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Rh calculations. As William Lillywhite was the first round-hand bowler of any note, so may he be considered our first hero. What his prowess may have been if he had played on our wickets it is impossible to say, but he must have been a bowler of great accuracy, not because he was hardly ever known to have bowled a wide (for this might have been said of Alfred Shaw and many others), but because of the amazing number of wickets which he got. It is difficult to take up any score of a match in which he took part without observing at least eight wickets falling to his share, often more. Everybody knows the figure of the old man in the engraving of the Sussex and Kent match, five feet four inches in height, wearing a tall hat, and apparently about to deliver the ball straight through the body of the famous E. G. Wenham. He was, if tradition is to be believed, a strictly fair round-arm bowler, and what we should call slow. In 1829, on one of the few occasions when the Gentlemen beat the Players, they had