Identifier: wgcricketingremi00grac (find matches)
Title: "W.G.", cricketing reminiscences and personal recollections
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Grace, W. G. (William Gilbert), 1848-1915
Subjects: Cricket
Publisher: London, J. Bowden
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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PHOTO BYJ LORD HARRIS. . HAWKINS. BRIGHTON. A RECORD LAST WICKET STAND 189 years continued to do the Metropolitan countyyeoman service. Benefit matches were given to Humphrey andWatson this season, and another match wasarranged for the benefit of the widow and childrenof F. Morley. Briggs and Pilling broke all previous recordsfor a last wicket stand by putting on 173 runs forLancashire against Surrey at Liverpool on July 16. On returning from Australia, Alfred ShawsEleven played three matches : (i) against LordSheffields Eleven, which ended in a draw; (2) against an Eleven of England at Harrogate,which was abandoned owing to the rain ; and (3) against Louis Halls Eleven at Bradford.Both of the last-named matches are notable forcurious incidents. I played for the Eleven ofEngland, and when I got out, 53 runs were onthe telegraph board, towards which my contribu-tion was 51, including two drives out of theground for six. In the match against HallsEleven, Shaws team went in first and sco

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