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CRICKET.

Old Grange, 32; Richmond 125 Vine (Sevenoaks), 115 West of Scotland, 32; White Conduit, 27

Country cricket, 282; description of a rustic match in 1830, 282; dress of that period, 282; cricketing paraphernalia of the time, 283; a common warlike wind-up of the match, 284; village cricket nowadays, 284; training of village lads, 285; single wicket, 286; practice before a match, 286; sixpence on the wicket, 287; the thing to 'burn' into a young player's mind, 287; getting and saving runs, 287; management and finance, 288; subscriptions, 288; professional trainers, 286, 288; playing against strong in preference to weak teams, 289; educating the rougher element in good manners, 289; introduction of the school element, 290; a captain's reward, 290; début of Richard Humphrey, 291; expenses, 292; country umpires, 292

Cricket, history of, 1; archæology of the game, 1; Strutt on stool-ball, 3; cat-and-dog, 4; derivation of the word 'cricket,' 5; 'Miss Wicket,' 7, 11; in Queen Elizabeth's time, 7, 8; costume of cricketers in 1791, 10; the ball in 1770, 11; curved bats, 11, 24; earliest laws, 12; Mr. Love's poetical effusion, 15; A ghost at a cricket match, 15, note; Hambledon; the centre of cricket, 17; Nyren's Cricketer's Guide, 16, et seq.; Lumpy and Noah Mann, 18; David Harris, 19; William Lillywhite, 21, 22; Beldham, 25; rise of the Marylebone C C, 27; M. C C laws, 28; origin of Lord's, 27, 28; epochs in the history of the game, 31; Scotch cricket, 32; the whole art of batting, 24, 34-95; Fuller Pilch, 36, 43; W. G. Grace as a batsman, 37, 44, et seq.; C G. Lyttelton, Humphrey, and Ash, 40; Robert Carpenter, 55; scientific bowling, 21, 22, 23, 96-19C; superstitions among cricketers, 91; Willes' introduction of roundarm bowling, 98; concerning professionals, 97-106; danger of game drifting into a mere monetary speculation, 106; Spofforth, 124, 137, 322, et seq.; A. Shaw, 125; Tom Emmett, 138; Peate, 135; David Buchanan, 155; Briggs, 155; Mr. R, A. Proctor on bowling, 158; W. G. Grace as a bowler, 173; anecdote respecting W. G. Grace and Briggs, 173; bowling in Australia, 178; the genius who had discovered how to bowl shooters, 184; 'Pavilion' criticism, 202; M.C.C on declaring innings at an end, 205; Morley's geographical attainments, 207; captains and their functions, 191-217; a pattern eleven, 213-217; umpires and their duties, 218-246; a primitive match in Hampshire, 230; the umpire