Speech at Cricket Association Diner
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
This article was published in the magazine Cycling on 11 november 1899.
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Dr. Conan Doyle made a rousing speech the other day on the occasion of a Cricket Association dinner. "People talked of calling out the Reserves,"
he said — "why they had not begun to touch the Reserves. The Reserves of this country were the cricketers, the footballers, the hunting men; when they were called out somebody would know it."
This is all very well as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. What about the cyclists? When the cyclist who will persist in using a cyclorn is called to the front the Boers will begin to realise the full strength of the Reserves which England is able to put in the field.
