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down the hill; and the finest piece of fast bowling ever seen in this match was given by Sam Butler for Oxford. He bowled from the pavilion end all the innings, and in 97 balls he got all ten wickets for 38 runs, all but two having been clean bowled, and some of the Cambridge eleven could really bat. Yardley, Money, Thornton, and A. T. Scott were all good, three of them up to Gentlemen and Players form; but the pace of the ball, its break and its shoot, wanted Grace to master it, and Grace only would have played the bowling that day. Butler got five wickets, four clean bowled in the second innings, and so for the whole match had the astounding figures of fifteen wickets for 95 runs,—a feat not to be seen again by this generation at all events. Cambridge had their turn the year after in a match which shows the old vicissitudes of the game. Oxford had the dreaded Sam Butler to bowl again, as well as his most efficient coadjutor, C. K. Francis, who now presides over the police court in South-West London. They had be-