A FOREIGNER ON CRICKET.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1004, 25 July 1883, Page 4

A FOREIGNER ON CRICKET.

Therfe are Englishmen in Portugal, and wherever there are Englishmen, of course there-will be cricket. Clubs have been established at Lisbon and Oporto, and it | was on the occasion of a match between these clubs that a * sporting Lisbon journalist thus cleverly explained, in a leading Lisbon"'piper,.- the nature of the game for the instruction and, perhaps, amusement—of his countrymen. His account, translated, is as follows: — u Cricket-match. To-morrow there is tp, cqii¥' ! otf an interesting game ’of fcricklt-match between the cricket a pi Lisbon and. Oporto. The object of the formation of these societies is the playing of the game of crickefc-rhatch, an active, running driving, jumping game, .which only can be played by a person having a good pair ot legs, and in a climate where warmed punch is found insufficient to keep up the animal’heat.. Does the reader wish to know how to play at cricket-match ? Two posts are placed at a great distance from one another. The close to one of the posts, throfts'a large ball towards the other party, who awaits the ball to send it far with a small stick with which he is armed. The other players then run to look lojf the ball, and while this search is paftjr who struck it with the stioLjuns instantly from post to post, makih|-oneJpt.each run. IMS plain, then, that it is for the advantage of the party who strikes the ball to make it jump ■ very far. -Sometimes it tumbles into a thicket, and the players take hours be- ' /ore they can get hold of it, and all this time:the: player does not cease tunning from post ,to post and making points. Then those 1 who find the ball arrive, exhausted, at the field of battle and the ; rqne jffoo has been running between the posts falls down half-dead. At other times the projectile, sent with a vigorous arm, cannot be stopped, and breaks the legs of the_patty who awaits ' arrangements for the game of cricket-match include a sumptuous dinner in a marquee of 50 persons— ; r- hßr indispensable accompaniment to ’ £vefy cricket match. ! We (sporting editor) may perhaps assist at this great teble, and hope the - committee will place us at a safe distance from the combatants, where the principles of the gatnfe 6f cricket-match can be seen with the aid of an ppera glass.”,. Such is the rtpble: gaine as described by a foreigner.