| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:The Ashes- 4th Test Match.. | |
| Posted by: | Jim Lawes | |
| Date/Time: | 08/08/15 19:31:00 |
| Whilst the losing Australia team will perhaps be drowning their sorrows tonight following today's hugh defeat.....they should perhaps be reminded of the way their Aboriginal forbears used to entertain the crowds even after they were defeated. On 21st July 2014 The Times reported that the 1868 team stunned the crowds with post match demonstrations of throwing spears and boomerangs and running backwards picking up stones. A 1950's Turnham Green Cricket Club Handbook recorded a TGCC win at a pitch off the Goldhawk Road...where perhaps Jimmy Mosquito would walk under a (high jump)bar and then leap back over it from a standing jump. Cricket ball throwing contests were popular and Dick-a Dick... whose real name was Jumgumjenanuke (!) Would ask players to throw cricket balls at him... several at a time...and Dick-a Dick deflected every one with a hooked club! Well done Turnham Green CC for wacking them! (The first Aussie tourists who created a sensation in Victorian Britain where @black faces were a rarity@. The Times also reports that they were smartly dressed in red blazers with blue sashes and impressed everyone with their manners, sportsmanship and cricketing skills. How things have changed. (References: TGCC Handbook and Simon de Bruxelles article in THe Times) |