MY LADY NICOTINE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 10, 12 January 1912, Page 3

MY LADY NICOTINE.

Willow wieklers Had a good day for ! the pursuance of their favorite sport on Saturday, and, generally batsmen had good times ait; the expense of the ever persevering bowlers. The various games have been amply reported in this journal, and nothing calls for any special comment, except one incident. '

. In striking a discordant note the . writer only puts into words what was i visible at one of the senior games on Saturday. A country team was in the field, but did they look much like cricketers? No! Because the' majority of the men, including some •of the bowlers, while in action, lent ; color to the scene by puffing into thin air the fumes of the fragrant weed in which, they were indulging. A cigarette or a pipe is as much out of placo on a cricket field as it is on a football field—and it is very rarely seen there —and immediately a skipper notices a man smoking, his command should be "Lights out." The writer is not ' averse to smoking, which, like many other things, is the right thing in the right place; but obviously the cricket field is not the right place. '