facts are true. My added detail is only intended to give an appearance of life and reality to my history. Let me, therefore, insist upon one vital point. I have not been

peeches are reported from first-hand sources. For instance, Ginger Stott himself has told me on more than one occasion that the words with which I closed the last section, were the actual word

p, a yard that, unfortunately, no longer exists. It has been partly built over, and ano

us hours of practice he emerged with a characteristic that was-and still remains-unique. Stott never took more than two steps before delivering the ball; frequently he bowled from a standing position, and batsmen have confessed that of all Stott's puzzling mannerisms, this was the one to which they never became accustomed. S. R. L. Maturin, the finest bat Australia ever sent to

try conclusions on the field, he found his length on the longer pitch utterly unreliable, and the

years old that Ginger Stott p

into a fine bat (and other counties were throwing out inducements to him, trying to persuade him to qualify for first-class cricket), but he found

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seven wickets were clean bowled. The Eleven had no second innings; the match was drawn, owing to rain. Stott has told m

the head of the minor counties, and Maisefield, who had been seriously considering Surrey's offer of a place in their El

but his record for the year was eighty-seven wickets with an average of 9·31; and it is worthy of not

ent members to join the ranks of first-class cricket. Lord R--, the president of the H.C.C.C., has told me that this spirit was quite as marked as in the earlier case of Kent. He

y-one wickets for eight hundred and sixty-eight (average 14·23) seems to show a decline in his powers, but that was a wonderful year for batsmen (Maisefield

wer the fast bowler. With these five cricketers Hampdenshire fully deserved their elevation into the list of first-class counties. Curiously eno