REDOUBTABLE CRICKETER.
HOBBS' 100 th CENTURY. A. and N.Z. LONDON, May 9. J. B. ITobbs completed his hundredth century in first-class cricket when he scored a century against Somerset. This was the only county against which he hitherto had not scored a hundred.
WEMBLEY FOOTBALL RIOT.
NOBODY HELD TO BLAME.
! A. and N.Z. LONDON, May 9. i The control staff of the Wembley i Stadium, reporting to the Empire Exhij bition Board, suggests that no blame is 1 attachable to any individual or body for j the football cup final riot. The plain fact 'is that whereas the capacity of the J Stadium was 127,000, over 200,000 deI cided to get in one way or another. The ! report recommends that all tickets be taken in advance; secondly, structural alterations at the entrances; thirdly, installation of an electric automatic recording sysem of turnstiles as used in relation to the totalisator in New Zealand.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18396, 11 May 1923, Page 7
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