Cricket 1899

252 C R IC K E T : A W E E K L Y R E C O R D O F T H E G A M E . J u l y 6, 1899. Two Important Books Just Published by WARD, LOCK & Co. AT ALL BOOKSELLERS AND LIBRARIES. A MOST REMARKABLE NOVEL. Willow, the King. 6s. The Publishers anticipate that this story will attain the success of the season. It does for the cricket field what the novels o f W hyte Melville, Hawley Smart, and Surtees have done for hunting field and racecourse. PU B U S H E D T O -D A Y . Willow, theKing. 6s. By J. C. SNAITH. Author of “ Mistress Dorothy Marvin,” “ Fierceheart the Soldier,” &c. C b o w n 8vo., C lo t h G i l t , 6 s . Illustrated by LUCIEN DAVIES, R.I. The Daily Telegraph says : — “ A novel which cricketers are certain to hail ^ith enthusiasm, iv.r. Snaith’s.description of the fortunes of the day is one of the most humorous accounts of a cricket match that we have read. There are few who will not laugh over the narrative. The story is capital, and no cricketer who wants a hearty laugh will be disappointed in perusing it.” Willow, theKing. 6s. “ M r. Snaith has written the best cricket novel I have ever read. The heroire is drawn with amazing vigour and vividness. Her wit, her volleying repartee, her humour, are almost incredibly brilliant.” — The Star. “ The book will be an unalloyed delight. The author keeps up his narrative with unflaggitg zest. In short, Mr. Snaith has succeeded in the task he set himself—to glorify cricket through fiction—and has produced a book which will delight all, and which makes the ordinary writing about the game sound wofully common.” — Sheffitld Independent. Willow, theKing. 6s. “ Vividly realistic and thoroughly calculate d to set the eyes and heart of the cricketer who reads it aglow. It has above all that life and raciness, lacking which even the best novel is doomed to be flung aside. It is carefully told and brimful of strikirg character.” — Dundee Courier. N E W C H E A P IS SU E . (Making the Third Edition.) WITHBATANDBALL, Or Twenty-five Years’ Reminiscences of Australian and Anglo-Australian Cricket. W ITH H IN TS TO YOUNG C E K K E 7E E 8 ON B A T1IK G , BOW LING AN I) FIELDING. By GEORGE GIFFEN. W ith 60 Portraits, beautifully printed on A it Paper. Crown 8vo., wrapper, I s . Cloth Gilt, 2 s . “ There is not a dull page from first to last. Irdeed Mr. Giffen is to be congratulated upon having given us a book on Cricket which is worthy to rank betide any that have yet dealt with the gam e.” — 8t. James's Gazette. 44A notable addition to the literature of spoit.” — Daily Telegraph . 4' A book which we may say we like immensely, acd which we unhetitatingly recommend to our readers . . . . it is honestly worth a good deal more than the figure at which it is offered—the illustrations alone are well worth the money.” — Athletic Nttvs. WARD , LOCK & Co ., Ltd ., SALISBURY SQUARE, LONDON, E.C. New Pal ce Steamers,Limited. 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Darling has won the toss eight times and lost it nine times. I f ever a batsman has conclusively shown that he is the man for a crisis it is Hayward. There used to be a theory that Hayward was essentially a good- wicket plajer, and that he made his runs when everything was goin g well with his side. But he has lately had uuch a trial as can hardly have fallen to the lot o f any other batsman in the course of the history of the game. In the first England v. Australia match, at Nottingham, he had to go in when England was fighting for existence in the second innings. Four wickets were down for 14 runs, and about two hours and three-quarters remained for play. Hayward kept in until a draw was nearly a certainty. In the second match, at L ord’s, with his side in a hopeless position, he played so splendidly in partnership with MacLaren that when he was out at last a draw seemed quite possible. Again, in the third match, at Leeds, he had to bat under circumstances which were almost more disheartening than the others, and again he triumphed. I n addition to Hayward there are several other men who have established their reputation— if they have not done so before— for keeping their heads in a crisis. They are Worrall, H ill, Trumble, Kelly, Trumper, Laver, Brown, W . G. Quaife, Fry, and Lilley. Anyone who knows the thoroughness of the Australians will guess, without much likelihood of being wrong, that since the match at Leeds they have studied the question from every possible point of view of getting rid of W . G. Quaife in future matches. But how many famous English bowlers have puzzled over the various ways in which they could dispose o f Alec Banner- man, only to find that he had done a little thinking on his own p a r t! M any cricketers to whom “ La Mar­ guerite ” is an institution, w ill be glad to hear that she has just come out o f a serious accident—her paddle collided with some wreckage—with the greatest credit to herself and her officers.