ALFRED LYTTELTON.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14723, 21 July 1913, Page 9

ALFRED LYTTELTON.

TO TUE EDITOR OF "IIIE PRESS. ' • Sir.—Mny T thank Mr G. M. Butterworth for his intensely interesting clcetch. of the late ever-to-be-rogretted Alfred Lytt-elton, that prince of wicketkeepers and good fellows. As tin old habitue of Lord's and the Oval, your correspondent's reminiscences naturally appeal to nil exile in the Southern Seas, and., like- him, I was myself surprised that w> little was said, at his death, of this 19th century "Alfred the Groat." My recollection of the .Test'match quoted was that Peate. the famous Yorkshire slow bowler, instead of trying to give <J. T. vStudd tko howling,"himself lashed out at it. and, •oi course, disastrously, afterwards r.nively confessing that ho thought ho could get the runs as well as Studd. It may bo noted that "A.L." was n brother-in-law oi" Lord Fredciick Cavendish, whoso tragic end at I'hccnix Park, Dublin, in ' 1882, so lrriipiy helped at the time to antagonise Miblio opinion against any form 'of Homo Biilo for Ireland.—Yours etc., BOW BELLS.