This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

INDEX.

Amateur, M. C. C. definition of an, 353

Australians, the, 192, 209, 226, 227, 260, 275, 278, 287; first matches with English teams in Australia, 314; first match in England, 315; character of Gregory's eleven, 315; stimulating effect of rivalry on English cricket, 316; doings of Murdoch's teams in 1880 and 1882, 316, 317; Murdoch's 1884 team, 318; visit of Scott's eleven in 1886, 319; batting averages compared with those of English cricketers, 320; Giffen, 322; bowling averages, 322; Spofforth's qualities, 322; reasons for the excellence of colonial bowling, 323; cup contests, 323; waning popularity of cricket in big colonial towns, 324

Authorities and literature cited:—Ancient Cities of the New World (De Chamay's), 2; A Pleasant Grove of New Fancies, 3; Bell's Life, 276; Bentley's Cricket Scores, 25; Brand's Popular Antiquities, 3, 4; Brummfitt and Kirby's England v. Australia, 320; Byron, 10; Chapman's Odyssey, 2, 3; Chesterfield, Lord, 9; Clarke, Charles Cowden, 17; Constitution Book of Guildford, 6, 7; Contes du Roi Gambrinus, 6; Cosgrave's French and English Dictionary, 5, 6 Cowper, 10; Durfey's Pills to purge Melancholy, 3; English Game of Cricket (Box's), 11; Evans, Arthur, 1; Florio's Italian Dictionary, 6; Gentleman's Magazine, 11; Gray, 9; Grimston, Hon. Robert, 39, 361, 410; Herrick's Hesperides, 3; History of Guildford, 6; Huddesford's Salmagundi, 10; Huddesford's Wiccamical Chaplet, 10; Jamieson's Scotch Dictionary, 4; Jerks in from Short-leg (Fitzgerald's), 28, 265, 269; Johnson, Dr.,3,9; Juvenile Sports, 27; Knight, 22; Life of the Scotch Rogue, 4; Lillywhite's Annual, 246; Lilly -