CRICKET IN TOBRUK
NO HALT FOR SHELL-FIRE
CAIRO, August 15.
Despite the stern conditions in Tobruk, time has been found to play an occasional game of cricket, says the Australian official war correspondent.
The game was never played under stranger conditions. In a recent match between an Australian team and a British battery routine orders were issued on the conditions to be observed.
"Play will be continued except through interference by air raids until 6 p.m.," the orders said. "Play will not cease during shell-fire."
They also provided that umpires should carry loaded rifles, that medical arrangements should be made, and that an ambulance should be in attendance.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 8
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