BATTING IN SQUARE TAILS
With reference to the recent cricket in lounge suits farce at Southampton, the most amusing of all instances of a player taking part in a county match incorrectly garbed occurred at Leyton (says an English writer). With the whole of their seconds innings to play, Essex required four runs to win. One of the umpires in the match was Porter, an ex-Derbyshire bowler, and a chimneysweep when not bowling fast, who stood 6ft 4in and was broad in proportion. His everyday attire included an enormous tail coat with big square tails. One of the usual first Essex pair of those days was a red-haired professor named Jimmy Burns, always a bit of a wag and a most amusing fellow. Just as he went in to help to collect those four runs Burns espied Porter’s tail-coat. So he put it on and stalked solemnly to the wicket with the tails trailing along the ground.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 191, 2 August 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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157BATTING IN SQUARE TAILS Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 191, 2 August 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)
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