Scores, how to make good, 299; diet, sleep, and exercise, 299; early training, 300; practice on ground previous to match, 300; testing pads, gloves, and shoes, 301; punctuality at wicket, 302; taking guard, 302; observation of position of field, 302; beginning of innings, 303; avoidance of sharp runs, 303; running out big hits, 304; playing balls too quickly, 304; dealing with thirst, 304; modesty in the hour of victory, 305; differing orders of wickets, 305; a fast, dry, and true wicket, 305; a fast, good, wet wicket, 307; a slow, good, dry wicket, 307; a bumpy wicket, 308; a drying, sticky wicket, 310; dealing with straight balls, 310; valuable hints, 310, 311; playing against odds, 311 Scotch cricket, 32, 194, 230 Scott’s Australian eleven, 318 Shoes, 184, 241 Single wicket, 284, 386; rules, 387; annals, 388–392 Sleep, 88 Smoking, 210 Snob-cricket, 1 Spikes, 184 Stoddart’s English team in Australia, 215, 322–323 Stool-ball, 1–4 Stump-cricket, 1 Superstition among players, 89 Sutton-in-Ashfield, the nursery of bowlers, 358 Temperament, 86 Throwing, 171 Training young cricketers, art of, 375; beginning early, 375; evils of over-coaching, 376, 380; learning to bat, 377–382; duties of the coach, 380; teaching to bowl, 382–384; fielding, 384 Trott’s Australian team, 321, 322 Umpires, 217; none in early days of cricket, 217; scoring by the ‘notcher,’ 217; rules for, in the ‘Laws of Cricket,’ 218; former custom of each side providing its own, 218; present mode of nominating, 219; source from whence drawn, 219; difficulties of, 219; deciding on question of bat or hand touching ball, 219; finality of decisions, 221; in cases of l.b.w., 223; mutinous bowlers, 225; club cricket disputes, 226; at rustic matches, 226–231; folly of giving reasons for decisions, 231; qualifications for, 232; quickness in deciding, 233; powers of concentration, 233; duties of, 234; ground-measuring and placing of stumps, 234; settlement of boundaries, 235; punctuality, 235; position at wicket, 235; crying ‘no ball,’ 236; wide ball, 237; precedence of appeal to, at bowler’s end, 238; bump balls, 239; stumping, 240; fair and unfair play, 241; at striker’s end, 241; use of common sense, 244; country specimens, 290; in Border cricket, 298 Umpires:-- Barker, Tom, 290; Bayley, J., 290; Caldecourt, 290; Good, 290; Ost, 281 Universities, bowling at the, 95, 97; captains, 207, 209, 210; teams, 274