Cricket 1901

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Thus, the table of “ figures of merit ” on page 6 refers to 1900, not 1890, and I should like to add that the epithet iniquitous, in the first article, was a stronger one than I should have chosen to use. I had written inequitom, as an adjectival variant of inequity, meaning “ scarcely fa ir ” rather than “ positively wicked.” The redundant s’s in subtraction I need hardly say were similary evolved in the comping room, by that imp of mischief, with keener senses of euphony and orthography than our own, who delights in inflicting such tortures, strive we never so legibly to conciliate him. S;ill his sallies, common to every printing office, are us rally attributed to the right quarier, and we forgive him on account of the oppor­ tunities he sometime j overlooks. A fact that may not have been made sufficiently clear, in the same articles, is that the bestowal of points simply as ■wins per loss does, and invariably must, place competing counties in precisely the same order that they acquire by the complicated •percentage in finished games method of reckoning. Mr. Denison’s scheme is apparently dead and done with, as anticipated, or I might have submitted a few additional words to my resume. But the tenor of what was written shows that, though like the estimable “ Old Harrovian,” disclaiming infallibility of judgment, I regarded it as an ineffective alteration, not touching the real failing of the com ­ petition at all. Unequal cards to wit. Here ends my howl in the wilderness. Whether it will reverbrate sufficiently to bring down any water remains to be seen. At any rate I have tried to put the issues honestly, logically and modestly before the powers that be ; and the echo, com iog from without their circle, might now claim a dispassionate hearing as in­ volving no suspicion of personal or other ulterior motives among the senators dis­ cussing it. Onlookers are often supposed to see most of the game, and there is a good deal of loose wisdom littered even around the terrace steps, as well as over the council table in the pavilion. Whilst I am writing, and the air re­ mains so thickly charged with reforms, I may be permitted to ventilate another notion or two on current topics. Whether ultra vires or intra, in a particular con­ nection, I am pleased to find the County Captains taking such an energetic part in the councils of cricket. As active participants through every phase of the saason, representing every branch of the game and the interests of all concerned, and, b y their selection, naturally as well endowed mentally as physically, they seem to me to constitute an ideal jury for dealing with the current needs of the first class cricket world. But, though I should like to see their vires established, as a permanent Committee for recommending alterations, I hope that the task of carry­ ing them into effective legislation will always remain in the hands of the M.C.C. And more power to the elbows of both ! In the matter of unfair bow ling most critics seem to concur that the first step taken should be to define a fair ball in the laws, and to lament that such a definition is unfeasible. But, surely, every critic who can distinguish between fair and unfair deliveries in the act, should be able to recognise what did or did not constitute the difference in a description. If, then, the court which has pronounced that certain players exceed the legal limits, had a definition tendered for con­ sideration, it should be capable, by deciding upon each of its terms in succes­ sion, of eventually arriving at an authora- tive statement on the point. To rush in where angels fear to tread, I would suggest the follow ing as a comprehensive text to start u p on : “ T h e ba ll, to be bow led , m ust be delivered b y a u n iform sw in g o f the arm ; that is w ith ­ out a n y visible flexion betw een th e sh ou lder and w rist, fro m the b e g in n in g o f the action to th e release o f the ball, and w ithout retra ct­ in g th e hand at th e m om ent o f deliv ery. “ E v ery ball in an over m ust be b ow led ;