A FOREIGNER ON CRICKET.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1097, 26 April 1883, Page 1

A FOREIGNER ON CRICKET.

There are Englishmen in Portugi and wherever there are Englishmen course there will be cricket. Clu have been established at Lisbon a: Oporto, and it wai on the occasion a match between these clubs that sporting Lisbon journalist thus clever explained, in a leading Lisbon papi the nature of the game for the instil tion—and, perhaps, amusement —of \ countrymen, His account, translate is as follows:— * Cricket match. T morrow there is to come off an interet ing game of cricket match between ti cricket clubs of Lisbon and Oporl The object of the formation of the societies is the playing of the game match, an active, running, driviti jumping game, which only can be play ly a person having a "good pair of le and in a climate where warmed pan is found insufficient to keep up t animal heat. Does the reader wantknow how to play at cricket matcl Two posts are placed at a great di tance from one another. The play close to one of the posts throws a lar ; ball towards the other party, w awaits the ball to send it far with small stick with which ho is arme The other players then run to look i the ball, and while this search is goii on the party who struck it-~with t stick runs instantly from post to poi making one for each run. "It it plai then, that it is for the advantage of t party who strikes the ball to make jump very far. Sometimes it tumbl into a thicket, and the players tal hours before tney can get hold ot and ail this time the player does n cease running from post to post ai making points. Then those who fii the ball arrive, exhausted, at the fi« of battle, and the one who had be running between the posts falls dot half dead. At other times tha proj« tile, sent with a vigorous arm, cann be stopped, and breaks the legs of t party who awaits it. The arrangrmcn for the game of cricket match include sumptuous dinner in a marquee for i persons—an indispensable accompai ment to every cricket match. \ (sporting editor) may perhaps ass: at this great table, and hope t committee will place us at a si distance from the combatants, win the principles of, the, game of crick match can be seen with the aid of \ opera glass." Such is the noble gaij as described by a foreigner.