... 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 ...

... a white canvas hat, and a small, detachable brown beard, he could only ponder that there are ways of playing cricket that are hardly cricket and leave it at that. ...

... CRICKET. THIS year's cricket season promises to be full of interest, and the doings of the counties in tile championship, competition will attract more attention than ever. Yorkshire will have the services of all last year's eleven, and the Northern county ...

... CRICKET. ENGLAND V. AUSTRALIA. FOR several reasons, some of them not actually connected with the play, the third test match between England and Australia will take considerable prominence amongst the matches of the present season. The difficulties of ...

... CRICKET. THE hope of seeing Dr. Grace make another big score induced a great many people to go to the Oval last week. They were disappointed, as in two innings he made only 27. Luard, Kitcat, and Jessop hatted with some confidence, but the failure of ...

... CRICKET. MR. STODDART'S Eng lish team scored a won derful victory over South Australia, win ning on Tuesday by ten wickets. Mr. Stoddart and Humphreys stood out of the English eleven. The Colonials batted first, and kept up their wickets for tlie greater ...

... II A CHAT ABOUT CRICKET BP By Neville Cardus CHAMPIONSHIP CRICKET. YORKSHIRE will be at the Oval, in the next few days,, and we shall have some dour play. Rarely, rarely comest thou, Spirit of Delight-- into the championship game nowa days. For Yorkshire ...

... of training young cricketers, Mr. Fred Gale chats on County cricket, and Mr. Andrew Lang pens the opening pages, his subject being, as a matter of course, the History of the game. Further on Mr. Lang discourses on isomer cricket not, be it said, ...

... THE NURSERY OF CRICKET. ON the eastern edge of Broad Halfpenny Down, midway between the villages of Clanfield and Hambledon, in Hampshire, stands a solitary, unpretentious, old-fashioned inn, the Bat and Ball. This was the earliest home, in fact the nursery ...

... CRICKET REFORM. THE enormous scores which have been made during the past season have attracted the attention of a number of cricket reformers, nearly every one of whom is clamorous for some kind of radical change in the constitution of the game, in order ...

... GJp GJp Qyo£ j O The Cricket Stove burns one and gives Y 6 the other either as a slow combustion Y 6 stove or an open fire. It is easily regulated Y and will burn for over 10 hours at a stretch. Y 0 Moreover, IT BURNS ORDINARY COAL Y OR COKE. Is easily ...

... show us how to play cricket, he said. Well, these fellows want showing badly enough, but I don't exactly see America doing it. They may be able to play lawn tennis. Anyone can play pat-ball who really tries, as they do. But cricket I'd like to see them ...