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96 and Broadbridge to help them. These two got the Players out for 24 and 37, eight of the Players getting nought in the first innings, and four in the second, and old Lillywhite got fourteen wickets. His great feats are far too many to enumerate, so I will content myself with saying that the man who introduced, or at any rate was the first scientific exponent of round-arm bowling is clearly destined for a niche in the temple of the immortals.

The next hero we will take will be the renowned Alfred Mynn. I have had many a talk with old Martingell, whom I believe to be the last survivor of the days of William Clarke, Alfred Mynn, and Fuller Pilch, and he has told me several times, what a careful perusal of cricket scores made me suspect, that, as a bat, Mynn was in the main a hitter, with a somewhat faulty defence. He was perhaps the champion single-wicket player, a hard hitter and a very fast bowler constituting the most valuable gifts for play of this description; but as a bowler he must