“DREARY MONTHS”
UNTIL CRICKET COMES AGAIN ENGLAND’S NATIONAL GAME.
Australian and N.Z. Cable Association
LONDON, September 23. The .headmaster of Eton interestingly discusses the question whether cricket is still the national game, and draws the conclusion that greater crowds attend football merely because it is guaranteed to finish in a reasonably short period. Many have believed that the best cricket is that of village greens, in which both sides often obtain two innings each during an afternoon, thereby sustaining interest as football does. He sums up: In a cricket crowd there is a good-humoured appreciation of success and failure, and readiness to applaud skill, even an opponent’s We must now await the coming of the Australians, when again we shall hear the groan of thousands when a chance is missed, the happy chuckle at fortunate escapes, and the thunderous applause at some feat of skill. These things are worth awaiting during the driary months between September and May.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12252, 25 September 1925, Page 7
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