INTERESTS IN TESTS

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 820, 29 June 1926, Page 5

INTERESTS IN TESTS

QUEUE WAITING AT GATE AT MIDNIGHT > ■ fAust. and N.Z. Cable). London, June 28. A queue numbering a 'hundred was waiting at the gate at Lord’s ground at midnight, the two first men lying on the ground attempting to sleep. BARDSLEY’S GREAT BOON GIVES PAGE BOY HIS BAT. The proudest hoy in England today is Cornelius King, a lb-year-old page hoy at the Hotel Cecil, who has been given the hat, with which Bardsley compiled his first century on Saturday. King’s performance of small jobs so pleased Bardsley that he took the bat back to the hotel on Saturday. Cornelius is an orphan, and lives with his sister in Stepney. He went hack to his East End home saying *lie fqjt “as if he was 'walking on air.”