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H. W. Richardson, (Kent); the best batsman of the 
eleven; used to play for his county; a good round arm 
bowler when in trim; had been sick for some time previous 
to this tour, and having burst a varicose vein was unable 
to do much in the field. 
Tom Dale, (formerly of the Household Brigade); a hard 
hitter, but with no power of defence; a terror to weak 
minded bowlers not on the spot; three years ago made his 
century in London in Household Brigade vs. Civil Service; 
a fair bowler and a good field. 
T. L. Mordaunt, (late of Her Majesty’s Twenty-third 
Fool); a steady bowler, with a peculiar “high and home 
easy” delivery, often with a break from the off; proved 
very effective on the tour; a magnificent field. 
ST. LOUIS’ QUOTA. 
Cyrus Day, M. D., (Guy’s Hospital); a steady bat and a 
good field. 
J. W. Jeffries, wicker keeper, and always willing. 
H. E. Sharpe, (Sandhurst); a barn door style of bat, diffi¬ 
cult to get rid of; vexatious to bowl at; active field; change 
bowler; medium round arm. 
C. West; left handed; out of practice; has the making 
of a good batsman in him; good field. 
E. H. Lycett, (Meriou); young and active change bowler. 
C. J. Spencer, (Yorkshire); a good all round man, but 
terribly rusty. 
W. W. Eisenbrey, (Young America); long stop. 
R. B. Grant, (of Little Britain, I. T.); umpire. 
Tlieir favorite bowler, T. Webb, at the last moment found 
himself unable to leave his desk. With a low, swift, shoot¬ 
ing delivery, he is a good ally and an uncompromising op¬ 
ponent. His loss was felt often in the field, as the team 
was weak in bowling. 
On the night of August 31st the eleven left St. Louis, and 
the next day, Monday, September 1st, gave battle To Chi¬ 
cago with the following result:— 
ST. LOUIS. 
First Inning. 
H. Sharpe, c. Ellis, b. Colley. 2 
T. Dale,Teg before wicket.5 
J. W. Jeffries c and b tiarcourt... 5 
F. L. Mordaunt b Colley. 0 
Cyrus Day b Colley.10 
H. Temple c Phillips b Harcourt. .16 
T. Townsend hit wicket. 5 
C. J. Spencer c Cox b Colley. 5 
E H. Lycett c Harcourt b Darlow 9 
W. W. Elsinbrey b Darlow. 0 
C. West not out. 1 
Byes, 4; leg byes, 2; w 3. 9 
Second Inning. 
c Harcourt b Colley. 
not out. 
not out 
Byers, 2; leg byes, 1; wides, 3.... 
0 
3 
5 
6 
Total. 
..67 Total.14 
CHICAGO. 
Second Inning. 
b Townshend. 8 
c Temple b Townshend. 9 
c Mordaunt b Townshend. 3 
First Inning. 
H. H. Cox, run out. 0 
Robert Porter b Mordaunt. 3 
T. W. Phillips b Mordaunt b Town- 
shend.. 5 
T. D. Colley c Mordaunt b Towns¬ 
hend_".ObMordaunt... 16 
J. Darlow, not out. 5 b Mordaunt. 2 
R. II. Harcourt b Townshend. 3|s Jeffries b Mordaunt. 4 
W. E. Williams b Mordaunt. 0,not out. 1 
W. F. Stewart cDay b Mordaunt. 6 c and b Mordaunt. 1 
A. Fuber b Townshend.5|run out. 3 
E A. Chambers b Mordaunt...... O b Dale.1 
J. Ellis b l'ownshend. O b Townshend. 0 
Byes, 2; leg byes, 2; wides; 2. 6 |Byes, 6 ; leg byes, 3; n b 1.10 
Total. 271 Total. 53 
The Chicago eleven had been gathered together hastily, 
as no club had existed in that city, except in tradition, for 
some years. The ground was the best that could be ob¬ 
tained, but no more cau be said for it. Very little cricket 
was shown on either side. Dale made some fine hits, and 
was given out before wicket. 
The Chicagoans were hospitable, and were anxious to 
keep the United over night, so that they might feast them; 
bat time prevented, and nine A. M. found the proteges of 
St. Louis in a “Pullman,” rolling on to Detroit. 
At Detroit they arrived at seven A. M., quietly demol¬ 
ished a breakfast, and were in the field at ten o’clock, faced 
by Bainford and Calvert of Detroit:— 
ST. LOUIS. 
First Inning. 
Sharpe, h Corner c Irvine. 80 
Dale, o Armstrong, c W aterman. 7 
Mordaunt, b Corner. 8 
Ricnardson, run out. 42 
Day, b and c Corner. 12 
Temple, b Edgar. 27 
Lycetc, b Armstrong, c Corner. 0 
Spencer, b Corner, c Ridgeley. 20 
Jeffries, b Edgar. 0 
WesL, notout. 1 
Eisenbrey, 0 Corner. 0 
Byes, 5; leg byes, 1; no balls, 4. 10 
Total.157 
DETROIT 
First Inning. 
Bamfort, b Mordaunt.. 
Calvert, b Mordaunt, c Dale. 
Edgar, b Mordaunt. 
Armstrong, ran out. 
Corner, b Ricnardson. 
Cirdlescone, b Ricliardson....- 
Ridgeley, not out. 
Morpny, L) Mordaunt, hit wicket.. 
Hare, b Richardson. 
Irvine, b Ricnardson. 
Waterman, b Ricnardson. 
Byes, 6 ; leg byes, 2; wides, 2. 
PENINSULARS. 
Second Inning.. 
6 Bamfort, run out. 7 
15 Calvert, b Mordaunt, c Temple. 10 
4 Edgar, b and c Temple.29 
C Armstrong, b Dale.5 
i Joiner, b Dale, cLycett. 8 
0 Ridgeley, b Sharpe, c Richardson 0 
Morphy, b Sharpe. 0 
Uirdlestone, b Sharp. 0 
Ware, stumped out. 6 
.rvine, b Temple.3 
,Vaterman, not out . 5 
16'Byes, 6 ; leg byes, 6 ; wides, 3... 15 
Total.561 Total.£ 
St. Louis won in one inning, with twelve runs to spare 
The day was beautiful, the ground in magnificent ordei 
and was the best played game by the eleven on their trip 
The Peninsulars are good cricketers, all young, active 
lithesome fellows. Their fielding was remarkably good 
but Richardson was fresh, and bowled well, and Mordaunl 
as usual, too straight to be trifled with, so that the Detroi 
score did not rise rapidly, and when St. Louis took the ba 
Richardson and Temple made the leather fly, and Sharp 
provoked the bowlers by refusing to let himself be bowle< 
out. Dayton insisted on making twelve, and Spence 
slashed d La Gilbert Grace, all of which resulted in a scor 
of 157. 
In the second innings of the Peninsulars the St. Louis t 
fielding was so bad that the Detroiters generously gave them 
credit for magnanimity in desiring not to beat their oppo¬ 
nents too badly. The news went forth that the St. Louis 
were all 'professionals , and a kind friend telegraphed to the 
President of the Toronto club—“The St. Louis eleven beat 
us to-day in one inning; all crack players; look out or they 
will go through you.” And go through them they did, as 
the sequel will show. 
Hampshire, the Peninsular howler, was hors du combat , 
having broken his leg a short time previously by a fall from 
a buggy. The following from a Detroit paper gives their 
view of the case:—“The United St. Louis Cricket Club vis¬ 
ited this city yesterday, and had an interview with the 
Peninsular Club upon the Woodward avenue grounds, the 
friendly meeting being witnessed by quite a large number 
of spectators. From the fact that the St. Louis Club had 
started out to make a tour of all the principal cities in the 
United States and Canada which boast a cricket club of any 
pretensions, the cricket admiring pmrtion of this commu¬ 
nity quite naturally concluded that that organization was a 
strong playing one, hut were wholly unprepared for the 
rare exhibition of skill they witnessed. The St. Louis 
Club is made up of professional players; men of muscle 
and experience gained upon the cricket fields of England, 
one of them, at least—Corporal Dale—having a wide-spread 
reputation, having been at one time one of ‘All England’s 
(gentlemen’s) eleven.’ At the hat they rivalled anything 
ever seen in this city, striking the ball to any part of the 
enclosure, and in one instance knocking it clear out of the 
grounds; As fielders, however, they were comparatively 
weak, some good judges of the game, who watched the 
match throughout, declaring that they were fairly outfield- 
ed by the Peninsular players. The bowling of Mordaunt 
and Richardson, however, was irresistible, and the wickets 
of- the Detroit club fell with wonderful rapidity, only Cal¬ 
vert in the first, and Edgar and Calvert in the second in¬ 
ning, recording their runs in double figures. In fact, these 
two young players carried off the honors for the Penin¬ 
sular Club. Armstrong, Girdlestone, and Morphy, usually 
good for a large number of runs, making in both innings 
but five, the two last named drawing blanks in each.” 
Eight P. M. saw the St. Louis braves once more in a 
Pullman, swiftly gliding towards Hamilton, somewhat 
tired, for they had had a hard day’s work, having had to 
field out two innings. Four A. M. was an uncomfortable 
hour to be forsaking the comforts of a Pullman, and they 
dragged their weary frames to the Royal Elotel at Hamil¬ 
ton, about a mile from the depot. At eleven o’clock they 
were on the ground, having filled the interval with soda 
and B.— 
t ' r "" HAMILTON—RUNS. 
T. Lec:go, c Mordaunt, b Sharpe...13 
Captain Mainwaring, b Sharpe. 6 
Gosling, b Sharpe. 2 
Herbert, c SpenLer b Mordaunt...‘4 
R. K. Hope, c Mordaunt, b Dale. 47 
E. S. Clouston, run out...27 
R. Kennedy, c and b Dale. 2 
W. Bickle, b Dale. i 
R, Park, not out. :.10 
Dr. Wolverston, c Spencer, b Dale. 5 
Lockwood, run out. 7 
Byes, 16; leg byes, 5; wides, 5. 26 
Total. 150 
ST. LOUIS. 
First Inning. 
J. Dale, b Wolverton.'. 8 
H. E. Sharpe, b Kennedy. 0 
F. L. Mordaunt, c Hope, b Ken’dy 3 
II. W. Richardson, b Kennedy... 0 
C. Day, b Wolverston...18 
H. Temple, c Bickle, b Kennedy.. 3 
Lysett, c Rickie, b Wolverston.... 12 
C. J. Spencer, b Wolverston. 0 
Jeffries, c Clouston, b Kennedy... 6 
Eisenbrey, c Hebert, b Wolverst’n 0 
C. West, not out. 1 
Byes, 7; leg byes, 2. ... 9| 
Second Inning. 
b Wolverston. 
run out. 
b Kennedy. 
c Bickle, b Wolverston... 
b Kennedy. 
b Wolverston. 
run out. 
run out. 
run out. 
c Kennedy b Wolverston 
c Kennedy b Gosling... 
Byes, 2 ; leg byes, 2. 
4 
0 
2 
26 
1 
15 
3 
5 
5 
3 
5 
4 
Total .55| Total. .. 73 
Hamilton, 150; St. Louis, 128. Majority, 22. 
Hamilton won in one inning, with twenty-two runs to 
spare. St. Louis showed no cricket at all, if we may ex¬ 
cept some fine hits cut off the ground by Richardson and 
Dale. The team had been travelling for three successive 
nights, the previous day had worked hard, and had been 
turned out of bed that morning at four o’clock. Their 
condition was apparent from the fact that while their side 
was in several of them dozed off on the field. 
Wednesday night the tired ones slept in Hamilton. 
Thursday had been laid out as a nay of rest. The party 
broke up into sets; some stayed in Hamilton until evening, 
some went to Toronto (thirty-nine miles) by the moraine 
train, and some went to the international regatta, which 
was taking place in Toronto bay at that time. 
Friday, 10:30 A. M., found the United on the grounds of 
the Toronto cricket club, but no Toronto eleven ever yet 
were on time, so the game did not commence until noon. 
The Torontos went first to the wicket. The ground suited 
Mordaunt exactly, and, as will be seen by the score, he was 
terrible on this occasion, having secured nine wickets. The 
Torontos were puzzled by his peculiar style. His delivery 
is slow and high, and on a hard ground the rise is very 
rapid. On a soft ground, such as at Boston, Hew York, 
and Philadelphia, liis bowling is not so effective. Hemsted 
one of the safest bats of the Torontos, was taken by Mor¬ 
daunt at the first ball. 
In the first innings of the United Stake, the old stand-by 
of the Torontos, was bowling well, until Dale sent him 
over the fence, which liberty so shocked liis nerves that 
he was unable to get on the spot [again that innings, but in 
the second one he became desperate and deadly, bowling 
remarkably straight and with a good pitch. He secured 
three wickets in the first and seven in the second innings. 
St. Louis won by forty-three runs 
TORONTO. 
First Inning. 
Hemsted, b Mordaunt. 0 
Totten, run out.10 
Parsons, b Mordaunt. 4 
Gamble, b Mordaunt.0 
Swingard, c Dale, b Mordaunt_ 1 
Hevard, c Ricliardson, b Mordau’t 3 
Second Inning. 
b Ricliardson. 
b Mordaunt. 
Jeffries. 
b Ricliardson. 
b Mordaunt. 
b Richardson. 
not out. 
c Temple ’b Mordaunt 
b Dale. 
Beber, not out.16 : 
Roberts, c Day, b Mordaunt. 0 1 
Powell, c b d b Mordaunt. 
Forlong, c Day. b Mordannt. 0 absent. 
Blelce, c Sharpe, b Mordaunt.4j b Dale. 
Wides. 8 ; byes, 3. 6 Wides, 3; leg byes, 2; byes, 8.. 
Total.....51 Total. 
Total—133. 
ST, LOUIS. 
First Inning. 
Sharpe, c Hemsted, b Beber. 3 
Dale, b Blake. 11 
Mordaunt, b Beber. 8 
Ricliardson, c Roberts, b Beber.. .52 
Day II. W. b Beber. 0 
Temple, c Roberts, b Beber.3 c Robarts b Blake 
Lycett, b Gamble. O' b Blake. 
Spencer, c Hemsted, b Blake.10' 
Jeffries, run out. 4 
West, run out. V, 
Eisenbrey, b Bleke 
.13 
. 1 
.11 
13 
. 5 
. 5 
17 
. 0 
. 1 
Second Inning. 
not out. 
b Blake. 
b Beber. 
b Beber. 
c Hevard b Blake. 
b Blake. 
b Blake. 
c Hemsted b Beber. 
b Bleke. 
13 
.82 
.10 
. 7 
. 0 
. 5 
. 0 
.14 
r* 
! 0 
. 0 
. 2 
Byes, 2; leg byes, 3. 5, Byes, 1; 110 ball's’,'i; leg byes', 3. 5 
Total. 
Total—176. 
.120| Total. 
.56 
Saturday evening the eleven travelled to the “Falls,” and 
spent half of Sunday there. At two P. M. they were once 
more on the way, via the New York Central, and bound 
for Boston. 
Monday, the Boston and Albany train, which should have 
arrived at 8:30 A. M., was three hours late. Play did' not 
commence until 1:30 P. M., which was unfortunate, as 
only one day had been laid out for Boston. The United 
wielded the willow first for seventyffhree runs, and got rid 
of the Hubbites for forty-eight. The United were then put 
in again, and when time was called had scored sixty-six for 
the loss of two wickets, Dale having made forty-one and 
being still in. 
The game might have been styled skittles just as appro¬ 
priately as cricket. The ground was bad, and the St. 
Louis’property box having “missed connection” the eleven 
were minus spikes, etc. I 11 the evening the hospitality of 
the Hubbites was profuse, and but for the sterner virtue of 
the western men the St. Georges might have gained an easy 
victory next day. 
Tuesday, after another night of travel, the St. Louis men 
are again in the field, and are beginning to think they have 
undertaken too much. Nature will have her way at last, 
foil her as we may for a time. Irregular meals, broken 
rest, late suppers, and “good times” shake the nerves. Un 
fortunately for the United team, they had to face the most 
formidable opponents last. 
The following very fair account appeared in one of ffie 
city papers:— 
Play was called at noon of Tuesday, September 9, with 
the St. Louis eleven at the bat, they sending in Sharpe and 
Richardson to the bowling of Jones and Smith, the former 
sending in liis ripping pacers, and the latter a fine length 
spinning ball, Careful play was the order, and maiden 
overs the result for the first half dozen; but in the sixth 
over Sharpe gave a catch to Smith in the slips off Jones 
the first wicket falling for a duck egg. Mordaunt took 
Sharpe’s place, and then run-getting began, bur, only to a 
limited extent, as the first four wickets fell for 17 only 
When Day and Temple got in together a stand was made 
and before they were parted the score had been run up to 
44. Afterwards, Lycett joined Temple in scoring well 
these two leading the score of the inning, Temple’s 19 be¬ 
ing marked by three threes and four twos, and Lycelt’s 15. 
by a three and five twos. Day was run out for 8 when- 
well jn at the bat, Temple being bowled by Oasliman who* 
bad gone on in Jones’ place, the latter not being as effect¬ 
ive as anticipated. Lycett, too, was run out when nicely - 
in and batting well. When the last wicket fell the score- 
stood at 78, of which 13 were extras, nine byes, showing 
poor long-stopping. Smith bore off the palm in bowling 
this inning, and be caught out the only man who retired 
on a catch. 
Alter me usual interval, Cashman and Sleigh went to the 
bat on behalf of St. George against the bowling of Rich¬ 
ardson and Mordaunt, the former proving quite" effective 
but Cashman began to punish Mordaunt from the first over' 
Sleigh was the first victim, the first wicket falling for 9* 
and Jones followed suit shortly afterward, the "second 
wicket falling for 18, Richardson taking both wickets 
Cashman then had Smith for a partner, and before they 
parted the score had been run up to 29. Moeran came next 
and again was a stand made, the fourth wicket not goino- 
down until 47 had been scored. Dale then took RicharcE 
sons place in bowling, and Moeran soon retired, Lemmon 
being His successor. By sharp fielding lie was run out be¬ 
fore scoring to any extent, Satterthwaite succeeding him 
and he was the last to make an average score. Cashman’s 
17 was marked by six twos, and Smitii’s 11 bavin«■ a three 
and a two 111 it. Satterthwaite got off four hits for two 
each. -Three fine catches marked the splendid field in of 
the bt. Louis gentlemen, a beauty by Sharpe off Cashman 
being loudly applauded. The last wicket tell for 67, which 
left the lead in the hands of the visitors. 
On Wednesday the contest was resumed at noon with 
Sharpe and Eisenbrey at the bat, and Jones and Moeran 
handling the ball, a fall which Smith had the previous dav 
having temporarily disabled him. Jones was well on the 
wickets in this inning, and the result was that the St Louis 
eleveu were disposed of for 62, Sliarpe alone scoring double 
figures, liis finely obtained 24 being the score of the match 
It was marked by two threes and five twos. Good catches 
were made by Eyre, Smith, Talbot, and Cashman, Jones 
and Cashman taking all the wickets, the former getting 
seven wickets for 16 runs only. The St. George novv went 
in to get 74 to win, and the task was not considered a 
difficult one; but to their surprise wicket after wicket went 
down for small figures, Casliman being the only plaver to 
make anything of a stand, the bowling being good and 
finely supported m the field. Indeed, fielding appears to 
be the tone of the St. Louis players, and lienee the attract¬ 
ive character and success of their play. A splendid leg hit 
foi 6 maiked Cashman s 18 in this inning, as also a three 
and four twos. When the last wicket fell the St. George 
