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...every amateur cricketer of note in England), the record of the team was very creditable. The most notable victory of the Philadelphians was that over the Gentlemen of Gloucestershire whom they defeated by seven wickets. The county was represented by its best amateurs including Dr. W. G. Grace, the Leviathan; and the victory was the more creditable if we remember that there are twenty times as many Cricketers in Gloucestershire as in Philadelphia...
Scribner & Welford issue in a "Students' Edition" a reprint of Hobbes' "Leviathan...