CRICKET. 
OUR GLANCE AT THE SEASON 1854. 
No II. 
Turning to wliat was done during the past season, 
it will be found that the Marylebone Club held their 
anniversary meeting and dinner in the Pavilion, at 
Lord’s, as usual, on the first Thursday in May, 
namely, Thursday, May the 4th, when no fewer than 
thirty-five new members were elected. The pro- 
gramme of the matches for the season was also 
arranged. Of these contests there were twenty-six, 
exclusive of the customary “ public schools’ matches,” 
which, as all cricketers arc aware, amount to three. 
We cannot see why the Rugbueans are not, now 
they have become of increased importance in the 
cricket circle, admitted to a competition with Harrow, 
Eton, and Winchester. Of course we are not ignorant 
of the difficulty that might arise in the attempt to 
appoint the days for such trials ; but, in the ordinary 
events of human life, obstacles of much greater weight 
are overcome. We throw out the hint with the 
hope that an effort may next year be made to accom- 
plish the matter. Upon this subject many letters 
have reached the writer of these glances during the 
last three years. Notice was also given that a 
general meeting would be held on Monday, the 15th, 
for the purpose of taking into consideration certain 
proposals as to the amendment and alteration of 
several of the rules of the game, as well as of rule 1 
of the M.C.C. From the report of the hon. secretary 
and treasurer, Mr. Kynaston, it appeared that as 
many as GOO annual subscriptions and GG entrance- 
fees had been received during the year terminating 
on the 31st of March in the present year, and that, 
after deducting all expenses, there was a balance in 
favour of the stock purse of £355. Gs. Id. The 
report further stated that the matches of 1853 had 
been played at a cost amounting to £469. 10s. 
It was in the course of the evening announced that 
the first match of the season would be played on 
Monday, the 15 th. 
Accordingly, on that day Mr. Kynaston brought 
an eleven of the members of the club into the field, in 
opposition to another eleven of the M.C.C., selected by 
the Earl of Winterton. Each side had two bowlers 
of the grounds. It was a one-day's match, and was 
won by Mr. Kynaston’s side by 12 runs upon the 
first innings. The respective totals were 113 and 101. 
Of the former, Mr. E. T. Drake contributed 32, 
Mr, II. Vernon 23, Mr. Kynaston IS, and Dakin 10 ; 
whilst of the latter, the double offerings came from 
the bats of Mr. A. Wilson 18, Royston 1G, and 
Mr. G. W. Barker 1G. The last line on the total 
score of this side headed the list in point of amount, 
viz., byes, <fec., 22. This ought not to have been, 
even though at the commencement of a season where 
that commencement had been delayed until the 
middle of May. Practice and bad weather occupied 
the remainder of the week. But in the afternoon of 
this day the general meeting of the members took 
place in the Pavilion, when, amongst other matters, 
it was moved that the following alteration be made 
in rule 46 : — 
“ Except in matches limited to only one day’s play, when the 
number shall be 80 instead of 100.” 
To this an amendment was moved and seconded, 
which in the end was unanimously agreed to, and 
the rule or law was therefore amended thus : — 
“ The players who go in second shall follow their innings if 
they have obtained 80 runs less than their antagonists, except 
in matches limited to only one duy’s play, when the number 
shall be 60 instead of 80.” 
The old laws of cricket— 30, 31, and 32— were 
ordered to be erased, and the following amended 
laws to stand as their substitutes, namely : — 
“ Z0. The striker shall not retire from his wicket, and 
return to it to complete his innings, after another has been 
in, without the consent of the opposite party. 
« 31 . No substitute shall, in any case, be allowed to stand 
out or run between wickets for another person, without the 
consent of the opposite party ; and in case any person shall 
be allowed to run for another, the striker shall be out if either 
he or his substitute be off the ground, in the manner men- 
tioned in laws 17 and 21, while the ball is in play. 
“ 32. In fill crises where a substitute shall be allowed, the 
consent of the opposite party shall also be obtained as to i the 
person to act as substitute, and the place in the field which he 
shall take.” 
Now, in many respects these alterations will be 
found beneficial, especially that made in rule 46, 
seeing that it is the first admission, officially, on the 
part of the Marylebone Club that there is such a 
thing as a “ one day’s” match. We congratulate the 
M.C.C. on this tardy recognition of a class of 
matches which had ranged throughout the cricket 
world in something like the proportion of 1,000 to 
2, until Clarke first founded the “All England 
Eleven ” matches, as against those which were what 
is termed “ played out.” Year after year rolled on, 
during which the hundreds of privato clubs placed 
their “ one day’s match ” home and home, upon the 
understanding that, if there were not time to “ play 
it out” in one day, victory should be awarded to the 
club which obtained the larger score in the first 
THE FIELD. 
innings, and by that result bets on these innumerable 
contests were determined. And this understanding 
was generally adopted in all private club matches, 
except, so far as we remember, in the instance men- 
tioned in Mr. Denison's “ Cricketer’s Companion,” 
for 1843, resulting from a match between the then 
East burrey Club and the Montpelier Club, played, 
vnnrvv vnire enma n J- il. A 1.. i. n TT * . * 
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many years since, at the late Harry Hampton’s 
ground at Camberwell. Each eleven was very strong, 
and bets to a very large amount were made. At the 
termination of the day, those who had won upon the 
score of the first innings claimed payment of their 
bets, but many of the losers declined to honour the 
demand, upon the ground that they had betted on 
the “ match," and that as the Marylebone Club, in their 
rules as to bets, said that bets were not payable unless 
the game was played out, they were not bound to 
pay. One effect of this proceeding was, that although 
some twenty years or more have passed away, there 
are those who, though previously upon tho most 
intimate terms, several of them relatives by inter- 
marriage and other degrees of relationship, who from 
that day to the present have not spoken, and this 
result was at the time said, and it has oft been 
reiterated, to have been the effect of the committee 
of the Marylebone Club not being sufficiently cogni- 
sant of the wants, requirements, and the circumstances 
under which the matches of private clubs were played. 
The more, then, do we thank the committee of the 
present day for this official recognition of a custom 
which ought, in real fairness, to have been sanctioned 
by the leading club long and many years past. As 
we proceed with these notices, we shall have to advert 
to other matters of cricket importance, wherein, to 
some extent, it is urged by many clubs, especially in 
the provinces, that the M.C.C. might afford con- 
siderable relief. 
VABHT 1 N 8 . 
♦ 
IIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 
muck as any of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and with lens 
tlmu half the trouble which must ho incurred by refitting 
the yachts selected for the purpose. Further, she would 
have au infinitely better chance of arriving in reasonable* 
time where she is wanted ; for my enthusiastic frieuds must 
remember that wind and weather in December cannot 
always be rolled upon during a voyage extending through 
the Bay of Biscay, the Mediterranean, and the Eux'iue ; 
whereas a steamer is to a groat extent independent. 
The statements of “ A Yachtsman," in reference to the 
necessary seamen and 8101 * 68 , aro not a bit exaggerated, and 
onglvt. at. once to put astopper upon tho well-meant employ- 
ment of vessels wholly unstated to the duty ; an employ- 
ment about as judicious as if Lord Derby or the Duke of 
Bedford, charitably anxious for a supply of coals to the 
neighbouring poor, were to render tho services of tho pick 
of their respective racing establishments to carry fuel on 
their backs to tho cottagers' doors, with a boy at each 
horse's head ; iustcad of resorting to tho more business- 
like but leas romantic course of paying tho hire of a 
waggon and cart horses between them. 
The saino correspondent talks of “ co-operation." Class 
subscriptions appear to liavo boeu very general lately, and 
very successful ; but I cannot myself see that these classes 
can bo bonefioially out up anew into sootions ; and I think 
most yachtsmen will agree with me that it would liavo bcou 
more graceful on tho part of “ his Lordship's Club " if they 
had thrown their iutonded operations of benevolence open 
to their brethren of other squndroiiN, who would have cor- 
dially joined in one common enterprise. Were this, Sir, 
a solitary iustauce of exclusiveness in matters where exclu- 
siveness should not reign, no mention Would have been made 
of it by mo ; but many will remember that when all amateur 
sailors wore naturally desirous to contribute to tho monu- 
ment intended to be erected to a late lamented commodore, 
whom they wero equally entitled to respect and admire with 
the ltoyal Yacht Squadron, tlm latter, although tho desire 
was communicated, refused to allow auy but their own mem- 
bers to testify their regard. 
In matters of public charity, and affording a vent to pub- 
lic feeling, this ought, not to bo ; leant |of all, to be set as an 
Dec. 10, Suii.lnjr 5.S0.. 
,, 11. Monday 0. 1 . 
„ 19. T»ic4rt»r 6 47.. 
.. U.53.. 
..10.53... 
...11.60.. 
... 0.15. 
... 1 . 1 .. 
... 1.10. • 
. .. 8.10 
. . , 0.90 
..10,94 
...11.99 
13, Wednesday 
14, Thursday . . 
15, Friday .... 
16, Saturday . , 
17, Sunday .. 
IS. Monday . .. 
10. Tuesday 
20, Wednesday 
id Ilian WarKiiftllhe tubjolned p’. 
and add or subtract llio Hina in llio following Table. 
. ft 37 
. 1.38 
. £.14 
Dec. 91. Thursday 
„ 23, Friday 
„ 93. Saturday 
„ 24. Sunday 
„ M, Monday 
„ 9(1. Tueatlay 
,, 97. Wednesday .. . 
„ 98, Thursday 
„ 9ft, Friday ....... 
„ 3 '. Saturday 
31, Sunday.. .7... 
i, lako llio aborc tlmo 
. 441 
. 8.34 
. 6.28 
11. » 113ft 
I London Uildge, 
’Hact rnou losnow dbidor. 
Harwich 2 37 
Iptwleh ,9 7 
LowcitoU 3 37 
Margate 9 3 
Needle* 4 99 
Nore 0 58 
O.tcnd 1 19 
I'orUtnouth ... 9 27 
llamigntc 9 47 
Shorcham ... 9 69 
Southampton.. 9 27 
Splthoad 4 37 
ADD 
> DOHDUN n n inure 
.. 0 63 
- 3 18 
.. 1 3ft 
3 51 
5 93 
.... 4 53 
9 23 
Dow in 3 38 
Exmoolh 4 18 
Fewer 3 93 
Ciuermey 4 93 
Hamburgh ... 3 53 
AiiMtcrdnm , 
Antwerp 
llnst 
ltrldport 
Chcrlxiurg . . . 
Cardigan .. 
Humber, mth. 
or 3 53 
I, and’* End ... 9 9 1 
Leith 0 16 
. Milford Horen 3 
IMymouth . 
ltollordam. . 
Torbay 
Weymouth . 
Whitby . . . . 
WUboach .. 
| Youghat .. 
. 3 9S 
, 0 113 
. 3 36 
t S3 
. I 3* 
. 0 93 
. 9 53 
Brighton 3 0 
Boulogne' ..... 9-11 
Colon 9 II) 
Chester Bar ... 3 37 
CUwcj 3 32 
Dublin. 9 65 
Hover Pier — 9 57 
Duunoui 4 91 
Gnueiend 0 37 
Greenock .... 9 92 
Greenwich - ..O 90 
Havre 4 15 
CLUB MEETINGS, 1854. 
December 12. — Meeting of the Anglesey Club, at Ashley’s Hotel, Hen- 
rietta-street, Covent-gurdcti. 
December 13. — Meeting of tho LHloy Club. 
December 18. — Monthly Meeting of the Royal London Yacht Club. 
December 20. — Meeting of tho Lilley Club. 
December 2 7 ( Wednesday ). — Full Meeting of the Lilley Club, being the 
lost for the year 1654. 
THE NEW YEAR, 1855- 
January 11. — Annual Ball of the Prince of Wales Yacht Club, at tho 
Freemasons' Tavern. ... 
February 14.— Annual Balls of the Royal London Yacht Club, »t W lUws 
Rooms ; and of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, at tho Ilanover 
Square Rooms. ^ 
OUR YACHTSMEN AND THE CRIMEAN ARMY FUND. 
Au association has been formed under the above title, 
with the view of rendering some assistance to the British 
army while exposed to the many privations and hardships 
incidental to a winter campaign. A committee has been 
formed, including the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of 
Blaudford, Viscount Mandeville, Lord Robert Grosvonor, 
M P., &c., and it is proposed to forward to Balaklava a sup- 
ply of such articles of provisions, warm clothing. &c„ as may 
be considered most useful. The committee have already at 
their disposal the Fairy yacht, tho property of Mr. \\ ilium 
Lyon, member of the ll.Y. Club, and another yacht, 220 
tons burthen, the property of the Earl of Ellesmere, which 
will severally have a freight of tobacco, tea, and other ser- 
viceable articles, as a gift to tbo non-commissioned officers 
and privates. The Fairy sails from Portsmouth, ami the 
othef- vessel will soon follow with a .talar .u..|> y of > .«»• 
saries. A store of articles also will be established at Bala 
klava, which will be sold at cost price to those who would 
be unwilling to receive such articles as a gif t. A lettM -haa 
appeared in a contemporary which we may here subjoin. 
1 •* Sir —Cooking utensils would not be thrown away in the 
camp. I think. The following extract from a letter from 
„ <v;«nd Colonel S , of tho Guards, received this 
morning, needs only to bo made public through tlie 
to insure the hint being takeu in the proper qiuu te . My 
friend says ‘ I offered £1 for a frying-pan, and thought it 
a eoo'd price. Fancy a Fusilier seudiug Ins servant yester- 
day (November 9) with orders to bid up to £1 J for one 1 
We hear that such trifles as lucifers tapers, and bath bricks 
are in great de mand, but almost unobtainab le, 
STORES FOR THE CRIMEA. 
Sin -A correspondent of the Times, in answer to A 
Yachtsman,” asks for "a better means of transport and 
stowage " than tbo proffered yacht service. I am happy m 
being k;tble to suggest, a better. A subscription of a veiy 
limited sum from all the yacht clubs in England (including, 
of course, tho Royal Yacht Squadron) would suffice to «hm- 
ter one of the new screw-vessels which arc being now extern 
lively built for colliers ; and such a craft would stow as 
lie — ---, -- 
•sample by tho distinguished body in question. 
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
Another Yachtsman. 
YACHTING TO THE CRIMEA. 
Sir, — B y a letter signed " Wilton" in the Mur nun/ Herald 
of tho 1st inat., I conclude that his lordship’s lino now 
schooner tho Zara must bo from some cause ineffective, 
otherwise our noble commodore had been spared " active 
measures to procure the loan of a yacht" the Zara being 
larger and better adapted to tho hlghly-lauddble purpose of 
carrying out to our friends in tbo East tho supplies of which 
they stand so muoli in need than tho Erminia, volunteered 
by Lord Ellesmere. 
With all due rospeot to tho exertions of Captain Lyon — 
yielding to no one in hearty desire to curry out tlio proposed 
object, anti fervently wishing tho Fairy a speedy passago, I 
must venture to remind my yachting brethren that, timo 
is everything in this matter. Our friends anti relatives aro 
uudor actual privation for want, of necessaries which, with 
a good steamer, we could calculate upon furnishing at a 
given period. 
“ Bli ilat qul olto tint.'’ 
I have myself been in a fast-sailing craft twice from 
twenty-five to thirty days* between the Land's End and 
Gibraltar, ond ns long again thence to Malta, a delay to 
which all who have made trips to tho Mediterranean must 
have been either subject or liable. 
Lot ua charter a suitable stoainor, and either with or even 
without tho aid of other clubs, which would bo readily con- 
tributed, we might send out a freight yet iu timo, and iu a 
manner worthy of the Royal Yacht Squadron, aud of those 
with whom tho scheme originated. 
Dee. 5. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, R. Y. S. 
[• Wo liavo been ourselves the same timo, more than once, 
in beating up the Dardanelles in vessels about ISO tons, and 
wo have known vessels to be wiudbound two and oven three 
mouths iu tho Bamo Straits. — E d. Field.] 
Cowes, Thursday, Dec. 7.— Tho Royal Yacht Squadron 
sclioouer Fairy passed through our roads this morning, with 
a fine breeze from tho uortkward, loaded with comforts for 
the heroes of Inkerman. She appeared very deep m tho 
water, and can hardly bo expected to reach her destination 
before the middle of January. “ God speed the good ship. 
ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. 
The monthly meeting of tho above- club took place on 
Wednesday evening, at the Bedford Hotel, Covout-gm .Kn, 
when, in tho absence of tho noble commodore Lord A. I aget, 
M P. 11. S. Wilkinson, Esq., was unanimously voted to tho 
chair. Between forty and fifty gentlemen wero present at 
the house dinner. 
The business of the ovening commenced by tho i secretary 
reading the minutes of the previous meeting, which wero 
duly confirmed, when the six gentlemen already inentitfned 
in The Field having been proposed, seconded, and ballottecl 
for, wero declared duly elected. . . ... 
The report of the sailing committee, in reference to Mr. 
H. Chilton's motion, was rend by the secretary. 
It was proposed by the chairman, and seconded hy Charles 
Smart and Deane John lloare, Esq., “ Tliat tho decision ot 
the sailing committee bo confirmed." This was unanimously 
carried; so that -for the future “ shifting ballast aud sliding 
keels will not be allowed in club matches. 
The chairman, in a very able speech, moved the following 
resolution : — • 
•• That it is the opinion of this meeting, that the sum ot 
Fxft'l Ouinraa should bo given by this club to tho Royn 
Patriotic Fund, subject to confirmation, 
laws of tho club, upon notice in the circular*, at tho January 
meeting." 
Caxviod nemlne ditseuticnle. , n 
It was afterward. revived :-';T f «“ A "! “ '' ™ 
dor the auapice. of the Club, b. hold at the 
Room., onSVedne.d»y, the Hth K.bnmrj-^866; end that 
«• «* 
very crowded toward, tho ole., of 
business. 
Our reader^ aro was founded 
