WORTH A PLACE!
A SUBURBAN cricketer with the reputation of always being on tire look-out for recruits for his team recently had a severe set-back. Some young players were out on the New Brighton beach tlie other Sunday tossing up a few balls to work off stiffness when a stranger walked 'up and asked for permission to join in the game. He stood behind the wickets and started stumping and catching all and sundry. At last the enthusiast sidled up to him and asked quietly if he would fill the keeper’s position in their club team as their regular man was out of action. The stranger smiled and said that as he was clue in Wellington for the Plunket Shield match on the Saturday he did not think he would be available. It was only Rountree, the Auckland keeper, down on business. The enthusiast turned sadly away—another hope blasted.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17781, 26 February 1926, Page 4
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149WORTH A PLACE! Star (Christchurch), Issue 17781, 26 February 1926, Page 4
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