Cup Final
SIR.—Mr. Mallalieu's youthful imagination of what happened in the good old days has been running away with him. Marylebone Station was not opened till 1897, when the old Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway was extended to London, to supply the capital with fish from Grimsby, and became the Great Central Railway.
The agitation about overarm bowling must have died out several decades earlier. I remember that in the 1880s there were one or two amateurs bowling underhand in first-class cricket, much to the amusement of the spectators, and that one could still see roundarm bowling by a few of the older men, such as Tom Emmett of Yorkshire. But overarm bowling was so general that any exception stood out a mile.—Yours. &c.,
Stanton, Headley Down, Bordon, Hants. HUGH LEADER.
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