THE CHAMPION CRICKETER.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 202, 13 December 1876, Page 4

THE CHAMPION CRICKETER.

of tb* cbamjiioQ batsman of lb.Wfcl (irtamly ba* its advantages. Others ttaysnficeed or fail, may top u« Caaba* or. make 0, but as lung as thty .cantxnibit » decent average at the * lul «f caofc aaatDO, their reputations u»ay nsnallTrest in quiet security. But witii ffcPif Cbainpiea "it is different- Hts Wt {mnsg* a jealously watched. Not to attonfeb w to disappoint, and season after season hundreds are ready to ratae and repeat the ettrml cry, " Uh, wm» fa fa"W oC* In no season has this bttin mora lotJoUy and frequently stated titan " tb« present; in none nas it received mure decisive contradiction by the mian 9 * 6 *- ante kgfeof facte. A few-of these "»» interest onrcricketers. In the Gent Je*" 8 " ▼. Staffers-,, Mr. Grace scored 90 and l vJ, against the attacks of Shaw, Hill, Mor I **'* Against Sns»<»s, he put »»• gethtrarapid and chancde 3 a 104. W ltl ' 22 in tb* field at Grimsby, he snrpasa.**" AJnuelf witb a not-ont contribution of 400 C Til* last mail is repkte with ht» triumphs. Fust, at Canterbury, he scored SQI, ymk tb* pick of England*;* bowling . ofposed to bin*, and this is at once followed up by a wond.rfa! 344, made wtthoat a ebance> at the expense of the K jnt while tne Yorkshire team, one of the strongest in England, had shortly afterwards to endure bis carrying his bat for 319 runs, and the representatives of Kwtts, a county at least as strong, paid for tha on* life tney allowed hitm by seeing frtm score 177 iff their unrivalled bowlers. But all tins must in the cy«s of tr«e cricketers, be cast into the shade by his but performance in a North v. South -• match at Half, where oat of a total of 159 - made by bis side in their first effort, Mr. Grace put together no less than 128, or about four-nftlts of «b<* whole, and t.iis he backed up with 82 in the second innings. Gloucestershire has how p.»yed alt t.ie strong counties of England. It has not suffered a defeat, nor in ail probability b itLkery to do so, as Mr. Grace is by no meanathe only cricketer of the team.—