The second meeting of the season was held in very successful style hard by Wandsworth Common. A full programme of stake races for fox terriers was completed, with many closely contested courses. Winners included Mr Talbot's Rags (Challenge Stakes), Mr Hammond's Bosco (Upper Tooting Stakes), and Mr C. Stovell's Sunbeam (a made-up stake for 15lb and under).
Messrs J. McLachlan & Sons had instructions from C. De Selincourt Esq. to sell by auction on the premises, Wednesday 13 May 1885 at 2 o'clock, the contents of Wandsworth Lodge, Trinity Road, Wandsworth Common: bedding-out plants, lawn mower, garden engine, hose and reel, wheelbarrows, vase, garden seats, iron hurdling, brougham, waggonette by Perry of Bristol, a four-wheel chaise, boat, a shorthorn cow calving this month, an Alderney cow in milk, a young black Berkshire sow, a magnificent peacock, a quantity of poultry, and sundry outdoor items.
"May I call attention to the fact that a great part of the Brighton line from Clapham Junction, running through Wandsworth Common, is protected only by an open rail, and that nearly every evening a dozen little children may be seen on the bank inside the fence, and within a few feet, sometimes, of the metals? Surely some further protection ought to be afforded where a line runs through a suburban common swarming with young children who can scarcely know their danger. — J. West, Endlesham Road, Balham, July 16."
A profile of the 20-year-old Surrey professional George Alfred Lohmann noted: "Born in 1865, on June 2, Lohmann first saw the light at a period of Surrey cricket when Jupp and Tom Humphrey had just made their reputations. All his early practice was had on Wandsworth Common, and in fact the whole of his cricket until he was fifteen or sixteen years of age was learned on the Common. A member of the Church Institute Club which played there, it was with it that he first showed any signs of ability as a cricketer, and for three successive seasons (1876–77–78) he won both the average bat and ball given for the most successful batsman and bowler of that society."