Cricket 1897

300 CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. J u ly 22, 1897. LIEBIG COMPANY’S EXTRACT. IS THE BEST PICK=ME=UP AFTER EXERTION, AND A SINE QUA NON IN THE KITCHEN. Always look for fhe BLUE SIGNATURE, there are imitations. FRANK SUGG (.Lancashire County Player , North and All-England Elevens.) The LANCASHIRE WITCH Bat. Unequalled, 17/6. BATS, full size, all cane, 3/11, 5/6, 7/6,10/-, 12/6,15'-, 17/6, 21/-. Running Drawers and Vests, 1/- each, in all colours. Match Balls, 3/6, 4/6, 5/-. Stumps, from 2/3 to 7/6. Leg-guards, from 3/6 to 10/6 per pair. Batting Gloves, from 3/6 to 7/6 per pair. Gauntlets, from 2/11 to 8/6. Gauntlets (rubber- facedJ, from 6/6 to 10/6. Cricket Bags, from 4/6 to 16/6. Cricket Bags (solid leather), from 20/- to 50/-. Back Nets, from 10/6 to 22/6. Boots, from 7/11 to 22/6. Shoes, from 2/11 to 7/6. Shirts, from 1/6 to 6/6. Trousers, from 4/6, 6/6 to 16/-. Sweaters, from 8/11 to 7/9. Belts, from 4 Jd. to 1/-. 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The umpire at square leg gives him out. The umpire at the bowler’s wicket not out. (b) He leaves his ground, the other batsman raises an objection to the decisions, and he returns to his wicket; but whilst he is out of his ground the wicket-keeper puts down the wicket and claims he stumped him ; both umpires give him out stumped. Is he out and how ? (c) The other batsman objects to both deci­ sions and in consequence the fielding captain draws his men off and refuses to play further. Is he right in such action P In the first case the decision rested with the umpire at the bowler’s end. He said “ not out,” and there the matter ought to have ended. The batsman having been unwise enough to listen to a remark of the other umpire, who expressed an opinion—he could, not give a decision— that a catch had been made—left his ground and was run out. Iu this case the decision rested with the umpire at square-leg. A good many captains, both amateur and professional, would consider that it was unsportsmanlike to allow a man to go out under such circumstances, and a good many wicket-keepers would not put the wicket down. But there have been instances in first-class cricket where a man, having left his ground under a mistaken idea that he is out, has not been asked to return—there is no necessity to mention instances. In the third case it is not usual for a captain to take his men off the ground because one of the bats­ men objects to a decision. A n appeal by Messrs. Duke and Sou from a decision of Baron Pollock, who had ordered them to give certain par­ ticulars to Messrs. Wisden and Co., the defendants in an action regarding cricket balls, has been allowed by the Court of Appeal. T h e r e is a very interesting portrait of Mr. A. C. MacLaren in this month’s Windsor Magazine. The famous Lanca­ shire amateur, who was not at Oxford University, is represented as boldly wear­ ing a Harlequin cap, and although one is surprised at his cheek, he does not look at all shamefaced. He seems to have altered a good deal in appearance during the last few weeks ; indeed, the portrait bears such an exact likeness to that of Mr. V. T. Hill, who was photographed a few years ago in a Harlequin cap, that one wonders whether a mistake has not been made.