... several other persons of distinction. Lord Montford, mentioned above, was a great patron of the game. In 1749 Horace Walpole speaks of him fetching up persons to play on Richmond Green. At Woburn, in Bedfordshire, Friday, May 27th, 1743. .. . WOBURN v. LONDON ...

... have been considerably increased in number, while the list of scorers of over a hundred runs now nearly thirty pages, which speaks volumes for the weather of 1899. ...

... course, say what conclusion the committee will come to, and the matter is in their hands. Still, 1 may say for myself that, speaking broadly, the principle prevailing should be what it was evidently intended to be when the laws of the game were first imprimatur ...

... extraordinary incident appeared in one of the papers next day, to Tom's immense delight. My son George, said old George, often speaks of the way in which Lord Harris used to help him to dispose of certain batsmen. Jack Platte, the Derbyshire cricketer, nearly ...

... run out, but they are to be dispensed with by the curious plan of giving them a complicated series of values, by which, speaking generally, the reward of a stroke is to be in inverse proportion to its velocity • so that, while one of Mr. F. (1. J. Ford's ...

... famous old Islington Albion Cricket Club, of which it is said a few years ago, by a writer that, in its prime it was a club to speak of with bated breath. Mr. Harding has always been, and still is, an enthusiast where the game of cricket is concerned. He ...

... must leave for those who are better versed in Scott than myself to answer. It is many years since I last read his works, but speaking from memory I am inclined to think that in one of them he does refer to the game. With the exception of Mr. J. M. Barrie ...

... we think, though we do not say it, His hair has grayish grown! We speak of a lucky season, And of many a mighty score; But each in his heart is thinking Of those who are no more. We speak of friends and their hundreds, And of how they cut and bowled, Till ...

... main cause of drawn games was the advantage the batsman had over the bowler, a perfect wicket to bat on, and, comparatively speaking, the entire absence of fatigue in making big scores. In short, then, the avowed subject of the experiment is to place a ...

... the root of the whole evil, an evil against which many cricketers expressed themselves in forcible terms last season. I can speak from experience concerning these artificial wickets, and I go so far as to say that they are even easier for the batsman than ...

... in the field that it is difficult to know which to make use of in referring to his doings at Cambridge. As figures often speak louder than words all will be understood when it is stated that he scored 86 and 62 (the highest score in each innings of his ...

... CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. with a game of lawn tennis that they could not find time to speak to him for an hour or so. Impatiently he waited. At last, when the game was over, someone turned to him with the casual remark, Well. how did you ...