WHEN CRICKET WAS ILLEGAL
I’rohahlv lew of the many devotees of (Ticket, are aware that the popular national game was once regarded as a crime, in Fn, gland. |lv an Act (if Kdward i\ cricket was profnhited because its popularity threalened to interfere with the practice of archery, and any person indulging in it was liable to a' fine of CP)--an enormous sum in those days—-and two years’ imprisonment. Not until Ihe establishment ol the famous ilamhledon (Mult in li IS was the law repealed.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3718, 9 November 1926, Page 7
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