PROGRAMME OF THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.

Evening Star, Issue 5966, 26 April 1882, Page 2

PROGRAMME OF THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS.

The programme of the Australians* tour is now practically complete, Mr Perkins having, on behalf of the visitors, arranged a number of matches in addition to the important engagements made for the Colonial team at the meeting of county representatives in December last. These matches consisted of single contests with England, the Gentlemen of England, the Players of England, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; two matches each with Gloucestershire, Subsox, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire; single matches with Lancashire, Surrey, Middlesex, Kent, and Leicestershire; and four matches with Yorkshire, one each at Huddersfield and Sheffield and two at Bradford. This original programme of twenty-two matches, which we published at the time, has been slightly altered. Owing to a difficulty as to date, the return with Sussex has fallen through, and the match at Huddersfield has- been abandoned. There have also been tome

alterations of dates. Fifteen new matches have been made, eleven definitely, and four in September subject to confirmation by the Australians when they arrive. The eleven new fixtures are against the Orleans Club at Twickenham, Mr W. R. Gilbert's United Eleven (late the United South) at Chichester, Portsmouth, and Tunbridge, the United North at Middlesborough, Yorkshire, or the United North at Dewsbury, Somersetshire, at Taunton, Northamptonshire at Northhampton, Northumberland at Newcastle, the Gentlemen of Scotland at Edinburgh, and the Liverpool Club at Liverpool. The four September matches are at Leeds, Scarborough, Harrogate, and Glasgow. Thus the programme consists of thirty-six matches—all of them, we believe, eleven a-side. The new engagements are, of course, not so important as those made in December, but several of them may result in good matches, especially if the United North and United Eleven are strong teams. There is but the slightest chance of Mr Frank Penn being well enough to play cricket this year. Barnes, the well-known Nottingham professional, is also ill. He has been obliged to give up his employment, and is now at an inland watering-place.