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The centuries of Hobbs have done "W.G." a good turn; the name of the "Old Man" is once again on the lips of cricketers, and some of the youngest of them are" Pagan, I regret to say "; for" they ask sceptical questions about the fame and authority of the champion. Was he as good as they made him out To be?" avamall boy demanded of me the other day.

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In 1885 Graco was in his 47th year, and he completed his thousand "befora alay was out In his career W.G.! Lit 64,800 runs at an average of 30.53. And between the intervals of making his iso centuries Grace discovered time whereby to take 9,801 wickets at 17.97 cách. Grace's name is in the list of the faw bowlers who have captured 17 wickets in one match..

ThatW.G. worked his way, cach summer to a high place in the bowling averages is the best indication possible of his zeal for cricket, Really he was not a bowler by nature; his action was clumsy, lacking the tree swing of the man porn for bowling. There can be little doubt that he took to the job of Bowling simply because he could not bear for a moment to be out of the picture. It was not possible for him always to be getting runs; the other side had to bat, sooner or later. Very well, then; he was as good a man as anybody else tn get them out! A G. Steel's descrip- tion of Grace in action as a bowler re- mains" vivid :—".

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Hobbs, with good sense, thinks that comparisons between Grace and himself are odious, Grace;" he says, "was a giant in every way; he had quite a dif. ferent temperament and personality from mine." He had indeed. Hobbs first and last is a bateman; his greatness. must be discussed wholly in terms of the tech-man rushing up to the wicket with both nique of the game. Grace transcended elbows out, a great black beard blowing on both sides of him, a huge yellow cap the world of cricket, he was a Monument

vo top of a dark, swarthy face." Ha of a mau-as Mrs Mirawber might have was easily the most spectacular cricketer

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of her Wilkins, "but didn't." that ever played-shaggy and ponderous, **W.G." was a possession of the nation-with muscular arms, vast hands and foot, institutional. His name will be found e ambled about the field rather than in the iudex of any representative history, walked, and as the cricketers gathered of our land in the nineteenth century, together for conversation at the fall of la his heyday, the person and prowess the wicket his dimensions overtopped | of Grace were a "Topic of 'Conversation. them all. It has been written that on All sorts and conditions of the British the held he took second pines to none, public discussed him said folk not given not, even to the umpire: A favourite of 10. pursuit so violently athletic as bat ["W,G.'s" was given out in a match be and ball. It was considered right, and tween Surrey and Gloucestershire at the proper to refer, if only casually, to val. Up rose the Champion on the WU." at, dinner every evening, even pavilion balcony, and his high voice went your conversation was with, say," a | mcoacingly over the field: * Shan't have Professor of Economics whose mind it, can't have it; and I won't have it." would, of course, be intent primarily He knew all about the more or less gentle upon marginal utility. People came art of appealing." In one match bo from over the seas in hope of looking fielded, for a change, at square-leg-that upon Grace; little boys at school | put is, at right angles to the wicket

Ro- his name down among the Seven Won-berts, the Gloucestershire fast bowler, ders of the World-emitting, no doubt hit a batomas plumb on the pads, but the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. And did not appeal. At the over's end the Royal Family inquired after Gracy W.C." came thundering down the from time to time. When, on a June pitch, and in an awful voice he demand- day, the news arrived from Lord's in Fed Why the hangment dida't you the West End that "W.G." was not out appeal for leg-before-wicket, Fred?" at lunch, the clubs would empty and Well-well, sir," stammered the terri- down the sunny St. John's Wood Road | fed Roberts, I was I wil's waiting for, hansem cab after hansom cab moved on { you sir !!· Let us call Grace a Doctor John- ita tinkling journey.

Bon of the game-he was as full of bis There was no end to the than's renown. Subject as Johrison, as irascible and as Among the public notables of his age kindly in turn, “ns dogmatic in his'dis- rone was more readily recognised in tha pensations of authority. Of all the tri- street than Grace. His black whiskers butes to the man, I know none better were national in the sense that Mr. than that which is contained in this Gladstone's collar was national. (I have story, Grace was asked to play in a seen portraits of "W.G." taken when he village match in the West of England. was a boy; he is always in possession He agreed. The whole countryside turn- | of his whiskers.) Had Grace been born ed out to see the Champion, who was in Ancient Greece," wrote the Bishop of then at his mightiest. He hit the first Hereford, the Iliad would have been ball of the match to the boundary, and different" He was king of cricket, and the crowd sent out joyful and expectant he reigned from 1865 till 1908- giant noises. "W.G." was in form! To the of the game in the days of giants. With next ball Grace jumped out of his Grace such men played as Hornby, Daft, creases, missed it, and was brilliantly R. A. H. Mitchell, Alfred Shaw, Yard stumped. In triumph the wicketkeeper ley, Lord Harris, W. W. Read, A. G. shouted out his appeal; but the umpire's Steel, Spofforth, O. T. Studd, Barnes, answer" was" terrible in its promptitude A. P. Lucas, Scotton, Shrewsbury, Gunn, and "emphasis. Not out!" be asseve Ulyett, Shuter, Briggs, Lonmano, Stod-rated. "And look'ee erc, young feller; dart. Murdoch Peel, Jackson, “Ranji," the crowd's come for to see Doctor Grace Maclaren-he bestrode them all. "There and not any of your monkey tricks!" was not a cricketer of his great period who was not proud humbly to touch his mantle.

INVENTED MODERN CRICKET. Grace, as Ranjitsinhji wrote, "invent ed" modern cricket. He took to the game at a time when querarm bowling. had been in fashion for only some thirty years. He came upon a batting techni que developed out of an obsolete attack, and he changed it into the elaborate thing it is today. On the rough wickets of the seventies, he killed" the "brute force" fast bowler, and compelled "men to consider the arts of spin and fight.. Quick footwork was practically unknown before Grace. He was probably never the brilliant batsman that Epbbs was a few years ago; Hobbs as a young cricke ter lived dangerously at the crease and let us behold new and strange strokes in his artist's pursuit of a fresh way of doing things. Grace never threw his wicket away out of any vain traffickings with the unknown It was enough for him to overthrow the enemies of Glouces tershire. His bat stood for Orthodoxy, it was in rod on which was graven the Law. The familiar distinction between Classic and Romantic could hardly be stressed" better than in a comparison be- tween Grace and the batsman who co- chanted us in the days that saw Hobb at his best In beuven, where good cricketers will play the game for even and ever, Grace and Hobbe will open

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TO GIVE BOWLERS A CHANCE: At the height of his mastery a private meeting of some Committee at Lord's was called to discuss the advisability of reking an alteration in the laws of cricket en that bowlers might have a chance of getting "W.G." out! He was, indeed, the solitary subject of thought with bowlers of bis heyday; they even sat up late at night getting rather cross about him and exchanging points of strategy."When we set out for Bristol to play Gloucester shire," said an old cricketer to me not long ago, our captain used to call all the amateurs together in the special saloon, and as soon as the train began to move he would produce a huge sheet of paper, lay it on the table, and then we would all begin to consider ways and uncans of getting the Old 'Un's wicket I may say that before the discussion began we ruled out as quite beyond the uses of argument the question of bowling. him. To tell you the truth, I'm afraid our council of war frequently concentrat ut on the most subtle way in which we could cheat him out! Tom Emics, constantly suffered from bad drehma about Grace; the story goce that the Yorkabireman once brought on a violent nightmare by falling asleep just as be the innings. And with all eternity at ́" GIRLS PREFERRED TO BOYS. W was forming a mental picture of the their disposül, the bowlers may find time consequences in hig should W.G" one in which to get one Master or the other day hit back at him- slow ball, When out. Grace "failed," as occasionally he did, the country was aghast; it seemned that something had gone wrong with the natural order of things. The bowler who has taken the Master's wicket for nest to nothing would throw up his cap like schoolboy. Then he would remember there was another innings to-morrow, and he would pause in his jubilation and Ithink better of it-especially after that, hodeful glance from glistening eyes a Grace passed the wicket on his way back to the pavilion. I put the hall where 1 likes," Aid J. C. Shaw, a master of his craft, but the Old Un he puts it where he likes,

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