... the popularity and prestige of first-class cricket. There are in this country thousands of enthu siastic cricketers, many of whom can ill spare either time or the expense of going to see these first-class cricket matches, but they manage to go whenever they ...

... altogether more cricket than there has been in any season since war came. It might not be impossible to arrange some form of representative M.C.C. v. Schools match at Lord's, and I have no doubt that there will be, if anything, more cricket at the Oval this ...

... CRICKET. THERE would seem to be something in the air of Vincent-square that attracts bowlers of Test match class. On June 30th the Westminster boys got away from R. J. A. Massie, of Victoria, at one end, only to face P. G. H. Fender at the other. The ...

... CRICKET. EXCEPT in Yorkshire and Lancashire, a professional cricketer's benefit is often somewhat mythical, so it is pleas ing to record that Tom Hayward's match at Kennington Oval, last week, was a great success. Finer weather could hardly have been ...

... CRICKET. IT has come at last! Finely as Yorkshire and Lancashire were playing, it was too much, in so uncertain a game as cricket, to expect both to go through the season without sus taining a single defeat, and Gloucestershire supplied the almost inevitable ...

... CRICKET. IT was a rare treat to get a front-seat view of a real bowler once again, a bit of fortune which came my way last Saturday at Vincent-square. Rumour, the lying jade --and what an era in her life she is passing through!-- had it that Major R. ...

... CRICKET. THOSE who have settled down to the noble work of finding something which will reduce cricket scores have received plenty of incentive, just lately, to continue their efforts. For a long time centuries have been as common as black berries in autumn ...

... CRICKET. UP to the present the triangular cricket tournament has been a dull and unprofitable affair. The first two matches were so very one-sided that they aroused no excitement. They saw the South Africans utilised as a cliopping-block by the stalwarts ...

... CRICKET. THERE can be little doubt that the Gentlemen had a stronger side for the match at Kennington Oval than that which opposed the players at Lord's, and the result was an easy victory. The inclusion of Mr. N. A. Knox particu larly made a world of ...

... CRICKET. YORKSHIRE, the County Cricket Champions, have re commenced just about where they left off last season, and although one naturally assumes that the absence of T. L. Taylor and Washington, and the only occasional, instead of regular, assistance ...

... CRICKET. IN spite of the torrential ending to a stifling day there was a good deal of finished cricket last Saturday. Out standing among the results was the defeat of Malvern on their own turf by the Rugby eleven, which is this year, as it was last, probably ...

... CRICKET. THE Winchester eleven completely mastered that of Harrow on Thursday of last week at Harrow. There was no mis taking the fact that they were, as a side, in a class above that of the losing eleven. Thus they were able to have their revenge f o ...