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THE AHT OF FIELDING.

ended. There would hardly be a drawn match. „Of course I am not so foolish as to think ibat a catch should never be missed. Tis human to err, and I notice that cricketers made most mistakes in Miny, when they were out of praction and when the keen east winds kept the

hands so coll. But if we abolished all not

practice and systematically studied fleking as the Australiane do sad as Manley Kemp made the Oxford elerons of 1893 and 1984 do, we should soon see what a vast difference would he made.

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This is not intended to be a disquisition on the author of Tom Jones the Foundling Therefore, the lover of literature who ponders on this title need not be deluded like the prize- fighter who insisted on purchasing The Mill on the lose. No, my present purpose is to discorse upon fielding as necessarily part of A week or two ago I was enjoying a crack of the equipment of the good cricketer. When conversation, as I niways do, with Alfred Shaw, one looks on at a first-glass match thorn is than whem no man knows more of cricket. He certainly a temptation to think that fielding is | had been standing umpire in a match and a not a part of the game; it is not taken seriously famous amateur had made a brilliant score When we find Ranjitsinhji in his Jubilee vorging upon, 2000. But this same brillisat Book of Cricket condemning the standard of batsman should have boen caught at short slip Selding in England, and when we find a man when he was 20 and again in the sume place: like Mr. Jophson inditing an article for whom he was 26. The man who lost those Wieden, in which he calls the fielders of catches lost the match for his county, Said to-day "little mounds of earth" or waxen Alfred Shaw when the dog's work was done : figures in a third-rate tailor's shop. I supposes There's a terrible lot of these catches mierst thore is no denying the allegation that in both now-a-daye. They always used to say what a ground-work and enteling wo are not man for good-tompered man I was to captain Notting- -man so good as we ought to be, or so clever shamshire. And maybe I was pretty even But really if we stop to contempered, but my eyes, I should not have been sider the situation, is it not astonishing that we if I had had to stand these fellows missing have fielders or bawlers at all? Nowadays the matches. We had very little of this sort of nujority of boys at our public schools and of thing in my day, I tell you frankly I could men in our clubs divide cricket into two parts, not have stood it. I bowled for catehes. I batting and bowling. Nearly all want to be recognised that there were ten ottiers besides

our fathers were.

bateinen.

Most dislike what is called the drud myself to get the man out. What would have gery of bowling, but here and there we find one been the use of my doing that sort of thing if who has a natural love for ti ball. Nover they dropped the catehen. Oh dear, oh dear, hayp 1 yet met a cricketor who exalted fielding no, I could not have been good-tempered with above both batting and howling and yet it is such provoking blanders." Moreover Alfret after all the very essence of the pastime. Apart Show suggested that the folding was much from the distaste, innate und in brod apparently, worm now in respect that it need to boy and which boys und men soem to have for fag that the laxity was the surse of modern cricket. ging, there is no escaping from the fact The px-captain of Lancashire, Mr. A. N. Heruby, that our present system of practice is all now the president of the club, is equally severe. against fielding. We want either to bowl He hardly ever misses a day's cricket in the or bat at the nets. These latter inventions summer, and yet he will tell you that the

If clubs fielding of this era is shockingly bad. are the curse of modori cricket. practised without nets against two bowlers, the rest of the pupils or the members scouting, we should soon Ree cricket. In the first place the batsmen would have to play, a wicket-keeper and a long stop, if you will, would have to take their places. The fieldors would be there to check the course of the drives and to intercept the flying catch. Bowlers would endeavour to trap their batsmen--and we should have real cricket practice. Now we listen batsman fitted up in a cord caga of three sides, and

A HINT TO YOUNG PLAYERS. *The easence of good fielding is to start before the ball is hit and to pick up and return straight to the top of the bails, by one son timous action." But what do we see nowadays. The field man stands aghast when a catch comes his way, evidently surprised, for he rerer anticipated such an event, while as for divining the intention of the batsman, that is out of the question. But a man who will watch can be on his toes before the ball is hit, I sometimes think that fielding is an inspiration.

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of the art of fielding.

go Gloucestershire were playing Lancashire on the Spa ground of the county town. Albert Ward was on theedge of the boundary, to prevent fours for the equare cuts of W. 3. A. Brown, this old. Loysian. Now young Brown was sticking. tima was ebbing away, and it looked as if the

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