GENERAL NEWS.
CENTENARY OF LEATHER TROUSERS. A pair of leather trousers a hundred years old are to find a new tenant. They had been originally given to a poor boy under the terms of a seven-teenth-century charity for Hammersmith boys. They passed into the possession of ta Bournemouth ladyj who has now given them to mersmith Guardians with directions to give them to a poor boy in ' the parish. The trousers are said to be in good condition. £20,000 FOR BASEBALL PLAYER. Baseball enthusiasts in New York are wildly excited over the report that the manager of the Washington Baseball team will offer to "buy" T. Cobb, the famqus bateman now playing for Detroit, for the remarkable sum of £20,000. It is the .usual thing in. America, the Telegraph states, for expert baseball players to be sold by f, manager from one team to another,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 September 1913, Page 7
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145GENERAL NEWS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 29 September 1913, Page 7
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