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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 December 1939, Page 11

A stout man wandered disconsolately round the aquarium, looking gloomily at the fish disporting themselves in the tanks. The keeper, a friendly sort of chap, approached him, and said: “Well, sir. What, fish do you like best?" The answer came back sorrowfully: 'Grilled herring, with mustard sauce." A strange thing happened in Brisbane recently. Cricket umpires appealed against the light. Their association wrote to the Queensland Cricket Association calling attention to the danger of continuing play after the light is unfit. Under the new rules for brightening play, 10 points for an outright win. and compulsory closure when a team has batted all the first afternoon, have increased the value of time, and made players punctual as well as anxious to play until the time fixed for the drawing of slumps. In one match recently, play continued until a few minutes to six. when the light was so bad that the players could not be identified from the Press box. As the days have lengthened considerably since then, the executive did not take action. The umpire’s protest may be renewed towards the close of the season.