... of leading cricketers, amateur and professional, contribute their words of wisdom. The work contains portraits of five eminent cricketers, and the cost of the publication is one shilling. I should like to know whether any follower of cricket has a better ...

... the ability and despatch with which he nets through his work. Mr. Alcock is best known as secretary of the Surrey County Cricket Club, although all over the country he is known as secretary of the Football Association. These twin berths give him a unique ...

... WITH TIIE AUSTEALIAN CEICKETEES. Now is the winter of the cricketer's discontent made glorious summer by the arrival of the Australians, who since they reached this country have been favoured with weather such as they are accustomed to down under, and ...

... that was how he was wont to describe himself was eating his breakfast in his little villa not a hundred miles from Lord's Cricket Ground, at a late hour for him, but with an appetite which even a visit to a glove- fight in the small hours of the morning ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. At length we are able to form some reliable opinion on the strength of the Australian team and the manners and methods of its various performers. Then- defeat by eight wickets at Sheffield Park ought not, however, to he taken ...

... of watching the sport of kings. He rides well to hounds, enjoys salmon fishing, is a fair shot, and can play lawn tennis, cricket, and billiards as well as most amateurs. The Duke of York is, too, a good all-round athlete, as he had plenty of gymnastic ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. Lord Sheffield is surely the most handsome of all patrons of cricket. It is said that the recent match played at Sheffield Park between his Lordship's team and the Australians cost Lord Sheffield something like £3000. As far ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. When sonic future historian of cricket is dealing with the great games that marked the close of the nineteenth century he will, in all probability, make a feature of that wonderful match recently played at Lord's between the ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. To prophesy in cricket unless one knows is to write one's self down an ass. What, for instance, can anyone make of this puzzle? Sussex beats Gloucester, Gloucester beats Middlesex, Middlesex beats Surrey, and Surrey beats ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. Cricket is not only a game proverbially full of surprises, but also of sensations as wild and acute as anything that takes place in dreams. Cricket is the only game in which the impossible is possible. Every thing is going ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. George Lohmann, the famous Surrey cricketer, has returned home from the Cape greatly restored in health, but he expects to play in very few matches this summer, and at the end of the season hopes to return to South Africa ...

... THE WORLD OF SPORT. CRICKET. Oh, the eccentricities of the summer game In cricket, as Charles Collette used to say, There never ain't no knowin'. We find, among other vagaries of the game, our friend the enemy from Australia well beaten by a very scratchy ...