Contemporary Opinion
Pullin's account of the meeting was published in his Talks With Old Yorkshire Cricketers, which he wrote under the pseudonym "Old Ebor". In a subsequent volume, Talks with Old English Cricketers, Greenwood pronounced Thewlis "one of the best all-round men that ever Lascelles Hall turned out: he had strokes all round the wicket, and he was perfect in them all."
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