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delivered four "no -balls" and a couple of 

 " wides," when his three next balls have been 

 hit out of bounds and twenty minutes have been 

 spent searching for them among the Vicar's calceo- 

 laria, and when the tenth ball accidentally takes 

 a \^'icket, it requires uncommon mathematical 

 gifts to enable an umpire to remember how many 

 more balls the bowler is justified in delivering. 

 In order to facilitate this arduous task some 

 umpires provide themselves mth five (or six) 

 pennies, which they place in a convenient 

 pocket, and then, as each ball is delivered, 

 transfer one of these coins to another pocket, 

 until the supply is exhausted and they may 

 conclude by a system of logical computation that 

 it is time to shout " Over !" I remember, how- 

 ever, doing this once \\'ith rather disastrous 

 results in 1885 at Tonbridge, where a Pan- 

 Anglican Synod was being held, and a cricket 

 match — " High Church v. Low Church " — had 

 been arranged between two clerical teams on the 

 county ground. (It may here be said that in 

 other respects the game proved an immense 

 attraction, and the gate-money, which was 

 devoted to a fund for the conversion of infidels 

 and heretics, is said to have achieved wonderful 

 results in Asia Minor, where the two Turkish 

 converts were so benighted that they had never 

 realized that they were infidels or heretics until 



