Aug, 19.
The Oval this morning was a model of tidiness. The ground staff had worked their hardest in reysoving cart-loads of litter, including an extraordinary number of articles of clothing, umbrellas and welkin sticks, which had been left by cited enthusiasts yesterday evening, 'A deep hole, six inches squa was cut in the turf outside cre A groundsman said was because the Aus-wished to take a piece of 23) the famous wicket home.
'The Oval authorities gladly obliged, Collins, the Australian' Captain, told a groundsman that the wicket was the most wonderful one on which he has played so far—Reuter,
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