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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4957, 18 February 1937, Page 4

HERMES BABY TYPEWRITERS. J)E pORTABLE f YPEWRITERS. Only £l3 13/- New. Why pay more? Fully Guaranteed, ALSO A GOOD SELECTION OF USED MACHINES. Particulars at Chronicle Office, or Box 91, Hamilton. 980 Bradman, having lost the toss at Brisbane, discarded the ' 'lucky" fourpenny piece he used there, and tossed with a florin afterwards. Sportsmen are a superstitious race. There is one member of the Charlton team - in England who will find all sorts of odd things to do at the last minute in order that he shall be last on the field from the dressing room. Jackie Carr, the old Newcastle United back, could never pass a hairpin in the street. On the morning of a cup final at the Crystal Palace his team-mates bought, packets of hairpins and strewed them on the pavement as they walked. Carr returned to the hotel with a pocketful.