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I have stated that long-leg and long-stop are things of the past, so all that need be said about them is that, in the days when the demand for these fields existed, the supply was plentiful and excellent. Jack Smith, of Cambridgeshire, Daft, Bury, Daniel, and Game were all magnificent at long-leg, as also were Rowbotham, Mortlock, Jupp, and Herbert Marshall at that most thankless of all posts, longstop. To take another post, viz., point, every fielder there should be quick, able to catch with either hand, and not afraid of facing a real hot one. As the late Mr. Fitzgerald said, if you have no particular star to place at point, choose the fattest man, because nature often compels him to stop a hot one by depriving him of agility sufficient to enable him to get out of the way. The earliest hero in this place was R. T. King, of Cambridge University, whom the late Mr. John Walker, an excellent judge, thought the best he had ever seen. Carpenter, Tinley, V. E. Walker, E. M. Grace, and F. W. Wright were all firstrate here, as is Brown, of Yorkshire, at the