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Show t 1 GENERAL SPOItTLNU FCOT9AM ANfJ JET8AM FrfOM HERE AND THEnl2." - " M 'I. rrank l-rii-! Mill I IjliHtWIsM ttmnip- liii Allil.llo .Vol.. -llil,MII liitrr.at All te.ta nt Hpurl niu.l.rm.ro In Aln.lllMII II.1I.7. I If. Hi tr t Ol I Kporb II I'eAtP. who nt one period of his rather brief cricket career ranked as the best professional bowler In Ung-land, Ung-land, died tit pneumonia the other day .at Newlay. near Jds, lltiglanit lie was burn Msrrh 2, 18M ami first play ed for the Yorkuhlro county team. In 1S73, when he at once took rank with the, best howlers In Hugland He Old great sen Ice for his cooniiv for the I tint six seasons, his connection with the ltukahlre eleven piut (Irst-Jase cricket terminating yat th Mid tiMNi He was a left handed slow bottler, had n tery easy action, and kept a splendid splen-did length While his hreak umde him eitremely illfflcult on wJtjHets tthlel) affordeil him any1 nsstslanre, he, waf linnllng 1 nought even, tin nimost ier; feet pitches, ami he" was' found by the inrlmrs Australian teafns against which he played t lie their mnaX consistently con-sistently dangeroiM opirient He wife not a good Sold mil he did not trouble trou-ble himself much about his batting average I'eate wns on of the l!ng-llsh l!ng-llsh pnifeaahmAl team that played here In IbSl, en route tu Auitralla, ho then dlitlnniilahlng himself by taking Id nlckcts nt the cost nf only (9 runs In the games played Oct. 7. 8 10, at l'hll-ndelphli l'hll-ndelphli I't ngnlnst the strongest team that ever took the field In Am-rrlea Am-rrlea up to Hint dale Including eleven amateurs and eetixi prnfcsslounls-Onii of his most remarkable hoallnR feats was performed -July J.1, 1888. at Hoi-Uk, Hoi-Uk, Hnglsnd.whcn Inmllng for Yorkshire York-shire agnlnst tlurrey Ha captured five wlckcta for ccht runs, Ho .did an even finer performance against tho Australian team In 1881 nt Manchna- tcr.taklng In the two Innings ten wick-its wick-its at the rost of Bl runs on n pitch In splendid condition I'oatrt bowlM moro overs and captured mora wickets wick-ets than any other bowler In England did from ISiO to 16S5 Inclusive, taking tak-ing no fewer than two hundred and fourteen wickets In 18S2 Among tho miny mcmornblo contests in which IVate played n conspicuous part may bcmcntlonrd tho game between the Clcntlcmcn find the I'laycra, at the Oval, lndon, In June 1883, when being put on with tho score a tic, he bowled II Itotherham with his rccoud ball, and so saved Ills 1IJ0 from pus. tllJectcaU,. |