It is Lord Harris also who gives the advice: “Don’t, when you give a chance off your glove, rub your elbow: it is not good form, and will not deceive an efficient umpire.”
With regard to the second paragraph quoted above, the crack bat of a very good club, who was addicted to finding some special reason for getting out, varied it on one occasion, when a “bailer” had him first ball. He put on a judicially satisfied air, and remarked in a loud and cheerful voice, “I’m not a bit ashamed! It was a splendid ball; might have bowled anyone: not a bit ashamed!”
In 1895 no fewer than 22 first eleven matches were played, with the following results:
Won, 13; lost, 7; drawn, 2 (both in Britannia’s favour).
The second eleven won 13 and lost 4; and the third eleven, playing “foreign” matches for the first time, won 3 and lost 1.
A great season this; certainly no school could hope to display greater keenness about cricket, and few would attain such a measure of success.
There was a great match against Mannamead School, in which only cadets played, on June 12th.
A fine example of even scoring—three in the forties and two in the thirties.
The hero of “cock’s score,” Cadet Bedwell, does not appear to have been put on to bowl, or, at any rate, he achieved no success; but in the following effusion he seems to be selected for distinction—perhaps in irony, being more of a bat than a bowler.