Wednesday, June 20, 2012

WG Grace.

It is a little known fact that Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was a cricketer of some repute and played in ten first class matches representing the MCC.
He proudly wrote a poem after one match:
'Once in my heyday of cricket,
Oh Day, I shall ever recall,
I captured that glorious wicket,
The greatest, the grandest of all.'

Indeed - his only career wicket was a certain Dr WG Grace! PHEW!

Elephantine Tragedies.

  https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/heartbreak-two-baby-elephants-die-34194833