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LONDON WELSH ATHLETIC PASTIME.

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LONDON WELSH ATHLETIC PASTIME. Rugbyites at Cricket. It is interesting to note that our London Welsh champion exponents of the Rugby code of football can wield the willow and trundle the ball with equal skill. This is as it should be, for, apart from the pleasure and much needed recreation obtained, it ensures the continuance of that esprit de corps and state of physical fitness which are the two essential aids to brains in the proper playing of the Welsh game. Mr. Wallace Watts, of Newport and Welsh Inter- national fame, and the efficient successor to Dr. Walter Davies in the hon. secretaryship of the London Welsh Rugby Club, is to be heartily congratulated upon his dual success in the pro- motion of both the summer and winter games. Perhaps as the Welsh Club continues to prosper in the encouraging way it now does, the day may not be very far distant when we shall have under its influential auspices-with, let us hope, the full approval and wholehearted co-operation of the Welsh religious and other organisations of the metropolis-a London Welsh Amateur Athletic Association, comprising all branches of manly, wholesome, and up-lifting out-door sports, and possessing an accessible, well-ap- pointed ground of its own.- Verb. Sap. On Saturday last, the London Welsh cricketers visited Acton and played the Acton Borough Council. Full score LONDON WELSH. 1St Innings. 2nd Innings. H. R. Martyn b Ferns o did not bat S. E. Smart b Ferns." 3 b Parsons I C. E. Lewis b Ferns o b Morgan 8 S. P. Gunn c Ward b Morgan. I b Morgan I W. M. Thomas b Ferns 8 run out I H. T. Maddocks b Ferns 4 b Ferns 14 T. J. Pryce Jenkins b Ferns o not out 3 W. L. Morgan c Harrison b Morgan 10 c Simmons b Morgan o J. K. Crispin b Morgan o not out 12 F. H. Clay not out o did not bat W. H. Watts b Morgan o b Morgan 6 Byes o Byes 7 Total 26 Total 53 ACTON. 1st Innings. 2nd Innings. Raynes st Lewis b Thomas 9 c Lewis b Crispin 6 Ferns c Lewis b Thomas. 8 b Thomas o Simmons b Crispin o st Lewis b Thomas o Shearing b Crispin 8 b Thomas 7 Davis c Maddocks b Watts 5 c Gunn b Thomas o Yorath b Thomas. 6 b Crispin o Ward c Crispin o b Crispin I Harrison b Thomas 11 lbw b Thomas 2 Morgan b Thomas 2 b Thomas I Parsons not out. I I st Lewis b Thomas o A. E. Davis st Lewis b Thomas. o not out 2 Byes 9 Byes 5 Total 69 Total 24 Bowling Analysis. Acton-1st Innings. Acton—2nd Innings. o. m. r. w. o. m. r. w. Morgan .51 9 o i Thomas. 8 2 10 7 Watts 6 3 7 1 Watts. 4 0 8 0 Thomas .81 13 6 Crispin 3 2 13 Crispin 8 2 15 3 Dr. Jenking go 14 0 Caaibro TAFf.

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