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Rh these days on the perfect cricket ground, that every encouragement ought to be given to the bowler. Can anybody say that this is done when you advise umpires to "no-ball" Tyler, whose bowling has hurt nobody, but has been of great assistance to Somersetshire? Let there be no manner of doubt as to the perfectly fair delivery of fast bowlers whose bowling is dangerous to the batsman; let the batsman have, as it were, the benefit of the doubt; but in every other case let it be an undoubted throw.

The captains in this case have, I think, acted unfairly and prematurely. They might have communicated privately with the M.C.C., and given it as their opinion that certain bowlers threw, and that there was doubt about the delivery of others. Then the M.C.C., acting on the undoubted weight of the captains' opinion, could have taken some steps. As it is, the captains have endeavoured to force the hands of the M.C.C., and usurped powers which do not belong to them; and this has been unfair to the cricketers named. Considering the grave importance of the step taken, it would have been only right and proper to put on the