CRICKET NOTES.
The English cricketers occasionally have a joke at the expense of ono of their own team without the victim suspecting the origin of it. At a northern town there was an hour to play on the last day of a match with no possibility of tho match being influenced either way, so Brown was put on to bowl. " This is a new bowler," the local umpire remarked, "Yes," says Phillips, who was umpiring at tho other end," bnt they are careful never to put him on at my end—l always no-ball him in England." this was enough for the local umpire, who no-balled Brown three times in the first over. The bowler was completely puzzled, and when the umpire began to doubt, not Phillips, of course, but the evidence of his own eyesight,another of. the team remarked to the umpire, " I'm glad you have no-balled him. It's nearly time some umpire took the responsibility of doing so." The joke is, of course, that Brown, though a poor bowler is a remarkably fair one.—Woomera (Australasian).
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4995, 6 April 1895, Page 3
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176CRICKET NOTES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4995, 6 April 1895, Page 3
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