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So hot was the weather during the match between Yictoria and New South Wales that many of the members of the Melbourne C.C. took off their coats and vests in the pavilion. Moreover the players imported cabbages in large quan­ tities in order to protect their heads, and the dressing room is said to have looked like the vegetable market at Covent Garden. T h e bowling of Noble and McLeod is thus described by Ranjitsinhji in the Australian Review o f Reviews :— “ There is something very peculiar about the flight of the ball in the air when Noble is bowling. He seems to make it curl occasion­ ally from the ‘ off ’ to the ‘ on,’ and now and then from the ‘ o n ’ to the ‘ off.” Noble, however, was bowling against the wind the greater part of the time he was on, and I have but little doubt this had a great deal to do with making him difficult to play. There can he no doubt, however, that he bowled with excellent skill, and varied his pace well, whilst keeping an admirable length and now and then making the ball come back a good deal. “ McLeod always kept an admirable length, changed his pitch and pace with excellent judgment, and was always deceptive in his flight. The off-break, which he in all proba­ bility has on a damaged wicket, could not he brought off on the perfect wicket that we played on, but still he made the ball come off the pitch occasionally very quickly, and although he obtained only three wickets, he might have, with the luck that he deserved, easily captured five wickets.” An interesting comparison to the above is the comment of “ Felix ” in the Australasian on the bowling of Richardson:— “ I fancy Richardson is putting on flesh a bit this trip, in spite of his passion for long walks, and is not quite as fit as on his first visit. I never saw him bowl so erratically as in the second innings of the Australians at Sydney—wides, no halls, head balls, and then a succession of maiden overs, that kept the batsman harl on .the defence all the while. Charlie McLeod got two of the head halls, one the now historic no-ball that pitched on top of his wicket, while the other would have pitched on his ear had he not ducked. Jack Lyons got one on the chest—that needed a plaster later on—-and bad he stepped away from it it would have gone very close to the wicket, and the bowler, I fancy, appealed for l.b.w. One of his wides was a most awful wide—quite ten feet off the wicket.” A w e e k before the first match against Australia, Trott, when asked by a repre­ sentative of the Sydney Mail what he thought were the chances of Englishmen and Australians in the five matches, replied: “ Six to four on the Englishmen when playing on the Sydney ground, and the reverse when playing at Melbourne and Adelaide.” J. J. F e r r is made his re-appearance in the N ew South Wales team which was beaten by Yictoria. He made 11 runs in the two innings and took two wickets for 83; but he was very unfortunate in having catches missed off him. He had not bowled in an inter-colonial match since 1890. In an interesting biography of Colonel Pennycuick, C.S.I., the Nilgiri News tells the following story :— “ Many years ago, when considerably less able to choose his own paths than latterly, in the way of what time he did his work, the Colonel was playing out of the district he was stationed in, and might possibly have got into_ a scrape for being absent without leave, for in addition to making a big score (which N E X T ISSUE , T H U R S D A Y , M ARCH 31.