ISSUED BS' THE BREWERS' SOCIETY. 20 UPPER BROOK ST., LONDON
W.I
The lass with the lager is my wife Enid. She's just had her hair done.
The day I was ordered
to drink beer by FREDDIE TRUEMAN DURING THE cricket season I can't get home nearly as often as I'd like to. And it's generally after seven o'clock by the time I do get away. I usually ring my wife Enid and we meet for dinner at one of the pubs around Scarborough.
about beer and pubs. So here goes : About beer : There's a tradition in the cricketing world that fast bowlers like a glass of beer at lunch time. It certainly goes back to Harold Larwood and Bill Bowes. And after all you can't go tearing round when you're full of food. Give me a ham sandwich and a pint of bitter and I'm raring to go.
I've appreciated British beer most when I've not been able to get it. Out on tour in the West Indies the beer is too light for my taste. Then the word goes round that a British ship with a spot' of draught bitter aboard is in the harbour. It's a grand moment when we get the invitation !
About pubs : I've got locals all over Britain. Bless 'em all - they're a right home from home *hen your job takes you all round the country. This is how Arthur Dolphin, the Yorkshire wicket- keeper, used to hold his glass. His fingers had got so gnarled up with years of wicket-keeping that it WO the only way he could. I'm wearing a Centurion's tic. It's awarded to anyone who scores a hundred in a first-class match.
I got my first ton against Northants early on last season. To be precise, one hundred and four. And I made exactly 100 not out for England against Young England in the Scarborough Festival.
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