Frank Ernest Smith & Robert Slade Lucas. 1895. (Cricketers)

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

1- Frank Ernest Smith.
"SURREY" SMITH, as he is called for the purpose of distinction, is one of the younger School of Cricketers who have helped to keep the old County in the foremost position for, with one exception, the last eight years.  A native of Bury St. Edmunds, his chance of developing his cricket was materially improved by the engagement he ontained at the Oval, when quite a youngster, some five summers ago.  For three seasons he has been a member of the Surrey Eleven, and has not yet completed his twenty-third year.  Surrey had for some time been hoping for a first-class slow left-hand bowler, and this want F. E. SMITH has, to a great extent supplied.  Last year he took nearly a hundred wickets in first-class matches for Surrey, at an average cost of under fourteen runs.  A steady bat and a good field besides, SMITH is a useful all-round player.  Bringing his hand well over, he keeps a good length, and as he varies his pace with judgment, should be even more successful in the future.

2- Robert Slade Lucas.
Though well known in Club matches in the Metropolitan circuit, it is only in the last few years that R. S. LUCAS has come to the fore in County cricket.  Last summer made his reputation as a batsman of the hitting school.  A brilliant performance, in conjunction with J. PHILLIPS, for Middlesex against Surrey at the Oval, when the game was going altogether against his side, gave him a position high up in the ranks of amateur Cricketers.  A fine batsman with a great variety of hits, he scores at a rare pace when fairly settled down to his work.  Nor is he by any means a bad field.  A member of Lord HAWKE'S Team in America last fall, he subsequently Captained the English Team which visited the West Indies.  One of the best Hockey players in England as well.

Condition is Very Good.