 2 splendid bat. is also
Srai men who, ii, born and. living in England.
would certainly be deemed worthy Of repre-
another Quaker City organ ization, made up
Of players whose skill is well known ali over
The SGpnt and s.o ,hs M9Fioa ana Phi
high opder aerd IN New OlY9SsEs YoeF
although the & clubs could { not successfully cope
OF the game IN this city look forward to the
iaureis W from her more successful rival The She
clubs In Gotham are certainly In q moro ad-
state than hSy %o three
Einss county and New YORK eass RSns
three could be selected worthy Of q place on
an All-American team.
Pittsburgh and Boston have each a few men men
but throushGut the oQWSPptry; as PLAYERS 81
therefore. short time ago to send an All-Amer.
lean team TO England next year. the PROPOSE
SS ana Ses
despatched to England to make the preiimn-
Pavilion on the i1th OF August. received a
cordial Welcome and the trip was made an
1ii that remains to be done now to perfect
the international arrangement is to select the
cricket season is over and the various averages
OF tho players are known. No means will be
and though the % trp eef win psss
II Is thoqeht there WIN be no difieuity in get
toa to undertake tho tour When the team
plays the great game OF the tour. EnGland
great gathering Of Americans at Lords or the
4Va or wherever oSNp the match takes place and
Should Be StSss
may count on an ovation never before Witness
ed on cricket field.
N. r. Cobb and Harry Tyers. Manhattan o. O.;
". J. Wood, Kings County g. d. j. E. Roberts
G.. and ia9bFin%. % BorfeiS1 sSsn a. iSiSnH TneTc T
are several English oricketers In New York.
eE 9Ss Y oE
Cobb. captain Of the Manh ttAn Club. is one OF
the most reliable bats In New York, besides
bieng good bowler and q splendid field. This
season he has made several good scores. and
Metronoitan District Cricket League shows VI his
oonsistent play Harry Tyers the Manhattan
Of bsst st 0 s
eSod bat harqly 3, ever falling e score agans
bowler. who has been very successful for tho
past few years Last year his average was
eeason he is not much behind this record. j.
i: Roberts is good man in both departments
Of the game. and 8; H. Barton and J. II. Lamb
kin. although neither is SO successful as Ia for
NOR years, have good reputation.
The Phladelphians can put forward a score
Patterson; { i Brewster, +; i; Bohlsn. VI:
the Germantown Club a. N. Wood and faacey
Of Belmont, and n, Etting and J. b. Thayer.
Jr.. OF the Merton Club. The difficulty here is
,t rs e the players to leave out They are al
past experience on English wickets to help
them on a second visit.
Chicago can furnish the names OF Z. r.
Ogden. J. 6. DAVIS. J; Delhier, y; F. Kelly and
]. Cummings; Pittsburgh Walter SCOTT II.
Penn. and A. Macpherson: Boston, Chambers
and George Wright, and Harvard University.
X. d. Brown. 1t is not known that all of these
men would be able e undertake ak months
the committee. with q large list like this to
select from. may be only glad at its reduction.
and no one will deny that they will have most
difficult task to accomplish when they net
down to work.
The teams which the Americans will meet