M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-10-15
Gait ana 8amor.
The Gnme Of Cricket.

Doesticks contides TO the Knicker
booker his impressions OF Cricke
match. We extract'the following:
Cricket!-well, hereafter when
want synonyme for all that is intol
erably dull and stupid, shall say
Cricket When want to express 9
grand climax of spiritless detection,
shall remark, Cricket When | de-
sire to say of some man against whom
/ have mortal spite, that he is grim.
visaged, iaundiced, melanchOlic, dis
NAL and fiat, shall simply call him
q cricketer, and then | shall dodge
And if any man accuses me in like
manner, | shall take out warrant for
defamation OF character, and sue him
for maliciously damaging my char.
acter to o huge extent.
went 10 Hoboken with D., who,
although an American is a cricketer.
He told me | would see great sport.
Got to the ground, bestowed myself
undera tree, while D. went to the
Club House to attire himself. Pres
emily he appeared again, dressed in
white flannel from head to foot. lie
had a jockey cap on his head, and
buckskin slippers on his feet. Just
before the game commenced he tied a
bed quilt on each leg, and put on
some leather gloves. Then the peo.
pie took their places; the lnen who
were not bowling all took the same
position, with their hands on their
knees, and their chins elevated to an
anglo of forty.fve degrees. Then
the umpire called out, 'play;' then
the bowler, disheartened looking
man, took up the ball, which was as
hard as a brick, and threw it with all
his might at a lugubrious individual,
with two.hahded pudding stick in
his grasp, who stood in front of some
little sticks which were stuck in the
ground like an unfinished hen coop
There were two melancholy bowlers,
two dropping batsman, and two unfin
ished hen-coops. When the detected
man saw the ball coming, he made u
poke at it with his pudding stick, but
didn't hit it; then he sadly rested
from his labors, while a number oi
doleful men on the other side YEARLY
sought for the ball. Then the other
bowler, with a sad couDtenance threw
the ball at the other gloomy batsman,
who made another dispirited poke at
it with his pudding stick; this time be
hit it; then he ran towards the other
hen coop, while the man at that end
ran to his hen.coop. Then the mark
er put down one mark for his side;
then they all rested in responding ST.
lence for five minutes, during which
time every body religiously kept
mournfully silent; expected to hear
some one begin an exortation, or COM
mencc reading the burial service, OF
some inspiriting thing Of that kind
but no one volunteered any amuse-
ment, and pretty soon the downcast
players resumed the mysteries ofcrlck-
ct. There was more throwing at the
hen.coops, and pretty soon one was
knocked down. Then the batsman,
who ought to have stood before it and
stopped the ball, with the bed quilts
on his legs, was declared 70 be ont
Then lie retired discounted, while the
rest of his eleven set up a dismal
groan. Then D. went in and
took the pudding stick. Then the
grave man threw the ball at D. D.
poked at it manfully; then he ran for
the other hen.coop. The bed quilts
on DIS legs interfered with his speed,
and he didn't get along very fast; so
the man pensively took the ball and
knocked down DPS hen coop; then D.
was out. They persevered in this
jocularity, until sunset, at which time
this funeral state of things came to
an end. Then the eleven, whose pud-
ding stick men had made the most
journeys between the hen coops, were
declared to be the winner; then they
united the bed quilts from their legs,
took off their fannels and went home.
This is all there is of the game of
cricket. 1t may be a very brisk
amusement for some men, but would
as soon think Of taking a pleasure
ride in hearSe, or going to a dozen
pedestrian funerals for a days pleas
ure, as of participating in the gloomy
ceremonies Of cricket for the same
lenOfh of f;noa