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Curators said the funding, alongside donations from the Garfield Weston Foundation, and the Ross Warburton Charitable Trust, will help the project stay on track for its 2027.

Only one other player in Shield history had managed 900 runs and 30 wickets in a single season: the greatest all-rounder of them all, Sir Garfield Sobers.

That first observance included a speech by future President James Garfield at Arlington National Cemetery, where 5,000 people decorated the graves of 20,000 fallen soldiers.

Bell 2, Garfield 0: Defending City champion Bell is starting to find its pitching just in time to win the battle for first place in the Eastern League.

Garfield is putting up a challenge to Bell with a 7-0 league mark.