Lenaway ................................... 0 b. G. Knight, Esq. Baker........ ................................... 7 c. W. Ward, Esq. W. Slater............ 4. b. E. H. Budd, Esq. Byes.........13 95 On the 2d and 3d of July, a single-wicket match was played at the Royal Ground, Brighton, be tween William and James Broad bridge, and Messrs. Brown and Marsden, selected from All Eng land, which afforded a high treat to the amateurs of this manly sport, and was won in great style by the brothers as follows:-Brown in the first innings gained 9 runs from 83 balls, the last crippling his wicket; and Marsden, from 209 balls, scored 27, when his wicket fell also-total 36. In the second, Brown was bowled out the 14th ball, after scoring 8; and Marsden, from 27 balls, got 8making 52 runs in all. James Broadbridge first took the bat, and mustered 18 runs from 90 balls, when he was bowled out in capital style by Brown. His brother added 17 to the score from 51 balls, making a total of 35, one run behind their opponents in the first innings. In the second, J. Broadbridge, with consummate skill, defended his wicket from the alternate bowling of his opponents, and without losing it gained 18, the full complement of runs required. This gave rise to another match between the same parties, which was played at Darnal, near Shef field, on the 16th and 17th, and came off as follows:-In the first innings, J. Broadbridge was caught by Marsden, after making 43 runs from 165 balls; and his brother was bowled by Brown the 12th ball, scoring only 1. In the second innings J. Broadbridge did not get a run from 5 balls, and was bowled by Marsden. William scored 32 from 156 balls, and was also bowled by Marsden-Grand total 76.-Marsden commenced the first innings, and got 36 runs from 66 balls-caught by J. Broadbridge; and Brown was caught the second ball, also by James, without a score. In the second innings Brown got 16 runs from 22 balls, when he was bowled by W. Broad bridge; and Marsden scored 26 from 22 balls, making a total of 78 (not out). The play in the preceding match gave so much satisfaction, that a subscription was immediately raised for Marsden and G. Rawlins to play the Broadbridges, who had challenged any two in England, to be played the following day (the) 18th). The Broadbridges went in first, James making 39 runs from 248 balls; caught by Marsden: William scored 4 from 25 balls, and was bowled by Rawlins. In the second innings James Broadbridge got 32 runs from 180 balls, and was bowled by Marsden whilst William, caught by Raw lins the 16th ball, scored only 1making a total of 76 runs.-Marsden, in his first innings, scored 16 from 37 balls, bowled by J. Broad bridge; and Rawlins was bowled the 20th ball, also by James, making 5 runs. In the second innings Marsden got nine runs from 48 (not out); but night coming on, the match was given up, and it was agreed that it should be decided by the first innings. The Broadbridges, therefore, won. The two brothers having, at the conclusion of the preceding match, thrown down the gauntlet against any three in Yorkshire, allowing them one to field T. Marsden, T, Rawlins, and W. H. Woothover, have accepted the challenge. The match is to be played in September, a week after the Doncas ter Races, for 501. a-side. BETTINGS. SIR, Tattersall's, July 16, 1827. UT few of the gentlemen betBUT tors were at the room, yet the leading speculators were all in attendance; and whatever deficiency there might be in point of number was amply made up in spirit, for a brisker day has not occurred for some time past. Mameluke was in high request, being backed for an enormous amount against all the leading horses, particularly with Mr. Petre's lot, Malek, Antiope, &c. and to remove all doubts respecting his running, 10 to 1 was repeatedly laid that he started. Granby is fast rising, the party backing him with great spirit; and, if all that's said be true, the speculation is likely to turn to a good account. Nonplus remains as before, but with a little more doing upon him. Reviewer has retrograded several points, yet the betting men evinced more willingness to take the odds; and, if he should win it, more money will be won by his party than was ever remembered. Malek was brought more into notice, and appears likely to get up, the odds being very freely taken. Matilda and Lunaria are a shade better; yet the subscribers were evidently cautious. Most of the outside ones are quite gone, and the betting proceeds with unusual briskness. Since the July Meeting the Derby and the Oaks have been brought up, and something considerable was done upon several of the horses. Hampden, Druid, Shoveler, The Colonel, and Lord Lowther's two, are likely to become the leading favorites.-Z. B. 15 to 1 agst Matilda. 35 to 1 agst c. by Cervantes-Smolensko. Petre's stable. Even betting between Mameluke and Mr. Mameluke agst any ten, barring Granby and Reviewer. DERBY, 1828. 25 to 1 agst Shoveler. 25 to 1 agst c. out of Hampden's dam. 30 35 to 1 agst c. out of Zealot's dam. 30 to 1 agst Druid. to 1 agst Neptune. 35 to 1 agst The Colonel. 35 to 1 agst Quail. 40 to 1 agst Amy. 40 to 1 agst Bugle. 40 to 1 agst Halston. 40 to 1 agst Larissa. 40 to 1 agst c. out of Shakspeare's dam. 40 to 1 agst Barnardo. 50 to 1 agst Racket. 50 to 1 agst Folly. 50 to 1 agst Zeal. 12 agst the field. OAKS, 1828. 11 to 1 agst Trampoline. 15 to 1 agst Staughton Lass. agst Rantipole. 20 to 20 to 1 agst Sister to Goshawk. 20 to 1 agst Scheme. 25 to 1 agst Brocard (Bartley's) 30 to 1 agst Elinor. 30 to 1 agst Sorceress. VICTORY, A POINTER. (From a Painting by A. COOPER, R.A.) VICTORY is the property of Mr. Hards, of Effingham, Surrey. He is not the most handsome dog in the world, but certainly one of the best. He has an excellent nose, is very fast, and no day too long for him. He was bred in Norfolk, and we hope to obtain his pedigree by our next Number. REPLY TO " A LOVER OF THE ""Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill fence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this, Ten censure wrong, for one who writes amiss." ""Tis with our judgments as our watches; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own." "Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true; But are not critics to their judgment too ?" SIR, few lines preceding each, must be sufficiently obvious to the general reader-but that I wish to shew my competitor that the same kindly feeling warms my breast which stimulates him. I beg leave, therefore, to recommend him, in compassion to the rheumatic pains of a shoulder injured by recoil (should he adopt my plan of increasing the charge of powder in percussion guns), not to increase his charge of shot, but to place his waddings lightly on the charge of each. The great secret to prevent guns Essay on Criticism. recoiling is not ramming the waddings hard, particularly the wadding of the powder: if a fowler rams bis loading hard enough, either shot or powder, or both, he may make any gun recoil. IN reply to A LOVER OF THE TRIGGER, I have to complain that he has forced a construction on a sentence (used by me as a pun on the words) which I never meant, by stating in my former letter (January Number, p. 174), that "his percussion plan had failed that shot:" I only insinuated, in sporting language, that "his stroke at (or strictures on) my maxims had failed." He has also put a wrong construction on another sentence; viz. "For this very reason I always put as much, and often more, powder into percussion guns;" by his comments whereon he endeavours to prove that I use percussion guns which have been altered from flint. This is not the case: my per cussion guns have all more metal towards the breech than flint; and only eight lines above the sentence he has extracted, it is stated, "they (percussion guns) ought to be stronger." I should not have thought it worth while to have written even thus much as I consider my meaning in the above sentences, when coupled with the sense of a VOL. XX. N. S.-No. 119. Until I myself find an instance in practice, I cannot acquiesce in in his argument as to the cylin drical bore. I never yet-and I generally dictate from experiencemet with a cylindrical barrel in bore, which shot hard, unless the wadding on the top of the charge of shot was very hard rammed, to the great discomfiture of my shoulder tendons in the recoil. "They're wiser still, they say, And still to-morrow's wiser than to-day! We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so." |