JUST AN EARFUL.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 9, Issue 349, 16 January 1918, Page 2

JUST AN EARFUL.

A bet by the fourth Duke of Queensbury that he would send a fetter 50 miles within the hemr was won by enclosing the letter in a cricket ball, which was thrown from one to another of 24 pjayers. He had calculated that if the players stood CO yards apart the ball would have to be thrown rather over GO time's round the complete circle of 1440 yards. Returned soldiers may be good fighter-; but they are poor cricketers. l-Mnying last week ngaiust the North ' Club of Wellington they had «oiik> leather-chasing, for North scored 663 runs for seven wickets. Vet. Wilson, an old Victorian cricketer who has . r >(J years to his age, scored 181. The khaki cricketers prayed for nightfall whilst the vet. piled them up. They'd been away (o fight the Hun, They boasted how they made him run ; Well, when ve.t, Wilson gripped the bat The stout old batsman changed Jill that; He banged away while shone Hie sun; H-p had the 'liets -, upon the run. HUGH STONE. A cable received by the Wellington branch of the Dunlop Rubber Co., says: "Mr. Boyd Edkins, the well-known N.S.W. motorist, has. succeeded in establishing a puj'tic'nlarly fine drive under adverse road conditions over the interState route between Brisbane and Sydney—a distance of 637 miles. Owing to recent heavy rains in Queensland, Mr. Kdkins was nearly abandoning his proposed attempt on the existing figures, but decided, to tackle Mr. F. Birtlcs' record of 29 hours 35 minutes despite the fact that the road was well nigh impossible in places. He left Brisbane mt 2 a.m. Friday and arrived at Sydney at 3 minuWi past four on Saturday morning, his time for the journey being 26 nours '.i minutes, exactly 3i hours better titan the previous record. Many delays occurred on the journey and considerable tiiue was lost owing to breakages. It was-a remarkable feat to get through at all in the circumstances. Mr. Edkins' mount was a 20-h.p. Prince Henry ,r \*auxhall/' shod with Dunlop Tyres which came through the gruelling drive withouit being touched. Mr. Edkins is thie present holder of the Melbourne-Sydney (665 miles) record which stands n't. 1C hours 5o minutes, one of the greatest drives yet recorded in this country."