Cricket 1903

464 CRICKET: A WEEKLY RECORD OF THE GAME. Nov. 26, 1903. W . Rhodes: “ Not yet mature, "but match­ less.” Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5. ‘ ‘ Though slow, deadly.” Cymbeline , i. 6. “ You do advance your cunning more and more.” Midsummer Night's Dream , iii. 2. A Run: “ Come, Knight; come, Knight.” Twelfth Night , ii. 3. A Run?: “ No, no; O Lord, sir, no.” Love's Labour Lost , i. 2. A Fast Runner : “ You are too swift, sir.” Lb ., iii. 1. “ As swift in motion as a ball.” Romeo and Juliet , ii. 5. A poor Runner : ‘ ‘ My legs can keep no pace with my desires.” Midsummer Night's Dream, iii, 2. Run Out: “ 0 Knight, 0 Knight, alack, alack, alack ! ” Lb , v. 1. “ Return he cannot, nor continue where he is.” Cymbeline , i. 6. “ I had no judgment.” Midsummer Night's Dream , iii. 2. Latest Scores : “ What news, JEneas, from the field to-day?” Triolus and Cressida , i. 1. The Score: ** What is the figure ? What is the figure?” Love's Labour Lost, v. 1. The Lazy Scorer : “ Under the cool shade of a sycamore, I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour.” Lb, v. 11. A Short Run : “ I have ’scaped by miracle.” 1 Henry LV., ii. 4. Single Wicket: “ I’ll beat him, by my life, if I can meet him. All's Well , ii. 3. Sixpence on the Stumps : “ Come on ; there is sixpence for you.” Twelfth Night, ii. 3. A Skyer : “ I go, I go ; look how I go ; Swifter than arrow from the Tartar’s bow.” Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 2. A Spectator : “ His most mighty father on a hill stood smiling,” Henry V., i. 2. Long Stand for Last Wicket: “ A good con­ clusion.” Love's Labour Lost, v. 2. Mr. H. Y. L. Stanton: “ Welcome, Wan­ derer." Midsummer Night's Bream , ii. 2. Stonewallers : “ I know, sir, we weary you.” A Winter's Tale , iv, 3. H. Strudwick: “ A snapper-up of uncon­ sidered trifles.” Lb., iv. 2. Stumped : “ You put our page out.” Love's Labour Lost, v. 2. Stumped off a Lob : “ How often have I told you ’t would be thus ! ” A Winter's Tale, iv. 3. The Thrower: “ Go with speed to some forlorn and naked hermitage, remote from all the pleasures of the world ; there stay, until the twelve celestial signs have brought about their annual reckoning.” Love's Labour Lost, v. 11. “ All the country, in a general voice, cries hate upon him. 2 Henry LV., iv. 1. Throwing at Wicket ; « < • • • and oft have shot at them, howe’er, unfortu­ nate, I miss’d my aim.” 1 Henry VL, i. 4. Rev. H. C. L. Tindall: “ I would give a thousand pound I could run as fast as thou canst.” 1 Henry LV., ii. 4. J. Tunnicliffe : “ Great men have reaching hands.” 2 Henry VL., iv. 7. The Umpire: “ I am to stand.” Love's Labour Lost, v. 2. “ I wouldnot sparemy brother.” Comedy of Errors, iv. 1. “ Out, I say ! ” Macbeth, iv. 1. Contempt of Umpire: “ L9t the law go whistle.” A Winter's Tale, iv. 3. Unfair Umpire : “ I ’ll not trust your word.” Midsummer Night's Dream, iii, 2. “ The wickedest caitiff on the ground.” Measurefor Measure, v. 1. Unreliable Umpire : “ What was I about to say ? I was about to say something. ’ ’ Hamlet, ii. 1. Umpire Contradicted : “ Not so, my lord, it is not so, I swear.” Love's Labour Lost, v. 11. Umpires : “ If they speak more or less the truth they are villains, and the sons of darkness.—1 Henry LV., ii. 4. County Umpires: “ You seem to be honest plain men.” A Winter Tale, iv. 3. Selection of Umpire : ‘ ‘ Do thou stand for me, and I ’ll play my father.” 1 Henry LV., ii. 4. Unsportsmanlike: “ I make no doubt the rest will ne’er come in, if he be out.” Love's Labour Lost, v. 2. The Veteran : “ Wishing his foot were equal with his eye.” 3 Henry VL., iii. 2. “ His eyes do show his days are almost done.” Twelfth Night, ii. 3. Voice in the Ring : “ Run, master, run ; for God’s sake.” Comedy of Errors, v. 1. A Wager : “ My hat to ahalfpenny, Pompey prove3 the best.” Loves Labour Lost, v. 2 Hora io : “ You will lose this wager, my lord.” Hamlet: “ I do not think so ; since he went into France I have been in continued practice.” Hamlet, v. 2. King: “ Cousin Hamlet, you know the wager? ” Hamlet: “ Very well, my lord; your Grace hath laid the odds o’ the weaker side.” King : “ I do not fear it.” Hamlet, v. 2. “ W. G.” : “ One that makes sport.” Love's Labour Lost, iv. 1. “ He it was that might rightly say, veni, vidi vici .” Lb. ‘ ‘ King|of shadows, ’’ Midsummer Night's Dream, iii. 2. “ I have seen thee pause, and take thy breath.” Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5. Clarence: “ He knows the game: How true he keeps the wind ! ” Gloster: “ Silence!” 3 Henry VL., iii., 2. “ Were you a gamester at five, or at seven?” Pericles, iv. 6. “ The great Alcides of the field.” 1 Henry VL., iv. 7. “ Why, what a King is this ! ” Hamlet, v. 2. W. G.’s Square-leg Trap : “ Pretty traps to catch.” Henry V., i. 2. A Wicket-keeper: “ My lord Ulysses, tell me, I beseech you, in what place of the field doth Calchas keep?” Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5. Without a Wicket-keeper: “ No care, no stop ! so senseless of expense.” Timon of Athens, ii. 2. Winded: Sit you down, father; rest you.” King Lear, iv. 6. “ I ’ll make a pause.” 3 Henry VL., iii. 2. THE CABLE RECORD. As the astonishing and rapid increase in the transmission of cablegrams from Australia giving the accounts of the recent match between the M.C.C. and New South Wales has attracted uni­ versal attention, the following comments, taken from the Daily Telegraph, may be of interest to readers of Cricket :— “ The friendly contest between the rival cables represented by the New Pacific Line and the Eastern Telegraph Company to secure first place for a message announcing the result of the great matches in Australia has proved almost as exciting as the cricket. So far the Pacific, or ‘ All-British ’ line, working in conjunction with the Anglo- American, claims the victory, with a record time of eleven minutes, for Monday’s result. This company, which is controlled by the Pacific Cable Board, subsidised by the British, Australian, and Canadian Governments, takes the eastern course from Australia by way of Norfolk Island, Fiji, Fanning Island, in the Pacific, to Vancouver, thence across Canada to Montreal, Newfoundland, and Yalentia Island to South Wales and London. The Eastern Telegraph leaves Australia by the western route by way of Cocos Island, in the Indian Ocean, Durban, Cape Town, St. Helena, arriving in England at Land’s End. In rough figures each competitor takes in a track across earth and beneath ocean of 15,000 miles, and between them in sending the results of the matches they girdled the globe. The times occupied in transmission on each day by the two competitor.) are given below:— New Pacific- Eastern Telegraph. Friday .......... 17 min. Friday ........... ly min. Saturday.......... 5 min. Saturday........... 12 lain. onday .......... 11 mia. Monday ........... 15 min. It is true that the result to which the above messages refer would be given in two or three words, but the performances of both lines represent, nevertheless, a tremendous victory of human intelligence over material obstacles, which a few years ago would have been deemedimpossible. At the intermediate stations, of which there are several in each case, the operators transmit direct from the telegraphic slip, and only at the terminal stations are the words transcribed. The latest accessories of telegraphic science, com­ bined with organisation, discipline, and skill, are, of course, the secrets to which success was due. It is ‘ simply aquestion of clearing the line,’ according to the cable expert, who tells of a still more remarkable performance achieved this year by the Eastern Telegraph Company, which sent a result of the America Cup race from London to Australia in two minutes. The ordinary private rates from Australia are 3s. per word, but to secure a preference such as the cricket results obtained the price was 9s. per word. It was at this latter rate that most of the descriptive telegrams published in London on the day of the matches were sent. A few years ago one counted himself lucky in receiving a telegram from the Antipodes under four or five hours, but the period has now been reduced to some­ thing less than one-fourth. The prospects of improvement on the present time of trans­ mission are considered even better at present than at any previous period.” ANSWERS t o COBKESPONDENTS. J. D.—We published a gilt-edged Souvenir Match Card of the Test Match played at the Oval, August, 1902. A copy can be had by sending 7d, in stamps to the Publishers of Cricket. Printed aud Published for the Proprietor by M sbbitt & H ire usa, L td ., 167,163, and 169, Upper Thames Street London, E.C., N ot . 26th, 1903.