AN EXCELLENT SCORER.

Evening Star, Issue 13002, 22 December 1906, Page 5

AN EXCELLENT SCORER.

It was the final match of the Tirmrptop cricket season, and as the regular scorer failed to put in an appearance a bucolic-look-ing gentleman, wearing spectacles, volunteered to officiate. “As far as that there black post counts two,” explained ono of the players, “ into the long grass is four, and over tho hedge there counts six.” Tho volunteer was confident no mistake would be made. He sharpened his pencilpoint, and for an hour and a-half sat on a tree stump, book in hand, with exemplary patience. “ ’Ow many did they get?” inquired the fielding captain at the conclusion of the innings. The spectacled gentleman spent three minutes in the intricacies of addition. “Two ’undred and fifty-six,” he announced. “Rate!” the captain remarked, rudely.

“Such a blessed lot o’ sixes,” explained the scorer. "Why, .there wasn’t a ball went within yards o’ the hedge,” roared tho captain. “ Slowed if tho same thing didn’t strike me, male,” observed the scorer: “but, to tell you the truth, my eyesight ain’t good, so, when them chaps calls out ‘ over,’ down I pops six. If you’ll take my tip, next time you play you'll get a couple o’ new hempires."