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100 Read, Abel, and Richardson, no doubt make a grand lot; but how few real Surrey men there have been since Jupp retired. Lohmann was Middlesex, Sharpe and Lockwood Notts, Beaumont Yorkshire, Hayward Cambridge, Henderson Monmouth, Bowley Northampton, Wood Kent, and Barratt Durham. I think that in batting the Surrey men are a little better, perhaps, than Yorkshire; in bowling they are far inferior. Caffyn, Griffith, Sewell, Southerton, and Richardson do not come up to Atkinson, Hodgson, Slinn, Freeman, Emmett, Peate, Allan Hill, Peel, and Ulyett. But to compare either with Notts, with a smaller population to draw from, is childish, as can be seen when one begins to go through the names. George Parr, Daft, Barnes, Shrewsbury, and Gunn, as I have said before, are five unique batsmen, far ahead of any five from any other county. I suppose Surrey would come next, after a long interval, with Caffyn, Mortlock, Stephenson, Jupp, and Abel, but there is a wide difference between them. Notts