A KNOCK-OUT COMPETITION AT CRICKET
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—Towards the end of your leader on "the fourth stump in cricket," you say : "but all this is mere theorizing." Something very similar to Colonel Forman's suggestion has been in operation here in Penrith and is a pronounced success. A knock-out competition, with a time-limit of If hours' batting each side, is played in the evenings during the season. Many teams from the surrounding district enter, and so many spectators turn out that the finances of the Club, formerly in low water, are now in a very flourishing condition. These games arouse a keenness and an interest far beyond the
expectations of those responsible for the inauguration of the competition, and that interest is spreading to the ordinary Saturday afternoon gates and to cricket generally. The time. limit has done much to set cricket on its feet again in these
parts.—I am, Sir, &c., W. HARTLEY. The Rectory, Great Salkeld, Penrith.
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