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tor the County at nine- teen, the ace at which he is represented in the sccond of our portraits, and the vear followine represented the Plavers 2. Gentlemen, and scored his first century (118) for his county, against York- shire. To spcak in detail of his great achievements since that date would require many pages, [t must here suflice to men- tion his cnormous core

of 221 not out, against Middlesex in 188z : his 207 agamst the same

county i 1887 (when he was ot the age at which he s dcpictc(l m the third

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RTIHUR ' SHRICWS. I BURY was born at New Tnin-

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ton, ) ham, where his father was then engaged in

business. Some of his first ericket was played with the Nottingham Meadow Willow Club, but his progress was s rapid that he was S onlyvsixteen when | = selected to play for |= wepooh o the Colts against the County, in which he

came out with the top score of 23, made

against some of the best bowling in Fno- land, for which feat | he recetved a prize e e "5t ])]Il\'L‘L] Prosiv - Plioto b AGE

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AGE 71, From a Phcto, taken {0 Australic,

of our portraits), for which he was at the wickets o3 hours without giving a chance : and his unri- valled scoring against A .- tralian clevens on many well-remembered ficlds, Tt 5 almost superfluous to add that in brilhancy of stvle Shrewsbury has very few equals, and no superior. Ile i in part- nership with Alfred Shaw, as acricket outlitter, at Nottingham,