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CRICKET.

CHAPTER XIII.

THE ART OF TRAINING YOUNG CRICKETERS.

(By R. A. H. Mitchell.)


F you want to play cricket you must begin as boy, is a true, if not an original, remark. We remember asking a member of a well-known

A six-year old

cricketing fraternity what promise a younger brother gave of future excellence, and his reply was, 'He's no good—but