The morning of the second day of the interport cricket match opened with dull, leaden, threatening clouds, which were Arifted over the Peak by a cold, raw breeze. The outlook from the first was most wupromising, but the improvement which was anxiously looked for never came, and the day proved a fulfilment of the most pessimistic forebodings.. But notwithstanding these conditions, the interest in the play and the quality of the cricket did not appear to suffer. 7 Overnight the score stood at 179 for 4 quarter-past eleven the keg not-outs, Capt. Dunn (44) and BE. J. Coxon (4), took their stand again at the wickets, Murray opened the attack with a maiden over, and Bart took the Vall at the other end—the field being very close in, with a strong phalanx behind the wicket.' The first addition to the score was made by Coxon, who sent Murray for three. Immediately afterwards Dunn was missed at square leg, though the chance given was a difficult one. This was when he had contributed 45. In the following over Barff found his way into Coxon's stumps after the latter had raised his over-wight score by three. 184: 5: 7. Leach: filled the vacancy and with the hoisting. of 210 rain commenced to fall heavily. Stewart took the ball from Barff, and
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