POLITICS AND CRICKET
HON. C. G. LYTTELTON Mr. Baldwin, British Prime Minister, is to retire from politics in June. An ardent cricket enthusiast. His prospective successor in the Parliamentary division is the Hon. C. J. Lyttelton, the 27-year-old amateur who toured Austraiia and New Zealand last season with the M.C.C. team. The Lytteltons are politicians as well as cricketers. The famous Hon. Alfred, who kept wickets in the 1884 Oval Test, was Colonial Secretary. They were related to England's great Prime Minister of the Victorian era, W. E. Gladstone. In the 1884 Test three Australians each. made a century in the first innings, W. L. Murdoch 211, P. S. McDonnell 103, and Dr. H. J. Scott 102. Alfred Lyttelton kept "wickets. When Austraiia had made* over 500 runs for six wickets, Lord Harris asked him to become the eleventh bowler. He doffed the pads and bowled lots to finish with four for 19. Such is cricket. It was the Hon. and Reverend Edward Lyttelton, headmaster of Eton, who asked W. G. Grace what was the best ball that ever bowled him and W. G. replied, "a good length mediumpace ball from M. A. Noble that swerved away to the offi and, after pitching broke back and hit the sticks."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 65, 3 April 1937, Page 14
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