Cricket 1904

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Packed in tins, 6 d ., postfree. J. J. REID, 378, Kennington Rd., London. C r i c k e t : A WEEKLY RECORD OF TEE GAME. 168, UPPER THAMES STREET, LONDON, E.C. THURSDAY , SEPT. 1st, 1904. ^a tn lton ^ o s s t p . The abstract and brief chronicle of the time.— hamlet. I n the matches at the end of last week there was quite an epidemic of “ run out,” the sufferers being E. M . Sprot (two attacks), L . O. S. Poidevin, G. Curgenven, Humphries, Vine, C. E . de Trafford, Captain R . O’H . Livesay, Bestwick, Hayward, and R. E . H . Baily,