John and James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Companion 1882

4 .° , felt. B ast and in him school possessed. » t \ rd now at Oxford, was a good left-hand medium-pace bowler, i and W hitehead was comprised nearly all the bow l ing the The best bat was W hitehead , who hi t hard and wi th was hardly satisfactorily tilled, E ton wrei 46 ah inferior eleven in All points except, m tlm . of keeping, as in N ewton they had a wicket-keeper up to Uuiveisity h u m . P aravicini has great merits in his all-round play, hut considering tnat he had been four years in the eleven his hatting had not progressed so much as might have been expected. The virtues required for a captain are many and of a difficult nature, and it is no dispaiagemont to P aravicini to say that those he did possess he acquired by expeiience, for by nature he was not fitted for the post; and it may confidently bo expected that he will improve as a cricketer when the responsible post of captain is shifted from otf his shoulders, lie is a good howler—perhaps the best hoy bowler of the year—and a quick field, which latter capability attached itself to but few of the rest of the eleven. L ucas promises very well as a ba t ; a little more suppleness in motion and power ot breathing after running a fourer would be of material assistance to him. R ichards is also a promising all-round player, likely to suffer more from over-confidence than timidity. B ainbridge played well against H arrow , hut was not to be relied on for runs. R awson was a steady bat but weak. Excepting P aravicini , the bowling was rather inferior. In the future, R ichards will be to the front in this department, and L ascelles bowled fairly against H arrow . There was in general a want of life in the eleven, but its weakness consisted in the want of material, which is not to be found in any school continuously, and this year was chiefly absent in the older members, as L ucas and R ichards of the younger frame well for the future, as does Hu<. essen , if his flourish would vanish and make him less apt to play late. W estminster labours under the disadvantages of the day-boy system, and wherever this is the case great difficulty is experienced in getting up any esprit de corps. They were greatly overmatched by C harterhouse , and altogether were not hy any means a good eleven. D ale was perhaps the best bat in the team, and W etton the best bowler. This school does not by any means turn out the good men it used to ; no M arshall , B alfour , or B ray will, it is feared, be produced out of this year’s eleven! C lifton succeeded in beating S herborne , who were deprived of their captain, chiefly owing to an innings of 61 played by B rain . They were not strong in bowling, but excelled in fielding, and R ichardson , in addition to being a fair bat, was a good wicket-keeper. C lifton has pioduced many good players,—good in so far that they succeed in getting mto Oxford Elevens,—but their representatives as a rule do not attain to a Jug'll level ot talent. The Oxford Elevens in whose ranks they have been so fortunate in securing places have not been, as a rule, very strong ; L. 1 \ S. T ylecote . anion v batsmen. * iLWKiis, They possess at C lifton one of the best grounds in England,