Cricket 1894

“ Together "joined in cricket’s manly toil.”— Byron, RoisteredtoTranm^rion'Abroad THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1894. PRICE 2d. CRICKETJNOTCHES. B y t h e R e v . R . S. H o l m e s . A letter from Tasmania comments on my Revised Laws of Cricket, and notes sundry <3* P. FOLEY J apparent defects in them and the existing code. They are matters of minor importance only. For instance, how reconcile Laws 9 and 45, about rolling wickets and interval between innings? The wicket is not to be rolled “ for more than ten minutes,” that is, less than that time may DOUGLAS H. B. HAYMAN RAWLIN be consumed. But surely that law was never intended to be interpreted with literal exactness; as a matter of fact it never is At every match I attend, I not9 the time when one innings closes and the next opens. Never once has it not exceeded the regulation ten minutes, not even at Lord’s. I have PHILLIPS j. T. HEARNE A. HICKSON A. E. STODDART A. J. WEBBE (CAPT ) P. J. T. HENERY T. C. O’BRIEN M I D D L E S E X C O U N T Y E L E V E N . From a photograph \by Symons dt Theile, Chancery Lane.