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Thus it follows that the game
will be levelled up, and amateurs
brought, class for class, a bit
nearer to their professional bre-
thren of the cue. In the admir-
able Badminton "Billiards" it is
estimated that professional breaks,
made under the now discarded
rules (viz., "spot-in, push-in"),
ran in size from ten to fifteen
times as large as those of amateur
players, class for class, that is to
say, comparing first-class profes-
sionals with first-class amateurs,
and so on. To-day, under the
Revised Rules of Billiards, one
would not perhaps be far wrong
in placing, class for class, the size
of amateur breaks at from one- Order Spironolactone Online
third to one-fifth the size of pro-
fessional breaks.
One interesting outcome of the
recent legislation in billiard mat-
ters may be noticed — the ntasse
stroke. Until recently this stroke
was never seriously regarded as a
factor in English billiards, but
familiarity with its various forms
is practically imperative to the
present-day " pro " for use in po-
sitions where the foul ** push "
and its relative, the Cheap Spironolactone " half-push '"
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would formerly have given a
simple, if ignominious, way out of
the difficulty. The proficiency of
our English professionals is, as
regards the massS stroke, practi-
cally in its first infancy, whilst,
in the case of amateurs, this
stroke, like the top-of-the-table
game, must ever be *• caviare to
the general," although a select
few may certainly succeed in
mastering its easier forms.
In conclusion, the writer is
pleased to record his conviction
that the Revised Rules have, on
the broad lines they prescribe,
given us at last an ideally perfect
game of billiards. It is easy
enough to criticise the rules of
billiards, or those of any other
game, extremely difficult to sug-
gest the form any alteration
should take. For the present,
therefore, let us rest content with
our ideal game as we find it, and
leave time to bring about any
needed reform in the minor de-
tails of its laws. Such reform
may possibly be chiefly looked for
in the direction of greater sim-
plicity and brevity, but Purchase Spironolactone Online so far
only (a condition apt sometimes
to be overlooked) as is ever con-
sistent with that great desideratum
in all laws or rules, justice.
J. P. Buchanan.
Cricket.
On August nth, the tour of the
team of cricketers from the West
Indies finished up Buy Spironolactone with a brilliant
victory over the county of Norfolk,
the visitors winning by no less
than an innings and i6 runs, dis- Generic Spironolactone
missing the home team in the
second innings for the paltry total
of 32 runs, and Burton who is Buy Spironolactone Online
probably the best bowler on the
West Indian side, had the re-
markable analysis of 10 overs, 7
maidens, 9 runs, 8 wickets, a per-
formance of which he may well
be proud.
The record of the tour shows
five victories as against eight de-
feats, and there have been only
four matches left drawn out of
the seventeen played.
At the start of the campaign
our visitors modestly announced
that they had come over not with
any idea of winning matches, Order Spironolactone but
merely with a view to perfecting
their knowledge of the game, and
more as pupils than in any way
rivals, and at the beginning of the
tour when they had sustained a
series of reverses, it almost looked
as though they were likely to be
in for a bad time of it, since in
the first four matches they lost
the toss, and each time were easily
beaten. Then came a welcome
victory over a team representing
the minor Counties, and next
Leicestershire were defeated by
an innings and 87 runs, whilst the Spironolactone Online
performance upon which Mr.
Warner's team will probably pride
themselves the most is the victory
registered over Surrey at Ken-
nington Oval, the West Indies
winning with an innings to spare.
It was an ambitious programme
which the Colonials arranged, as
they met most of the strongest
Counties, but as a rule the teams
opposed to them were not repre-
sentative of the full strength of
the Counties, and when it was
seen that the Colonials were not
a very dangerous team, the
strongest counties generally gave
two or three of their best men a
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rest during the match. The fact
that throughout their last seven
matches they were unbeaten
would seem to show Buy Cheap Spironolactone that the
West Indians carried out their
expressed intention of learning to
improve their play as they went
along, and it seems that this
tour is likely to do a great deal
for West Indian cricket.
Perhaps the best batting per-
formance of the tour was the
stand late on in the second inn-
ings of the match at Lord's against
M.C.C., when Constantine and
Burton put on 162 runs in just
over the hour, and entirely altered
the complexion of the game.
Another fine batting performance
was done at Kennington Oval,
when Purchase Spironolactone Olivierre and Cox put up
208 before the first wicket fell.
The former is probably the best
batsman on the side, and tops
the averages with an average of
32*70 runs for twenty-seven com-
pleted innings, whilst both Con-
stantine and Cox have averages
of over 30 runs per innings, and
five members of the team scored
over a century at some time or
another during the tour. Woods
and Burton were the stock bowlers
of the team, and their figures are
wonderfully similar, each having
secured 78 wickets at an average
cost of 21*5 runs per wicket. To
show how dependent the team
was upon these two bowlers, it is
noticeable that Mignon, the next
bowler, only took thirty wickets,
and those at a cost of 29 runs
apiece. Woods is a fast bowler
of the early Victorian style, with
a very low swinging delivery and
no run but just a couple of steps ;
it is reported that he never bowled
in boots until he came to this
country ; upon good wickets he