... 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. WHAT may be termed the society cricket matches of the season, viz., the Oxford v. Cambridge and Eton v. Harrow contests, had the misfortune this year to be crowded into one week. The schools trod on the heels of the universi ties, and made up ...

... CRICKET. OWING to the Amateurs having such an unrepresentative team the match at the Oval against the Players was not very in teresting. If all the best cricketers had been available, possibly only Grace and Champian would have been offered their places ...

... 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. THE great advance made by the four counties which next year are to have all the privileges of entering for the champion ship competition is really remarkable. Warwickshire at first carried all before them, but strong as they undoubtedly are, ...

... CRICKET. THERE has rarely if ever been a more finely contested Univer sity match than that between fully representative teams of Oxford and Cambridge last week at Lord's. Society was present in full force, and what is rather surprising, appeared to take ...

... 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. ...

... there would still be hopes for Nottingham cricket. Daft's 50 was not vigorous, but it was extremely useful, as was the 40 of Oserol't. C. W. Wright was also in good batting form, and his 41 was got by good cricket. With Pike and Dixon in, the Middlesex total ...

... CRICKET. THE match of last week was undoubtedly that between Surrey and Lancashire at Old Trafford, the ground on which the Lon don team have so often done well. Lancashire possessed an unbeaten record, and it hardly seemed likely that Surrey could win ...