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248 Paltiswick Club, when playing against Bury in 1824: their first innings was only 4 runs! Pilch bowled out eight of them. In their next innings they scored 46. Bury, first innings, 101.

In a match at Oxford, in 1835, I saw the two last wickets, Charles Beauclerk and E. Buller, score 110 runs; and in an I. Z. match at Leamington, the last wickets scored 80.

.—There have been only four of any note: the first was played at Woolwich, in 1818, M. C. C. v. Royal Artillery, with E. H. Budd, Esq.; the second, at Lord's, in 1839, M. C. C. v, Oxford; the third, at Lord's, between Winchester and Eton; the fourth, at the Oval, in 1847, Surrey v. Kent. But at a scratch match of Woking v. Shiere, in 1818, at Woking, there was a tie each innings and all four innings the same number, 71!

As to .—"One of the longest hits in air of modern days," writes a friend, "was made at Himley about three years since by Mr. Fellowes, confessedly one of the hardest of all hitters. The same gentleman, in practice on the Leicester ground, hit, clean over the poplars, one hundred long paces from the wicket; the distance from bat to pitch of ball may be fairly stated as 140 yards. This was ten yards further, I think, than the hit at Himley, which every one wondered at; though, the former was off