Cricket 1893

I ! 1 n ' c o .m 3 J j p r C s fA Z F * j s 1 1A "V^n* Together joined in cricket’s manly toil.5’— Byron, Eegi?e°'ea1or6Tranra^BBi?nAbroaa. THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1893. PR ICE 2d. K I N G S O P C R IC K E T . W. G. G race and G iffen , kings of cricket ! they are both of them by universal acclaim. | now, when England and Australia are pre­ paring for a friendly test of their respective merits, there is a special fitness in the pre­ sentation of portraits of the admittedly title Richard Daft has chosen for the in ­ teresting reminiscences he is just about to issue to an expectant public, that we are in­ debted for the reproduction of the speaking Acknowledged masters of the art, or arts, 1greatest exponents of the game as all-round likeness of George GifFen, who is in company the one representative of Great, the other cricketers England and Australia have pro- with another once lending Australian cricketer, of Greater Britain. In each case, too, j duced. It is to the good offices of the G. E. Palmer, to wit, on this page. At his with a big big G, an’ it please you. Just j publisher of the “ Kings of Cricket,” the best it would be difficult to point to a better