New promotion trend
NZPA Melbourne The Victorian Cricket Association set a new trend in sports promotion yesterday — giving autographed cricket balls to spectators who catch a six hit over the boundary fence. An 18-year-old youth from the Melbourne suburb of Forest Hills — who does not play cricket — brilliantly caught a six hit off Wellington’s Jeremy Coney into the members’ enclosure at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The Australian opener, John Dyson, when on 34
smashed Coney over the fence for the first six of the Australian innings in the oneday international. Robert Fuller, sitting among friends, stood up and did what the Australian captain, Kim Hughes, later described as a smart piece of fielding by catching the ball. Later in the afternoon the association presented him with a white ball, similar to that used in the international, autographed by Hughes. Mr Fuller described himself as “stunned" by the publicity.
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Press, 10 January 1983, Page 32
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