RANJI'S SMARTNESS.
'F. S. Jackson tells 6 good 'BtorjU'| Respecting Ranji. 'One day daring th!. 'progress of a match between Cambridge ;,i 'University and Yorkshire, Jackson bowling to Tunniclifle, Ranji being aUU> slip. Ttmnicliffecut a ball which wasn%‘kseen after leaving the bat. The bats men, terrain it had gone to the boundary, never troubled to run, Ranji stood quite still with his hands bis pockets, smiling, apparently not .£ troubling about the bail, whluh rathe! vexed Jackson, who asked why ho standing there, grinning like a Cheahfrt ' cat, instead of fielding the ball. Upon which Ranji pulled the bail out ‘of hik: ; vt pocket, he having caught ft and placed-,," it there by ivay of a joke. Bo quicklj that-no one had seen him do it. ( !'
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 172, 1 March 1902, Page 4
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125RANJI'S SMARTNESS. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 172, 1 March 1902, Page 4
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