BOY CRICKETER HITS TRAIN
SCHOOL PROUD OF FEAT While Ashby-dc-la-Zouch (Leicestershire) Grammar School hoys were practising at cricket on a ground beside the L.M.S. railway line, one of them, C. Apcnor, made a fine drive of 70 yards to leg, and the ball went through a window in a passing passenger train. The railway company, apparently mistaking the incident for a boyish prank, wrote to the school asking for the names of the boys who had been playing. It is understood that the reply was Hint the school would willingly pay for flic damage to the carriage window, but that tile drive was not regarded as a blot on the school’s escutcheon.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6918, 23 July 1932, Page 5
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