CRICKET RELICS AT LORD’S

Waipa Post, Volume 37, Issue 2227, 27 October 1928, Page 6

CRICKET RELICS AT LORD’S

Cricketers and cricket lovers from all over the cricketing world who are in London this siufmmer have made a point of visiting the Mecca of all cricketers, the pavilion at Lord’s (says the Daily Mail). In every room are prints and paintings of early cricket matches, the finest collection of the. kind in the world. One may see the scorer counting the -runs by cutlting notches in a stick, the fielders in wigs, and the umpire with his three-cornered hat. Then there are two stumps, with the bail resting on a fork at the top. and above them a picture of how the stumps were used, with the bowler bowling under hand and the wicketkeeper trying to stump the bailsmen by placing the ball in the block hole under the wickets. Women are amazed at one picture, dated 1779, of women playing in a cricket match. True, the fielders appear tlo be more interested in gossip, but there is the batsman, in a voluminous skirt, the bowler almost kneeling on the two stumps, the scorer, and the wicket-keeper, all women. And most interesting of all is the tossing guinea— a large coin, 6in. across, which was formerly used for choice of innings.