'The °ticketing achievements of Prince Ranjitsinhji, the Rajpoot noble, were
commemorated at Cambridge on Tuesday by a dinner in the Guildhall, presided over by the Mayor of Cambridge and attended by the Master of Trinity, the Lord- Lieutenant and High Sheriff of the county, Sir John Gorat, Professor Jebb, and a host of other Uni- versity and county notables. Daring the past cricketing season the Rajpoot batsman made no less than two thousand seven hundred and eighty runs, an average of over fifty-seven per innings, the highest amount ever re- corded. The speech made by the Master of Trinity in pro- posing the toast of the evening was very bright and amusing. Their guest had come and beaten them all in their great aritional game. He was not sure that the country would have been as much impressed if, instead of becoming senior cricketer, lie had become Senior Wrangler. The Master of Trinity went on to tell an excellent story of Mr. A. J. Webbe, the famous Oxford batsman. In his first summer term Mr. Webbe made an innings of two hundred and ninety-nine not out in a college match. A few days afterwards the President of Trinity College, Oxford, a venerable and distinguished official, went to the Bank of England to transact some college business, which he did with a young clerk. He signed his name at the end, placing his college after it, whereupon the clerk looked at him for the first time with wonder and admiration. -" What, Sir," he said, "do you belong to the same college as the celebrated Mr. Webbe P" The story had the merit of being strictly and literally true. Prince Ranjitsinhji, who made a modest and pleasant little speech in reply, naturally enough talked about the union of hearts through cricket, but that only shows how thoroughly Anglicised he has become. The story of the dinner, if it was ever widely known to India at large, would only confirm the native in his belief in the hopeless childishness of the Englishman, and in his silly habit of treating games and toys like bats and balls as if they were the most momentous things in life.
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