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THE EMPRESS DOWAGER AND ↑ such a chongo is mule, he uses, the matter). . d
THE POWERS
should be thoroughly tested. It is a change
which, in his opinion, will have a far-reaching REAL PANAMÁS!
THE NEW PALACE AT TAO TIAG-TU. effect as the attraction from lob to round arm The Impress-Dowager has a due sense of bowling go from that to over-hand. I con the dignity of her position. She has moreover, ade it will have litio, if any, effect on the plous on foot which British Ministers should gaine. According to Mr. Alcock, to Secretary watch. A correspondent at Pao-ting fu, the of the Surrey Club, at the test match at Mao. ospital of Pechili, writes: "We had the plea bester between England and Australia, the enre of vigiting the Esing-king-yuto, or future - wickets were 86 in. wide, and very often it will We were be found that they are 84 ic. in width. A polnce of the Empres Dowager, indebɩod to Mr. Schorné, a German gentiemun. I difference of 4 in, would not avail mach. It for the lactation. This gentlemen has charge conld be monstrous to upset, the game through not only of the building of the palace and out the world and to throw on manufacturers beautifying of its grounds, but also is in charge a nasless stock of materials and to cause them of the streets and polios of the city. The new a heavy last for a change, the offens of which Imperial alace in situated insido the senthis problematical in the extreme. My friend thinks that if there is a change it should be in the height of the wicket. Certainly the pending bowler on a hard wicket night be more dangerons, but the batsme i could pad themselves up like a college football player in
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as they do with their legs. He is a bit of a satirist, for he winda up by strongly denouncing the modern method of playing leg-breaks with the pads as belog the carss of modern cricket, It is not the game, be ways. He may the Australiens pile up a buga score at Brighton. He saw two of the men never attempt to play a log-beds except with their pada. They facerl round and bent their knees to the ball like o serio-comio doing a cakewalk. The crowd heoled and bowled until one of the players did purport to play with the but He was promptly caught at short square leg.
Stop this parl-play," says my friend, ' and son will go a long way towards stopping heavy ecering. I agree with every word he save. I shall be told that the M.C.q. made the experiment with second-clam counties so as too if a change in the law were desirable, It was found that the proposed not work. S fựr as I know, tho detailed
new rule did
Tenos were never get out, vor were any
retired cricksters of experienes invited to an underground viaduct. Besides we are told that 50,00 taols had been spent for porculan flow the matches and to report ther on. and furnishings in the palace. It indicates that We are not told whether or not the po this place is to be occupied for a part of the posed ruo decreased scoring, or whether the batman got ruffled because he believed himself time by the Court. A throne-rogu, is the largest and finest of the buildings in be gronds.ould hs a very different one. I would give D not out. But then the rule I should adopt There are reports that the Empress Dowager is to retire from activity after the out who played the ball with his pads, New Year, and that on 3rd March she will whether or not the ball would have bit the wicket. The umpire would have a very remove to this palace, and that it is to be her permanent home. Other roports current simple duty to perform. He would not have or got the ball would way that this city is to he enlarged to the south so that this palace will occupy s central place, and that when that his been accomplished Pao-ting-fo will be the new capital of China This would be pretty rough on the Foreign Legation people who have constructed bage fortifications at great cost at Peking; but the Chinese will not necessarily consider this !”
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was never intended that the pad should be Coupled with the bat as a means of defond- ing the wicket. It is in pad-play that the first-class bat excels. It is ultogether nonsense to talk about adding an inch to the wicket's to double the width when you allow a man width of his bat by using his legs. Par sooner than widen the wicket I would mako, the but
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