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sides Townshend, Law, Ottaway, than whom no player who ever lived had a stronger defence, Hadow, Tylecote, Harris, altogether eight old choices to the five of Cambridge; and yet Cambridge, on winning the toss, amassed 388 runs, a score that was not equalled until Cambridge, in 1892, made exactly the same total. The wicket was, I suppose, easier than it had been the former year: at any rate, Sam Butler could only get three wickets at a cost of 103 runs. Oxford had to bat at five o'clock after many hours' fielding, and the boot was soon seen to be on the other leg, for in 68 balls W. H. Powys secured six Oxford wickets, five of them clean bowled. Next morning, on a wicket rather damaged by rain, Powys took seven more wickets, securing in the whole match, against a strong batting eleven, thirteen wickets at rather over three runs each! These two great fast bowling performances took place in two consecutive years, and stand as, on the whole, the two greatest records of their description. In this same