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CRICKET.

minster, 351; Winchester, 328, 350; Wykeham, 328, 329,351

Reforms in cricket suggested, 400; grounds, 400; evils of big scoring, 401; economy of time, 403, 404; keeping spectators out of ring when innings is over, 405; boundaries, 404; rabbit nets, 405; round-arm bowling, 406; checking big run-getting, 407; leg before wicket, 407-410; umpires, 409; bowlers, 411; declaring innings at an end, 412; increase in the number of balls in an over, 412

Regimen, 212

Rounder, 1, 2

Rustic match, a, in 1830, 282

Scores, how to make good, 300; diet, sleep, and exercise, 300; early training, 301; practice on ground previous to match, 301; testing pads, gloves, and shoes, 302; punctuality at wicket, 303; taking guard, 303; observation of position of field, 303; beginning of innings, 304; avoidance of sharp runs, 304; running out big hits, 305; playing balls too quickly, 305; dealing with thirst, 305; modesty in the hour of victory, 306; differing orders of wickets, 306; a fast, dry, and true wicket, 306; a fast, good, wet wicket, 308; a slow, good, dry wicket, 308; a bumpy wicket, 309; a drying, sticky wicket, 311; dealing with straight balls, 311; divers valuable hints, 311, 312; playing against odds, 312

Scotch cricket, 32, 198, 232

Scott's Australian eleven, 319

Shirts, 388

Shoes, 188, 243, 392

Single wicket, 286, 381; rules, 382; annals of the game, 383-387

Sleep, 90

Smoking, 212

Snob cricket, 1

Socks, 392

Spikes, 188

Stool ball, 1-4

Stump-cricket, 1

Subscriptions, 288

Superstition among players, 91

Sutton-in-Ashfield, the nursery of bowlers, 355

Sweaters, 391

Temperament, 89

Throwing, 175

Training young cricketers, art of, 370; beginning early, 370; evils of over-coaching, 371, 375; learning to bat, 372377; duties of the coach, 375; teaching to bowl, 377-380; fielding, 379

Trousers, 389

Umpires, 218; none in early days of cricket, 218; scoring by the 'nolcher,' 218; rules for, in the 'Laws of Cricket,'