A PORTUGUESE VIEW OF CRICKET.

Dunstan Times, Issue 757, 20 October 1876, Page 4

A PORTUGUESE VIEW OF CRICKET.

’ “ To-morrow there was to have come -Off an interesting game *of cricket rmatch between the cricket chibs of Lisbon and Oporto. The object of the formation of these societies is the play- '• ing 6f the game of cricket match, an 1 active, 1 Jrunning, driving, jumping v game," which can only bp played by a ■person having a good pair of legs, and in a climate where'warmed punch is found insufficient to keep up 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 player close to • one of the posts throws a large ball towards the other party, who awaits r the ball to send it far with a small stick with which he is armed. The other players then run to look for the ball, and, while this search is going on, the party who struck it with the stick runs incessantly from post to post, making one for each run. It is phin, then, that it.is to 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 before they can get hold of it, and all this time the player does not

cease running from post to post and making points. Then those who find the ball arrive exhausted at the field of battle, and the one who has been running falls down half dead. At other times the projectile sent with a vigorous arm cannot be stopped, and breaks the legs of the party who awaits it.

The arrangement for the cricket

match include a sumptuous dinner in the marquee for fifty persons, an indispensable accompaniment to every cricket match. We may, perhaps, assist at this great battle, and hope the

committee will place us at a safe distance from the combatants, where the principles of the game can be seen with the help of an opera glass.”