TRAGIC DEATH
OF A FAMOUS CRICKETER
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)
-• MELBOURNE, February 19. }V.. L. Murdoch, the famous Aus-tralian-Eleven captain, was "a 1 spectator at the match between Australia and the South Africans yesterday. During the luncheon interval Jie was 'stricken with an apoplectic fit, and was taken to the hospital, .where he died a" few hours' after wards!
[The late Mr W, L. Murdoch was for years slcippeiv of -the Australian Eleven. He was one of the, best, batsmen Australia has overproduced. He held the record for Australia for an individual innings score in a test nuftchy having made 211 against England a| Kensington Oval in 1884.]
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10169, 20 February 1911, Page 5
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109TRAGIC DEATH Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10169, 20 February 1911, Page 5
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