Thomas Arthur Wardall & Robert Arthur Thoms'. 1895 (Cricketers)

For Sale is a Full Page removed from "Famous Cricketers and Cricket Grounds, 1895," showing a Portrait Photographs for the Following Cricketers on each side.

1- Thomas Arthur Wardall.
Yorkshire, three years ago, had few better all-round Cricketers than WARDALL.  A two years' engagement at the Oval had shown him to be a useful hardworking player, but little more.  The better class of cricket he got subsequently with the Yorkshire Eleven brightened his play considerably, and in 1892 he was of distince use to the County, not only as a batsman but on occasions as a bowler.  Several times he scored very heavily, and that year against Gloucestershire he played three innings of over a hundred for the County.  He was, indeed, not only at the head of the batting averages that season, but also took twenty wickets at by no means a heavy cost.  During the last two years he has dropped out of the Yorkshire Eleven.  A very watchful bat, he rarely took a liberty with any bowling, and consequently his wicket was never an easy one to get.  If not a particularly smart field, he was very often of use in the field with his slow bowling on which there was considerable work.

2- Robert Arthur Thoms'.
In his time an excellent all-round Athlete, ROBERT THOMS' reminiscences of sport of all kinds would make a very interesting volume.  There have been few figures better known on English cricket fields during the last thirty years or more.  In his youth a good player, his name has been familiar as a household word, not only among English but also among Australian Cricketers, as a Umpire without fear and without reproach.  With a practical knowledge of the game in all its details, he has officiated not only in the principal Inter-County matches, but in the test games between England and Australia as well as in the more important Public School matches, and always with the same character for absolute fairness.  Deservedly popular with all classes, he has won golden opinions from all conditions of Cricketers by his strict impartiality, his independence, and his conscientious discharge of a position requiring tact as well as fairness.

Condition is Very Good.