Excerpt from Punch, Vol. 136: January-June, 1909 There was no more cricket. At Lord's that day. The news Spread with light ning speed to the pavilion, and the rival Blues, by a unanimous vote, resolved to' cancel a fixture which had been so horribly desecrated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.