CRICKET MISHAP
UNUSUAL HAPPENING
Cricketing conditions last Saturday were such as to cause the ball to rise on some. wickets more sharply than is usually the case, as not a few'batsmen discovered to their cost It is not unusual for a batsman to be struck by ,a ball, but' one. such incident last Saturday, was attended by a most unusual happening. .In a Hutt. Valley Association, match, on .Trafalgar Park, W. Huxtable (well.known as a.former Rugby ■football representative),' when, making excellent progress ■ with the bat for the.home team against General Motors, was struck in the mouth by: a_ball, which rose sharply from the pitch, with- the result. that' two of his teeth ; were/,knocked out. One was from the gum and the other.from a plate; and the latter; not being found nearby, it was thought, for, the moment that-it may,have been forced down the player!s throat However, when the- ball was picked up the missing .tooth,;.:to the/amazement of those on the scene, was found; Sticking in the leather.; It »had been forced in to a depth of.about a.quarter of an inch!
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 42, 19 February 1935, Page 3
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