Image: "W.G.", cricketing reminiscences and personal recollections (1899) (14784598082)

Description: Identifier: wgcricketingremi00grac (find matches) Title: "W.G.", cricketing reminiscences and personal recollections Year: 1899 (1890s) Authors: Grace, W. G. (William Gilbert), 1848-1915 Subjects: Cricket Publisher: London, J. Bowden Contributing Library: Boston Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ' Text Appearing After Image: 1000 RUNS AND 100 WICKETS 261 beyond three days was unanimously adopted.The board decided to delegate the selection ofteams for test matches to a small sub-committee,and also agreed that the remuneration given toprofessionals and reserve men for taking partin a test match should in the future be;^2o each. As under the new financial arrange-ments each first-class county participates pro-portionately in the profits derived from thetest matches, any possibility of difficulty insecuring the service of professional cricketerson the ground that they are engaged elsewhereis removed. During 1898 three batsmen achieved the dis-tinction of scoring over a thousand runs andcapturing over a hundred wickets in a season offirst-class cricket—F. S. Jackson for Yorkshire,Charles Townsend for Gloucestershire, and W.Cuttell for Lancashire. This had up to this yearbeen done eighteen times since 1874—seven timesby myself, twice each by C. T. Studd and G. W.Hirst, and once each by Flowers, Davidson, Pe Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: "W.G.", cricketing reminiscences and personal recollections (1899) (14784598082)
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Author: Grace, W. G. (William Gilbert), 1848-1915
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