A BOUNDARY THAT WAS ONE SHORT
ROWLEY and Elliot had just -•-'opened for Y.M.C.A. against United Suburbs. The Sussex man stepped back, and pulled Williams’s first ball to the boundary. The batsmen ran up the wicket and crossed, and after seeing that the ball had gone over the line went back to their respective creases. “One short" called the square-leg umpire, and the scorers looked at one another. It was owing to the loud laughter of the “boys" on the hill that the umpire owed a realisation of his mistake. Two balls later Bowley repeated the stroke, and in dulcet tones, from the Hill, came the cheerful admonition, “One short.” Who would be an umpire? sk % & Hi * sksksksksksk** &
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 289, 27 February 1928, Page 6
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118A BOUNDARY THAT WAS ONE SHORT Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 289, 27 February 1928, Page 6
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