SURFEIT OF CRICKET
BRADMAN AND FINGLETON GOLF ENTHUSIASTS Golf, more than cricket, will be missed by Don Bradman and Jack Fingleton, who, retired because of injuries, from the record-breaking final test match in England. They have had a surfeit of cricket, but golf would have been a muscular and mental stimulant to them.
They have been “inoculated” with considerable quantities of the golf “virus.” Before the tour began, Fingleton was looking forward to playing on the courses of England as though they were the golfers’ paradise—green fairways, flowing with beautiful stroke-making possibilities.
During a season, many footballers suffer from the same complaint as Fingleton—a pulled muscle, due, to a large extent to jumping into full stride before their muscles are properly wanned up. Experienced footrunners always loosen their leg muscles by trotting along the track before going to their marks, and the majority of, footballers have a preliminary “burst” prior to the kick-off. Men with hard muscles are the wrost sufferers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19732, 10 September 1938, Page 14
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