THE CRICKETER AND THE STRANGER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7523, 25 July 1902, Page 4

THE CRICKETER AND THE STRANGER.

. « Apropos of the opening of the Australian cricket tour there is a good story current about one of the colonial team which will, I fancy, be new to most. The member in question is E. Jones, the ex-Broken Hill miner, and about whoße bowling such controversy raged when he was last in this country. Two young mea were walking along Eastbourne sea-front one morning, when a straw-hatted, sunburned man approached, who was known to one of the two. The three stopped, and the stranger was introduced to the one to whom ho "was unknown. The young fellow did not quite catch the stranger's name, but the conversation became general, and at length turned on cricket, and, before long, the legitimacy of Jones' bowling was brought up. "He throws every ball," asserted the first of the young men roundly, " every ball, I assure you," he continued to the stranger. " Well, I don't know about, that," answered the laiter. "I have never watched him cloae enough, but suppose we split the difference, and say he throws every other ball ?" Shortly after that the three parted, and the two young men resumed their walk. "By the way," said one to the other, vt l did not quite catoh that chap's name. He seemed to know a bit about cricket. Who is he?" " Oh," answered the other, " that is , Jones, the Australian bowler." Tbe other man's feeliDg3 at this statement may be realised.