MOST FAMOUS CRICKET PITCH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 276, 19 November 1914, Page 8

MOST FAMOUS CRICKET PITCH.

Speaking of the physical side of edit, cation at a complimentary dinner to Ilia toanciJ of the -New South Wales Public Schools' Athletic Association, .Mr Carmichaei (Minister of Education), referred to the old, old story. which disputes with Bill Adams the credit oi winning the battle of Waterloo. -"You have all heard the statement," said Mr Carmichael, "that Waterloo was won on the cricket fields of Eaton but you may not know that this lias been immortalised in a somewhat remarkable way. The 1 two great heroes, Nelson and Wellington, are buried in the crypt of St. Paul's, and the distance between their monuments is exactly the length of a cricket pitch '2:2 yards. I know ibis is so. because I measured it myself." He went on to say that few members of the English Eleven wore aware of this, and on several occasions he had had to assure people, on the credit of an Australian, that it was a fact. "And, whatever you may hear or read," he went on. "Australian credit is as sound as ever it was—more especially since the Emden was sunk by the Sydney."