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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
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lintering the bat to pieces, won the betby bowling his adversary. My cousin, W. R. Gilbert, once paid the penaltyfor treating slow lobs contemptuously. He wasplaying for the United South against Twenty ofKeighley in 1876, and had got well set, whenArmytage went on with slow underhands.Armytage, who bowled round the wicket, sentdown a very slow ball, which kept close to theground all the way, and had a slight break fromthe leg. Gilbert, when he saw the ball creepingtowards him, thought it was not worth playing,and instead of hitting it, kicked at it. To hisastonishment, and the amusement of all thespectators, the ball hopped up, went over his footand bowled him out. I suppose all old cricketers have heard thestory of the ball bounding into my shirt, and ofthe curious difficulty which arose about it, but Imay repeat it here for the benefit of youngstersand of old stagers with short memories. I wasplayinc^ at Clifton for Gloucester in 1878, andwhile batting with Frank Townsend (father of
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