SPORTSMEN’S SERVICE.
REFEREE AS PREACHER. HOBBS TAKES UP ’THE COLLECTION. Received January 26, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 25. Hobbs, the well-known cricketer, replying to an invitation to read tho lesson at tho sportsmen’3 service at St. Mark’s Church, Mitcham, said: “I would rather face the Australian bowling for three weeks than read tho lesson in church.” Instead Hobbs took up the collection, and Knight, a Surrey cricketer, read tho lesson. Rev. Roberts, a popular Rugby referee, conducted tho service and the Bishop of Woolwich was tho preacher.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 48, 26 January 1926, Page 7
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90SPORTSMEN’S SERVICE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 48, 26 January 1926, Page 7
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