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next over. Kearsey who succeeded also fell to Sheppard, caught by Bett.

Browne, who followed, helped Hitchcock to make things livelier, till his partner fell a victim to Keeling. Crowhurst and Browne played out time being not out with 2 and 24 respectively.

Our bowling succeeded better than was expected. The fielding was fair. Catches were held, but there was an absence of smart picking up. Balls were often stopped, but were not handled and returned at once. Practice will remedy that. But what shall be said of the batting? To lose the four presumably best wickets in four overs is a very bad beginning of the season. The Marlburian critic has not the courage to try to explain the collapse, he prefers to leave it as one of the mysteries of cricket, with fervent hopes it may never occur again. Score:

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HOUSE MATCH.-1ST TIES.

GOULD'S (STAR) V. BAKER'S (FLEUR DE LYS).

This match was played on May 8th, 11th, and 12th, and resulted in a victory for Gould's, chiefly through the excellent scoring of Cheales, whose pre-eminence in batting turned the scale in what otherwise would have been a very equal contest. Gould's won the toss and scored 169. Of this number Cheales, who went in first and saw the whole side out, made 103. The first part of his innings was lucky, as he was more than once missed, but later on he settled down and completely mastered the bowling, scoring quickly and safely from each successive change. Barnes made a good stand when it was wanted, and played carefully for his 12. Dundas hit luckily, and Grylls showed patient defence. The fielding of Baker's was not good, many, almost innumerable chances being declined. Baker's innings produced 96, of which Miles made 17 by some steady play. Kitcat played and ran well for 26, but succumbed to a full pitch. Olivier, after some free hitting, was well caught by Latter, and Prest, who played a promising innings, was not out for 8. Gould's fielding, though somewhat superior to their opponents', was far from good, Cheales being a brilliant exception, and Hayhurst and Latter, who held some good catches, deserving commendation. Hayhurst's bowling, both in this and the following innings, was good and straight. In Gould's second Cheales was again to the fore, making 66, this time without any chance, and playing a sound and masterly innings. Grylls was the only other batsman who made double figures, his 35 being compiled by steady play. Latter and Dawson-Thomas shewed some promise. Baker's, with 209 to win, were all out for 111. Of these Allen made 53 by some good hitting, after being missed off Cheales from his first ball. Kitcat again played well, but fell to a good ball from Dawson-Thomas, and Browne made a plucky stand with Allen, bringing up the score from 56 to 96. After Allen's fall, through pulling at a half-volley, the rest soon fell, and the close of the

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taking advantage of them. Perhaps Cadell was most roughly used, having no less than half a dozen catches missed off his bowling. Back was bowled for 25, Davis leg before for a similar number. Ferguson-Davie hit merrily for 28. Buchanan

was 98 not out at the end of the day.

On the 4th day of the contest Casson soon lost his wicket-the last one-but not until Buchanan had made his 98 into 101, compiled with care and Littlefield patience in spite of several chances. wanted 108 to win. Two wickets fell for 2 runs, and things looked hopeful for Horner's; but when Padwick joined Lazenby, while the latter played carefully, the former shewed that though he had a strained side, and was unable to bowl in the 2nd innings, he still was partial to straight half volleys, and long-hops to the off. Padwick (67 not out), and Lazenby (41 not out) thus finished the match without the loss of another wicket. Score as under :

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This match began on May 8th on Lynes' end of the XI.and lasted through four days or portions of days. Horner's having won the toss, sent in Buchanan and Griffith, who made a short stand. But after this the wickets fell fast, and they were all out for the small total of 51, Buchanan (12), C. W. Kaye (10), E. P. Kaye (12) being the only ones to reach double figures. Padwick's analysis reads 4 wickets for 11

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Littlefield sent in O'Neill and Chaine, the latter of whom was soon disposed of. Lazenby and O'Neill played out time, their scores being O'Neill 23, Lazenby 15. These two continued their innings on May 10th. Lazenby failed to add to his score, and Padwick was out by a crooked ball of Davis, which struck him on the shoulder and rolled into the wicket. O'Neill played

carefully for 66 without a chance; Petrie (28), Brown (12), Cadell (14) also reached double figures. The innings closed for 163. Horner's lost one wicket before stumps were drawn, the score being 18 for 1 wicket.

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in the end by nine runs. The game lasted three half holidays and three fag days, being begun on Saturday, May 17th, and finished on Monday, May 26th.

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1ST DAY.-Way's won the toss on a hard true wicket, and were in the whole day. Hildebrand and Lane began the venture, but the former was fortunately bowled off his shoulder when but 4 runs had been scored. Bucknall and Lane took the score to 29, when the latter was caught and Meyrick-Jones came in. He and Bucknall raised the score to 52 by a series of twos and singles before Bucknall was out, and Firth came in. Meyrick-Jones and he added 40 before the former was bowled by Chaine, who with similar balls quickly disposed of Bett and Robertson. P. E. Bucknall knocked up 10 and was caught at long leg, the next ball proving fatal to Firth. Ellis and Krüger patiently played out time. Score 129 for eight wickets.

2ND DAY.-Ellis proved in unexpectedly good form, and before Krüger, who played very steadily, and Bett were bowled he had compiled an useful 24 not out. Littlefield went in against 162 and began badly, Petrie and O'Neill being almost immediately bowled by Bett. Padwick and Lazenby played out time, but did not seem much at home with the bowling.

3RD DAY.-The same pair continued their innings and completely collared the bowling. They added 70 runs before Padwick, who had just previously been missed at mid-off, was taken in the slips for a freely hit 53 in which were one 8, two 6's, two 5's, one 4, and four 3's. Way's troubles were not nearly over yet. Chaine and Lazenby stayed together some time till the latter was bowled by Hildebrand for an excellent 40. Evans made 13, in which were ten singles, and Chaine almost imperceptibly by twos and singles amassed 49 before he was bowled. At call of time the score was 188 for eight wickets.

4TH DAY.-Yeames and E. D. Padwick were the not outs but the latter was bowled immediately. Willis and Yeames, however, made a determined resistance to the bowling and added 24 runs before the latter was taken at mid-on. Scores, 212 or 50 to the good. Against such a considerable balance

Way's went in in rather low spirits, and were not encouraged by three of the successful batsmen of the first innings being out before 20 was hoisted on the board.

5TH DAY.-Ellis, the not out, and Firth proceeded to the wickets with the score at 19, and stayed together some time, Ellis doing by far the larger part of the scoring, and when Petrie bowled Firth the score had risen to 49. Robertson followed in and made 8 in five hits, four of which were possible chances; Littlefield at this point of the game fielded badly, possibly becoming over-confident. Bett and Hildebrand played well and made valuable contribu. tions to the score sheet. About this time Ellis was c & b to Cadell for an invaluable and most praiseworthy 52, the highest innings of his side, and without which Way's second innings would have been a collapse. The rest were soon out with the total at 126. This left Littlefield 76 to win; as they had made nearly three times this total in their first essay, the match was generally considered a safe thing for them. However, Way's determined to do all they knew, and were greatly inspirited by O'Neill, Petrie, and Chaine being all caught off Hildebrand's bowling with the score at 14. Padwick and Lazenby, however, were together; Way's remembered that the two in their partnership in the first innings had made over 70 runs, and their hearts sank, as they both appeared to be in good form, and the telegraph quickly showed 50 for 3 wickets or only 26 to win. Accordingly Bett, who had been bowling steadily without success, crossed over and Ellis took his place, and to the inexpressible delight of Way's the change took immediate effect, Ellis yorking Padwick and Bett bowling Lazenby. Both had played well for their runs and were unlucky in being out in the last two overs of the day.

6TH DAY.-Littlefield now wanted 21 runs to win and had 5 wickets to fall. In the first innings these 5 wickets had put on 50 runs, so there seemed every prospect of their making the necessary 21. Brown and Evans were the two not outs. Meyrick-Jones and Bett shared the bowling. Bett was hit twice for 3 and Meyrick-Jones had two singles hit off him, one of which ought to have been a safe catch by long-off. As Littlefield had now made half the required runs, and no wicket had fallen the bowlers changed ends, and Meyrick-Jones instantly found the spot. His second ball bowled Evans; off his third, Yeames was taken at the wicket. The first ball of the next over bowled Cadell, and Bett, with the last ball of his over, bowled Brown, who alone had notified to the

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still half an hour left, Hart-Smith's sent in Poynton and Martyn, the former of whom, after hitting a 4 to leg, was caught in the slips. Play then ceased for the day.

TUESDAY, MAY 20TH.-Sale and Martyn continued their innings, and the latter was soon bowled by Ashfield. Meyrick joined Sale but the union did not last long, as Sale soon left, 34: 3: 13. Meyrick made 13, but no one else reached double figures, and the total of the innings was 74. Ford's began their innings with 78 to make to win, which seemed not

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HOUSE MATCH-2ND TIES.

FORD'S (MALTESE CROSS) v. HART-SMITH'S

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FIRST DAY, SATURDAY MAY 17TH.-This match was remarkable for the tameness of play exhibited on both sides, as the low scoring shows. Ford's did not win by their fielding, as several catches were missed: Hart-Smith's were better in this respect, but were expected to make many more runs than they actually did. Owing to the fastness of the ground, the bowling on both sides was good. Hart-Smith's won the toss and sent in Meyrick and Poynton, who remained a long time till Poynton was caught in the slips. Sale came in and knocked up 14 in a short time, though he gave two chances. The most remarkable feature of this period of the game was Bull's innings, for he made 2 runs and gave 3 chances

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AT the end of last term the Society had a Field day to Swindon, to go over the G.W.R. Company's Works. Twenty-three members went, and the excursion proved very enjoyable and instructive.

The first meeting this term was held on May 15th. A. C. Champneys, Esq., lectured on "English Poems and Books a thousand years ago." He dealt with that part of our literature which is commonly called Anglo-Saxon, a convenient term-if Mr. Freeman would allow its use-for our own language, when it possessed as elaborate an apparatus of formative terminations and syntactical rules as ever were possessed by Greek or Latin, and which fell with the Norman Conquest and became degraded, if such a useful process as the stripping off of distinction of gender can be called a "degradation," till revived by Chaucer. Of all dialects of this language, the West Saxon, the court dialect, was the most important. Its literature contains first religious poems, such as Caedmon's Metrical Paraphrase of the Bible. Caedmon, who used to retire in shame from the "beer-drinking' to the cow-stall because he could not sing, was led to poetry by a vision (so the Greeks told how Aeschylus had a vision of Dionysus when a boy; the god bade him attempt tragic poetry, and when he awoke, he did so and found it very easy). Next songs of adventure, like the Battles of Brunanburh and Malden, translations of which may be found in "Songs of English Heroism," and above all and earlier than all, the song of Beowulf. Then the lecturer gave us some of the story of Beowulf, with translations of passages, telling of the great fight with Grendel, the feu demon, whose home was in the marshes, under the cliffs, whom Beowulf, the man who had the strength of thirty men in his hand-grip, slew; and of the still more weird fight with Grendel's mother at the bottom of the lake. In listening to this we thought that though in little touches and naive phrases the poem recalls Homer, in the overgrowth of the purely descriptive element, whereby the picture itself loses distinctness and the central action becomes obscured in a maze of superadded detail, it is wholly unlike the clear atmosphere of Homer.

Passing from Beowulf the lecturer turned to prose and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a mere jotting down of contemporaneous events, with earlier history "up to date," written from what material existed, aided by the imagination. As a contemporary chronicle it is an invaluable document, such as no other nation possesses for its early history. Perhaps the most interesting passage in the lecture was the account of Alfred laboriously learning that he might teach, turing "Sometimes word by word and sometimes sense by sense, as I learned it from Plegmund my archbishop, and Asser my bishop, and Grimbold my mass-priest, and John my mass-priest," and sending his books so written to his bishops, not without a

marker, and injunctions how to keep marker and book safe. All this may be read in his preface to the English Version of the Regula Pastoralis of Pope Gregory.

The evening closed with a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Champneys.

On Saturday, May 24th, the society had a Fieldday to Bincknoll, or Bynoll (the spelling varies according to the taste of the writer or his knowledge of Etymology). The place proved too difficult to produce much sketching-work, but the day was a pleasant one, and we were enabled to cast a hasty glance at the mound and stones of Avebury on the way thither.

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