Players to supply ‘boxes’
By
ROBIN CHARTERIS
A village cricket club has thrown away its supply of “boxes,” used to protect the tender parts of batsmen, because of the fear ofAJ.D.S. Players in future must bring their own. “Putting on a protective box that someone else has worn is the equivalent of sexual contact and the experts say A.I.D.S. is spread by sexual contact,” said the chairman of the Newlyn East Cricket Club, in Cornwall, Mr Ray Scaife.
He has urged other clubs and the M.C.C. to follow Newlyn’s lead, in spite of advice from expert bodies such as the British Medical Association that there has to be an exchange of bodily fluids between two persons to incur the risk of A.I.D.S.
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Press, 25 February 1987, Page 42
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