Returning With Their Tails Between Their Legs
The Pall Mall Gazette of September the 9th says : — The Australian cricketers are thoroughly demoralised, and their home-going will scarcely be the occasion of an ovation or even of a ! banquet. No ; they return with their ; tails between their legs; beaten all round. It is impossible to give, any [ reason for this remarkable falling* to pieces of the famous team. When ] next they visit us their progress through the land may be once more a triumph. Friday will ever be notable in the annals of the game, when Lord Londesborough's team, which included j some of the finest cricketerß; in Eng- { land, made the largest number of runs on record against Australian ( bowling. The total reached 558, ] beating the previous " best on record" —501 by Surrey in July — by 57 runs, * [t should be noted that Spofforth c jould not bowl, and Bruce was so -j unwell that Pope acted as his substi- * ;ute. It is mentioned that this week ;he Australians have been fielding t hiring cricket hours, from half-past s welve on Tuesday until five minutes .< o four on Fridn y— a m.vel experience o ndetd for the colonials.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 64, 8 November 1886, Page 2
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198Returning With Their Tails Between Their Legs Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 64, 8 November 1886, Page 2
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