The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-17
FIJI CRICKETERS
The Red and Blue EIevens Meet
in the FELL.
THE GAME PLAYED BY THEM
Inc Original English Lady Cricketers" at
Windsor-Miss Westbrooke, Hiss Stanley
and Other Women Bat Wielders

LONDON, August Z, $780, Especial CORE
spondence of TIE HERALD AS the train
from Hampton Court whirled last night to
ward the Waterloo station fragment OF
the conversation between two other occu
pants OF the compartment reached nv ears
AN older lady was demonstrating. A
younger one replied:
Il am sure, auntie, cricket is just as fem
lnine as hunting or golf and for my part,
mean to play whenever get an opportun-
ity.''
AS FEMININE AS HUNTING OR GOLF!
Shades of salts and vinaigrette, of Pamela
and Clarissa, what comparison! Truly
the English are, before ali things else, q
race OF athletes, and their women share tc
the 1uii the national enthusiasm Two
years ago remember seeing an eleven OF
LADY cricketers play against an eleven of
young men handicapped with broomsticks,
but last week | saw at Windsor match of
quite another description.
The series of public matches which is be
ing played this summer by the Red and
Blue Elevens of the ''Original English
degree of enthusiasm, both because of the
really good hitting and fielding and because
OF the position of the girls who make up the
teams. Miss Daisy Stanley, the captain of
the Blue Eleven, has taken the Trinity
college certificates in music and art. and
before Sic went IN for cricket, taught in
the Music Gymnasium at South IZensing-
ton, performing several times before the
Princess of Wales in calisthenic 1ispfsys.
MISS Violet Westbrooke, the captain of the
heds, is "a handsome girl of twenty, who
comes Of county familyn and Miss
Ella Heather, Miss Sheffield, Miss Robin
bon, Miss Moss aud the other crack bowl
ers are, in the English sense,
LADIES'" WHO PLAY CRICKET IN PUBLIC
not to make a dime show spectacle of them.
selves, but partly from the love of the
sport, as the public school teams play, or as
the great match was played OF England
against Australia at Lords, and partly to
popularize the game among women, the two
teams challenging all amateur elevens of
women and offering odds to arrange
games.
Miss Heather, Miss Moss and Miss
Charles played good deal last summer
Miss Heather in particular making repu-
tatlon as a capital wicket keeper, but Miss
Stanley never played until the ''Original
LADY Crlcketers' organized las. autumn
Whatever women take up now a-days it is
with resolve TO win, and so the teams
went into practice last September at St.
Georges hall, Wandsworth, not far from
the Crystal palace, South London Here
they were coached all winter by Mr.. Mat
thews. the Surrey professional, superin-
tended by Maurice Reed, of the Surrey
County Cricket club. and George Hearne.
OF the Kent County club, and before their
nrst public match at Liverpoolwas PLAYED
this summer such reports of their profici-
ency had been placed abroad that visitors
assembled by thousands to watch the
spirited contest of the girls They travel
with matron and an assistant raatron.
who attend to the properties and look after
their comfort, and are making quite
triumphal tour of the kingdom with their
Jolly party of two dozen and more lassies,
extra players being carried to allow for
cases of illness, their trainer, umpire and
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
heights and dominating the scene. 1t was
sucn Dit as one could see in no other
country than England, with pond on the
lett among the trees, where fantastic old
witty stumps leaned over the water. con-
templating their own reflection, their gaunt
arms twisted into the most curious shapes
ana curves, while shooting out from the
trunks We're the young branches, fresh and
OF vivid green, in strong contrast to the
gnarled grayness they grew from. Under
these trees was grass of the intensest
emerald, its color heightened by the black
shadows thrown on it in this black and
green British island. Coming out from I'M
der the lush foliage that dropped with its
own weight to the ground, one found the
sunshine all golden, and the whites and the
plnks and the mauves of the gayly-dressed
as semblage contrasting with the great tree
and sky background
In the seat next to me was a young
woman whom / took to be newspaper re-
porter-they are beginning to have women
reporters even here. She protested that
women's cricket was no novelty. said she
had played with her brothers constantly
until she was twenty.
AND Why do you stop at that age!" asked
her companion, broad shouldered younp
EDglishman.
ION. we lost our money, aud had TO set
tie down &c earn my living'i
''Ive no objection to girls Cricket con-
d. II
pretty to LOOK at. bat it is apt to be like
ladies' Greek, without the accents. and one
doesn't like to see a fine old game carica
tured."
WHAT FURTHER HEREsIEs
the scoffer would have unfolded were in
terrupted by the appearance of the teams
1t was an exceedingly picturesque spectacle
as the Reos and the Blues filed upon the
ground. do not think have ever seen a
more exceptionally fine lot of girls speak
ing now OF their physique and bearing.
Most OF them looked to be above the aver
age helght and they were splendidly pro
poruoned, girlishly slender, but erect and
with suppleness and swing about them
lhat seem TO indicate some considerable
muscular strength and to speak OF life in
tie open air. Indeed, the further ones ac-
Quaintance proceeds with the class of Eng
hsh girls who I'LL up the ranks of the femi
nine tennis and cricket PLAYERS the less one
wonders at their nerve and skill in the mao
equipped gymnasiunls. ana at
their feats on TIE running path and in the
hunting field. The daughters of English
gentemen-and, since any Englishman is
legally entitled to call himself gentleman
II he has an income of EGO a year which he
doesn't work for, the term in the assimila- |
OF manners is becoming very broad one
are fairly brought up out of doors have
seen them punting on the Thames and
tramping in the Highlands until have
learned that the Aurora Borealis that tippes
their cheeks and their lips, and the stock of
endurance that makes them on an average
far more formidable tennis players than
their sisters in America are the natural in
heritance of generations of healthfuI
living.
THE BLUES WORE SAILOR BLoUsEs
of white flannel, open at the throat and
with loose sleeves, with blue sasbes and
short, white flannel skirts stopping hale
way between the knees and the ankles and