THE PRINCE BATS.
MILD “LEG-PULLS” ONLY. HAPPY, DINNER SPEECH. LONDON. Feb. 24. The Prince of Wales, in a happy topical speech at the Ci\ r il Service dinner, said: “First wicket stands are the fashion iust noAV. When I look doAvn tlie order of the ingoing—-I mean the toast-list —I see the great batsmen who follow are sitting in the pavilion, ready Avith their pads on.” “I feel it is not for me to try to be a Hobbs or Sutcliffe,” he added, “although the Avicket is easy. T Avon’t stand between you and the mighty drives of Mr. Baldwin, or the late cuts of Mr. Winston Churchill. I’ll lie content with a few' mild leg-pulls.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 March 1925, Page 7
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