Bridge a few days earlier, had not foreshadowed any startling results. The truth of the matter is that Stott had been kept, deliberately, in the background; and as matters turned out his service

unnecessary such a reservation was to prove. In his third year, when Stott had been studied by every English, Austral

papers, and in company with poor Wallis i

d with him many times since then, but my most vivid memory of him is the picture re

f it which describes Stott's personal appearance. I wrote the account on the off chance of being able to get it taken. It was one of my

the desc

d. There is no need to speculate as to the raison d'être of his nickname. The hair of his head, a close, short crop, is a pale russet, and the hair on his hands and arms is a yellower shade of the same colour. 'Ginger' is, indeed, a perfectly apt description. He has

of it. I can see those queer, freckled, hairy arms of his as I write-the combination o

occasional bursts of sunshine. Would any captain in Stott's second year have dared to take first innings under such conditions? The question is farcical now, bu

box. There were only four of us; two specials,-Wallis

anging his watch and score-sheet-he was very meticulous in his methods.

He volunteered no information; Hamp

d, eh?" he said. "We'll wait and see wha

t have to

were first wicket for Surrey,

ny wicket I have ever seen. The off stump was out of

say in the professionals' room. Thorpe always had