Although claims are constantly being made for consideration of youth choosing cricket representatives, so frequently happens that the faged—and even the crusted—show superior staying power. The match annually arranged by the Shangbol Cricket Club proved once more that ticket is not beyond the capacity the old gentlemen, The "under 30 team, from casual observation of the names, may have been unfortunate {in its inability to secure certain ser~ vices which normally would have been available but, even so, the in-fiction of a defeat by 40 runs does much credit to the venerable pundits who braved the heat of an August afternoon to put the babes fond sucklings in their little places.
Is true that the wiles of experience cleverly avoided the strain of I spells of bowling—only two of their doddering band sent down more than ten overs and the rest averaged a comfortable four overs among the five of them—the children relied on audacious trio who averaged 16 overs. This may have been due to the fact that the remaining infant found himself being hit for 16 runs the only over allotted to him, such was the forcefulness of old age at the wicket. In batting, too, the grey-beards believed in a nice' apportion. ment of labour, for whereas two of their opponents' side put on more than half of the inadequate total recorded, the winning team's five men with double figures, produced a highest individual score of $6 and a lowest of 23—a level average of early 37, The, corresponding five men on the other side to reach double figures ranged from 12 to 54, fu average of well under 25. It must be confessed that youth once more was outwitted by age. That explains Perhaps the craziness of the modern world, whether at erieket_ or any other yama, for everyone knows that really youth, like the customer, is always right, and that after reaching the age of thirty a man begins rapidly to go downhill,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.