A PROBLEM.

Mataura Ensign, 18 October 1913, Page 9

A PROBLEM.

A unioue incident recently occurred . ir. a !3«t match Wwt Hartiepool "A" and Preston m the second division of the North \orkshire and South Durham Lca-ue. Woods one ot the West Hartlepool men, was batting, and striking the ball to leg it hit the •umpire, Mr Robertshaw. . The ,i( ' k searched for a time in vain and the batsmen had begun the second run a hen ; the umpire discovered the ball in hi* . Docket, and immediately threw to j &© ground. Local opinion is much di-, rided over the incident (says the LOll- j don Standard'), hut it is generally he d that if one of the fielders had sum .cued in recovering the hall from the umoire's pocket the batsman would hau. C n^:. S the ball had .K.ver ».« ■the ground from • leaving the bat ..ml so losing in the umpire s pocket. I -it nnnotkm is also raised as to who-M----IK!K an ? ri^bt tou e h + d i lo UJ? that a hall lodging in a batsman s ffiing shall become "dead.