DICKENS AND CRICKET.
In Sotheby's saleroom, London, in Februarv was a small oil painting showing Charles Dickens bowling (lie first ball in a charity nntch in the meadow at Gad's Hill, while the players wave their caps and cheer 'lie " patron " for acting as their host. Sir Henry Dickens, K.C., tho novelist's youngest son, has a letter from his father, written in 1862, promising to lend his meadow to the Higliam Cricket Club, as he wished to be a. good friend to the working men in his -neighbourhood. Incidentally Dickens criticised the language ho had heard used at a previous match. ;ind expressed a hope thai it. would not. be repealed, though Im thought ii was "probably unintentional." The 'painting shows Dickens bowling an " underarmer." and his si alien by no means suggests that the batsman is in any danger.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21159, 16 April 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)
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