CRICKET IN MID-WINTER.
A CHARITY MATCH. ARRANGED FOR, NEW YEAR’S DAY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegrapn Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 1.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 9. J. C. Squire, editor and poet, is arranging to aid the hospitals with a cricket match on New Year’s Day on the historic ground where the Hambledon men founded the first English cricket club in 1750. The teams will be Squire’s Invalids v. Hampshire Esquimos. Ho says that, rain, bail or snow, they shall play the match. Flannels will he compulsory, and gloves will be permitted, if it is freezing. There will lie a matting wicket and plenty of hot coffee. If there is snow they will sweep the pitch.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1928, Page 11
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