TOO MANY “SIXES"

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3576, 6 April 1927, Page 3

TOO MANY “SIXES"

HARD-HITTING BATSMEN. POLICE INTERVENE. LIVES ENDANGERED. ' SYDNEY, March 25. An amusing incident occurred on itho Pioneer Oval, at E)athurst, on i Monday, when police had to intervene land remonstrate with a batsmen who was hitting the leather with such a will that lives of participants in sports on an adjoining ground were endangered. The batsmen was Fred Sheehan, of Bathurst, and .ho was treating the bowlers with contempt, slogging every delivery almost out of the ground. While he was making his score to 84 he hit seven sixes off the same bowler and every one went over the oval fence into the adjoining ground, where St. Patrick’s day sports - were j being held. So persistent did the hitting become that Police-Inspector Leary, who was on duty in the adjoining ground, came on to the field, and advised Sheehan to "cut out putting the ball into St. Patrick’s sports.” The inspector said that many of the people in the next ground had had narrow escapes from being struck by the ball. Sheehan resented the intervention of the , inspector, and told him he thought he was exceeding his duty. The inspector, however, warned him, and then left the ground. The other players and spectators were nonplussed, and could only look on at the unusual incident. Tho occurrence seemed to upset the batsman, who was bowled two overs later when he had reached 96. He hit no more “sixes.”