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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 180, 20 October 1927, Page 9

“Take that, Peate!” The death, a short time ago, of Tom Groube, one of the great Australian batsmen of other days, and a member of the second Australian team to go to England, recalls a story of his teammate, James Slight, who suffered from the same disability on the tour as did Groube. Both were batsmen of a purely Australian style, and neither reproduced his form on tour. To Jim Slight, Peate, the Yorkshire left-hander, had become something of a nightmare. On the eve of a game against an England eleven, one of the team going up to Slight's bedroom found him with a bat in the centre of the room giving Peate a rare but wholly imaginary pasting, “Take that, Peate!’* said the batsman, as he drove one. "Take that, Peate!” and he cut him for four —as Slight could cut them. "Take that, Peate,” and he swept another to leg—just a little bit too far to leg, because with a terrific crash the bat swept every bit of ware from the dressing table. It cost the batsman about three guineas to replace it, and insult was added to injury next day when Peate got him “for a blob.”