A Boy— and a Bat

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7062, 23 January 1933, Page 3

A Boy— and a Bat

While Jardine, the English captain, succeeded in making himself exceedingly unpopular in Hobart, thero were other members of the team who counterbalanced the bad impression of the visit. The story is told by a writer in the Hobart “Mercury." During the Christmas Eve shopping rush in one of the smaller toy shops, a boy from the country was examining some cricket bats prior to purchasing, when two young men who wore buying party caps and noisy “blow-outs” offered to help him in his selection. Now, if you will let us write our names on it we will pay for it,” they said, when the selection was completed. The boy thought that the proposition sounded all right, and handed over the bat of his selection which was duly paid for and autographed by the young men. Now he is the envy of all the boys in his district, when lie displays his bat signed by George Duckworth and T. B. Mitchell.