ENGLISH VILLAGE CRICKET
Mr. Stanley Baldwin was once a keen and fairly capable cricketer, and his reminiscences about the game are always interesting. Recently at a dinner in London he entertained the company with some of these. He said that "village cricket, as he knew it in his vouth, had many amusing features. There were players in billycock hats, and some of them supported their black trousers with horse girths. He moved in cricket circles where no one played for his average—because they could not do it. Those present had played on far greater grounds than he. but they had played many a match without seeing a man fall down through hitting too hard, or sending his bat over the umpire's head. They had seldom seen two fielders collide in their eagerness to get the ball, and one of them carried off the field. They had seldom played with what is called'a back-stop. Yet that village cricket was played in the same spirit as that of I. Zlngari. It would be a sad day for England when that cricket, which so many of them took part in in their early days, passed away."
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 725, 26 July 1929, Page 7
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193ENGLISH VILLAGE CRICKET Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 725, 26 July 1929, Page 7
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