Cricket Excitement.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4436, 24 March 1883, Page 4

Cricket Excitement.

A Sydney paper, writing on the cricket match played between the English and Australian EleTjnp, stays :-rrA cablegram from England^ 'announcing' war with Bu3Bia,\and- the, despatch of a fleet of ,- Etti?Bi|»Jirpnel3aa[ to. bp)nbard " Sydiiey, . : could not" have created more excitement than the' International Cricket Match. About ,10,000 people "left their work, ■V borrowed^ t,%W * P9pnt*?: from, a ? friend, washed Anem«elVefik, -put£qn~liord;s Day clothes, and sallied forth to witness the rise or fall of t Australian glory. In the city, the fever was at white ■:':-heaO;*4|#,BeWalV"f lftfeeg' inK the > oily; oi| Cvfednesdajr, vtelegfams /welre,? posted at internals of a few minutes, announcing ihe" progress of the game. Great ?crpwds ,of ;both ? Wiashed and ;-un« washed; blocked; the side^paths and- even .the streeti whenever these: telegrams were to be seen. An impending collision totwo great heavenly bodies cotild not have attracted more attention than these telegrams, and when; the match wW '*bYerv ° ihds it ■ Wa*s{ ifnniSunced that : Alisiir^a^^w^ w one"? riffi^ii^enthdsiasm wSs: astbund^ tionate;;"cab'^Tp^fe >s'^^t r :'deliiftiit^'' J'ah^ :}:, sported the blue,. ; wb^on^ a f t Ihe.jend ;of his whip, whicb^by the way, he .eonid^^ly^ffprd jtp.;do )C -.fpr.^erwas up ;to -hi)|.,fpifj f Jnlj the-;;jpoiir./" : it" is.-jyitn : greaV^modesJy;;^^;?^^!*,;.^^ this is a :;, popular: win, and- is-likely to improve ; tbel^^^i^^ tores, and .enable^^icjtorja *° fl°at her £4,000.000 loan. IMost of the bourne, but .cHoran and Alick Banner man, not caring about railway travelling, borrowed" one o£ Ivo Bligh's boots«and set sail on Thursday, mornine. The^was'^^ic cr<j#«l oi 1 coruatalks -to ; wish them " God speed," upon their de:parture (r.pjp+(3irpula? f Quay^;; Th.ey were Big^nooff^ol^n^ng,ift3fj|r,ds Evening! and t isii| ; !tbPflg|itith|itfiß.h"pnid the prove favortbJeilJiey.wiJtireflfph Melbourne -It Js, said that, {Should>a stor,m ■}r.,;-;t^Mg f : t^ey,jWill.bei all righ,t f because they