PLOT TO BEAT ENGLISHMEN
LONDON PAPER’S SKIT “The bright news from Australia is that, during their up-country match at Ipswich, the M.C.C. players were attacked, while fielding, by swarms oi large black ants, and had to turn up their trouser legs. “My utterly unreliable correspondent with the team,” says a writer in the London Daily Herald, “sends me a code message which reveals the whole thing as a plot to prevent us winning all the other Test matches. “The ants had been captured and kept without food for several days. This, and the fact that they showed a pronounced liking for good English flesh after *the tough Australian bush stuff they had previously been existing on, made them particularly ravenous. “They failed, however, to devour a single English player, or pressman, and have been banished from Ipswich for good.
“An urgent message asking that white ants should be sent by ’plane from Africa in time for the second Test has been dispatched. “I hope the local photographer didn’t miss his chance. Pictures of M.C.C. cricketers fielding in turned-up pants while waves of black ants break over their ankles ought to sell like hot cakes. I’m all for this brighter cricket.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)
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200PLOT TO BEAT ENGLISHMEN Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)
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