NOTED FOR APPEALS.
'■ A .-GOOD CRICKET STORY. Percy Chapman, English cricket captain, told this one at the cricketers' dinner in Sydney. Macaulay, the Yorkshire all-rounder, is noted in England for the number of appeals he' makes when bowling, but he met his master when Bill Reeves, the old Essex professional, was umpiring. Macaulay had' made his usual number of appeals, until at last Reeves became tired of them. "Not out, doctor!" he exclaimed ■ when' Macaulay shouted "How's that?" /'What'the —-do you mean by callJug me, doctor?" demanded the irate Yorkshircman. "Well, you see," calmly rd&pondcd Reeves, "there's only one man in England who makes more appeals than you, and that's Dr. Barnaido! " And the game went on.
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Shannon News, 8 January 1929, Page 3
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117NOTED FOR APPEALS. Shannon News, 8 January 1929, Page 3
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