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not always with us championship and the interest in It is surely no coinci-the tournament consequently re "A cricketer," writing in the dence that this particular trouble stricted to a few teams. But it Manchester Guardian says-las became scute with the advent of must be confessed that some great few days the M.C.C. mees to dis- the modern groundsman and his authorities of the game do not euss the future of cricket, and it arts. A cose may be made out share the view of these critics, Lord CIGAR is possible that even this con for the marked wicket, of course; Harris for one. servativs body may be moved it may be argued that stylish bably hold their own in batting, by the agitation for reform batting is dependent on a perfect but they are as a class, a long now in full swing-an agitation pitch, and that the crowd will way behind the professionals as 11 which is not without authorita- always pay to sees Spooner bowlers-aul the most renowned tive backing. There are, of rather than a Tumble. And elevens (as Lord Harris has point- course, special reasons in these it is true
that batting ed out recently) have been those days for looking at ericket displays оп 3 big scale that had the best bowlers, "and from the point of view of recon-Jean lenil
3 nigaificent those bowlers were generally struction; the game will belspetacular attraction aven professionals. resumed in new and difficult to a drown match. But apart One would like to see some circumstances for instance, de- from the Euel that a really great thing attempted to improve the mobilisation may not be combatsman is worth watching on standard of professional batting pleted by summer and the re-any wickes, cricket at its beat-in point of freshness and styla. strictions on railway travelling as it was in the nineties, for It is hardly to be expected, of may still be in force, and special instance is both a spectacle and course, that the man whose live- mesures will be needed to readjust a contest. To extract the maxi-lihood depends on cricket will cricket to these circumstances. mum interest from the game make runs with the ease and But in addition to this, it was the modern groundsman must light-heartedness of the amateur jevideat before the war, from the suffer us to put સ check who is in the game for the love; fuaveial statements of too many en a perfectly natural desire to of the thing and his expenses. clubs, that the game was losing produce "a billiard table" which But there is too little done on its attractiveness with the average brenks the bowler's heart and our county grounds ie the way uan. The lover of cricket need reduces him to impotence. A of coaching young professionals
not take fright at this zeal for compromise between Stourbridge into a free and graceful style. reconstruction; cricket may and, say, Old Trafford, as it was For the most part, their net well be all the better for a few years ago (when C. B. Fry practice is sheer drudgery and public inspection and discovered a pebble of the first they are left to their own re- overhauling. All one asks is that magnitude in the batting crease), sources to develop their skill. the scrutiny shall be conducted would seem to be the ideal to One would like to see the admir in the right spirit, on the ander- aim at.
able nursery principle 13 standing that cational games, like It is also held by many people practised at. Tonbridge more constitutions, are grown rather that the administration of profeswiglely copied than it has yet then made, and that cricket sionalism was not satisfactory in been. There a young
"colt" assumed its present shape in no the seasons immediately before gets a coaching certainly not farbitrary way, but as the result the war. Not duly were there inferior to that of the amateur at of many years of development too many paid players (these his public school. It is by no according to the conditions in critics say, but they were unfairly accident that the Kent eleven which it has been played and the distributed amongst the coun- invariably contains the bright- special genius of its greatest ties. So long as the wealth-est and most stylish of our exponents.
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