WALLACE UNPERTURBED AT FAILURE TO REACH 1000 RUNS DURING MAY
BRIGHTON, June 1 (Recd. 10 pm).—“Well, it is only a game,” said - ’iallace with a broad grin as he smoked a cigarette and looked out through the windows of the pavilion at Sutcliffe and Reid batting against Sussex. If he was disappointed at making only 13—what a number!—in his last opportunity of scoring 100 runs before the end of May and so joining the illustrious few. he did not show it. Instead, he enjoyed his cigarette, smiled at the many congratulations on his 910. But everybody else in the New Zealand team was very disappointed. In the short time he was at the wicket in this vital innings he was batting really well, a different man entirely from the day before. But cricket is cricket and he was out to a catch which can only be described as by that rather hackneyed word “brilliant.” In regretting the missing 1000, however, let us not overlook Wallace’s 910 runs.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 2 June 1949, Page 5
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