New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-11
NOTES OF THE PLAYERS.

Tb. Manhattan Cricket Club deplores the loss
to rs team OF r. A Sade. who has accepted 4
pcs, out Of the city. and Will be unable 10 take
part IN any more championship games Tor his
riu6 In The few matches in wnich ne p'ay.d tns
season he proved an excellent Datsh'ah anu VIII
liant fielder go
oscar Toley who is this year playing with the
N,w-J.rsey Athleu, club. Will be remembered rs
a member OF the berkeley Crc@et Club III 'he MIST
year OF its existence. lie afterward became
prominent player IN St Louis. and stiil later IN
Chicago Tolley has hatted well and Consistently
his season for New-Jersey. makins double ngures
in every match. bu; In tne M.st ne Vas 'N''e'
known as A bowler than as IL patsihah'
y.,r after year the same names appear most
prominently in New-York cricket The new COM
ers for some time have added little to the s're'S-"
OF Metropolitan eevens a glance at me averages
will bear this out. for majority OF the men III
the double-ngur list are old timers. NJ h. COLD
T. J. Prendergast and II. Il. Coyne all played Tor
the Manhattan Cricket Club In 1883; ~ 5. walker
played for Staten Island before that time: r. r.
Jackson was member OK the COS h)po''ah
Cricket club IN 1890 K. +. Bonner played Tor
hers have been associated with the game In this
ncighborhood for upward OF ten years
Battery \. OF Philadelphia. which Is IN camp I'M
patiently awaiting a ,all for the front. includes
some prominent cricketers. Among these are f.
W. Ralston the wlcket-keeper. who accompanied
the Philadclphans to England last year; Martin
and Brockie. OF German'oWn; Rhoads; w: ~ \;
Merton: Or. Brown. Herring and Mcclure. OF Bel,
mont. and g. brooke. OF phadsphia. of course a
cricket ball found It's way INTO camp
ST Pauls School. OF Concord y. H.. Is the
nursery Of American cricket. The three hundred
boys Mt that school all play the game HaVertord
Coilege however probably does more TO promote
interest In cricket than any other institute or
learning The distribution OF cricket prizes follows
the regular commencement exercises. This year
the Cope prize bat for the highest average was
awarded to L. W,star the Congdon prize ball for
the best bowling average went 10 J.. W. Do Note
and A. O. Scattergood captured the Haines prize
fielding belt Others who gained prizes In the va,
rious eevens into which the school Is divided
Ha!nes W. Shakespeare and w IL. Kirkbride.
Carrick Mallery, jr. who YVES manager OF the
University Of Pennsylvania freshmen eleven. Is now
with the Sd United States Volunteers. His duties
have devolved upon Horace Z. Austin. who brought
his team through a most successful season before
the eleven dsbanded for the long vacation
The English papers quote freely from an article
by A. NJ. Wood In this years American Cricket
Annual on the Of the Philadelphans In
England Mr.. Wood lays the failure OF the team
20 weakness In bowling and poor support In the
field He adds: ION the hery wickets OF America
the fast lumpy deliveries OF our bowlers prove de-
structve. but at the perfectly true wickets to De
found the other SIDE hI'iB aiohe was trouoe-
some.
The game which will be- played this month be-
tween representative teams Of New-York and
Philadelphia Is arousing considerable interest
both here and In Philadelphia. 1t is many years
now since such a contest took place, for In
the days Of the Intercity League II was always
the nl-fortune of NewYork to be drawn against
Boston and Philadelphia against Baltimore IN the
first round. and. as luck would have 1t. that was
as far New-York could get, Efforts are being
made now to get out the best eleven New-York
place In the field