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and with a twist of his snake-like wrists he defects the ball to the houndry in marvellous style. "Tis a most dangerous stroke for the novico, or for anybody without his eye and wrist powers, bat Ranji Is rarely at fault. And his out is just the sweetest thing in cricket. One aces o ball carooring towards him, and with whip-like action the but taps the red leather. The sound is like unto just patting the hands, but the ball flies off at right angles to the stumps until the boundary is reached. Occasionally the so beautifully is the stroke timed that there is Prince throws himself at a ball for a drive, and great power behind the hat. He appeared to me to drive more forcibly after his rotari from Australia than at any time, either before or since. Nor must we overlook the fact that in his strokes Ranji keeps the ball rolling along the grass with such case that it appears the most natural thing to do whereas we all know that the untutored and the unskilful hand always hits
up in the air.
CLEVER AND MANY-SIDED,
When he played for England against Australia in 1996, Harry Graham, the little asher of Victoria, was a spectator; as being out of form, Harry Tratt left him out of the test match. I asked Graham what he thought of Ranji. "Well," said he, "he's no cricketer. He's a confounded conjurer." And so he has ever appeared to mea Cinquesalii who dons his tricks with a little bit of wood which guides the rod ball all over the greensward, baffling the fieldsmen by the artistry of his placing, for where he steers the leather there are usually no
bas in no sense bred contempt. Time was when we marvelled that a young Bajput noble should come to this country, make a deep stady Ter- of our national anmmer pastime, and then proca baukdmself one of the greatest masters of the art of batting that the world has aror Been. All this is passing strange, and no doelt some years C. D. WARREN,
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heit, and after being educated at the College of Princes--the Raj-Kumar-at Rajcole, he was sent to Cambridge Unversity to com plete the training for, his exalted position. But maumbile the great unclo quarrelled with his nephew, Ranji's father, and disinherited Ranji in 6t of temper. The Indian prince has had long correspondence with the British Government, bat he is not likely, so for us 1 can see, to obtain the Jamship of Navangar.fieldsmeu. Like the policeman on the other Born on September 10th, 1872, Ranji, whatever his position may be in England, belongs to the very dower of Indian aristocracy, and to came to our little island in 1889. During that year he saw the Australians' play Surrey at the Oral und that match-set his soul on fire for cricket. With what result? Well, he played for Cam- bridge University in 1893. F. S. Jackson was walking round Feaner's one day when he came across Lockwood bowling to Ranji. "Is he any good" said Jackson to the professional, referring, of course, to the Indian cricketor. Whereupon Lockwood declared that he would make one of the grandest bats ever seen. Jackson gave him bis colour, but he only scored nine runs in the first venture, and was ont fer a "duck" in the second. Yet within three years he was included in the full strength of All England. No tenta representative of the strength of the country would be complets T08. 1 to 8. WILD DELL, WANCHAI without Bauji, who is certainly the most
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plekimenal batsman it was-ever my lot to see, and I have watched the guntest players of the last thirty years.
A SKETCH OF THE SUSSEX CAPTAIN. I had the pleasure of seafar every run the Prison of Cricket scored at Manchester in July, 1896, when he made his debut for England against Australia, and I are simply sat in solemn silence, completely overawed by the Witchery of Lis willow-work time and again in the intervening yours. In every great iuuing by Rani there is an indefinabli eharni which sens to hold people spelitwand. By this time, as I have already said. familiar to us all, the interest in his accomplishments might naturally TO. 1, STEWART TERRACE, the supposed to have evaporated. And yet Ranji
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is still a magnet. As he issues from the pavilion gate he is always welcomed with salros of applause. His walk to the wicket is not stately, Indeed, I once heard a famous artist declare that in the style of a costerwonger ho rushes along, jauntily swinging his bat like a penay cave. Haring take his guard at the erbase, £ like lia pose. He stands fairly erect, makiuff After seeing the most of his height and reach Jessop's erouch when waiting for the ball, the uprightness of Ranji is 4. striking contrast. The moment the ball is delivered the wonderful
eyes of the Indian follow it right to the bit which is wielded with a style not even surpassed ODOWN, NO SA, DUDDELL STREET by Lionel Pasirat. Jack Lyons, he wr giant of South Australia, once said: "Whea he looks at me I have a feeling that he can Apply to
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smoking. No wonder those eyes are so bright and so keen that many a bowler has qaziled before then and muttered to him-elf: "How Can I get him out?" But his wrists possess a suppleness, an elasticity, and a flexibility that are not common to Europeans, and there is a
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best-they are never there when most wanted. His runs are, as I have suggested, obtained by. taps and touches-not by hits made in the style of the countryman in the fair who is trying his strengthon a panching-wachine or with a mallet is endeavouring to prove his power on the spring which forces ap a gauge. In the field Tanji looks slight, but just as there is a witchery' in his black eyes, there is a suggestion of strength in his shoulders. Whether in flannels or out of them the Indian nabeb looks what he is an athlete. Be inds great joy in fielding, which he rightly considers one of the great arts of cricket. At point. in the ships or at the aid-off. he is as lithe us a kitten and takes the ball with either hand. In every sansa of the word Ranji is a sportmas, and delights in law tennis and racquets, whils with rod and gun he is a mighty Nimrod. At the king of table games-billiards he can take a eno, sad iš just as likely to make 50 or 60 breck as to compile a century" na
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the cricket fakl. In private life I have found Ranjitsinhji a most charming man. With just the slightest trace of foreign accent he spooks fueut English, is a brilliant conversationalist, and a keen debuter, especially on matters of principle. Over the alleged throwing of certain bowlers he-is still indignant as to the action of his brother captains; and truth to tell, the Indian Prince is no independent, so fearless, and so zealous for the good of his county and the progress of cricket, as he concoivas it, that I do not think some of his brother captains have to auch love for him. He has pronounced opinions on the players of the day, and is, it. fast, an accomplished English gentleman given him, despite little personal disputes which worthy of all the admiration the crowd has may have given some people a wrong impression,
JIM PHILLIPS AND ARTHUR MOLD,
I very much regret that Jim Phillips, the um- pire, los again seon fit to no-ball Arthur Mold,
es he did 18 times in ten overs at Manchester while the Somerset, match was in progress, Last year at Nottingham the same official took this course, but notwithstanding all the debate which has since taken place, not another umpire has been found to agree with Phillips and branil Mold as "chucker," We are not in the habit of convicting people in this country on the unsupported testimony of even one umpire, Surely unies Phillips finds a sconder the motion falls to the ground.
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ENGLAND AND AMERICA AT LAWN TENNIS.
After trimming the wings of some of the American athletes at the British championship meeting at Huddersfield, and after conquering the Pennsylvaninu University crew by the aid of the mighty Leander eight, who seem to form. the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley, it is a thousand pities that the All England Lowa Tennis and Croquet Club cannot send a thoroughly representative team to New York to meet the American teaxis team at Hoboken' on July 29th. Mr. A. W. Gore, the present lawn tennis champion of England, and the famous brothers R. F. and H. L. Doherty, are all unable to cross the Atlantic to meet the Yankee
Haring played Wrenn in America before, Eaves should be a very valuable man, and I look to these three to serve England well, bat am afraid they will not win.
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