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Show CRICKET PLAYERS ON SKATES. A dozen years ago today the date was February 20, 1895 a cricket match was actually played on Loch Lo-' mond. So keen had been the frost at this particular period that the "Queea of Scottish Lakes" was eovered with a substantial sheet of iee, and the day in question being favored with bright sunshine a goodly gathering graced the , vicinity of the 'bonnie, bounie banks" ' to witness the novel spectacle of a cricket match on ice. .. ", The wickets were placed on wooden ( 1 stands fixed to the frozen surface, and ' all theplayers were mounted on skates. In bygone times cricket, has been played under similar conditions south . of the Tweed, butthe game above referred re-ferred to is probably the only one of its kind that ever took plaee in Scotland. Glasgow News. ... I |