John and James Lillywhite's Cricketers' Companion 1882

faft gfline against him. it \vas at Nottingham ,— the best bats o f the day. . In one o f the iirst grea t matches C l a r k e p i a v e l .— C l a r k e go t nine w ick e ts in one innings against I have spoken to o ld p layers who cou ld describe the h ow lin g o f tw o o f the old schoo l whose de livery was very ex traord inary . D a v id H a r r i s , the remarkable on record , had a power o f thrusting his hand out as if from practicable. F enkex often said, we little knew what the best ot the om fast bowlers could do, and if L ambert or W arsop of Nottingham were, as C larke said, as good or better than himself, wc have a fair standard of judgment as to tiic other bowlers. I have played against S pa rices , and also A shby , who was far more celebrated as a bowler—both bowled in the best matches:—these were about Mr. R id ley ’ s pace with bias, A siiby especially. S parkes , B udd , and Lord F rederic began to play almost with the century, D avid H arris before, and L a m b e r t only a little later. A siiby , a Kent man, was a few years later than either. Enough of Random Recollections for the present.