Cricket 1901

A u g 1, 19 01. CRICKET : A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. 313 give a man out 1. b. w. to a left-hand bowler round the wicket. Had this remark been addressed to you, what would you have sa id ?” W e should probably have said nothing, unless we had been away on a holiday and felt in the humour to demonstrate the absurdity of the remark. Under ordinary circum­ stances it would be mere waste of time to argue with a man who has evidently not played cricket, for he would not be con­ vinced if you drew out a diagram showing that the thing is simple in the extreme. very easily lead to trouble. Competitive cricket certainly had its points, for cricket to-day was perhaps better than it ever had been ; but he felt that the keenness with which it was played, whether for county championship or league championship, tended to rob it of the old feeling that it was being played simply for the love of victory. The only suggestion he could make, if the game was to he preserved in its original simplicity as the national game, was the formation of an increasing number of strictly amateur clubs, playing purely and simply for the love of the game, without regard to the relative (Carlton), J. A . Campbell (Lasswade), A. S. Cairns (Leith Caledonian), and A. W . Duncan (Edinburgh University), with Drury (Grange) and Hemmingway (Lasswade). O n the Thursday the South Africans are to take on a West of Scotland team at Partick, the ground of the West of Scot­ land C.C., and their opponents will be chosen from A . L . Graham (Greenock), C. T. Manners (Drumpellier), A. N. Hunter (Clydesdale), A. Downs and J. H MR. D. t . A. JEPHSOH. From a Photo by Hawkins & CoB righton. MR. A. 0 . JOKES. From a Photo by Hawkins <Si Co., I n the course of a speech which he made in opening a bazaar in aid of a village cricket club last week, Mr. Arthur Appleby, the old Lancashire cricketer, made the follow ing remarks:— He sometimes wondered what was the tendency of amateur cricket, and what would be its future. It had become of recent years much more of a display, a tournament for people to watch, rather than a game in which they took part. The modern mania for judgment by results, hy competitive examina­ tion, as it were, robbed the game of much of its original pleasure and simplicity, and might position of their opponents, and thus restoring to cricket much of the attractiveness which it had for him forty years ago. N e x t week the South African team will be in Scotland. On Bank Holiday and the next two days they will play the East of Scotland at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, the ground of the Grange C.C., and the opposing team will be as follow s: W . J. Stevenson (Edinburgh Academicals), T. Johnstone and D. L. A. Smith (Grange), W . R . Sharp and D . K. Chalmers (Forfarshire), G. W . Jupp Paterson (UddiDgston), J. H . Miller T. O. Mathieson, and J. H . Orr (West of Scotland), W . Simpson (Greenock), and A . Burnett (Ferguslie), with Henson (Clydesdale), Hirst (Uddingston), Street (Lord Eglinton’s), and Broadley (West of Scotland). W h a t are the odds against Ranjitsinhji scoring over three thousand runs this season as he did last year and in 1899 ? A t present his total is 1,401 for 27 innings. Also, what are the odds against anyone else acomplishing the feat r