LOST BALL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 290, 8 December 1939, Page 11

LOST BALL

The majority of the residents in bordering that nursery of mighty Litters, the North Ground, Dunedin, nave : become more or less reconciled to losi ing a window or two during the cricket season, but there is one nouscholder in Cumberland street who apparently has not yet achieved that spirit of tolerance which seems in Lime to infect those who live within striki ing distance of the ground, says the , Otago Daily Times. Recently, a I Second Grade player swung a “sixer” . clean through one of the front winI dows of his house; and, far from bting amused, he not only refused to give up the ball, but threatened to send for the police. Two deputations, the latter headed by the batsman himself waited on him, but still the ball was not forthcoming, and finally two members of the team turned defence into attack, and, enlisting the sympathy of a friendly storekeeper te epnoned the police themselves. The next deputation was successful, and it left bearing the ball and slightly staggered by the householder's parting admcnition. “Anyway, in a thickly populated area you have no right to hit st- hard.”