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...English cricketers were successful in their first game against an Australian team, defeating a picked eleven of Victoria, Nov. 19 and 20, in Melbourne, by ten wickets. The English team made 273 and (no wicket down) 1, against 104 and 169. Their second game was concluded Nov. 23 in Sandhurst, and resulted in a draw, the totals being English eleven, 117; Sandhurst...
...Harvard Cricket Team defeated the Lawrence C. C. at Lawrence yesterday by nine wickets. Perkins, Wyeth and Le Moyne batted very well for Harvard, while Marshall and Holthan did the best for Lawrence. The fielding and bowling of the Harvard team was very fine, although they were somewhat out of practice. The wicket keeping of Marshall of the Lawrence Club was particularly noticeable...
With pleasure for a wicket...
...strengtheneth me for y daily duties. We have twenty recitations a week. My hardest branches are Spelling and arithmetic. In y latter I find compound fractures especially difficult Most of y college felloes are goode and pious, but there are two whom y Evil One hath enthrald. They - poor wicket creatures! do frequently sneak to a forest in the neighbouring hamlet of Watertown and do play cards, y which offence is punishable with expulsion. I pray daily that the fetlock of sin may be loosed from them, but I fear lest the devil harden their hearts against repentance...
...substitutes muffed Sullivan badly before he had made a single run, or the Mayflowers would have scored less than they did. Two muffs, also, were made by a veteran, usually the surest catch on the Eleven. Tapper and Harris, however, made good catches, and Lee as wicket keep and Bruce as long stop were very efficient. In their second innings, although the "crease" had been rolled, much to the benefit of their adversary's bowling, our Eleven scored 36. They thus just avoided a defeat by an inning, and were beaten instead by ten crickets. In this inning Jones...