THE ASHES
SECOND EDITION
HENDRY FULLY RECOVERED. (Received 2.18 p.m.) LONDON, June 31. Hendry has fully recovered, and hopes-to leave hospital in a few days. —Reuter. It was our old friend “Mr. Punch” who invented “the Ashes.” When Mr. Ivo Bligh (now Earl of Damley) was about to leave England with his team in the early ’eighties “Punch” had some lines on “St. Ivb’s pilgrimage” to recover the ashes from the cremation of English cricket by Murdoch’s team at the Oval in 1882— the seven runs match. “St. Ivo” was successful in his quest. Some' Australian ladies presented to him a pretty urn inscribed thus: “The Ashes of English Cricket.” The Earl, of Darn-, ley, who told W. R. Bettesworth this story for one of his “Cricket Field Chats,” keeps the souvenir among his most cherished possessions.
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Northern Advocate, 12 June 1926, Page 4
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