PRAIRIE WICKETS
AUSTRALIANS’ AMUSING EXPERIENCES. MOOSEJAW, August 6. Cricket on the Canadian prairies is amusing and interesting. At Winnipeg, where Australia outclassed all Canada in a test match, the grasshopper plague was so serious that after every hall the batsmen were compelled to sweep the grasshoppers off the wicket. Mailey opened the bowling and obtained the. “hat trick’’ with 'his first, three balls, owing to his deliveries skidding off grasshoppers, the ball keeping low. At Regina there were no grass-hop-pers and the wicket was good, but the field, resembled a ploughed paddock. , , Such conditions were not conducive to good cricket, but the Australians accepted the adverse conditions with a good grace, because during the long Vancouvor-Toronto trip the Australians remembered a mysterious, good-natui-ed stranger who presented the sleeping cricketers with three dozen bottles ot liquid refreshments, and then disappeared over the prairies again.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1932, Page 7
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