"GOOD OLD GRACE!"
(Doggerel on "The Doctor," by an "Old Duffer.")
"Dr. Grace, who seemed to forget his lameness, played with great vigour and dash, and his cuts and drives possessed all their old brilliancy."—The Times, on the exciting finish in the Cricket Match between the M.C.C. and the Australians, June 3, 1890.
One hundred and eleven runs, and eighty-five minutes to make 'em in,
And with Turner and Ferris to trundle as fast as they could pitch and break 'em in!
And it looked any odds on Murdoch's men contriving to make a draw of it;
But Cricket, my lads, is a curious game, and uncertainty seems the sole law of it.
So they sent in Grace and Shuter to start. Well, the Doctor is now called "a veteran,"
But at forty-two when he's on the job 'tisn't easy to pick out a better 'un.
And he "spanked for four," like a lad once more, and he cut and he drove like winking;