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COUNTY CRICKET.

The first appearance of the Gloucestershire team at Sheffield in 1872 elicited all that keen enthusiasm for which the Tykes are so famous. They turned out in thousands, and the great batsman played a splendid innings of 150 against George Freeman and Allen Hill.