Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1899 — Not Contagious. [ARTICLE]

Not Contagious.

The reminiscences and recollections of W. G. Grace, the veteran English cricketer, contain at least one good story—a joke made by Tom Emmett, a famous bowler. One Saturday afternoon Emmett was bowling for his club, but the fielders dropped catch after catch with such systematic persistence that be lost his temper, threw the ball on the ground, and said: “I’m not going to bowl any more. There’s an epidemic on this ground, but thank heaven, it ain’t catehin’!”