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"I Knew a Man. W.G. Grace" -- The 8pp. typescript of a radio broadcast on Grace by A.C. MacLaren, annotated in ink, affirming "that as a batsman his methods were the soundest ... on all wickets and against every type of bowling he remained supreme. I once asked him which bowler he liked least of all. He paused for a moment, then rapped out 'Archie, I love 'em all!" An exchange between Grace and Tom Emmett when Yorkshire were playing Gloucestershire is described as follows: "W.G. whilst batting was handed a telegram ... Tom Emmett, the left hand bowler -- a rare Yorkshire character -- appeared to be interested. W.G. called out to him: 'I've got my diploma, Tom." Shortly after W.G. slipped and sat on the muddy wicket to hear Tom call out, as he picked himself up: 'Ah see thoist got diploma all right Doctor." Maclaren describes the one confrontation he had with Grace: "Only once did W.G. put the boxing gloves on with me. On a soft wicket after hooking the slow bowler, Charlie Townsend, to the out field stationed at mid wicket, I slipped and knocked my leg stump almost flat with my left foot in starting to run at the completion of my stroke. W.G. immediately shouted: 'E's out, e's out, toss 'er up, Toss 'er up, e's out, e's out!' So as I was in the middle of my run I joined in the chorus, calling out to the Umpire: 'I'm not out, I'm not out,' -- nice behaviour on the part of two international bats! When I got to the other end W.G., instead of appealing to the Umpire, walkied towards me with lowered head like an infuriated bull and said to me: 'Aren't you going out, Archie?' 'Not until the Umpire gives me out' I replied slowly and emphatically. Then he turned to the Umpire and said: 'Well, 'ow was it?' 'Not out' said the Umpire -- Then the band began to play with a vengeance, and, as I made seventy more runs after this happening, W.G. had a word for every run made, which I received in silence." Published in Archie. A Biography , pp. 176-182 (Appendix A).