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certain circumstances the attendanes of a band might make for the bottormont of the game. Playing against a lunatic asylum, the writer skied the ball to doop square leg, and the catch"SQUARË BOTTLE was judged to a nicety and held by the fielder,
a gentleman with delusions alleged to be having
(BY A CORRESPONDENT OF "THE TIMES.")
In those pellucid intervals when they are vot calculating averages and percentages to several a lucid interval. Excited by the, applause. fin places of decimals or chronicling So-and-so's which the writer forgot to join) he ran rapidly 59th wicket or 999th ruu, certain publicists (let round the field and was not caught by the at us choose the name that is of writing 1 minutes had been wasted. One of the doctors rather than tendants, who appeared from nowhere, until ten
while
have
and other places where cricket is the sport of persons with a whole mind in a wholesome body, All batsmen will agree with this declaration of policy, which politie morit of making s
has the concession to the ensay. Dowlers many not be
ite
the name that dogrades the round about cricket) wax magniloquent on the subsequently said that, though quite harmless, subject of the right and wrongs of the crowd at he was very susceptible to the charms of music. a cricket match. Two years ago it was the Had there been a band in attendanco the incident question of the ten interval poops and be might never have occurred; for example, ho
of those friends of the
die. people
wight mimed the ostob. located their grammar. They decided anani-
then consent to the presence of bands monely, having bat ont mind between them, at matches played on the grounds of lunatio that the players in a first-class county matelasyiams, but refuse to invite them to Lord's had no right, in law or in equity, to leave the fuld for a cup of tea or to stop the game
half Jemons
were hand and so long as & single paying spectator was unwilling to leave ave his place of observation in order to drink some thing alcoholle Least year they disensed the subiect of suspensions of piny while the ground so eager to withstand the innovation. aro is the habit of turning all perturba was recovering from-n-dreucking (last season it tion of
order of things (differences the natural was a case of the rain it raineth every day of proo o in the pitoli, ers winds unt help their and the weather has been even more exasperating swerve, &c.) to their own advantage and the this year) and assured us that such breaks in the confusion of the batsman, their natural enemy | entertainment provided for those who had paid and some of them may regard the music that down their money at the turnstiles could no distracta his attention as an addition to the: longer be tolerated.
of ber
But they their incidental allies,
all have to wield the willow, and the majority are up in the order of they will cheerfully resign sou
souse portion their skill in bowling. Let us then appeal to them 19
them for their aa baitaran, deceiving good, to strengthen the forces of opposition.
their music could be made incidental (in the theatrical
sense), the band might be tolerat. ed on country grounds. For each characteristic stroke or bowling stratagem we might have a leit-motiv: a late out or a geogly would elicit from the band a characteristic musical A cricket symphony, compened by an
as
e zam
batsmon and mored
anxious to be reing in boon for which
the the❘
These agitations, sad to say, were not without effect. Tea intervals were dropped on several county grounds, where the authorities, for mercenary reasons, think toore of satisfying the aixpenny spootators than of the comfort of cricketers, who after all are not msnbers of music-hall troupes, and have a right to i in toa-and-talk when the whole civilized world is doing the same. And this season, as a result. of last year's agitation by the friends of the professional
weird engines have been spectator, provided to protect the pitch from the effecia of rainfall, though nothing has been done for nothing can be done to prevent the drenched outfield from scarred and cut up by the hg out and cannot keep their footing. The cost of continuing the game too soon after a heavy abcwor is paid by those who play minor matches on a country ground when the wickets are set up entside the contral ures sacred to the more spectacular contests. These men, who are really the backbone of the game, have sometimes had to play this season on pitches that resembled a portion of the fairway of an inland golf course much frequented by beginners, hard-hitting folk who never think of replacing the ittered abroad. One such
scenery dislodged 1
a by
men
in
their mashics and
of
pitch (so I was told by a born humourist who failed to score in a club and-ground match) was so rugged that, for all he or anybody else know, ges might have been hiding of partridges a cover there during the whole period of play. These be poetic exaggerations, pragmatis and prismatic truths, but they will serve to remind the reader that the aurator's-so-called rights are often the actual player's wrouga.
in
It is now proposed to "enliven " ̈county cricket matches for the benefit of spectators by means of bands, and the experiment has actu ally been tried at Lord's-Lord's of all places Cricketdom. There can be no objection, of course, to instrumental music during the lunch eon interval, when those who do not care leave the ground,
and preferring sandwiches erickot gossip to a formal meal, often find that time trickles away slowly, spasmodically, re- lucinatly-like the contents of a full bottle. Nor, if the musicians chose to stay pad watch the match, would any rational person refuse them the opportunity of performe
suitable **Pack, pieces (such as "Home, Sweat Clouds, Audden do
&c.) while play is owing to a
downpour or th
of the kopvens by a suspended fog. As long a is not In case of interfering with the physical and mental comfort of the actual players, every- thing possible should be done for the greatest possible happiness of the greatest possible sumber. But it is nothing less than an outrage against the spirit and traditions of cricket to
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It would begin, of course, by introducing the motive of the moving machine, t
the sound
mid- which, heard in the early morning of a stomer's day, is so delightful to the ear cricketers. The time is not yet come for such delicate inventions; until it does bunds must not be admitted to the nation's chief playing grounds because a few spectators wish to have their ears tickted. Admit band for that un- reasonable reason, and before we know where we are there will be (as Mr. Punch has su
side-shows, electric theatres, and small gested) cafea chantante, and switchbacks, and Sipdays, and aunt sailles, and all the rest, doing a brisk business round the field of play. This very thing has happoned in the case of American baseball, a file till the professional spec fator spoilt it and vulgarized its surroundings. Unless the spectator be cockerel tp, we told, county cricket will become bankrupt: The sooner the better-for then county elevens will be chiefly composed of authentic amateurs, which is just what ought to be. Besides, if band be alowed to settle at Lord's there will be ao limit to its depredations. It will get into the dedans whon a great tenuis match is on: Horribla thought!.
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band to perform while play is going on. At athletic sports music is not out of place; though high jumpers and pols jaapos have been known to complain of it as a distraction. to the intricate business of making use of the right take-off-at-the-right moment-in-the right way (really an equation in thres variables, a problem in solid geometry, has then to be solved instan taneously), its flowing strains fit in well enough with the fluctuating rhythms of sprinting and running. The writer once knew a quarter miler As of repute who said that a little music was for him an antidote to nervousness and an incentive to a good sustained spart at the finish. Again, football, with its reiterations of movement and recurrent attacks,
As over out of touch the ball returne, should be none the worse for a little music, which, as on a battlefield; may- then and thore encourage exhausted heroes to make a enpreme offort.
But as regards cricket, the good oll. rule, "Don't mix your arts," comes into full play, Cricket is a complete art in itself-epic, or dramatic, or lyrio, as the man and the moment may determine-and the intrusion of the finest and most finely- rendered music is felt the
by cricketer who puts brains into bis batting, or howling, or fielding and respects his art, himself, and his fellow- artista as an intolerable impertintnes. Moreover, the spectator who really knows the
and is Came able and willing to concentrate his third-on what is happening on the "perilous piteh does not want to be bothered with a band; when of some deeply moved by the condi
ping-point crisis, some dramatic
in the fuxera nefunera of well-contested matoh, he dicserible the most charming music as a
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Somo cricketers, no doubt, would merely grumble to themselves à band were allowed to interfere with the business of their ́game, in which every stroke or stratagem is an "intel- lectual thing." like a tear or a laugh. But others will speak out in the emphatic Inngange of the
wisdom of intoleranco (a kind of wisdom anwisely despised in this complaisant ago if the Lord's experiment is made a precedent Mr. C. I. Thornton, going in to take his innings at Scarborough, once ordered a band to stop playing, and the order was obeyed. He was dismissed without scoring-D
-no doubt there remained something of his sucva indignatio at an artistic
Patago
while he was at the wickel for the first fateful few balls-and hissUCOES NOT, sad to say, went in without rebuking the musicians. There must be other instances of the same timely outspoken common-sense in the annale of Arst-class orisket, To descend from great things to small, the writer himself when going in to try to stop a rot in a village matoh annexad in passing a concertins which, in the hands of a small boy, had vered the goals of many that afternoon. The smal boy mail, among other things, Don't excite Your silly gizzard" (curious phrase!) and was then taken home by his governess, but the consortins was given into the charge of the home team's umpire. It is perhaps only fair to tell sünther short story, which shows that in
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