New-York tribune., 1921-09-11
"Oh, well bowled, STRIP

"Oh, well bouvled, sir!'
first rate, all round men, nt for any COMPANY
There are scores Of lesser lights"
Stumps were drawn at half-past 6. Fol.
lowed leisurely packing in preparation for til,
subway journey. Some of the players and
their women folks departed in AUTOMOBILES,
which also carried the heavy dunnage that
goes with cricket Suddenly chorused voices
rose In song-fne voices, too. The man was
talking with took his hat of. He said they
were singing the American national an.
them. Some Of the vocalists must have been
recent arrivals. This is how they sang it:
my country 'tia Of thee,
iSa0eet land of lSb-eytee,
God suve our king.
Send him aac-to-rious,
Happy and glorious,
Long TOGO reign o-ver as,
Le-et freedom, ring"
Cricket historians assert that the game de-
veloped from a two-handed baiI-tossing exer-
else practiced by monks in ancient times. Ina
1914, entitled Romance of the Good King
Alexander" there appears what is declared
to be the first pictorial representation of a
cricket game, with tielders in addition to the
batsmen and bowler, all figures in the illusus
tion being those Of monks wearing cowls and
gowns. Cricket, say baseball enthusiasts who
have interested themselves sufficiently to study
its origin, is not game at all, but religion
They point to its nonastic beginnings in just
tication of this statement.
Kipling's denunciation Of "FlanneIed fools
at the wicket and muddied OATS at the goal
a protest against easy-going British philoso
phies that permitted national interest to re
main centered III cricket and football scores
While the country faced a crisis which evensu-
ated in the World War, was merely case Of
history repeating itself, SO far as cricket was
concerned.
King Edward III in 1866 denounced the
game as "Ludos in honestus ct minus utiles aut
valentes," asserting that it interfered with the
practice of archery, England then. as always
needing soldiers who knew how to shoot
Under statutes adopted in the reign of King
Edward ~ cricket was again characterized
as "one of those games which still continue 10
be SO detrimental to the practice of archery"
by the terms of the statute any one permitting
the game to be played on his premises was
liable to three years Imprisonment and fine
OF s2O and any player to two years imprson-
ment and fine of e10, the ''implements to b.
contiscated
AS the game is played to-day wckets are
Ia 5ol
other, twenty-five yards apart the bowling
creases being marked with whitewash on the
turf, eight feet eight incheg in length Cap
talns OF the sides toss for innings, and the
winner generally sends his own side in first.
'Wo batsnen with plenty OF defensive ability
are hrst put III, the best run getters following
IN order. weaker batters going in last. As
there are always two batsmen, when ten Of
the side have been put out, one cf the final
batting team is mot out" That is to say he
Is out because there are no longer other bats
men to support him. This survivor is there
fore said to 'carry his bat"
Often q skillful batsman lasts out the en-
tire side, defying the efforts of the bowlers
to dispiace him and being supported in turn
by his entire eleven until the last man i
who carries his bat, walks off amid modulste
plaudts of a cricket gallery
There are nine ways batter may be put
out. He may be "bowled," as when the
bowler knocks over his wicket with bowlea
ball; caught" if the ball is held by any mem
Der OF the opposing team after it has left ns
bat; 'stumped," if the bowler knocks ms
balls Off while he has neither foot nor pss
inside the crease; 'lbw," meaning leg beio,s
wicket, when he is struck by bowled Da'.
which but for interference would have pu'
him out; run OUT as when the bowler up
his balls before he reaches the crease dus'ns
run making.
The batter is also out if he hits the ps,'
more than once, touches it with his nsns ~
hits his wicket with the bat, knocking on -
own balls, or obstructs the field. 50, am n
all's said and done, perhaps the reader 3.
agree that there really is something -
cricket.