LORD HAWKE
POINTS ABOUT HIS CAREER
[By Air Mail-Own Correspondent! LONDON. 20th October. ; The sporting biographers seem to ; have overlooked one interesting point • about Lord Hawke’s cricket record. Probably, at all events in compara--1 tively modern times, Lord Hawke was j the only non-Yorkshireman ever to ! play for Yorkshire. He himself was , j insistent on this rule, and stopped Cecil | Parkin, the subsequently Lancashire and England professional, playing for Yorkshire after he had done brilliantly in that county’s second eleven. Lord Hawke pointed out that Darlington. , Parkin's native town, was not quite inside the Yorkshire borders. It was Lord Hawke who improved the pay and status of the cricket pros. Formerly the Yorkshire pros, had lunched on a ; 3d sandwich and a pot of beer provided usually by some admirer. Lord Hawke changed all that, and had them into the pavilion to lunch. Yet he sent a famous : bowler off the field, never again to play - for Yorkshire, because after lunch that professional proceeded to bowl a series ;of “wides”! But when Lady Astor hinti i cd that England was beaten by the AusI trulians because the latter were tee- | totnllers. it was Lord Hawke who ftrm- | ly rebuked the lady. *
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 November 1938, Page 13
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201LORD HAWKE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 November 1938, Page 13
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