suspended on the road running past the school. First
Franklin--who had replaced Shirley, brilliantly caught at
point--smote Johnson for a three. This brought Gilligan to the
batting end, and a horse passing outside the ground nearly had
its life cut short. The next ball just missed the railings, and
the next almost smashed the fanlight in a house across the road.
It was then that the police suspended the traffic. Gilligan
finally played inside a good length ball, and was most
unfortunately bowled when within two of his century. Hard luck!
He had been missed twice--once, we admit, badly--but on the whole
his smiting was admirably timed and placed. He hit three sixes
and fifteen fours. Franklin had meanwhile been busy, and scored
22, with three fours. Finally, Brown and Wood put on some 30
runs, the former being not out for a useful 16, and the latter
getting 13. Our score was 326 for eight when Gilligan declared.

Appended is a passage from his account of the match with Bedford on
June 6 (in which Dulwich were victorious by 81 runs), describing a
record achievement by A. H. H. Gilligan, one of three brothers who
distinguished themselves in athletics in Dulwich:

A. H. H. Gilligan was now well over the 170 mark, and had
therefore beaten the previous school record for the highest
score. At 190, however, he just touched a short fast ball from
Cameron, and put the ball into the hands of Dix at second slip:
283-9-190. The innings closed for 284 in the next over, Paton
being run out. To score 190 out of 284 is an almost superhuman
performance. For a man who was only playing his second match this
season it was a positively marvellous achievement. Gilligan's
innings was a masterpiece, and at no time did he seem to be in
the slightest degree troubled by the bowlers, yet the latter were
distinctly good, as they proved by the fact that they got nine
men out for 94 runs or less. Gilligan's innings included a six
and thirty-two fours. The previous best score--against a weak
scratch side in 1911--was 171 by C. V. Arnold. Gilligan was at
the wickets in all only two and a quarter hours or so.

The following is from his report of the Sherborne match, which Dulwich
won handsomely:

Had not the last few wickets been able to put on a few more runs
all earlier efforts might have been w