450 Miles Of Sea

Sickness!

Rabaul Lads’ Love of Cricket

AN Australian Eleven, or Sixteen, is not the only team in this Continent that travels many miles across water, all for the love of the leather and willow.

On the night of December 22, seventeen Rabaul lads boarded the M.V. Drina (80 tons) and proceeded on a 450 miles jour ney to Salamaua, arriving at that port on Christmas morning.

It was an excellent trip—except for the last 17 hours, when it commenced to rain and the wind blew lustily. With leaking bulk-heads, the Drina bravely ploughed her way through the high seas, while the 17 cricketers huddled together, half of them desperately sea-sick and the other half aggressively cheerful.

The main object of the visit was to meet and defeat the Wau Cricket Team.

Let it be whispered that after such suf fering, Rabaul was defeated by an in nings and 151 runs.

It is marvellous what an Australian will do for his much beloved god, Sport.—S.L.