Related article: and pleasure. He had a special
preference Purchase Sotalol for his " sporting *'
pupils, and a "fiver" was the
usual fee for an hour a day's
cramming for an examination to
the favoured few I As a don of
his college he had to keep up a
'semblance of dignity as occasion
required it. The only time he
expostulated with me was once
when, in a hurry, I went for my
" hour ** in a red coat. I had
often gone in breeches and boots,
but the red coat brought forth,
** Come, come, you really mustn't
come again like this." To early
morning chapel I have been in
hunting togs, covered with the
sober coverings of everyday life,
when the meet was a far-off one.
Once I had to leave chapel in the
middle of the service as my nose
was bleeding. Immediately after
the service I was** sent for." I
heard afterwards that I was sus-
pected of having tried a ** plant,"
but it was a base libel, as my an-
swer to the summons proved ; but
they thought they had caught me!
Half days with hounds are not
satisfactory ; either you have to
leave just as the best sport is
commencing, or else after starting
in the middle of the day you fail
to find hounds at all. The alter-
native, of course, was ** larking ";
but farmers, notwithstanding all
their proverbial good nature, ob-
jected to their hurdles and fences
being smashed more than once
and away, and a climax arrived
when a party of us were fired on
by an exasperated agriculturist ,
the shots whizzing in far too near
a proximity to my ears. A council
of war was held in my rooms. I
reminded the company that there
had been an ** Oxford University
Drag," a well-known picture of
one of the best-known runs, hung
in many a college room, a promi-
nent portrait in the scene being
that of ** Jemmy" Allgood nego-
tiating Waterperry brook. (The
Rev. James Allgood succeeded
his brother, and is now Squire of
Nun wick in Northumberland.)
The idea caught on. A formal
meeting was called, and I had the
honour of being elected the first
master and huntsman of the re-
vived pack of draghounds. If I
remember rightly, this was before
we ** went down " for the long
vacation, and the whole thing was
left to me to get into shape before
the October term.
Unsatisfied Umpires.
One of the features of the cricket
season of 1900 has been the action
of James Phillips, the Anglo-
Australian umpire, with regard to
the question of no -balling the
deliveries of bowlers of whose
absolute fairness he has not been
satisfied. It will be remembered
that in October, 1899, *^® ^""
thorities extended the power of
calling no-ball to both umpires,
and Law 48, as revised, reads as
follows : — ** If either umpire be not
satisfied of the absolute fairness of
the delivery of Buy Sotalol Online any ball, he shall
call no- ball." Thus the umpire
who was in Purchase Sotalol Online days anterior to the
revision of this law for the time,
so to speak, **off duty," and
standing at square leg, has now
an important voice in the question
of fair bowling, and since he has
the advantage of being able to
concentrate his attention entirely
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UNSATISFIED UMPIRES.
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upon the arm -work of the bowler,
free from the handicap which is
imposed upon the umpire at the
bowler's end of looking both at
the bowler's feet and the bowling
crease at the moment the ball is
delivered, it would seem that the
square-leg umpire has perhaps
the best opportunity of judging
of the fairness of the delivery of
this or that bowler. It is cer-
tainly astonishing that through
all the years Buy Sotalol during which cricket
has survived the perils of its own
legislation this simple law should
never have come into operation
before. Although there have
always flourished of late years
some bowlers whose delivery has
been openly and to a great extent
adversely criticised by the crick-
eters who played with and
against them — more regularly, of
course, by the latter — there have
been singularly few instances of
their being no-balled, and that
despite the fact that the law was
years ago specially adjusted by
the Marylebone Cricket Club to
impose upon the umpire the duty
of calling no-ball, not because he
felt convinced that the delivery
was an unfair one, but because he
" was not satisfied of the absolute
fairness of the delivery Order Sotalol of any ball."
Now this Law 48 is an ex-
tremely powerful instrument, and
like all extremely powerful instru-
ments, is an extremely dangerous
one, for it gives to either umpire
in any match the absolute au-
thority to stop, by his own
despotic determination, the bowl-
ing of any person bowling in the
match. The fate of the bowler
depends not upon his being con-
victed of throwing or jerking, but
simply upon the action of any
umpire who will frame an indict-
ment against him charging the
bowler with the offence or not
satisfying the umpire as to the
absolute fairness of his delivery.
Here is a law giving absolute
power to any umpire to charge
and sentence and execute any
bowler who may come under his
supervision, and this without there
being any sort of remedy or op-
portunity of raising a defence on
behalf of the accused, who can be
stopped from bowling another ball
in the match in which he has
been brought to book, and has to
spend the remainder of bis days
under the cloud of suspicion and
the disgrace of having been pub-
licly no-balled without any possi-
bility of being reinstated on
appeal.
In drawing attention to this
aspect of the law, we in no way
desire to express any opinion
against the merits of the law as it
stands, for it is an interesting
law, and owes its origin to the
loose ethics of the umpires of the
day preceding its birth ; at a time
when some bowlers satisfied no
one of their absolute fairness, ex-
cept, indeed, the umpires, and
the umpires, desirous enough of
avoiding any trouble, would tole-
rate almost any delivery rather
than face the bother of calling
no-ball and attempting to main-
tain, to the dissatisfaction of the
culprit and his supporters, that
he was obviously possessed of an
unfair delivery. By altering the
law so as to give power to the
umpire to no- ball any delivery of
which he had the slightest doubt,
a great chance was given Order Sotalol Online to those Generic Sotalol
guardians of law and order to do
their duty and stop, at any rate,
the more flagrant offenders ; but
actually little was done in this
way. In the early days of the
reformation umpires were shy of