WOMEN CRICKETERS.
CONTROVERSY IN ENGLAND. W. G. GRACE'S LOST BET. LONDON. July 10. A Kent cricketer, Mr. A. M. Crawley, started a controversy a fortnight ago by asserting that women's cricket was a joke. It is a man's game, lie said. The Daily Mail has interviewed Mrs. Hubert Smith, sister oi Mr. Lawton, formerly captain of the Derbyshire County eleven. On one occasion she bowled Grace three times in 12 balls at Matlock Bath in 1903, when she was an 18-year-old schoolgirl. Grace had bet that she could not bowl him once in 12 balls, but she relied on a natural break, which her brother coached her to develop. It served her well as captain of the Derwent Valley Ladies' Cricket Club. Her performance quite upset the champion. Mrs. Smith played until the beginning of the war, and still coaches her sons, aged 13 and 15. *
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20925, 15 July 1931, Page 11
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