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70 that he should refuse an opportunity of earning five pounds a match twice in the week, to say nothing of a prospective benefit at the end of his cricket career.

But such players do not often make their appearance, and even if they do leave their native county, it does not prevent the amateurs still enjoying themselves, and with the little or no expense that they are willing enough to pay, a county club such as this can easily find enough money to keep a ground, pavilion, and groundman, which is practically all that is wanted.

Some of these counties are not reckoned first or second class; they have no League system of registration of points; and second class counties such as Herts are in somewhat an unsatisfactory position, for they are too often nothing but feeding-ground for the rapacity of the rich first-class counties to gorge their appetites on. The real danger of county cricket is that genuine amateurs will become fewer and fewer, for they will not bother themselves to give up so much time as first-class counties require.