THE FEVER OF CRICKET.
A DAILY HERALD COMMENT. THINGS THAT REALLY MATTER. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.,(Received .lune 12, 3 p.m.) LONDON, June 1 1. A curious editorial in the Daily Herald imagines an historian of the future writing: "At this crisis in national industry when there were 2,50(1, 001) unemployed, the chief interest of llie population of England, according to most newspapers of the period, was# the cricket match. The merits of players representing England and Australia were everywhere discussed and most elaborate arrangements made for reporting the match. Every other topic, was overlooked. Anyone would suppose the nation .was never more prosperous or, more untroubled. ’ ’ The editorial proceeds: “If is no use to lament the Test ’s hold on public imagination. Wlint we have to do is to train up a generation that will not no prevented by pleasant things like cricket, from attending to tilings that really matter, V
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17058, 12 June 1926, Page 15
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152THE FEVER OF CRICKET. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17058, 12 June 1926, Page 15
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