SUTCLIFFE.
(By GOOGLY, in the Daily Mail.) A tall, strongly-built man of abou 6ft., his black hair brushed flat on clever-shaped head a good-temperec ready-to-smile look always on his sut burnt face . . . Herbert Sutcliffe, th Yorkshire county cricketer who ha thrilled two continents with his first wicket stand with ,). B. Hobbs fo England against Australia in the Tes match at Melbourne. Sutcliffe mad 170 off his own bat in this match. A magnificent bat in his two power ful brown hands it is. In form, n one in the world gets more “on top of tiie bowling than lie does; hi height, his upstanding stance at th crease, Ids reach, all combine to brim him hard down on the ball. He ha something of C. B. Fry's force in hi driving to the on side of the wicket a faculty of his own in dealing witl the bumping ball outside the of stump. In his 31st year, Herbert Sutcliff* first played for Yorkshire in 1919, am his opening season in county cricke brought him the average of more tlnu 44 runs per innings. During the war he enlisted in tin Sherwood Foresters and ended up a; a commissioned officer in the Yorkshire Begiment.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16425, 24 February 1925, Page 7
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203SUTCLIFFE. Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16425, 24 February 1925, Page 7
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