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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 73, 18 December 1937, Page 17

Farr For America. . Tpmmy Farr i? likely to miss his eagerly-anticipated Christmas dinner with relatives in England, for he has to return to America in mid-Decem-ber. He has received a; cable from Miko Jacqbs teiling him he has been matched with Nathan Manu for a fight at Madison Bquare Garden, New York, on January 20. This means that he will be unable to do more than complete his film at Criklewood before recrossing the Atlantic. He is to sail on December 18. There has been talk-^-some of it in a hopeful strain — of Farr agreeing to a contest jn London before being recalled by Jacobs, but there now seems little chanqe of this in the circumstances. An Unusual Catch. There was a remarkable incident in a senior cricket match in Adelaide recently. A batsman played at a ball from Frank Ward, Which rose ?harply and b'ecame lodged between the batsman's body and his gloved hahd. Vic. Richardson, who wa? fielding clp?e to the wicket, rushed up, seized the ball, and claimed a catch, which was allowed. The decision was undoubtedly correct, says an Australian writer, but one cannot understand the batsman hugging the ball in this way long •nough to enable Richardson to get up and take it