CRICKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 1764, 12 September 1885, Page 22

CRICKET.

NOTES BY SLIP.

Most of our clubs have held meetings during the past week, and with the beginning of next month we may expect to see cricket in full swing. The Carisbrook is likely to again be the leading club.

Four clubs are to be formed in connection with the High School. The first team have applied for a pitch on the Carisbrook ground. The Home correspondent of the Australasian thus refers to the attendance at the EtonHarrow match: — I need hardly explain the appearance of Lord's on an Eton and. Harrow day, as that has been done so often, and by myself, indeed, many times. Suffice it to say it is, perhaps, the most fashionable event of the brilliant London season. Every species of carriage — drag, brake, landau, victoria — is jammed on the ground by the lucky holders of tickets. These vehicles remain there during the two days, and are, of course, occupied each day by their respective owners. The scene during the luncheon hour is well worth witnessing. The toilettes of the ladies, the collars and eyeglasses of the " mashers," the various- coloured liveries of the hundreds of lacqueys, and the popping of a thousand corks, make up a tout ensbmble which renders it difficult to believe that "trade is bad," that the "agricultural depression " has deprived the landlords of their rents, or that " nobody has any money." The whole spectacle, indeed, seems to imply to the onlooker that " everyone " has plenty of money, and is prepared to spend it freely in every species of luxurious enjoyment. For the game itself, which these fair ones and their followers are supposed to have come to witness, the great majority care little or nothing. It is "the thing " to " do " the Eton and Harrow, so they do it. This year, however, the game was a really good one from a cricketing point of view and the finish was so exciting that even fashionable beauties could not help so far forgetting themselves as to be evidently taking an interest in the play.