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draw the line, so that the tour may prove CDJoyable. 

 He strains every nerve to win matches, and works 

 harder than any man in the team. 



Another very popular English cricketer is Johnny 

 Briggs, as he is always called. Briggs knows his 

 audience. J. B. is the funny man of the team in the 

 field. He is never still. He seems built on wires, 

 and if he is tired he never shows it. Many a roar of 

 laughter has Briggs caused through pretending to 

 misfield a ball, and then, when the unsuspecting 

 batsman starts to run, he picks the ball up as quick 

 as lightning from between his feet, and shoots it in 

 to the wicket-keeper with unetring aim. No one 

 ever begrudges Briggs making a score. The Lan- 

 cashire man and Sid Gregory, of New South Wales, 

 are about equal for smartness in the field. I think, if 

 there be a balance it is in favour of Gregory, who is 

 the cleanest, quickest field, I think, I ever saw, and 

 he is a remarkable bat. To see Gregory and Graham 

 steal runs is a treat. In one match against Stoddart's 

 Eleven, when both made large scores, they must have 

 stolen many runs. I remember they roused the vast 

 crowd almost to a state of frenzy, by the way they 

 lashed the best bowling England could produce. 



Two fine young cricketers I saw play were Albert 

 Trott, the elder Trott's brother, and Clem. Hill, of 

 Adelaide. These young fellows ought to find a place 

 in any Australian Eleven before long. Frank Iredale 



