PATRIOTIC CARNIVAL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 61, 9 September 1914, Page 8

PATRIOTIC CARNIVAL

.»> " YE OLDE ENGLISH CRICKET MATCH. A good-humoured crowd of very large •dimensions assembled at the Basin Re serve this afternoon, on the occasion of the Patriotic Carnival in aid of the War Fund. The fun commenced when "Ye olde English cricket match opened. On one side was a team comprised of members of Parliament and on the other a Mayoral team, the umpire being the Hon. J. G. W. Aitken. Clad in flannels and wearing tophats, the cricketers presented a striking appearance, and some of the well-filled waistbelts did not give tho spectators much hope of seeing much in tho way of fast fielding. No overarm bowling was allowed, and the spec- j tacle oF the city's Chief Magistrate (Mr. ' J. P. Luke) trying to bowl Sir Joseph Ward with underarm "googlies' 1 was something to be remembered, and evok- • cd roars of laughter. The Parliamentary team went in to bat first, tho Leader of the Opposition and Mr. A. S. Malcolm opening to the bowling of the Mayor and Mr. B. M. Wilson. No centuries had been recorded when The Post went to press.

"Unruffled as the Englishman is regarding the prospect of Mar, the average Australian is exhibiting even more .sangfroid," wrote the Sydney Sun's London correspondent oti 31st' July. "One or two, taking tune by the forelock, have tried to make money out, of the misfortunes of stock holders. A syndicate of eight men each put in a thousand pounds to acquire gilt-edged stocks, which they proposed to unload next week, expecting to clean up a profit of £2000 a>piece. I should like to know how they feel now that the Exchange is closed and business is dead. There was another Australian, having some thousands of pounds l\ing idle in the bank at current account, who thought he would improve the passing hour by purchasing half-a-dosicn sound stocks during the Ulster climax in order to sell them when the clouds cleared. Pursuing this policy, he had a nest-egg of £6000 profit. He was so pleased that he decided to have another flutter. The Austrian thunderbolt fell, the matket broke to little piece?, and his profits and a thick slice of hia cuircnt account have been engulfed."