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THE LATE DE. W. G. GRACE.
THE GREATEST CRICKETER.
BY LIEUT-COL, PHILIP TREVOR.
Cricket is something more than national game of England; it is an portant, even an essential, part of the national life; and Dr. W. G. Grace way the greatest cricketer who ever lived. We may say of him, 23 Pope said of Garrick, that he will never have a rival. National game though it nominally was long before his time, cricket, was made by "W. G." It was not until as a boy of 16 he burst upon the cricketing worl that the game established its general hold upon, and made its universal appeal to, English people.
ROUTE-MARCHING.
THE MOST HUMAN SIDE OF MILITARY WORK.
We get back to "W. G." the batsman, and there we have no reservation to make, no superlatives to tone down. Whe are his nearest rivals? Fow will dispute the dames of Ranjitsinhji-happily still with us, though sterner work than Thore is nothing quito like route. cricket claims him now and of Victor matching-nothing military at any rate, Trumper, that star whom we shall never with the same inwardness" Civilians these again. One might perhaps, add the on holiday tramps may know the same. name of C. B. Fry. But in reality com physical pleasures, but they do not and parison is out of pince, How could these cannot know the atmosphere that a sal- men have fared on English wickets in dier gets to know so well on his tramps. the seventies? It is really mere guess-There is nothing subtle about it. That work to proceed.
Rani possibly is at once its saving grace, its beauty, could have adapted himself and his play and its charm. One has just to march, to any set of circumstances. But, after and other things are added by circum all, you cannot argue about wizards, stance and ever-present companionship. and the things which W. G. did as a For this reason it is & mind-resting batsman in conditions which the modern exercise far excelling those lonely walks player would unhesitatingly call hopeless whero ono is forced back upon one's are a matter of history, P
thoughts. And it differs completly from drill, of course, in that states of mind are not continually being broken up by words of command. It forms, says a writer in the Manchester Guardian, in- deed, the most human side of military work, and is therefore a useful set-off to a routine which can jar rather hardly. The recruit quickly gets to look forward to thicse days in country roads and lanes, and the welcome lounging at the rest- ing-places where he can fill himself with weet air and an unthinking happiness- and other things as vital though perish- ablu,
THE MARVEL OF WAY, 1895: 2 A description of the champion's hat ting performances would fill a book; a schedulo of them would occupy many columns. The month of May is essen- tially the bowler's month, and conversely it is just the month which is not to the liking of the veteran batsman, who needs warmth, practice, the relaxing of stiff muscles, and the ring of bowlers ero ho can assert himself. Yet in the mouth of May, 1896, W. G, then in his 47th year, scored more than 1,000 runs in first class cricket matches. This, needless to say, constituted a record, and to it, iá the same month, the Grand Old Man
UNIQUE RECORDS.
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One of the younger sona of a country doctor, he learnt, as practically all great men have learnt that is to say, he taught himself W. G." as a pupil is unthink- able. At 16 he who lived to bo known as the grand old man was what we should now call first class; at 18 he was the best batanan iu the world.
Experience
Monotony on the march is scnreely teaches? No doubt; but you can't make rules for a genius. He succeeds act be
known, noless one is very tired-it can cause he ignores them, but because added, the other unique feat of scoring so easily be prevented by the efforts of deliberately breaks them. Towards the his hundredth century. The public was the marches themselves. Never does sung For nearly come more spontaneously, and never does close of his career, when his muscles were delighted by this marve stiff and great increase of weight had forty years Dr. Grace played first-class it echo better than to the sound of træiup- made him a compulsory adherent of the cricket, and for nearly thirty he doinina-ing fest. There is a lightening factor, fim-footed system, W. G.." no doubt, ted it. A great innings is over as last; too, which the civilian does not know, was over-cautions, and indeed, more of such another will never be played again, in the interest and acclamation of the few waysiders in mufti, and of the towns less stereo-typed. But it was net so when: For
men and villagers. The soldier gets, in he made his unique reputation.
Dr. Grace's career in the cricket field deed endless goodwill and accord and others, no doubt, he had rules of batting; not for himself. He put the bat en to can be sharply divided into two portions. fun in plenty in his country encounters, the ball by instinct; quickfooted, he is early tame as a pacman culminated for everybody he meets knows why he is moved to it by instinct. But by deli- in the season of 1976, when in the month there, and everybody approves the rea berate design did he send it in this or or August he scored in three successive
WHERE THE CIVILIAN ECORDS, tha: direction. In the art of placing annings 344 against Kent ut Canterbury, ho was, of course, & past master. A 177 against Notes at Clifton, and 318 not
There is cae direction, however, in which the civilian acores, one which he famous story in regard to that particular out against Yorkshire at Cheltenham,
may deem, indeed, as important as any. form of prowess will bear repetition. The second part of his career as a bate- was man began towards the end of the season
He is free to wander at will and to form Shaw, at the heighs of his fame,
Following some fine purior-his own wandering impressions, and, "Are you the of 1880. asked this question: better bowler or is Dr. Grace the better mances for Gloucestershire he played
The reply was that weirdest great innings of 132 as the Oval in the indeed, probably sets out mainly to do batsman"
only in very imperfect fashion. Ho gets form of opigrammatic reply the truth arst matca m this country between Eng. The marching soldier can do this
Oh I put 'em where I like, and he land and Australia,
glorious glimpses, it is true, but he may puts 'em where be likes."
not linger. Even when the steady move continual necessity for keeping step is forward does not blot out the view the sufficient in itself to render impossible any deep realization of the nature of the country. And at any moment diversion Singing on the march is a wonderfully may come in the shape of a new song-
remain outside the influence. compelling thing: its impossible to directions and roads and distances the soldier may, and usually does, retain o very clear impression. He moves evenly, always the same companions with whom he enjoys set intervals of rest, and he has
be set in modest opposition to the unfet tered joys of the free-lance."
Of Dr. Grace's cricket from the time "W. G." could make orthodox strokes of his first appearance at Lord's, in better than any other man in England, July, 1881, for the South Wales Cub and his own marvellous special strokes he against the M.C.C., down to the end of 1876, columns could be written without bad at his disposal, too. He batted by exhausting the subject. He was picked instinct, and in his best days that in for the Gentlemen as a lad of 17, both at stinct was almost faultless. Of course, he had the proverbial eye of the hawks, but Lord's and the Oval in 1835, the honour more than that, he had dauntless courage being conferred upon him quto
W. G." was aever half out before he much, if not more, for his medium pace was in. It is common knowledge that bowling as for his batting. A year later. he was seldom quite satisfied when the however, he proved himself, beyond all umpire's decision was against him, and question, the best batsman in Engand that he often retired to the pavilion with two wonderful innings as the Oval obvious reluctance. On the other hand, establishing his fame. He scored 221 not The was ever eager to go in, Facing the us for the Gentlemen of the South to compare notes, and these things may
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music had no terrors for him.de against the Players of the South,
The general public knew W. Gattack of scarlet fever interfered with his cricket in 1867, but after that he never
A route niarch, toc, affords the Anext chiefly as the maker of more than a locked back. His best seasons as a hundred hundreds, but the champion be batsman were, we fancy, 1871, 1872, and possible opportunities for dreaming. It came the champion not because this 1873. His play in 1873 far surpassed easy to keep alive in the brain a crust. knack of comping three figure innings anything that bad even been done before. of consciousness just thin enough to keep
touch with such small objective nece physical capacity largely accounts for During his career he scored in Gentle sitios as pace and step and position in that kind of achievement--but because mers and Players' matches 6,008 runs,
pleasantly aware of the surrounding stir upot wickets upon which no one else with an average of 42, and took 271 the ranks. For the rest one may drean, could make 10 runs he was wont to make wickets for a trifle under 19 runs each and movement, the turns of the road and a score of 40 or 50 without a fluke, and He made seven hundreds for the Gentle the jogs uphill, and serenely unconscious often without a bad stroke.
men at Lord's, four at the Oval, and one of 8.1 clue one's own restful mental pro- each at Brighton, Prince's, Scarborough, cesses. The thing that is mostly worry- and Hastings. The first of his evening is a change from road to grass, or hundreds at Lord's was obtained in 1868, the passing of a heavy vehicle, for grass, and the last, after an interval of twenty or the sound of the step gets drowned. seven years in 1895. Of these seven in and though its existence was no co nings the first was, perhaps, the most sidered before, ite loss is quickly die- remarkable. Going in first wiches down for a very strong side, he took out his turbing, and the marching gets bat for 134; the total only reaching 201
***OFFENSIVE BATTING.
NEW BOOK,
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One most important practical esson the great batsman always taught. Ho made a point of conquering the bowler; it was not enough for him to avoid dis aster. Batting with him was the art of making runs in a limited time; he was not there to do so many hours on treadmill. He was the greatest batsman who ever lived, because he made more runs than anyone else. And he made them at a time when bowling was so superior to batting that the customs as well as the laws of the game were un- blushingly on the side of the run-getter. The Research Magnificent. Yet W., G.," and "W. G." alone, was able to profit by the fact It would not be strictly true to speak of the champion is a great bowler. That in the seventies he was easily the best amateur bowler of writers to-day. His puwers of imagina- the day is incontestable, He was eni- tion are unrivalled. Had he lived two
Al! but the sun and the wind are good, nently successful against young and in- thousand years ago, he would have come experienced batsmen, especially against down to us of the present age as one of and very good. Even a Cubist poet, translated to the ranks, would descend opponents meeting him for the first time. the major prophets. As it is, he stands to enjoyment of that glorious midday ASAHI BEER. But personality more than actual bow on the hilltops of prophetic vision and
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ling skill helped him on those occasions, points the way to his less gifted fellow brook, when one stretches on the heather more. r, maybe, the lawn of a wayside inn, The great big man, with the long black men Like several other of our
and pluffs contentedly, haversack empty thought compelling beard, and the monstrous red and yellow thoughtful and cap, who rushed up to the wicket, aud writers in Europe and America, he is and water-bottle with its hoeward re- then tossed the ball up gently, was dis- not pleased with conditions under which serve only. Then your marcher thinks of many things which are popularly sup- concerting till you got to know him. The men and women dive, and he would fain, posed to be outside the hen of the Tom.. very slowness of the fight of the hall take a hand in remoulding the world." suggested guile and wile. Yet the break Here, in the story of William Porphyry my. On the march at any rate they wi from leg was small, and sometimes non- Benham, well conceived and contrived pot my friends. And what of the full- existent. For all that some of the best with the deftness of the master-hand, blooded laughter and the horseplay at professional batsmen were uncomfortable our vision is directed from the blood the minor breaks? You would stake your when the old man went on to bowl, and lust and hatred that is disintegrat word that Jeanson, unless you knew him and that was so even in his later years of ing Europe to the possibilities of a for the one-time quill-driver he actually cricket. To get catches made on the leg universal brotherhood of man, an inter- was, had been hardened to the country side was the champion's main device, nationalism that will wipe out all dis- all his life. Watch him jump a ditch but he had also a keen eye for "1.b.w.tinctions of race, colour, caste and creeil, and roll Smith into the hedge Yes, and inaugurate that love of humanity there is always something which, if you possibilities.
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In his younger days" W. G." was a which has been the object all founders are given to quiet retrospection, makes smart and reliable fieldsman, while even of religious systems have dreamt of it individual and of a character different towards the end of his long career, when establishing, but which their followers from other route marches.
THE ROADS OF ENGLAND. he was compelled by lack of mobility to have done so much to prevent.
than And it, instead of lapsing to re-rospect, stand at point, he had a safe as well as has never done anything better
It is a you should lock ahead a little por a big pair of hands. It may be that his The Research Magnificent." tory will not acclaim the champion & most powerful study in introspection, plexedly, perhaps, you should be filed great captain at any period of his How much of it is a self-revelation it with a big content. For the roads of brilliantly and uniformly successful is difficult to say; but we gather from England were never known until Ger- career. It is certain, at any rate, that it that Welis, like many more in Eng many showed them to us. See our Mid- he never made fcld captaincy a practical land to-day, greatly dissatisfied with land potters and miners marching over And Sussex and the Eastern Flats, and our scientific study, in the way in which the party system of government, John Shuter, A, C. Maclaren, JB yet, though he gives much to think Londoners tramping westward to Mason, A. D. Jones, and M. A. Noble, about, not only in England but all over familiar leafy lanes. Hear the northern for instance, made it one. To the last the world for he ranges from the black burr in the home countries, and take he retained his boyish enthusiasm, and, democracy of Hayti to the paternal renote of the really wonderful mixing of valuable in the extreme as exthusias public of Ching-he leaves us with a customs and the broadening of outlook in the general duties of leadership, it sense of incompleteness, a feeling that he going on among all these susceptible doubtless tends to obscure the critical himself is not altogether able to advance young men, and you will know that that faculty when a particular Etuation has a clear solution to the vast problems that has happened which is more important to be met. The Old Max-even when a separate class from class, nation from to Englishmen than the discovery of a young man never disguised the fact that nation, race from race. It is Benham's new colony, It is the discovery of the liked to have a bow!" It was not search for the solution that provides the English roads. After the war, I say. cheap vanity that go often induced title and motif of the story, and when he you will find that they are known and W. G. to give himself a generous falls a victim to a bulles in the labour appreciated at last. The civilian with turn of bowling. What he did not know riots in Johannesburg wo feel that his his rucksack will find greeting instead about play and players was not worth guest has been unsuccessful, though, per of suspicion, and ten to one he will be knowing, Knowing what should be haps, after all, in his own words, he is a Midlander retreading the southern done, and how to do it, the champion was one of a multitude of men, each one roade he once covered in khaki, or a apt to overlook the probability of finding going a little wrong, each one achieving western farm boy come to see once again what he wanted in one or other of has a little right, towards the noble life if they still manage things in Essex as colleagues. A fine personal leader is not that is a long, long way ahead. (od they did when He swung eastwards with
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