The death of Mr. A. N. Hornby, known through Lancashire
and Cheshire as " Monkey " Hornby, will be lamented among all who care for what is best in sport. He was well known with the Cheshire Hounds, a fine Rugby football player and in the cricket field he was once not less famous than Dr. Grace. He played for the Gentlemen for many years and for England, but it is as captain of the Lancashire team, in which he played for over thirty years, that he will be longest remembered. They were the years when the team included Mr. A. G. Steel and great professionals like Barlow and Briggs, and when it often won the championship and the whole side had the keenness and unanimity which only a great captain can inspire. As displays of cricket grow more perfect there is an increased satisfaction of a kind for players and spectators, but we will be bound that neither gets the fun of the game out of first-class cricket to-day that all concerned got it out of a fine, free-hitting innings by Hornby, or even from his dodges for stealing singles. * * *
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