Canadian Cricket Field Volume 1 1882

118 THE 9A12ADI12 GItIKET FIELD. cricket this year, and the scores made by those composing THE CANADIAN ELEVEN. the team have not been vesy long, if we except J. B The following aro chosen to fill the places vacated by the THAyER and W. C. MORG&N, who have both obtaimed cen- refusals of Messrs. Browning, Stratford, Wright and Gillean: tîries, besides other large scores. Doubtless, however, they H. HAMILTON (Montreal).-Excopt Badgley, perhaps the arc all practising liard now, and will be in, good shape wiei best all-round man in Montreal; a successful bat, very eau- the time cones. We hope the saine can be said of our tious and not over-graceful in his play. His defense is good. nen. In conclusion, we have a few words to say to the Is without a rival in Canada at keeping wickets without a latter: Go to bed early and don't funk the bowling, wvhich long.stop. is little if any better than you have been accustomed to. LocKwooD (Branpton).-Is understood to b an excellent If this is donc a victory may be recorded for Canada. all-round man, but as his first appearance only occurred a few veeks ago, a good opportunity of judging could not be obtaned. EDITORIAL NOTES. HI. D. HELM1CKEN (Toronto).-Bowls rather fast with a Hamilton showed Toronto again that they have a claim to peculiar curvo and lots of break. He sometimes sende down superit rity as a club. Toronto lias a strong batting team when an unplayable bail, but his great fault je that ho bowle more it is played, but is weak in bowling, and has depended all this bad than gocd ones. He je as good a long-stop as coula ho Beseon on outbatting the weakness of its bowling. Saturday's got, and a sure althougli not over brihiant field. He hita defeat may bo attributed to tO fact that a good nany menell wien well set, but lias no defense against good bowling. were not there, who, from the fact that they have played ail M. Boy> (Brantford), late of Cheltenha College.1 A pretty season and practiced well, should have entitled thema to a place on the team beforo those who, went and had not. lengtli. * E. R. OGDE'z <Cicago.-Thie yeungeet mani on the teami. A lu or eluttor ba Ma*w* prmisd tat ho ast two, tip-top bowvler with variable paco; a good field anlywbore; eau In our salutatory last May*wec promised that the las two issues of this paper in September should play the part , f an kccp wickots, and, as tît AraricanCricUer Baya, "as good a annual. To be candid we promised too much, for it would bc left-liandor at tho bat as we know." imupossible to collect tho information necessary for such a work beforo tho ebd of Ocber, and tae volume of the adatter tould CRICKET, AND a0oW TO EXCEL IN IT. overrun our colimne. Jlowgver, tha annual will ho pubnisoved, br n fl w. i. HRAeS. but net tu the twentith of December, and thon in book fohan. no defense ai spncial gcomiso n) An advertiscmf ft on another page explainwthe nature of toe production. . O APTEE ( VI.--TeVS.ontinued. t1110 ip-top bow wit vaiale pae; a good fl a ca * X Says the Amnerican Cricketer : " The question of domicile need not interfere very much-this year, because if Ogden was chosen for the United States team it would have to be from the Chicago cricket club ; but this club is not now a member of the Cricketers' Association of th- United States ; hence, our friends across the border need net let that censideration inter- fore with his being played for Canada. His addition to the team would, we think, make it stronger in an :-nportant de- partment-bowling-and lie is as good a left-hander at the bat às we know." The association committec may now set their minds at rest regarding this important point. Mr. C. J. Logan and Mr. Peter Perry have n.ade themselves more popular, if possible, among the boys of Trinity School, and in fact of Ontario, by devoting their time to the produc- tion of part of the fifth book of the ,Eneid, designed parti- cularly te make the study of Virgil casier and more quickly acquired. The work is most complete, and combines in itself as well as the text, all the adjuncts usually necessary te master an author. eV are pleased te hear of such industry among cricketers as will bring thom into greater repute than before, and trust heartily that this publication will meet with se much encouragement that the authors will not stop where they have juet left off. .[ndirectly they have benefited cricket, in so much as, from the conciseness of the work, students will master their subject in les time than with any other treatise on the saie subject, and so will have more spare time to devote to pastiunes of their own selection. It is net likely, however, that such an idea 'w in their minds whexi they xxndertook the work. Thle fifthl law% is sometimles mnSun erstoo . or ns ance, n a single-vicket match it once happened that the ball -was bit in front of and round the boundary stump, and the fieldsman threw in the ball direct to the wicket. The batsman, seeing this, kept on running, and one of the fieldsmen put down the wicket, but the man was net out. The law requires the ball te be returned in front of the bound stump, and se the batsman went on running and running until the ball was thrown back and properly returned. The sixth la'w again requires careful reading. If in double- vicket a man is run out, the run he is making is not scored; but if in single-wicket lie is trying a run and has got down t the bowling stump and turned to go back before the ball crosses the play, and the wicket is put down, the run is scored. The reason of the smaller number of runs allowed by the seventh rule for a lost ball in single-wicket matches, is that, if there are only one or two fieldsmen, the chances of a ball being lest in the long grass about the outskirts of the field are much greater than where there are more paire of eyes to follow and look after. The eiglith law was freqliently taken advantage of in olden times when single-wicket matches were so common. Two good men we often find challenging five or more moderate players, and at first sighît this seems great odds; but we should remem., ber that the two men hiad almost the best of it, for whereas the five or more, when batting, were only allowed te run for bita in front of the wicket, and could net count byes or overthrows, the side with the few men could run for everything, and woro net bothered by any boundaries. The ninth law says that the bowler is bound by the same laws as in double-wicket, and this 'applies in every case-the distance between the stumps is-the same, the bow.ing crease ia the samo lengtb, and so on. The code ends with a low direçted against the waste of tiue which is uigortunately so characteistic of certai.n. Membr of