CRICKET PRACTICES
FRIENDLY AIR MISSING "I have always thought that grudge mulches belonged to boxing, wrestling, and Chinese sword-fighting," stales Arthur Mailey, Australia's leading cricket writer. "But yesterday, at tho Sydney Cricket Ground practice, I saw definite signs that something sinister was happening in cricket. As a rule, at Sydney cricket ground practices, Tom, Dick and Harry, irrespective of what club they belong to, hat and howl at each other, all in (he spirit of good fun. Yesterday this friendly air was missing. Waverley bowlers, whether by accident or design, did not bowl at Mosman batsmen and vice versa. Waverley practised at one end of (he nets, Mosman at Hie oilier. 1 tackled S. J. MeCabe. He said:—'Why should our howlers show their hand lo Waverley? We are playing (hem next Saturday, and we are not here to give their batsmen free practice.' Even J. Fingletou, who could not bowl for sour apples, refused to show his hand U) Mosman batsmen. I questioned Mr. K. Johnstone, secretary of Mosman Club. 'I refuse to comment,' be said, in approved Board of Control manner."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23487, 26 October 1939, Page 4
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182CRICKET PRACTICES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23487, 26 October 1939, Page 4
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