THE ALL-ENGLAND MATCH.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1200, 13 November 1882, Page 2

THE ALL-ENGLAND MATCH.

“ One of the Australian team” describes the scene at the conclusion of the famous match at the Oval thus The vast concourse rushed the ground, and Boyle was fairly carried into the pavilion by several enthusiastic Australians, I am only speaking the truth 'when I say that we were as heartily 1 cheered as if we had won the match on an | Australian ground before an Australian public, Cries of “Massie,” “Murdoch,” “Spofforth,” “Boyle,” and “ Blackham” were heard again and again from the tremendous throng in front of the pavilion, and each of these players had to go out and bow acknowledgments amidst multitudinous s’.u.jts of “ Lravo, Australians,” “Well done, boys,” and so on. Never shall I forget the wild excitement of the moment, how, foj instance, our manager, Charlie Beale, in rushing out to congratulate us, sent the man at the pavilion gate head over heels ; how one man dropped dead in the pavilion from ! over-cxcitemeut ; how not only Australians I but Englishmen rushed into our dressing- ■ room and shook hands with us all round, i how they mvigled champagne, seltzer, and I lemons, and passed the drink round in a I loving cup ; qand how, true sportsman | as he is, A. N. Hornby came up to Murdoch i and said, “Well, old fellow, it would have 1 been the proudest moment of my life to have I won, but I cannot help congratulating you

sincerely on the splendid up-hill game you played and your well-merited success.” Then, when we were leaving the ground, how the crowd around our conveyance cheered us to the echo ; how they almost took Spofforth off his legs in their desire to pat him on the back and shake hands with him for his really superb efforts with the ball ; how the ladies from the windows in the Kennington road waved their handkerchiefs to us, and how all the way back to the Tavistock the passers-by looked at us as if we had done something to make us famous for all time.