The Northern Guardian. — 1892-05-11 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

CRICKET.  NOTES FROM THE PAVILION.  Some of the Australian cricketers who played in the combined Australia teams against Lord Sheffield's eleven received amounts much larger than professional cricketers get either in England or in the colonies.  The cost to Lord Sheffield of the tour of his Engliso team of cricketers in Australia, says the Melbourne Sporting Standard, is about £3,000. This represents the sum between net receipts and actual cost all through.  Notts County C.C. Committee have selected Armstrong, Wilkinson, and Moss, of the Colts who played in the match against Yorkshire, to take part in the next two county engagements. Wilkinson is the best colt Nottingham has turned out for some years past. Although they saved a single innings defeat against M.C.C. yesterday, the end of the day found Lancashire beaten by ten wickets. They had the worst of the wicket by a long way, but the Lancashire batting was anything but first-class. The only man on the Lancashire side who did himself justice was Ward, wh: scored 28 runs in the first innings and 64 in the second.  The Yorkshire Colts would have beaten the Notts Colts at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, yesterday, had time allowed. They had only 23 runs to make and live wickets to fall when stumps were drawn. Mounsey again showed good form with the bat for Yorkshire, and Cuttell with the ball. The feature of the Nottingham innings was the score of 83 of Oliver Redgate, their captain, a Nottingham amateur, who has represented his county more than once.  Speaking of the Derbyshire cricket professional, Chatterton's 109 not out against Lancashire at Lords' on Monday, a London contemporary remarks that it is likely to be one proof among many of the exceeding value to cricketer.; of the winter, practice which they secured in South Africa, and wffieh the members of Lord Sheffield's eleven owe to their tour in Australia. Chatterton played with the nerve and ease '6hat are rarely visible at the opening of a season, and they  were obviously due to the fact that he lam been it continuous play for the host part of a twelvemonth.  In the opening stage of the match between the M.C.C. and Ground against Lancashire on Monday Chatterton carried his bat through the club's firs; innings for a fine innings of 109 out of a total of 238. His was a display of steady consistent cricket during the time—a little under five hours—he was at the wickets. With the exception of a hot return to Briggs when he had made 54, Chatterton's innings waa a sound one in every respect. Gunn, too, scored in steady fashion for 46. It is but fair to Lancashire to call attention to the fact that their bowling wati weakened by the absence of Mold, who, through illness, could not play.  Essex County Cricket Club have sustained a loes by the death of Mr. Cyril Digby Buxton second son of Mr. E. M. Buxton, formerly chairman of the London School Board, who was found shot dead at his residence, Knighton, Essex, yesterday morning. A gun was by his aide, and there is little doubt that it was a case of suicide, as Mr. Buxton had been suffering lately from nervous depression The deceased gentleman was born in 1866, and while at Harrow captained the school eleven. On going to Cambridge be gained his Blue, and afterwards played with the Harrow Wanderers and Essex County Eleven. He was a good bat, and a fair medium-pace bowler.  A meeting of the Notts County Cricket Club Committee was held yesterday at Trent Bridge, whea a letter was read from the secretary of the Somersetshire County Club suggesting the advisability of calling a meeting of county cricket club secretaries to consider whether an Australian team of cricketer* should be invited to visit England in 1893, or whether the resolution carried at Lords', that the next visit of Australians be postponed until 1894, be adhered to. After considerable discussion, the Notts Committee endorsed the proposal that the county secretaries be at once called together, and that in the event of the Australians being invited to come next year they be strongly urged to bring thoroughly representative teams. Mr. J. A. Dixon, having sent in his resignation as captain of the Eleven, was cordially thanked for his services as captain, and un. animously re-elected to that position. Dixon accepted the captaincy, and explained that he thought it only right the captain should resign at the end of flefi season. The committee endorsed this view, and decided in the future to elect the captain of the team from year to year.