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118 G. Grace has scored six of them. As Yardley was the first, so up to the present he holds the proud position of being the only man who on two separate occasions has made a hundred; and of all the grand innings played by anybody in these matches, the hundred made by Yardley in 1870 almost takes the first place. The match looked hopelessly bad for Cambridge, who were only twelve runs on and had lost five wickets; and Lord's was not by any means the easy ground it is now, as Cambridge found out to their cost the following year. But in a short time Yardley had pulverised the bowling: before you knew where you were, the bowlers in his hands had become helpless: fortunately, too. Jack Dale, the other end, was all the time playing a most scientific game, and a good total was reached. But out of 198 runs made from the bat, Yardley and Dale scored 167.

The next year, 1871, there was an old-fashioned wicket at Lord's; not a dangerous one, but of a kind I should like to see in these days, when the ball shot and came