The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-31
Cricket and Football Team of Ok.
ford and Cambridge May Play
Games in This City.
EXPECTED IN SEPTEMBER.
DIR. Murray of the st. Louis Cricket
Club and Mr.. ROsbOrOugh of
Football League Anxious to
Get BritOns to Come Here.

1t is the intention Of the ST. Louis Cricket
Club and the St. Louis Association Foot
ball League to put st. Louis on the map Of
international sports. New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia and Boston have been the
quartet Of its in the way Of internation-
al sport in this country. Now st. Louis Is
to quietly take a hand In the game.
Next September a combined team of rep
resentative English college cricketers and
Association football players will visit the
United States. The team has already
scheduled dates for New York, Chicago
Philadelphia and several Canadian cities.
Doctor Alexander Murray, the crack local
cricketer. and w. NJ. Rosborough. the lead
ing light in local Association football cir
Giles. have determined to place St. Louis
upon the itinerary Of the visiting British
athletes.
The team is thoroughly representative
one. Matters have SO shaped themselves
that the Englishmen have been enabled to
slect a team Of fifteen men which will be
entirely calculated 10 properly represent
england In her leading sports--cricket, the
national game OF Albion, and Association
football. the national winter game of that
country. Not only that. the team will lie
representative of the English nation.
IL Will boast among ITS members young
roster. the wonderful cricketer and football
player. who captained oxford this season.
ana whose marvellous batting has aston
ished all England.
Then there will DO ]. b. Bosanauet. the
mighty bowler, who so beat all America
best bats last year; also. A McLaren, a fine
cambridge cricketer and football player; l..
N jackson. and many others.
As the team will be composed almost ex-
cIuslVeIy OF graduates and undergraduates
OF Oxford and Cambridge. the great English
universities, II can readily be seen that
every member of il will be of gentle blood
and worthy TO fight for England. 1t will be
the most representative team of college
crlcheterS and the only team OF football
players England ever sent TO America.
When Mr.. Rosoorough learned that the
cricket team would also play football he
FASTENED To lay wires to secure a game for
St Louis. He at once cabled Dick Jarrett
the 81. Louis football player. who is in
the team. and make arrangements with him
TO visit ST. Louis.
As Jarrett was but four hours ride from
oxford at the time. he no doubt at once
departed to see the gentleman. Mr. Ros-
borough patiently awaits information of his
success.
The programme is but in embryo. but the
idea is to have the ST. Louis Cricket Club
Cooperate with the ST. Louis Association
Football League in bringing the English
men here. and entertaining them while in
the city.
Doctor Murray Of the St. Louis Cricket
Club thinks that two days cricket match,
on Thursday and Friday. followed by a
football game on Saturday, would be the
right idea. Mr.. Rosborough concurs with
hlH- Inc football people would like TO
play football game on Sunday and will
endeavor to arrange such a date. But the
Englishmen. being. as rule. high church
aristocrats. who believe in a blue SUM-
day. II is not likely that q Sunday game
can be secured.
"Of course" said Doctor Murray yester-
day, "as far cricket is concerned they
will beat US easily enough, but the football
game is a horse Of another color. IL the
visitors wish to play the best association
team in America they will have to come TO
st. Louis to meet 1t. The association foot
bail of this city is far ahead of that played
elsewhere In the United States or Canada.
II our friends from the other side wish to go
home in position to boast that they defeated
the best Americans at both games they
must visit u.s.
w. NJ. Rosborough. manager OF the Cy-
cling Club Football team, said that while he
had, on his own account, cabled Mr.. Jarrett
to see the English players, he had hot yet
made any arrangements.
When L hear from Jarrett" said Mr. Ros-
borough, Il will see my partners of the
Football League and lay the proposition of
the English team before them. do not fear
that we will not make terms. The Britons
are amateurs in the strictest sense of the
word. All they will ask is expenses. As
they will visit Chicago. We expect to get
them from that city at very reasonable ex-
pense."