A Lucky Cricketer.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 83, 5 October 1897, Page 4

A Lucky Cricketer.

By this week's Australian mail, A. H. Fisher, the Otago player, received the following letter from Major Wardili, Secretary of the Melbourne Cricket Club : — " The members of the Australian Eleven lately in New Zealand bare spoken very highly of your bowling against them, and, from what I have heard, I believe New Zealand wonld like to be represented in a test match against the English Eleven. There would be a yery great probability of this taking place if you conld get away for a trip to these colonies. We would pay your expenses up to Sydney, Ac, if yon can be there in time to play in a match on the 6th and 9th November, and then come on to Melbourne and have a go here prior to the first test match on the 14th December. I bare no idea as to whether you would like to stay here, but no doubt if you did we should be able to make some arrangement for yoa to stay. At any rate you would have a pleasant holiday, I hope. I could not possibly say now that you would be a certainty for the Australian side. I can only say that a good bowler wonld have every chance indeed, and would be pre ferred to a first class batsman only. If possible, and you decide to come, I think you should get to Sydney ten or fourteen days prior to the 6th November. — Christchurch Press.