JOHNNY MULLAGH
\| ANY old-timers still talk glowingly of the batting skill of Johnny Mullagh, the old Australian aboriginal cricketer. He had the grace and strokes of a champion, yet in spite of his natural abilities found civilisation rather a failure. On his first trip to Sydney a member of the Victorian team discovered a strong smell of gas in the hotel, and knowing of Mullagh’s early retirement, went in search of the cause, which was found to be emanating from the aboriginee’s bedroom. As no re* sponse was made to the vociferous knocking on the door, it was broken down, when lo and behold! Johnny was found lying insensible on the bed. It turned out that, not understanding the use of gas, he blew the lights out upon retiring, and but for the resource of a fellow-player would have been asphyxiated. He always wanted to sleep in the open with a bla-nket ever afterwards.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 695, 21 June 1929, Page 14
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154JOHNNY MULLAGH Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 695, 21 June 1929, Page 14
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