MIXED SPORTS—WINTER AND SUMMER!—In playful retaliation against football encroaching on the cricket season by beginning in August, Mr. J. C. Squire, the well-known writer, organised a winter cricket match on New Year's Day between his team of "invalids" against the "Hamp shire Eskimos,” on Broadhalfpenny Down, Hambledon, Hants, the famous pitch where the first recorded match took place in 1750. A matting wicket was used, while scoring was. done from a closed motor owing to the bitterly cold weather. An interesting feature was the meet of the Hamble- don Hunt dn the Down while the match was in progress. The picture shows cricketers waiting while the Hambledon Hunt moves across the field to draw.

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6900, 4 May 1929, Page 13

MIXED SPORTS—WINTER AND SUMMER!—In playful retaliation against football encroaching on the cricket season by beginning in August, Mr. J. C. Squire, the well-known writer, organised a winter cricket match on New Year's Day between his team of "invalids" against the "Hamp shire Eskimos,” on Broadhalfpenny Down, Hambledon, Hants, the famous pitch where the first recorded match took place in 1750. A matting wicket was used, while scoring was. done from a closed motor owing to the bitterly cold weather. An interesting feature was the meet of the Hambledon Hunt dn the Down while the match was in progress. The picture shows cricketers waiting while the Hambledon Hunt moves across the field to draw.