CRICKETER'S WEDDING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 12 June 1929, Page 2

CRICKETER'S WEDDING

HAMMOND TAKES A WIFE A NOVEL ''CRICKET PITCH" Bingley, a little textile town in Yorkshire, lost its. normal-quietness on 24th April, when Mr Walter Hammond, the famous Gloucestershire • and England cricketer —who contributed largely to the success of the eleven that recently visited Australia—was married to Miss Dorothy. Lister, the eldest daughter of Mr J. R. Lister, a Bradford wool.merchant. Half an hour before the wedding 2000 people had assembled outside the church. A rousing Yorkshire, cheer greeted the arrival of Hammond. Miss Listen made a lovely bride. She* wore a gown of old ivory satin, embroidered in pearl and trimmed with silver lace. Her train was of an old world style of satin. ' Some well-known cricketers were in the congregation, and Mr Herbert Sutcliffe, the famous England batsman, was chief groomsman. When the guests entered the Masonic Hall, Bradford, for the reception they were received in a marble hall, the floor of which had been cleverly converted to represent a cricket pitch. Wickets had beeif set up at either end of the imitation greensward, and creases had been marked off. The wedding cake, wiliiich weighed close upon a. hundredweight, was built in tiers, and bore the colours of both the M.C.C. and the Gloucestei'shiro County Cricket Club. It was surmounted by a replica of the urn which contains* "The Ashes,"