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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20083, 12 November 1930, Page 18

. _ Not- generally regarded as a dangerous game, erieket yet has a history of tragedies, minor and major. Many years ago a member of the reigning Royal Family of England was killed by a blow from a cricket ball. The latest cricket tragedy was the loss of an eye by a player at the Auckland Domain on Saturday as the result of moving up to one of the recognised posts of danger in' the field —"silly mid-on." There are two such posts in the modern cricket field, silly point and silly midon. They were instituted many years logo, but elaborated more recently in -Australia. Certain conditions attach by general consent to the occupation of these places immediately in front of - the bat. The duty is voluntary, the selection falls on a man notable for superlative speed of hand, foot, or eye, and his instruction is always "safety first" in the event of a hard" attacking shot, high or low, by the batsman. Standing his ground is' required of the fieldsman in these places only, for defensive strokes and miss-hits, for which his eye is 'his guide. Everything depends on the eye, and one "added pro.caution should always be that the :field»man be under 30 years of age, for after that age the eye in most people