Football was Ward’s game. He neither player nor understood cricket. So when they got him to play in the village team’s opening match ho knew he would make a moss of it. When lie wont in to bat lie eyed curiously the wicketkeeper, whose chin almost touched the bails. The first ball down Ward clean missed, and the ’keeper had his wicfket in a Hash “ Out!” shouted tho umpire. “ Half a minute,” said Ward, pointing to the wicketkeeper. .“Wasn’t this -’©ro chap offside?” ’ ' ,
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Evening Star, Issue 22442, 12 September 1936, Page 15
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