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There are some names of places text-book for the instruction of no less than of man-which never those interested in the generally fail to communicate a thrill to the recognized variation of athletic sports, track and deld. His direc cricket lover when he meets them tions are full and lucid. The only unexpectedly in print. Among defect that suggests itself to the them are those of Hambledon and reviewer is one of arrangements Broadhalfpenny Down, in Hamp He is writing for athletes and is justified in assuming their familiar shire, which transport one back to ity with the elements of the subject the heroic age of village cricket -but with the result that he seems when the Hambledon men used to to have omitted his first chapterplay All England" and "fael What is running? Is it a pushing
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What moves one to write of Hambledon is the announcement that Broadhalfpenny Down, where the club first pitched its wickets has just found a new owner. It has been bought by Winchester College, and the shades of the old players will, I think, rejoice when the school eleven goes over to play Hambledon next July to celebrate the occasion.
LAWN TENNIS.
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A tentative programme and schedule of lawn tennis matches to be participated in by the teams of Oxford and Cambridge Univer sites of England during their visit to the United States this summer, has been arranged. The thief engagement will be the annual match against a combined team representing Harvard and Yale Universities. Yale and Harvard teams have won three of the four matches played to date. of arrangements for the English Mr. Prentice, who is in charge
team, announces that, in addition to the Yale-Harvard match, the Oxford-Cambridge team will meet Columbia University, Princeton University, Williams College, and probably McGill University of Canada.
matches against the Seabright In addition, there will be tearn Lawn Tennis and Cricket Club, and the Rockaway Hunt Club. In this latter contest a new trophy. will be at stake, known as the Prince of Wales's Cup, which has. been presented by Mr. Jay Howes Burtoni
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It is a chastening experience for enthusiasts of Old Trafford and Bramall Inne and Treat Bridge to be reminded that while The English team will also com- their forefathers were still sunk pete as individuals in the inter- in barbarous sports, the yokels Collegiate Championships at the of this remote little, Hampshire Merion Cricket Club beginning ◆HOHOH+H+H+H+H&He Wllage still miles away from any June 22, in the Invitation Tourna where--were not only playing realments at Newport, Seabright, and cricket but helping to make its very Southampton, and possibly in the rules. Take that addition of the United third stump, for example! What Association men's national singles States Lawn Tennis
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Athletics. By F. A. M. Webstor. Illustrated by W. A. Close, 72 5%, 124 pp. Allen and Unwin
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PENANG BISLEY.
The following are the results of the various events:
Inter-Company Snapshooting. Won by P.W.VI. Team consist ing of Sgt. W. A. Corkill, L/C. W Flint, Pte. B. J. Cramer, Pte. F. R. Mason:
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sertion? Why, the fact that during
a single-wicket match between five of Hambledon and five of England, in 177. John Small, golog in last for Hambledon, when 14 runs were wanted, got them though Lumpy, of Surrey, three times sont the ball
between the two stumps. This as I say, clinched a long argument as well it might,
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Broad Halfpenoy' Down, Ham- Does the name of John bledoa (Hants), the birthplace of Small mean much to this genera-modern cricket, has been acquired tion? He was a very Barlow by Winchester College. to get out.. He once
Hambledon Club, fn 1774, was kept up his wicket for three whole the first to draw up a set of rules days in a match between Hamble for cricket, and Broad Halfpenny don and Englanda feat for which Down was for long the favourite Wisden himself would scarce find cricket ground for Hampshire, a parallel and it was recorded of Surrey and Sussex, match at Bishops, bourne in 1772 1. "Lampy had the, honour of bow
TUNG SANG 2 Ft. F. B. Mason P.WVT. 23 ling out Small-which had not been England in 1773. England's side
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40 2.-Pte. R. Royd “A” Co. ... 84 Thirty-two Competitors took part...
Snap Shooting, 1-L/C. W. Flint, P.W.V.I... 2CQ.M.S. Lím Ah Liat,
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done for some years." -
The first fully recorded game was that between Hambledon and
included the Duke of Dorset. Hambledon team on the ground on Winchester College will play a
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It was this same "John Small who changed the old curved bat suited better his favourite stroke for a straight one, because it
the draw-and It" is record- od of his wife, who wasTM as keen a cricketer as, the mother of the Graces, that her conviction was that unless she and her enorm
sasys: The ous grean umbrella were present
Volon are to be congratulated on their new Q1) Broadhalfpenny Down, the Rugby Home, and I was astonish Hambledon men were bound toed at the easy way the huge crowd 5 lose. Run, man, rua; you'll be out," she used to cry to her husband, brandishing the mighty gamp. John played cricket till he was over 70 and sang in the choir, till he was 75. and his contem poraries proudly claimed for him that "he found out cricket". 'Twas a feat beyond Columbui.""
And Small was only one hero out of a score. What of Tom Walker? Old Everlasting they called him. He was the stone waller of his day., "Lord Frederick 280 Beauclerk, weary of bowling to .218 Tom, once. dashed his tall hat to .217 the ground and apostrophised him 215 as "a confopaded old beast." "I
Lewis Gun Competition. 1-Butterworth Platoon 76 2.-"D" Co. No. 18 Platoon... 53
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6.-"D" Co. No. 15 Platoon.. 29 Winning Team - Sgt. W. A. Corkill, L/C. W. Flint and Pte. F. R. Mason.
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Inter-Co. Attack Competition. 1. "D" Co. (Chinese) 2-"B" Co. No, 1 Team [3.-P.W.V.I.
4.-"B" Co. No. 3 Team. 5"A" Co. No 1 Team,
6"B" Co. No. 2 Team.. .204 doan't care what 'ao zaye," said
RING STORMED
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Tom. There were no indiarubber batting gloves, and no cane pads
was managed at the recent Inter- national, in spite of this being the first time the ground was open to the public. Some of the tactics English forwards were not in the adopted by one or two of the best spirit of sport; and a famous International; said to me, that the cleanest game now played in England is hockey-because it is played without the aid of Caps and Leagues for the sheer joy of the game.
AUSTRALIAN PRODIGY.
GIRL DOES HAT TRICK.
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Winning Team.-2/Lt. Chang LOCACIACIOITICIC000000 | Po-jung, C.Q.M.S. Lim Ah-liat, in those days, so Tom's knuckles
Sgt. Ooi Choo-taik, Sgt. Ung them in the dust and played on to put up the best bowling per
ware often battered. He rubbed It remained for a girl cricketer. Guan-hoe, Sgt. Tan Hong-phoe, He rarely bled. He had neitherformance of the season. In the Cpl. Ewe Kung-lim, Cpl. Ooi Phee flesh, nor blood, nor skin wrote semi-final of the, Women's Cricket suck and Pte. Quah Cheow-cheang. the Rev. John Mitford. The most Association Competition (Mel
that Harris, the Spofforth of the day, bourne), St. Peter's Girls' Club; could do was.to "riod" him occa-after disposing of Preston Women's sionally with one of his fastest Club, the leaders in the competi- which rose chest perpendiculation, for $1, made, 90 and then. from the pitch skittied the Prestonites for a total Is there anything. I ask, more of two runs. A lady named Elolos heroic in the annals of cricket than took five wickets for 0, including the story of Harris bowling his the hat-trick, fastest in spite of gouty tortures which made it difficult for him to stand. A great armchair,”, say the chronicles, was always pught into the field, and after, the delivery of the ball the hero sat down in his own calm and simple grandons and reposed We have not these superb gesture, hitmakers Dow..
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Broad halfpenny Down was two miles from Hambledon, and so it is not surprising to find that after club abandoned the
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