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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 202, 15 August 1908, Page 3

A STORY 01- MU. LKYTSOX-COWKIi. As ;i cricket raconteur the new Surrey captain lm~ few equals. One of his t.cst stories lelates to a .boys' cricket week, which till' late l.ord Oconslield organised for Susm'\, Surrey, and Hampshire yoiiii-fsti-rs at I'd wort li. Dinner was served each day on silver plate*. Suddenly, in one of thosv silences which sometimes fall oil assembled eaters, a big lad shouted, loud enough to be heard by the noble host, " I do hate eating (ill' tlie.se beastly tin plait's; in a decent house like this they might give us china ones.'' ISy the way. Mr. U'veson-tiower is one of several " doulile captains" still playing tirst-class cricket, who include the lion. [•'. X. .Jackson (Harrow and Camlivid^el, who also captained the English eleven against Australia: Mr. ('. IS. Fry (Oxford and Sussex); Mr. (1. L. •Tessop (Cambridge and flloucestershirel; Mr. 0. 11. I>. Marsham (Oxford anil Kent); and Mr. A. 0. .Jones, who has been captaiu of Bedford School and Notts.