Related article: [Septbmber David Buchanan. On the evening of last Derby-day a great amateur bowler, whose name was long indeed one to conjure with in the cricket world, was gathered to his fathers — David Buchanan. Forty years of first-class cricket had not only made him a household word with our fathers, but had left a yet Buy Captopril younger generation within ken of his left-hand's prowess with the ball. To attempt to enumerate at all accurately the matches he took part in would require almost herculean labour and research. Mr. A. G. Steel, that authority on our national game, states, with no uncertain voice in the Badminton ** Cricket," his opinion that the deceased great bowler had in his length of service taken nearly twice as many wickets as any other living cricketer. In the course of this short me- moir the more important events of David Buchanan's cricket career can alone be sketched. Born in Scotland on January 1 6th, 1830, Mr. Buchanan was educated at Rugby School. The school cricket authorities of that day failed to recognise genius when they saw it, and the subject of this article found no place in the Rugby Eleven, nor even, strange to say, in the Twenty-two. Cambridge University, however, was prompt to enlist the Purchase Captopril Online young Clare undergraduate in her Eleven, and on June 9th and loth, 1850, we find Buchanan playing in the 'Varsity Match at Lord's, his first appearance, it may be noted, on that historic ground. In those days the Oxford and Cambridge Match was hardly a fixture of the same great import- ance which nowadays attaches to it, and in 1851 Mr. Buchanan, ooner than spend an idle fort- night Generic Captopril in the " Long " waiting for the match, played truant and was off to Scotland, keen on de- lights of rod and gun. For two reasons, apart fron^ the great length of his active ser- vice, the career of " David," as his cricketing friends and con- temporaries always affectionately styled him, is unique. In the first place, he was for eighteen years a fast bowler, before he adopted the famous slow bowling, which he continued for twenty - two years afterwards till his re- tirement. Secondly, his first appearance for the Gentlemen of England against the Players was not made until he was well into his 39th year. In the second innings of this match (played at the Oval) Mr. Buchanan took 9 wickets (a feat, we believe, ac- complished in these matches by no other bowler), at a cost of only 82 runs. This performance fairly set a seal upon his fan^e, and from that time onwards no team of Gentlemen was complete with- out him. There can, moreover, be no reasonable doubt but that he should have represented the Gentlemen of England in the two great matches of the season many years before he did. An intimate friend of the renowned Walker family, ** David," of course, often appeared on the famous ground at Southgate. That far - famed cricket club, the PYee Foresters, claimed him as one of their earliest members, and that most interesting Purchase Captopril book, the ** Annals of the P>ee Foresters," shows that he did yeoman service for them for many years. Residing as he did in the neighbourhood of his old school, Rugby, Mr. Buchanan was for thirty years captain of, and, of course, a tower of Order Captopril strength s/rifii, Pktin., je«f*rl DAVID BUCHANAN, 1881. 1900.] DAVID BUCHANAN. 175 to, the Rugby Cricket Club, whose best interests he had ever at heart till the day of his death. A member of this Club for some forty-six years, he had for four long decades fulfilled the onerous duties of both secretary and trea- surer. One of David Buchanan's most cherished wishes was Order Captopril Online to see a new and adequate pavilion •erected Buy Cheap Captopril on the ground he loved so well, and we would earnestly call the attention of the deceased great cricketer's hosts of friends and admirers throughout the country to the proposed Memo- rial, in the shape of a new pavilion, which the Rugby Cricket Club contemplates setting up in his memory and honour. Mr. B. Relton, the Hon. Sec. of the club, will be glad to receive any dona- tions. It goes without saying that Mr. Buchanan always took a keen in- terest in Rugby School cricket, and it is certain that his name occurs far oftener than that of any other cricketer in ** Rugby School Cricket Scores." We have heard it said, too, that in the ** Register of Rugby School," which school has turned out from time to time so many brilliant stars in the cricket world, fame at cricket is mentioned in connec- tion with but one name alone, and that one, David Buchanan. We must not pass over Mr. Buchanan's connection with the Warwickshire County Club, which, indeed, owes its establish- ment in a great measure to his •enthusiasm and energ.y. P^or some years he captained the War- wickshire team, and for seven years undertook the office of treasurer, no sinecure, be it re- marked. In one of his last county matches, when 55 years of age, he obtained seven wickets for 23 runs against Leicestershire. A word on David Buchanan's style and methods of bowling may be welcome. He was one of the phenomenal few who really can break the ball both ways, and, possessing extraordinary com- mand of the ball, could gauge the exact amount of "spin" to be imparted to each ball, as well as its pitch, in accordance with the end he had in view. This spin or " devil Captopril Online " was given by the wrist, which he used so, freely that, as he was fond of telling, it would often crack in the Buy Captopril Online act of delivery. He was no bowler for •• maidens," though his average of maiden overs was always a large one. On the con- trary, he bowled for wickets, and rarely disgusted used he to be when a chance he had skilfully engineered was " muffed." He was incredibly clever in placing a fielder to a foot — and on the exact spot he wanted him he would have him — and in causing a catch to be sent right into his hands.