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THRILLS IN CRICKET.

WHY THE GAME MUST BE * GINGERED" UP.

JB Hobbs writes in a Home paper as follows:-In the past orioketers have played the game pretty much as they pleased, without much regard to the likes or dislikes of spectators.

It has been more or less generally ur- derstood that the public, though erioketers were very glad to see them, and clubs equally glad of their sixpences, must take the game as it was served up to them. and be thankful, or stay way.

But during the recent craze for "reconstruction," cricket, to the horror of many people, came in for such a dose of criticism as

was never before heard. Some body raised a cry for brighter cricket" and it caught on like phrase many another catch. before it. There followed a per- fect orgy of suggested reforms. Unfortunately, many of the would-be reformers who found their way into print were not sound common sense knowledge able lovers of the game, fanatics.

country

but

Anyone arriving in England at that time from some where cricket is not played-if there be such a place-must have come to the conclusion that our national pastime was on its last legs, hopelessly out of date, and only drastic alteration of the rules and regulations could save it.

People who know nothing of the difficulties presented by fast off break bowling. or

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and amounts to genius. But bats- men can make up their minds to attack all the time to the limit of their powers.

You cannot turn a Quaife into of a Jessop, but there is no man the art of placing the ball playing who cannot make up his discoursed mind to hit every hittable ball,

on

side. the leg

learnedly on the iniquity of and hit it hard, instead of treating baten getting in front of the with respect everything which stumps. One lunatic went so far happens to be on the wicket. as to recommend the abolition of

pads.

Sympathisers with the bowlers thought that runs were too easily made, and proposed taller stumps, more stumps, or smaller bats. Another school demanded that we should all turn ourselves into Jessops forthwith, and there were numberless other proposals. all more or less impracticable cr impossible.

PASSING OF THE STONEWALLER, In spite of the sheer idiocy of much that has been written, one fact stands out plainly. It is

that the game must, if possible, be made more auractive. It can no longer be a mera sedative with spells of sparkle. The man who is content to sit through dull. though perhaps gool, cricket, and count himself amply compensated by the occasional patches of brilliance does not exist in sufficient numbers to provide the wherewithal to keep the game going.

There will be very few people in these days content to watch the stout but stodgy play of a batsman determined to stay there and the runs will come, or the contrivances of a bowler intent on hot being hit.

whether it hapens to be a good

length, half volley or long bop. The man who can hit them hard, high, and often of course, always

ill be the darling of the crowd. We must all take bigger risks than we ventured upon in the old days..

Everybody has been living in the midst of risk for years, and we are so accustomed to it that we cannot do without it, even in our There is no necessity for game. anyone to go in for sheer slogg. ing that would be bright cricket

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perhaps but it would not be good PEEK FREANS cricket. But so long as every batsman goes to the wicket intent on making runs as fast as he can instead of just stepping there as long as he is able, the public can be safely left. to appreciate his efforts.

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VALUE OF SAVİNG RUNS. Making runs is, of course, the main feature of the game, but next to this, saving them is of the greatest importance, and it is

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in this department that there is WISEMAN'S room for much improvement. There is nothing the public like better than good fielding. We have often heard of late, since baseball has been played in this country, how inferior are are to our American cousins in this respect, and it may be that the allegation is true..

The truth of the matter is that the public appetite is not what it was. It is been changed by the

Certainly their fielding merges war. The fighting spirit, dormant in many people in 1914, has been on the miraculous. Fielding, as roused and fed for four and a half a matter of fact, has never had years by war. It is rampant yet, the attention paid to it which it and demands a thrill in everything deserves. At the schools, where it tastes. So cricket, if it flourish. the game is supposed to be must pander to public opinion thoroughly taught, it is the ex- It must no longer be a mere ception rather than the rule to sedative. Thrills must be multi-see real elding practiced. The plied; the public appetite must result is that players come into first cricket good batsmen or be tickled.

but indifferent Fun bowlers savers.

There is no reason that I can see why the game should not be gingered up. In the past it was often dull enough, "and there was too little consideration for the man who pays the piper.

It is not a game which lends itself to showmanship, like foot ball, or even billiards, nor is showmanship necessary. There is no necessity for "stunts" or for alterations in the rules. All that is required is that the present code shall be interpreted in the proper spirit.

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games. Sides must go out to while the batsmen are endeavour-secure" position before giving its win; not to prevent themselves ing to make what looked like an opponents a chance. from being beaten, Batsmen easy run, is one of the best things must be be more enterprising, in the game. And there is nothing It must be defiance first instead which spectators are quicker to of defence. -

The public like to see runs made. They will have little use. for the stonewall performances of the old days, and rapid 50 will

be much more to their liking than

a painful if correct 100.3

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That sort of thing should be killed as dead as the German Navy. Declarations there must be in plenty under the new order NO WASTE OF TIME. of things. Let them be made so The fact is that in all depart that the fielding side have at least tents of the game we must be good sporting chance of winn- keener than ever, keen, not some ing/theside which makes sport- of the time but all the time. For indications will always be every moment of the game the plan if it loses.

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