CASUALTIES ON LAUD AND WATER.

Otago Witness, Issue 1762, 29 August 1885, Page 8

CASUALTIES ON LAUD AND WATER.

(.From the London Daily Sportemaii.) That untoward events ocrasfonall.v nfctend the deservedly popular game of cricket most people must be well aware. Those who saw Mr Blacliham, tho Australian, indulge in an Impromptu P«s seul a few days ago at Lord's, on a crickct-luill and his- knuckles becoming intimately acquainted, would not for a moment be under the impression that? his gymnastic display was a more ebullition of playful Hght-hearfr eduess. ' The truth is he had stopped one of Ulyett's lightning deliveries with the back of his bare handt and he is'by no means anxious to repeat the experiment. I have had the curiosity to endeavour to ascertain how the Australians have continued day after day to put in an appearance at the wickets in such grand form and to display such untiring energy. Of course they, like other devotees of the game, are subject to the ill-effects of bruises, to sprains of a • more or less severe character, and to that stiffness of the muscles and joints which so often results from extra bodily exertion. MX G. ALEXANDER, who 1:\ addition to managing the business affairs of the team, seems to have undertaken in some respects the functions of medical adviser, most cheerfully accorded every information. In a manner his confreres have met with a fair share of disaster during their trip. No fewer tban four or five have at one time or another been placed temporarily hors de combat, whilst others suffered from minor afflictions Which they could not afford the time to humour, mid which, therefore, had to be borne with the best possible grace under the circumstances. At home, he observed, they haa ab hand a peculiar, simple, ■wonderfully efficacious, and, at the same time, remarkably inexpensive remedy for sprains, soreness, stiffness of the joints, contusions, and the like. He had, however, run out of the comparatively limited stock he had brought with him, and on making an inquiry he had learned to his chagrin that he could not obtain the preparation In England. This had caused some consternation amongst "the boys, 1 and •everal who were slightly affected had declined to try any other remedy. Questioned as to this comv pound, he remarked that it was St. Jacobs Oil, the potency of which in the removal of pain they had experienced many a time and oft. A curious thing about this Oil was the extreme rapidity with which It performed its good offices. " Don't go fooling about and wasting time, but get to' business at once, 1 suggested, and a hearty acquiescence was given. To his delight Mr Alexander was soon put in possession of the information that the Oil had been introduced to the British public, and he wasted no time In obtaining a stock. I have since seen a letter from him, in which he announces that he carries asupply of Bx. JACOBS Oil with him for use in any emergency, and intends to continue to do so. MB H. F. BOYLE was cqualfy *eady to bear testimony to the virtues of the preparation. He had personal experience of its value, and certainly looked upon it as almost a necessary item of his cricketing outfit. Moreover, he knewmanyatblefces in Australia who were equally as ardent admirers of the Oil as he was, and he told how the medicament had become quite famous right throughout the great Antipodean Colonies. It was rapldin its action, gave speedy relief from pain, and its effects were not evanescent, but permanent. Ferhapa, it was Intimated, no one knew it* beneficial properties better than MB BLAOKHAM,' who had taken an undue proportion of the knocking about that had fallen to the share of the team. He had been, braised and battered at short intervals, but went through the ordeal most manfully, and quickly resumed his duties with no diminution of ardour. That crack on the knuckles he incurred in London had called for the broaching of "a bottle' —■not of spirituous liquor, but of St. Jacobs Oil, so that the punishment unwittingly administered by Ulyetfc -would speedily be forgotten. Then, again, there was MB SPOFFOETH, y/luf In May last received a terrible blow whilst taking part in a mat-eh in London. The bruise he had to exhibit was of ghastly proportions, but it gradually disappeared, whilst its pain succumbed to the aU-Dowerfur .specific. In short, better testimonials as to the real virtues of the Oil could not possibly be obtained than those voluntarily and cheerfully accorded by the Australian cricketers, who pin their ifaith on "that which has proved trustworthy in an infinitude of trials. EDWARD TEIOKBTT, the eelehrafced j&nstralian oarsman— looked upon by many as the champion of the world— gave the reporter of a Sydney. ,New South Wales, paper, tpe benefit of his pronounced opinion of what is best for the muscles under strain, ftndfor all aches and pains. He «id: " St. Jacobs OH><e»red'me of severe pains In the hack, and I have found ft a sure and certain cure, and one unequalled by any other remedy. It ia pleasant, 6afe and sure, penetrating at once to the seat of disease and eradicating the complaint without further trouble." That and a good athletic training, he further said, is what our young men want. i JOHN EOLFE. •the ' Champion Bicyclist of Australia, In an interview i with a repwter of the Melbourne. Australia, Argus, j igives hiß experience, and a good deal of sound advice, m the use of <fee limbs and the treatment of the | muscles, in which he says •. " During my recent sixdays' contest, held in the Melbourne Exhibition Building, and after riding for eight consecutive tours each day, viz., from naif-past two until half past ten, my limbs would become sore and stiff from over-exertion. I desire to add, therefore, my cheerful endorsement of the good effects I have at all times received from the use of St. Jacobs Oil, when in active training and racing. lam positive it aided me to win the match, and I shall never enter another contest without it. As further proof, after the contest I rode a hundredmiles against time. After being •well rubbed.with the Oil all muscular pain immediately vanished. I strongly advise all wheelmen and otfetyr athletes to give it a trial." Mr Rolfe further said {{'was his boon companion, and be would nob he without it. fioffiofent ha 3 doubtless been said to prove that thiM preparation W fairly established its reputation as * application in a great variety of cases. The testimony of the" celebrated athletes I have named is specially valuatiS, inasmuch as they have subjected the Oil to as severe* -tests as could be imagined, tf hat it will speedily" attain great and sraiveraal nofcorietyin the British J«les is beyond all question, and the more it is used the tjwre Bpontane.oualy forthcomiag will be the grateful tribute to its jinnate worth and its marvellous power.