Cricket.
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notwithstanding that W. G. Grace last week completed hi 8 forty-second year, and that he had without any intermission played in every firstclass representative match for the past quartet of a century, " W. G. " as he is always called, was undoubtedly the hero of the great match at Lord's against the Australians He in. we believe, the only cricketer, home or colonial, who has figu ed in every match hitherto played between England and Australia. Of the twelve which have been played, eight have been won by the Britishers, two by the Colonials, and two have been drawn. In the match played this week no less than 30,279 persons paid a shilling each for admission, and, as the Colonials take 50 per cent, of this, they received the handsome sum of more than £750 as a solatium for their defeat.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 19 September 1890, Page 2
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147Cricket. Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 19 September 1890, Page 2
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