Cricketer-Solon

Recently a group of British voters invited Jack Hobbs, famed professional cricketer, to stand for Parliament. Doubtless they would have been scandalized at an attempt on the part of Babe Ruth or Jack Dempsey to run for the U. S. Congress; but last August Mr. Hobbs scored his 126th century, equaling the world's record set by Dr. W. G. Grace in 1904, and his friends felt that to seat him in Parliament would be merely a fitting tribute to so great an achievement.

Arrangements were perfected to run Mr. Hobbs as a Liberal candidate from one of the divisions of Wandsworth. Then suddenly the hero proclaimed that he would do his running as a cricketer exclusively; intimated that he had no Parliamentary ambitions. Crestfallen, the bulk of his idolaters retired. A few hardy spirits are attempting the task of changing Mr. Hobbs' mind for him.