SPRINGBOK FAST BOWLER
R. Crisp, the Springbok fast bowler, will not. bo available for Natal this cricket season, states the Capo Times. He has made up his mi ml to take part in hostilities overseas, by working bis passage to England. He took up his new duties on board a steamer recently. Crisp first came into prominence in Rhodesia and from there he migrated to Capetown. It. was as a member of the Western Province side that lie was selected to tour F.nsrland under Herbert. Wade. The loss of Crisp to Natal and South African cricket is a serious one, but he will carry with him the best wishes of all sportsmen in the greatest of alt adventurea.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23504, 15 November 1939, Page 17
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