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CALENDAR OF EVENTS FOR THE 

 COMING WEEK. 



Friday, June 27 —Harvard-Yale Boat Race. Tournament of Gulf 

 Oit? Gun Oio', at Moritle Ala. 



Saturday, June 28.— Detroit R ver Navy Aonu il Regatta. Plalndeld 

 (N. J.) Athl tic Olob Summer Meeting. Tournament at Williams 

 Grove, Fa. Mobile Tournament as above. 



Alcohol in Camp.— Campers and excursionists will find 

 much valuable information and suggestion in the article upon 

 this subject in another column. It is not a temperance lec- 

 ture. It is a sound bit of logic. We commend it to the at- 

 tention of those who are fitting out. 



Thb LitbratTjKB of Akoheky. — The archer has abundant 

 field for investigation into the literature of his favorite sport. 

 When the world's greatest masterpieces of epic poetry were 

 written the bow and arrow was the weapon of gods and men. 

 As the hunting and war implements of early races the arrow- 

 head possesses much fascination for the student of ethnology. 

 What occupation archery clubs may find for themselves in 

 connection with the ancient use of their arms is hinted at in 

 the article we publish upon our first page to-day, contributed 

 by a well-known counsellor of Washington, who has employed 

 his leisure and the hours of ill-health in practice of the sport 

 of the bow and arrow. 



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Thb Astlkt Belt and Aalemoan Pool Rooms.— Weston 

 has turned up again as the winner of the Astley belt competi- 

 tion. His score in that contest in London last week was 

 550 miles, the largest record yet made for 142 hours. He has 

 already announced his intention of bringing the belt back to 

 America. We shall not be pleased to see it return. These 

 long distance pedestrian competitions are organized and gov- 

 erned in the interests of the pool rooms and book makers. 

 They in no wise partake of the character of legilimate sport, 

 but on the contrary are detrimental to the standing of pedes- 

 trianism as a recreation, and demoralize the community in 

 which they are held. Inasmuch as an Englishman originated 

 the Astley belt hippodromes it i8 a pity that they and their 

 surroundings cannot be confined to England. 



Lactjoses. — The clubs organized themselves the other day 

 into a National Association for the protection of their game 

 against professionalism. It is to be imped that the rules con- 

 fining the sport to amateurs will be rigidly enforced. Noth- 

 ing is more directly prejudicial to a game than to have it fall 

 into the hand3 of mercenary playere. 



SPORTSMEN'S PALACE CARS. 



THE brilliant hunting scenes of the glorious days of the 

 Round Table, when king and queen, ladies fair and noble 

 knights, retainers and esquires, with richly caprisoued steeds, 

 hounds in leash and falcons on wrist, went forth with bugles 

 winding merrily, to chase the red deer and slay the fierce boar 

 in his forest fastnesses, — all this belongs to the age of chivalry 

 and romance. We read of it now in the quaint old books, 

 and our eyes see it through the glamour which attaches to 

 those partly historical, partly mythical days when ladies had 

 nothin g else to do than to sing chansons de geste, and knights 

 whiled away the hours making love to swan-maidens. That 

 was the Golden Age of Hunting, and like every other Golden 

 Age, it is the long ago time of fairy tale and legend. 



What a genuine, novel pleasure it would be to awake one 

 of those kingly huntsmen from his royal and dusty repose and, 

 before be had fairly opened his eyes, to clothe him in a canvas 

 shooting coat, put a split bamboo rod into one hand and a per- 

 fected breech-loader into the other, give him a ticket for one 

 of the Pullman's Palace Car Company's new sportsmen's cars, 

 "Davy Crocket" and " Izaak Walton," and start him out to 

 shoot " prairie chicken," or to angle for trout. Bless his me- 

 diaeval heart, he wouldn't know whether to shoot with the rod 

 or to angle with the gun 1 And if he didn't manage to shoot 

 every man in the car before he found out what the gun was 

 for it would only be because he was a deal smarter than many 

 a bungling wight born in this Nineteenth Century. 



Is Merlin really sleeping yet in his Oak, imprisoned of the 

 heartless Vivien 



And lost to life and use and name and fame, 

 through all these centuries? Could he be awakened by the 

 screech of the locomotive and come forth how would the Magi- 

 cian of the Round Table reconcile the chase of yesterday 

 with the sporting party of to-day ? A repetition of that loco- 

 motive screech would terrify his spirit more than ever did the 

 thunders and earthquakes and the direful phenomena of the 

 Siege Perilous, as the skill of the modern mechanic is more 

 wonderful than the sorcery of the old necromancer. The 

 Golden Age of hunting may have belonged to our ancestors. 

 We surely have no reason to envy their enjoyment of it so 

 long as we may now go forth in palace sportsmen's cars fitted 

 up with every combined luxury of home and camp. 



The number of men who set out each season to lapse for 

 a brief period into the life of the forest dwellers is yearly in- 

 creasing. Where scores went once, hundreds go now ; where 

 hundreds went before, thousands go to-day. Railroad and 

 steamboat corporations have long ago learned to estimate the 

 sporting travel over their lines at what it is worth. Our ad- 

 vertising columns show that. These lines have found it profit- 

 able to publish elaborate circulars solely for the purpose of 

 setiing forth their attractions to sportsmen. The officers of 

 different roads vie with one another in showing courtesies to 

 the individual sportsman and to parties'of sportsmen. Rail- 

 road car companies now build cars designed for the sports- 

 man's comfort and fitted up with especial reference to his 

 needs. 



This is a suggestive commentary upon the extent of the in- 

 fluence healthful sport and recreation is gaining in American 



life to-day. 



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AMERICAN CRICKET, PAST AND 

 PRESENT. 



IN England where cricket has been played in different pro- 

 gressive forms for full three centuries and a half, it has 

 long been known as the " national game," and the only cause 

 that can disturb its present popularity there is the fear that it 

 may be overdone. It was not, however, until within late 

 years that the game found favor throughout America. True, 

 there were certain localities where cricket had its foothold, 

 but even in these cities— Philadelphia excepted— the game 

 had comparatively few supporters and it suffered many more 

 " downs" than "tips." But now cricket has overcome popu- 

 lar prejudice and is firmly rooted in over one hundred c ties 

 and towns in America. It has gained favor in our principal 

 colleges, and many of our best schools have wicket spitched 

 on their playgrounds every afternoon in the season. 



American players have at last given cricket a fillip and 

 have clearly shown that it is a sport that can be played with 

 a snap which was hitherto unknown. That cricket has been 

 long in gaining public favor is not the fault of the game, but 

 with the manner in which it has been played. " As the twig 

 is bent,'' so it was with our early cricket. Introduced into 

 New York about 1750, and played under the eaves of a once 

 famous hostlery, it seems to have begun its existence in a cor- 

 rupt atmosphere and to have been only a. pretext for gam- 

 bling and deep carousals. That even the players of that time 

 did "lay abed until the clock struck ten" there seems to be 

 no doubt, for it is noticeable that all matches were arranged 

 to come off in the afternoons. 



In 1778-9 and so on to 1780 matches were played at frequent 

 intervals, but at the end of the war the British officers and 

 the game seem to have walked off together arm-in-arm. 



Although cricket had a short revival in 1700 yet it was not 

 until the founding of the once famous St. Georges, of New 

 York, in 1839, that the game again began to be regularly 

 played in America. Following closely at the heels of the St. 

 Georges, in 1811, came the Philadelphia Union and the New- 

 ark Club of New Jersey. Other clubs seem to have started 

 about this time, for in 1844 there were the following well 



known organizations in the United States, the Syracuse, of 

 Syracuse, N. Y. ; Union Stsr, of Brooklyn; New York, of 

 New York; Western and Queen City Clubs, of Cincinnati, and 

 several other organizations scattered in spots across our broad 

 continent. In the meanwhile cricket had been played more 

 or less in Canada, having its fountain head at Toronto. 



In 1853 the first of a series of United States vs. Canada 

 matches was inaugurated. These well-remi mbered games were 

 played alternately in the United States and Canada, the last 

 contest taking place in 1860. In all seven interchanges were 

 made, of which five were won by the United States and two 

 by Canada. Toronto and Philadelphia now seem to be the most 

 suitable cities at which this international match should be 

 played, and as it is the turn of the United Slates eleven to 

 visit Canadait behooves the cricketers of the Dominion toad- 

 just their personal club difficulties, on the give-and-take prin- 

 cipal, and resume a match which would be undoubtedly the 

 most interesting annual event and tend greatly to popularize 

 the game. 



It was in about 1855 that the now famous Young America 

 Club was formed, and in the same year the first match be- 

 tween native American elevens was played on the Camden 

 Grounds between teams selected from the Philadelphia and 

 Newark Clubs. 



The season of 1857, '58 and '59 call for attention, as they 

 were grand ones for cricket all over the country ; it truly 

 flourished everywhere, until the war put a stop to all sports, 

 and the elevens were disbanded for more serious business. 



The great events, however, in the history of American 

 Cricket, have been the visits of English teams. It was in the 

 autumn of 1859, that the celebrated player, George Parr, 

 brought over the first All-England eleven, which played five 

 matches m the following cities : Montreal, New York, Phila- 

 delphia, Hamilton ana Rochester. All of these were won 

 with ease by the foreigners, although contending against 

 sides of twenty-two players. In 1868, Wilsher came with 

 another splendid eleven of professional players, and England 

 again defeated twenty-twos at Montreal, New York, Boston 

 and Philadelphia, two games being played at the Quaker 

 City. In 1872, twelve amateur players, Captained by Fitz- 

 gerald, Secretary of the Marylebone Club, appeared on our 

 shores, and contended against sides of twenty-two players, at 

 Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, London, Hamilton, New York, 

 Philadelphia and Boston ; the English gentlemen winning at 

 the first seven named cities, and having a draw, in a one day's 

 match, at the latter place. This magnificent team included 

 the famous player W. G. Grace, the greatest bat the world 

 ever saw. 



Tn the autumn of last year, an eleven of Australian players 

 —fresh from a brilliant season's cricketing in England— passed 

 across the Continent on their way home, and were induced to 

 stop at six points, and try conclusions with American and 

 Canadian teams. The first match was against eighteen 

 players of New York, and was won by the visitors. Tbe 

 second event, versus eleven Philadelphia^, resulted in a 

 draw after an evenly and splendidly contested game. The 

 twenty- two's of Toronto, Montreal, Detroit and San Fran- 

 cisco came next, and in turn were easily defeated by ihe 

 Antipodes. 



The flying visit of a portion of Lord Harris' team com- 

 pletes the list of inter-colonial games, and is fresh in the 

 minds of our readers Besides two tournaments, one held in 

 Halifax, N. S., and one in Philadelphia, there have been a 

 a number of matches between American and English resi- 

 dents, which have generally been interesting and well played. 



Before closing this brief retrospect of American cricket, it 

 is but just to say that the game, as played here, was rescued 

 from a bad rut into which it had fallen by a mere handful of 

 y >ung Philadelphia cricketers, and by their untiring efforts it 

 has been fostered and cared for until its merit and excellence 

 as the finest of all scientific out-door games have become 

 known and duly appreciated. To-day cricket is rapidly 

 gaining that ascendency which the most enthusiastic lovers 

 of the game hardly anticipated for some time to come. In 

 round numbers there are about one hundred and fifty well- 

 known clubs in the United States and Canada, and every 

 week new organizations are being added to the list. 



Let, therefore, the patrons of this " noble game " guard its 

 interests with jealous care. They should remember that, 

 in its playing, time must be economized, and that the system 

 of "revolving" is as detrimental to cricket as exchanging 

 cards under the table would be to the game of whist. 



The Fobbrt and Stream takes pleasure in announcing 

 that it has secured for the management of its cricket column 

 a gentleman whose skill as a practical player, wide acquaint- 

 ance with cricketers throughout this couotry and in Canada, 

 render him peculiarly fitted for the position, and whose 

 valued contributions to cricket publications in the past have 

 had an appreciable effect upon the conduct of the game in 

 America. We propose to make this column a complete and 

 intelligent record of the work of cricket clubs, and shall prove 

 ourselves the most desirable orgau of the gentlemen cricketers 

 of America. We invite the co-operation of club secretaries 

 everywhere, and shall be pleased to receive and publish re- 

 ports of cricket meetings and matches. Secretaries are 

 advised that to insure prompt and correct publication, scores 

 should be prepared with care and sent to us as early as 

 possible. 



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