COW FOR A CENTURY

Evening Post, Volume 97, Issue 97, 21 October 1933, Page 6

COW FOR A CENTURY

Australian, cricketers have oftpn .had baits dangled before them to afa successes on the field, particularly :in Testmatches. Don Bradinan received £1000 from an Australian enthusiast in Lofli don in 1930, and rewards of cigarettes and cash prizes arc numerous, but one of the- strangest prizes offered was that by Mr.' Jim Porter, of Mount 'Keira, at the Cricket GroMfc-'tot'ttdek.-'^Now, boys," said"-M)ri -Porter: as his team finished ::at.'. thq "■praotic.e nets (writes Jack Fingletpn.i,in ; a Sydney paper), •'you iavo aHSada good practice, and there is a prize of a cow for anybody that malc.es a, century.'' What a farm Don J3i'admatt would have had had he received a cow for every century! The Mount Keira lads,, as befits-those •onnected'wiffifthe feoufitry, weife-1 teeii. to win;.a,caw, but the" highest,scorer iv

the match, which, was against Waverley, could -not-get past the forties.: A coach, it ia also reported, was a bit flabbergasted when offered a pig by Mr. Porter in return for his services.