THE GRACE TESTIMONIAL.
To ths Editor. Sir,—l entire]j agree wifch your leader oa the above subject, it being ea instance of feediag the already fat sheep. There are some professionals in England who live by tbe game to whom a few pound* would come very handy just now. The snobbishness of terming cricketers like W. Q. Grace "gentlemen" players and prefixing "Mr" to their name, when they are handsomely paid by gate money and otherwise for their playing I No one will deny W. 6. 61 ace's ability; but at to his personal popularity when out in these colonies, tbe less said about it the better, one paper characterising bis manners as "dingo-like. * I knew all the brothers in the Old Country, and poor Freddy Grace, who died some years auo, was the best of tbe bunch. He was a cheery, pleasant gentleman—totally different from his haughty overbearing brother. "Enthusiast" has got more money than brains to propose such a selfish act to give money to an already well off* gentleman, and people in Christchurch without a loaf in their cupboard f I am, &c Glotjcbstbb. Dunedin, July sth.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 9156, 13 July 1895, Page 4
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189THE GRACE TESTIMONIAL. Press, Volume LII, Issue 9156, 13 July 1895, Page 4
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