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at the Vauxhall end, and thrge balls run- ning have carried "the stand just east of the Pavilion. At Canterbury he has clear ed the famous tree, and pitched in a adjacent hop garden. But the hits and the innings which probably represented his supreme achieveinent were those ma rtain Scarborough Festival, when be Close upon fifty years ago, Mr. C... played for the Gentlemen of England Thornton journoyed down to Southgate against 1. Zingari. In seventy miles to play on the Walkers' private ground he scored 187 ruas, and those gulvat there against a strang Free Forester side, ¦ twenty nine scoring strokes, they wer which included the fabious old amateur eight 6's, and of these twn went Copseme show howlog David Hochanan, it was tively through the second storey winiow Lone of 6.1.T.'s bear days, and in a very of a house in Trafalgar-square, fast a short time by same Horricane hitting the third curried everything and pitched in had unde på ruas, a large proporting of [the mud beyond. them being of his brother Cantab,; When at fast, he was alismissed the litter sur veput his retreating back with a book of mingiel resentmeat and relief, and se markjed to the fell at large, Now we shall base some cricket!" Wo
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the present javilion at Loud's, lost it somewhat ruined his batting. for ever" afterwards he went about the entry tiy ing with his 3. fel, to carry less in some adleware for the pational, vvjudieg
pasing "obstacles, Another famous hit at of a slow howder against an entirely brutal Lord's, though of a different type, was jerformance, but there is no doula on George Parr's, to square leg over the which side lay, and always soubi tg, the 1 Armoury and into a garden on the sympathies of the world at large.
other side of the St. John's Wood-rood. Every handy bydes the gemane hatter.! The brothers V. S. P. Hud T. N: Craw ANCH do skumle Datent the Lawlers and fond were both magnifieens, straight feller, whom he makes suffer, for he driver In his charming recollections always giving them nevasion for hope, and the elder brother in last year's, Leven it's deferment is entertaining": Ant "most of all the spectatory,, from the ex- port is the pavilises to the farm band at the ring-side, they can nghe of thema ma sist the elementary appeal of the realis
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Wisden," D. L. A. Jeukson soaks of the marvellous venitury he me made at Bradford against the Yorkshire wher an a pidicule wicket, during which he | (cored a direct hit an each of the fog. staffs that surmounted the football onvi Now, though a mansiderable defence on which backs on to the ground, and can be matte out against sunch of the wide another hit which oven Dentua, in fashionable attack upon modern utrker,
the out-field, could not face. Even as 3 In this respect at least we seem to have buy at school the younger Crawford was fallen a very long way shout of the giants astonishing hitter, like Frank, of olf: indroit is arguable that never classical lines, and the writer reminulers since the game became regularly develop to this day the terror of bowling lies to
him at the nets. od has this, its most dirt and spectacu
At the Oval his faveurs lat appeal, been so weak. There are, or ite objective was the big plate glass win course, may bärsnum pha can and down the amateurs' dressing ana play a fine ring, intings, but for they lay just on the line of his very best genuine hitters, in the sense a which thhits-over the bowler's of mid-off's Brad
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But, taken as a whole, hitters' are u doubtedly war wepkest suit. He may be that the nudem vorh, whose, panic in Legionsdons something to answer for, or that the increasing professionalisation of the game tends to discourage the takink of risks, but the game is the poorer for it, and we taust needs look back regret - fatly to an earlier ner, when, with the wirkets far less dependable mod a more Istrreotypist firki, it päïd a inun lo take his life in his hands, and many were found to do so, In the pre-Hambledoo days hilting was everything, and we are to! that the freest hitter was the lust, hats mar" Then came length bowling, and, as its answer, orthodąs d'ience, but the spirit was still willing, and when the new P.&O. style of "high, home and easy Lowling developed, it was not long in producing men who, risking the scandalised censer? of the critics, hastered and killed it by "giving him the rush. Such men as Saunders, Beazley, and Hammond (the kast-named once at Lorf's jumped out and hit the fall bark so han past Lul Frederick Benneterea's head that the re- verend gentleinan, then the most ennning of shot bowlers, had no more nerve left, in him). It reminds us of Bonnor and George lyett, but the latter, being a Yorkshireman, and sp, of stófner stuff, "put up a horny hand and the ball stück, Saunders was a left-Einder, and it is curi ous how many of his fraternity are min- hered amongst the hardest hitters--frum Noah Mann, the first of all swervers, who | Bombay, Calatta, Karachi, Mädme, Colombs once hit a tener." through Rubinson, whose bat, with a grooved handle mul
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ROME PAMOTH "CARRIER." But, when all is said, it is the hig "carry that everyone really enjoys the most, and in this respect C.. Thornton, by punon agreement, still stands with- out a rival no one has ever hit the ball so far, so high, and so, often." If he was, playing to-day in his urime he would be the biggest draw in England, and the story of some of his fenta as, told by, "Old Eber in "Old English Cricket ers." can still stir the blood. Positively his biggest hit was made at practice, n the Brighton ground, and checked by no less an authority than the Rev. James Pycroft: it measured 10 yards from hit to pitch. Think of it! The average de cent golfer would have. "taken wood," and then have been pleased."As a boy, in the Eton and Harrow match of 1889, 1 he hit clean over the old Pavilion Lord's; at the Oval ho bas lifted the b not merely over the ring, but out of the grond in every direction except straight |
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