LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Tossing for Innings[Frontispiece]
Cricket as played in the Artillery Ground,London, in 1743To face page[1]
The Royal Academy Club in MaryleboneFields[2]
A Match in Battersea Fields[3]
An Exact Representation of the Game ofCricket[6]
The Game of Cricket[16]
The Cricket Field near White Conduit House[17]
The Noble Game of Cricket[18]
A Match on the Heath[29]
“Cricket.” After the painting in Vauxhall Garden[36]
A Ticket for a Cricket Match in 1744[40]
William and Thomas Earle[41]
Mr. James Henry Dark[44]
Mr. Thos. Hunt[45]
“Block or Play”[52]
“Forward Play”[53]
The Draw or Pull[65]
The Leg Volley[66]
The Cut[67]
Eighteenth-Century Bats[70]
Celebrated Bats[71]
War-worn Weapons[72]
Relics of Past Engagements[73]
George Parr[74]
N. Felix[75]
The Bowler (Alfred Mynn)[79]
William Lillywhite[84]
John Wisden[85]
Alfred Mynn[92]
James Cobbett[93]
William Lillywhite[98]
William Clarke, etc.[99]
Lord’s Ground early in the Nineteenth Century[106]
One Arm and One Leg Match[107]
A Match at the Gentlemen’s Club, WhiteConduit House, Islington[110]
The Kennington Oval in 1849[117]
The Cricket Field at Rugby[124]
A Match in the Eighties[125]
Kent v. Sussex at Brighton[137]
A Cricket Match (about 1756)[148]
A Curious County Club Advertisement[152]
Grand Female Cricket Match[153]
The Batsman (Fuller Pilch)[156]
An Old “Play” Bill[174]
Rural Sports[182]
The Cricket Ground at Darnall, near Sheffield[190]
The Earl of March[193]
Mr. J. H. Dark, Hillyer, The Umpire Martingell[200]
Fuller Pilch[201]
Portrait of a Youth[208]
William Doorinton[209]
George Parr[214]
Thomas Box[222]
Dr. W. G. Grace[228]
Youth with a Cricket Bat[236]
An Eleven of Miss Wickets[248]
The Honourable Spencer Ponsonby[260]
A Cricket Song[272]
A Lyric of the Cricket Field[273]
Salvadore House, Tooting, Surrey[298]
Cricket Ground, Todmorden[299]
Cricket at Rugby in 1837[304]
Cambridge University Students playing Cricket, 1842[305]
The Corinthians at Lord’s in 1822[320]
A Match in 1805[328]
Miss Wicket and Miss Trigger[344]
A Country-House Cricket Match[352]
A Village Match in 1768[361]
“‘Out,’ so don’t fatigue yourself, I beg, Sir!”[370]
A Cricketer[371]
Village Cricket in 1832[374]
Cricket at Hampton Wick[375]
An Eighteenth-Century Caricature[381]
A Parliamentary Match[386]
A Match at Igloolie between H.M. Ships Fury and Hecla[392]
A State Match[398]
The Soldier’s Widow or Schoolboys’ Collection[402]
Old Charlton Church and Manor House[415]
Cricket’s Peaceful Weapons[432]
At the End of the Innings (William Beldham)[433]
From a Painting byFrancis Hayman, R.A.

CRICKET, AS PLAYED IN THE ARTILLERY GROUND, LONDON, IN 1743.