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SPORT AND ANECDOTE.
BE AN OLD FOOEY,
SPORT IN THE VICTORIAN ERA.
The reign of that great and good monarch, Victoria, the Well-Beloved, will ever be ass VALUABLE LEABEHOLD PROPERTY, oisted with the wonderful development of the
situate in Fok.colum Road and
love and practice of sports and pastimes among Third Street, via Lot 1-ALL THAT PIECE OR PARCEL her people. In the columna of obituaries of OF GROUND sitasto at Victoria, in the the Queen now laid at rest at Frogmore the Colony of Office ne Section B mind received that recognition which is Gosse
of Hongkong, and intended to be change in this matter of sport has not to my of Inland Lot No. 797. Aron 8,930 Square ved. When the Queen came to her throse the Foot. Term D
Annual Crown massen of the people had a far from joyous Rent $26. Lot 2 ALL THAT PIECE OR PARCEL existence, for they had few rights and priviléges
OF GROUND, situate at Victoria afore. said and intended to be registered in the compared with the present day. Their toit wus Land Offon as Section of Inland Lot severe and their pleasure sunt. But now was No. 797; Arma 4,000 Square Feet. Term the day's labour is over, when the week's work 999 years. Annual Crown Rout 591,50. has been completed, the papulace in addition to Lot ALL THAT PIECE OR PARCEL cheaper and better feed, have the benefit of
OF GROUND situate at Victoria afore. said and intended to be registered in theither actively or partively enjoying all kinds of Land Offices Section D of Inlasst Lot recreation, mainly in the open air, which bright No. 707. Arou 3,900 Square Feet. Termene life by affording relief to the monotony of 199 years Annual Crown Rent 326,***** Lot 4-ALL THAT PIECE OF PARCEL znal task. The country was not wit but OF GROUND situato at Vistaria atare its sports when the queen began to rule her and and faludant to be registered in the dominions, Lat these were off of the brutal Land Ofice as Section E of Inland Lot charactor of prize-fighting and of a main with No. 707. Area 4,400 Square Feet Form gauro cooks, bet such blood-thirsty and degrading 999 years. Annual Crown Reat 880. Lot 5-ALL THAT PIECE OR PARCEL recreations, possibly useful in their day, were
OF GROUND sitaste at Victoria afore said and intended to be registered in the Land Office as Section F of Inland Lot No. 797.. Aren 4,865 Square Feet. Term 000 years. Annual Crown Rant 21 Lot ALL THAT PIECE OR PARCEL
"OF GROUND situate at Victoria afore aald and intended to be registered in the Land Office as The Remaining Portion of Inland Lot No. 797 Awa 11,970 Square Foot
Term 18 years, Annual Crown Rent 880 For further particulars and conditions of solo, apply to
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Hongkong, let February, 1901.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
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the 9th Mürül, 1901, at 2.90 r.m., at his Bale's Rooms, Duddell Street, A PRIVATE COLLECTION of SE. LECTED JAPANESE (SATSUMA, &c.) and CHINESE CURIOS.
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Some SECOND-HAND BICYCLES and some PICTURES.
slowly but surely crushed out of existence then high-minded and truly moble lady was the titulur head of the Empire. Such comparatively peaceful pursuits as cricket, football, cycling, golf, the running of foot-races, lawn tennis, and rowing have either been invented or popularised during the Victorian spoch. For this the nation can never be too thankful, as each progress in pastimes could wily have been possible in a well-governed state blessed with prosperity and enjoying in the main long periods of peace so far as the civilised powers are concerned.
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CRICKET IN 1837 AND 1900: Just let us make a brief retrospect. In 1887 [991 only 64 cricket matches of any importance were playad in England, and of these but thirteen were what we should now describe as first class THE Undersigned will well by Public Auction, There were five county conteste, quely home and home engagements between Sussex and Kent, Sussex and Notts, and the first meeting of Notts and Kent. Sussex also played All England, and the North mot the South, while the Marylebone Club took part in air important fixtures with Sussex and Oxford and Cam- bridge Universities. There were two Gentle men and Players matches up at Lord's, but neither can be included in this first-class CALON gorg for the first is now known as the "Barndoer match," or "Ward's Folly," because the profesionala had to defend four stamps a yard in height and a foot wide, while the amateurs had the usual three stumps, 2/ inches high and 8 inches wide. Even then the Players won by an innings and ten rune; hence "Ward's Folly. In the return sixteen Gentlemen met eleven Playors, and the latter triumphed again by an innings and 38: runs. In 1900-the last cricket season of the Queen's reign-there wars 166 matches in the county championship tourna¬
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The asmo atory of courtant progress could be one occasionally, The opinion of Mr. Warner told of sycling, shooting, and billiards which is much more importan than appear on the have benefited so maeli from the inventiveness surface, for it was rumoured at one time that and craftsmanship of the manufacturers of the it was mainly through his objection to Mold implements of sport, while the growth of golf that the prosent crisis came about. The view and lawn tennis is well within the momery of most of eren my younger readers. All but two does not believe Mold to be persistently unfair. of the University boat races have been rowed in and for this grain of comfort Lancashire will be the late Queen's reign, and Houloy toyal thankful. Moreover, Mr. Warner, who is a bar Regatta was established two years after her rister, writes that he captains have noted “užina accession. Moreover, during Victoris a lifetime vires." His plan to pat down what throwing exists over 20 tennis courts-I-new refer to the in cricket is to form a committes of the county indoor game, the real tennis of royal and captains, and on any bowler being reported to boots an indie game has opted to the If unfavourable to the bowler the Maryisbons ancient memory-bave been built, and this the umpires a rote of the captains shall bo takori.
colonies, for at Melbourne they have a splen. Club, the only lawmakers, shall suspend the did court, Pols among the British, has become offender for a week. If brought up is second fashionable during the Inst thirty years, while time the bowler shall be fined and suspended for forhunting, so far sa ladies are concerned, was a fortnight, and for a third offence he abail be introduced with the reign of the Quees. In 1837 (disqualified for the season. This, after all, i the inte Empress of Austris was born, and it is something like a proposal, and very different exceedingly probable that hunting among ladies from the Star Chamber methods of the young received a greater impetus from these two regal captains of the day. ladies than the world generally acknowledges. But I cannot close this brief rowiow without Captain Moiklejohn, V.C.. the officer who mentioning the great change which has come lost his right arm during the South African over the moral of the Turf during the Queen's war, is now playing golf, using a right-handed reign. There is a much higher standard of dith in his left hand. This remjua ma of the probity among the majority of riding on thus cricketers who used to play matches under the there was sixty years ago. From childhood up title of One Legged v. One Armed, for such till 1957 our Queen was frequently seen ou sneh games have been played at Walworth, Notting- courses as Epsom, Ascot and Doncaster, so that ham sad the Oral. There have also beca altogether from the point of view of cae primariateral one-oyed cricketers of great fund. EYE-SIGHT. ly interseted in our sports and pastimes the hare likewise known a one-legged cyclist, a one- Quson's reign has been the most momentous in armed kliard player, and a one-armed pigeon English history for the cultivation of rueruations, shot. There have been many one-armed fisher- healthy in themselves, has been to the advantage men-o that after all Captain Meiklejohn, of the State and has in many respects welded to. V.C., is not such a tremendous curiosity. gether the Empire and the English-speaking Our Continental seigh- people of the world. bours are now beginning to be fascinated with football.
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I was turning over the pages of an Australian soldment alone, so that it is safe to say there were pariodical the other day and was highly amused probably 220 first-class contests during the to read that Hugh Trumble, the lengthy campaign and actually thousands of other Victorian cricketer, who has visited England games probably giving equal delight to the players four times in the last decade, kad declared that and the spectators all over these islands. Time the Preis had injured cricket by giving tho was, and that in the early sixties, when Wisden's time a batsman took to make his runs. What Cricketers' Almanack consisted of 100 pages; does he mean? Does he infer that when a bats.
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FOUNDED-1710--- The Undersigned having been appointed cannot agree with him. It is the duty of the chronicler of the game to hold up to public oblo- AGENTS for the above Company, are pre- quy the man who plays for his average and wil-pared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE st fully wastes time. It may be the duty of abatsman because he likes it--but because he is fighting to block, block, block-not because he wants to or
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for Dick Lilley, Jack Brown, of England," Tom Hayward, E. Abel, Wilfred Eliodes, and Albert Trott. With all due respect to the mederne, I question if they could hays beaten those anelents. But, after all, the point is that cricket is much more universal, and has thrown
facility with which they make their scores. If so the Australians have resisted all the tempts tions of journalists. Our Colonists from "down under" can never be accused of being batsion in a hurry. They regard the making of reus the serious duty of life. How inspiriting it was to watch Noble, Derling, Trumble, Kelly and Co., during the last tour in 1898, Life
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Jack Worrall, and Victor Trumpter for an hour, The same remarkable development has been when set, were worth a week of Nools from a spectacular point of view. I cannot understand Hugh Trumble's comment whichever way I look at it.
THE BOWLING OF AKTEUR MOLD,
seen in other sports. The Queen had been on the Throne nine years before. the students at Cambridge University began to think of system- ating their football play, and 1863 had arrived
The bowling of Arthur Mold and the other botaze the code of the dribblore was drafted and condemned men has again been brought inte the Association formed. The players, under all discussion by the opinions of K. S. Ranjitsinhji rules, ware at first regarded as harmless lunatica
but now the great game of winter is with the and F. F. Warner. Rauji has declared to a Cambridge-interviewer that fold-does-not **aliddery bu2 "'—--and it is par excellence the poor man's sport, giving delight to two or three throw, and Pelham Warner asserts that in the million people every week. It was 1849 or 1869 main the Lancashire express bowls 19 fairly as before the undergraduates of Oxford and the anybody in England--but that he chucks"
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