A CRICKET SLIP.
ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.")
8111,-Who is to guard the guardians ? The writer of a notice -of " Contradictions," by Miss Peard, in your number of last week, charges her with her ignorance in describing a cricketer as " caught at slip from a skyer," a fate which he declares to be next door to an absolute impossibility. Allow an ancient cricketer to turn the tables in Miss Peard's name. Of all the fates that await an uncertain batsman, none, especially in the long slip, is more common.—I am, Sir, &c., H. KArxxxamP.
[We still doubt whether the term can be so applied. A " skyer" is a ball hit or driven with the batsman's full force, but with the left shoulder not sufficiently forward. A very late hit to leg might just conceivably send a skyer to the slips, but any ordinary catch in that part of the field cannot be so called. --En. Spectator.]
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