THE ECLECTIC.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 9132, 17 June 1895, Page 2

THE ECLECTIC.

THE UNSELFISH CRICKETER.

The cricket ground is a wholesome training field for young Englishmen. '• It has cost mc, one way or another, a fiver to play ia this match. I have travelled 200 milea, and now I can say that I have played on a side which made 538 runs, and if I had stayed away they would only have made 535." So said a very good cricketer at the end of a two days' match, in the course of which he received three balls only, but he said it without a semblance of grumbling in his voice. Being a cricketer, he hnd learned to lose sight; of his personal failure in thinking of the success of hie side, and we hope and believe that he felt that he would rather win a match wherein he made one run Chan score a century for a losing side. Only on rare occasions do we meet a downright selfish cricketer, and then we instinctively feel that a man of his stamp would have done better had he confined his attention to the golf course, and that he is for some reasons naturally incapable of taking advantage of the countless opportunities that cricket has afforded him of conquering a selfish and ill-regulated disposition.—Ztfacfcujood's Magazine.