CRICKET
HENDREN’S HEADGEAR
M.C.C. SKITTLED
(United Press Associati'm—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
{Received this day at 12.45 p.m.). LONDON, May 23.
Hendren wore a protective cap, made of cloth, lined with rubber, ,• with- peaks covering the ears, when batting against West Indies. He. ..says he will only wear it against Larwood, Bowes and Constantine,, .because the others era in. sufficiently fast. ; ; The newspapers scathingly comment Oji Hendren's , “Eccentric contraption,” aqd “sinister. looking .affair.” The “Sketch” s ays, “Patsy” would be well .advised to leave his ridiculous headgear in the pavilion, or better still, send it to Australia.
Marylebone were in a jyinning position at, tea time, when the ,score was 3 for 143, after which the slow left hander Achomr took 3 for 19 and the medium -border Da cot; ter 3 for. 17, skittling them in forty minutes.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 May 1933, Page 6
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