CRICKET.
Here is a story I heard at the Sports Club (say s an English scribe). A cricket enthusiast took a lady friend to see the Middlesex and Gloucester match at Lord’s. J. W. Hearne clean bowled three men in Gloucester’s second innings, whereupon the lady friend remarked ; “How clever Mr. Hearne is to ■ knock those three thin uprights over so well with such a small hall. I wonder what they are called?” On being told they were the three stumps, the lady asked: “And what are the two. small pieces that are knocked off?” “They are the bails,” responded the cricket enthusiast. “I often wondered what they were,” she retorted; “my brother is out on one of those!”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 July 1924, Page 12
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119CRICKET. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 July 1924, Page 12
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