[20] See also his _Wiccamical Chaplet_, 1804, where there is an excellent ‘Cricket Song’ (p. 131 to 133) for the Hambledon Club, Hants, 1767, in the course of which the following names of cricketers occur: Nyren, Small, Buck, Curry, Hogsflesh, Barber Rich (‘whose swiftness in bowling was never equalled yet’), ‘Little George, the longstop, and Tom Suter, the Stumper,’ Sackville, Manns, Boyton, Lanns, Mincing, Miller, Lumpy, Francis.--C. W. [21] _The Cricketers Guide_, fourth edition, _s. a._, p. 58. [22] The Bishop of St. Andrews can remember when the creases were cut, before chalk was used. [23] _Cricket_, An Heroic Poem, illustrated with the critical observations of Scriblerus Maximus. By James Love, Comedian, London. Printed for the Author, MDCCLXX. (Price, One Shilling.) [24] Talking of appearances, there is just one story of a ghost at a cricket match. He took great interest in the game, and went home in a dog-cart as it seemed to the spectators, though he (the real man, not the wraith) was on his death-bed at a considerable distance. The spectral dog-cart is the puzzle of the Psychical Society. The scene of the apparition was the cricket ground of a public school. [25] The edition of Nyren’s _Cricketer’s Guide_, used here, is the fourth, London, _s. a._ I owe it to Mr. Gerald Fitzgerald. Any cricketer who has borrowed my own copy of the Editio Princeps will oblige me by returning it.--A. L. [26] _Sketches of the Players_, p. 23. [27] Nyren, _op. cit._ p. 50. [28] It was three or five--I forget which. I know it was the _lowest score_ he had that year!--C. W. [29] Was this so? The long scores caused the introduction of round-hand bowling. From among my brother’s papers (late Bishop of Lincoln) a letter has lately been returned to me which contains the following:--‘Christ Church, Oxford: May 24, 1831.--Cricket, I suppose, does not interest you; but you may like to know that in three following innings, on three following days last week, I got 328 runs. Christ Church has been playing--and beating--the University.’--C. W. [30] My experience, in one respect, is, I suppose, unique. Hitting a leg-ball, I alarmed the umpire, who turned round, and I was caught by the wicket-keeper off his back! Naturally enough--but yet--justly? he gave me out!--C. W. [31] London, 1776, p. 76. CHAPTER II. BATTING. (BY THE HON. R. H. LYTTELTON.) [Illustration: FIG. 1.--The champion.]