Cricket News.
SOME TALL SCORING IN ENG LISH MATCHES. THE GRACE FUND BEING FREELY SUBSCRIBED TO. (Per Press Association.) London, June 15. Owing to the recent fine weather some enormous scores at cricket have been recorded, and already this season 50 centuries have been registered in first-class matches. g=Dr W. Gh Grace knocked up 216 against Kent, thus making his fifth century this season. For Middlesex E. S. Lucas made 185, and T. O'Brien 202 against Sussex ; Abel, for Yorkshire, scored 157 against Lancashire. The Daily Telegraph Grace Fund now amounts to 21.000 shillings Baron .Rothschild subscribed 1000 shillings, Duke of Cambridge, Marquis of Salisbury, and the Hon J. Chamberlain also subscribed freely, and there is a net work of collectors in the chief centres.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 294, 17 June 1895, Page 2
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