The Provost's answer was sent immediately; it is characteristic of one of the best men I have ever known: 'Vice Præposito cæterisque Sociis Splendidis Teguminibus Vestitorum Ricardus Okes, S.T.P. Et gratias agit maximas Decimo quinto die Decembris, 1887. 'Juvenes Senesque, qui salutastis meum Si quid, piorum Regis Henrici memor Id omne votis debui Scriptis in ipso Principis sancti libro Sacrisque genti posteræ. Vobis supersit omen instantis boni 'R. O.' SECOND INNINGS.-Barker, not out, 29; Fenner, not out, 19; Butler, b Hillier, o; byes, etc., 10. Total, 58. Time was when I could have passed a good examination in the history of the scores made by old Etonians, who had learnt 'to handle the willow' within sight of Willowbrook, at Eton. But memory is apt to be treacherous, and my friend, the Rev. Sir Emilius Laurie (the Bayley of my time) has given me some very interesting particulars with reference to his career as a cricketer, as well as his observations on Mr. Frederick Gale's Notes on the First Half Century of the Canterbury Cricket Week.' A paragraph in that work is headed The Conceit of an Old Boy'; here it is: ( 'May I mention, rather conceitedly perhaps -but it is the conceit of an old boy-two incidents? On the morning of the Winchester and Eton match, the day before Emilius Bayley made his great score against Harrow, I saw him at "Lord's" defending his wicket against five Marylebone bowlers with the greatest ease. |