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Evening Star, Issue 11892, 21 May 1903, Page 4

Crickktkrs all the world over will deeply rogret to hear of the tragic A- death of Arthur Shrewsbury, Great tha famous NottinghamshireCiifketcr. batsman. Last season, though- ho had then completed his forty-sixth "year, Shrewsbury was in as good form as ever, obtaining the splendid average of 52 in tiventy-nine innings for Nottinghamshire, and (for the first time in his life) accomplishing the feat of scoring two centuries in one'match (101 and 127, not out, for Notts v. Gloucestershire, at Trent bridge). To quote from Wisden's summary of Notts cricket in 1902 : "The batting honors of the season clearly " rested with Shrewsbury,' wbo seemed, as "it were, to renew his youth. He bad a "' record which would have done him credit "in even his greatest days. Such a per- " i'ormance as his on the part of a man of " forty-six has scarcely been • surpassed ex"cept by W. G. Grace. ' . . .His bat"ting was marked by all its old qualities." Wisden adda that he would have been quite in place as a member of the English team in the Test matches with the Australians, and it may be noted that he scored 73 against the colonials for his county. It is interesting to recall that he took part in the first match of the 6rst Australian team (1878), and he had ben playing first class cricket since"lß7s. With the unique exception of "The Master," no cricketer has ever played at once so well and for so long a time. Shrewsbury was admittedly the most successful hatsman that Notts evex produced;—excelling even George Parr and Richard Daft—though his methods were sometimes rather too slow for the taste of the average spectator. He was' no " stonewaller;" however, like Scotton, who was for many years his comrade in the Notts team,, and who, it is curious to note, died by his own hand nearly ten years ago (July 9, 1893). Shrewsbury, was well known in the colonies, which he visited more than once in the seventies and eighties as a member of professional cricket teams; and his score of 105 not out in a Test match at Melbourne in 1885 is specially remembered". It i 3 a sad termination of a famous career.