Cricket 1904

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Cricket: A WEEKLY RECORD OF TEE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY, AUG. 18 th , 1904. ( ^osstp. The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.- Hamit t. I n the matches at the end of last week two captains who won the toss made the always risky experiment of putting their opponents in first. The results were not encouraging, for H . K . Foster saw his county beaten by Gloucestershire by 67