CRICKET NEWS.
!h V H!, ‘ ,tr I*l SVJ ■ i'UrjNS \ i CRL K FT CRITICS, lit’ceivd ibis dav at 0.30 a. n.) LONDON. 4 a ii. 24. At liie annual meeting ot I lampsliire Ci.uiily Cluh. Russell Oengrndi said Sydney Smith had written a hook in which he liereely rrilieised English cricket, conlending it was out of dale. His answer to Smith was that cricket had a great tradition, and cricketers ihr..uglioiit the Empire could safely tiu-t Aiarylehi.ne. wlm liad'snfegnnrdcd the game for I3(l years. Sinilli ap|iaren!.] , considered it hotter if a more slap and dash style were introduced on the lines of do it and damn the onnse(|Uences. He seemed to think when the Australians came to England that all other cricket should he scrapped. English cricketers had no sympathy with such an idea.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1923, Page 3
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134CRICKET NEWS. Hokitika Guardian, 25 January 1923, Page 3
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