CRICKET NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10650, 10 May 1895, Page 3

CRICKET NOTES.

(Canterbury Times.) The report preaented at tbs annual meeting c£ the Notts County Club showed that tho club wau .-2314) worse c:!x than when the ecrsoh. (started. Tho balancesheet Elbowed that the uubscriptiona amounted to £1174 9s 6.x against £llBB 9s the previous year. The match receipts showed o. total for 1894 of .£387 7a 6d agsdnafi .81493 ia 1393, a decrease o£ aver £BOO, Tho most important redaction in tho gate money occurred in the Surrey match at ‘Whitsuntide, the receipts being £233 13s 3d compared with £s7l'Ba lid in 1593. Tho matches arranged for neat season include Surrey, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Middkaiis, Susses, Kent, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire. Both the G-loaooster-shiro and Somerset matches have bean dropped. The receipts from these fixtures at Nottingham last year wereGloucestershire, £S7 18s (expenses £153, home and aw&y); Somersetshire, £57 14s (expanses home and away, £159). Baraea’s benefit realised (with subscriptions) £374 10s iOd for that player. In order to improve the financial position of tho club it was decided to increase the number of (subscribers to 2000, and so put the club in possession of a certain income which would make it independent of any fall in gate money through bad weather. The presence of Mr Lucas's team in the West Indies has created an extraordinary interest in the game in that part of tho world. For the opening match—against Barbadoes—-the Englishmen had to leave for the ground early, owing to the block in Broad street, the principal thoroughfare. Tha Governor had granted the first two days aa public holidays throughout the island, and tho influx of country people was enormous, special trains being xun for tha occasion on probably the most primitive of railways, which baa never paid aay dividends since it was opened. Substantial stands had been erected to accommodate about two thousand spectators, with a charge of £2 psr head for those in the best positions, and tho tickets for the whole were sold in lees than two hours from the time the lists were opened. The whole of the ground had been enclosed by a high wooden fence, and every coign of vantage, even to high palm trees, was crowded with black humanity. In another part, outside the ground ia some private property, tha police actually cut n tree down aa being the only means of causing tbs occupants to descend. Quite 6000 people paid for admission, while there was a largo crowd outside who wsro looking through the cracks in the fence, and on the second day, notbeing satisfied with this limited vision, they improved the situation by cutting holes to peer through. Whom _ playing against St Kitts s negro accompanied each of the local batsmen, to and from the wicket with musical honours of the weirdest description, produced with a aort of clarionet.