CRICKET.
The Excelsiors are to play Mataraws' on Thursday next; a mail between the teams representing A Printersand the Mastertou %9nMS9l| arranged for Greytown and 8 on St. match the Bush has place at GreytownTon^HßH The following appeared in a receil issue of the Oartsrton Observer :-"Tb|| staff of the Observer are anxious to tr}l conclusions at cricket with the em-f ployis ot our Greyton; contemporary.! On their behalf we heave the gauntAi let." In its next issue the Wairarapa:' Standard replies:—" Now, the Stan\dard staff would like very muoh to have an afternoon's sport with their Carterton confreres, but they have an uneasy feeling that the proprietor of the Observer, who has about a cartload of bats and balls, commemorating Lis valor on ibs cricket Held; could take" us all himself, There is a fear that if Carterton men won the toss, and their " boss" went in first, the match might last a'year, because ft should only get him out by a fluke. However,oui: ' Slogger' says' no funking, and as he is prepared to face the deadly cease, we accept the cballengo,"
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4659, 27 February 1894, Page 2
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183CRICKET. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4659, 27 February 1894, Page 2
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