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garinda · 01-07-2011, 00:13

Joseph Eccles - cricketer.
Born 1863 Accrington - 1933.

ECCLES, MR. JOSEPH, died on September 2, 1933, aged 70, at Barton near Preston in Lancashire. Born at Accrington on April 13, 1863, he played for the county from 1886 to 1889. In 1887 he scored 677 runs in all matches with an average of 33, his best score being 113 at Cheltenham. In the following season, when he made 184 against Surrey at the Oval and 97 against Middlesex at Lord's, he headed the Lancashire averages with 27 for an aggregate of 525 runs. He was in the Gentlemen's Eleven which won at Lord's by 5 runs, the last four Players--Attewell, Peel, Lohmann and Flowers--falling at one total to C. Aubrey Smith and S. M. J. Woods.
Wisden - Obituaries in 1935

http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/...t/player/12601.

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01-07-2011, 00:13	#79
garinda Give, give, give member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Overlookin' ducks & geese Posts: 32,411 Blog Entries: 293 Liked: 27 times Rep Power: 16469	Re: Obituaries of noted Accringtonians. Joseph Eccles - cricketer. Born 1863 Accrington - 1933. ECCLES, MR. JOSEPH, died on September 2, 1933, aged 70, at Barton near Preston in Lancashire. Born at Accrington on April 13, 1863, he played for the county from 1886 to 1889. In 1887 he scored 677 runs in all matches with an average of 33, his best score being 113 at Cheltenham. In the following season, when he made 184 against Surrey at the Oval and 97 against Middlesex at Lord's, he headed the Lancashire averages with 27 for an aggregate of 525 runs. He was in the Gentlemen's Eleven which won at Lord's by 5 runs, the last four Players--Attewell, Peel, Lohmann and Flowers--falling at one total to C. Aubrey Smith and S. M. J. Woods. Wisden - Obituaries in 1935 http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/...t/player/12601. Lancashire Cricket Archive __________________ 'If you're going to be a Kant, be the very best Kant there is my son.' Johann Georg Kant, father of Immanuel Kant, philosopher.