15 Haileybury possessed a really good bat in Gurney, and a very good school bowler in Jellicoe. Gurney has an average of to for seven innings, though it is probable that the bowling against him was not of a high class ; btill this is a great performance. Jellicoe is proceeding to Oxford, and, from what wc hear from good judges, is not unlikely to be a useful addition to the bowling strength ; lie is left-hand medium, with good command of the ball, and varies bis pace and length with considerable judgment; he also promises to bat very fairly. Marlborough seems to havo been quite dependent on Steel both in batting and bowling. Fortunately, lie seldom disappointed expectation in cither department, and Marlborough were successful in most of their matches, ii eluding their two school matches. Wilson is a steady bat, and was useful in keeping up his wicket ; and Lucas, Grainger, and Leach were perhaps the others who deserve mention. A valued correspondent, himself an old Marlburian and a thorough judge of the game, considers Steel to be a better cricketer than Marlborough has ever produced ; better even than was S. C. Voules at his best. In fact, the history of Marlborough cricket in 1876 was simply the history of one boy. This year, instead of having a committee to choose the eleven and arrange all cricket matters, absolute power was vested in the captain in these matters, and the change was found to work. The fielding was generally good, and Leach was very useful behind the wicket. Wilson is a fail* bowler, and as all tho best members of the eleven remain, the prospects for 1877 are encouraging. Westminster has fallen terribly in the cricket scale since tho days of C. G. Lane, II. M. Marshall, H. $u ll , and E. Bray. Fox appears to havo been the only one wTio had any claim to be called a*cricketer this year. Charterhouse were very weak in batting, and had no good b a t ; but Dobbic and Wood were such successful bowlers that they made a good fight in most of their matches. Doubtless each year will see Charterhouse cricket improve, nowr that they have gone to “ green fields and pastures new'.*’ Uppingham were not as strong as they have been the last few years, as the places of such as Patterson, Lucas, Steele, <fec., cannot be adequately filled year by year. Besides, they laboured under the disadvantage of losing their own perfect ground, and tho opponents they met in their Welsh home were not of a high calibre; considering these d is­ advantages they had a good team. Haro, Maul, Ackroyd, were very fair bats, and the remainder were pretty even all through. Ackroyd and J. B. Maul were good bowlers, especially the former, of whom wo expect to hear more hereafter. Ford appears to have been the useful man in the Repton team, and did most of the scoring and the bowling. Having thus somewThat briefly summarised the cricket of the \arious schools, wre should wish to make a few general remarks. We put Forbes of Eton as head batsman; then Steel ; following them arc Hirst of Bugby, Fowler and Greene of Clifton, Gurney of llaileybury, and Taylor of Cheltenham. The general bowling was net good, though Steel is a promis­ ing slow bowler, with some command of the ball, and possessing good judgment. Ackroyd and Jellicoe are good, though tho former has hardly come up to the expectation we formed of him last year. These, with Evans and Haynes of Clifton and Cunlitfe of Rugby, were the best. Dobbie has been very successful at Charterhouse. During the vacation he performed tho astonishing feat of bowling 8 overs for no runs and 7 wicKets; also obtaining 7 wickets the second innings, no less than 11 out of the 11 being clean bowled. Tho general bowling at schools is not as good as it w^as, and we look in vain for a Francis, a Tubb, a Brice, a Lang, or a Bucklaad. Our own belief is that many promising young bowlers are annually spoilt by inju-