· THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928.
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CRICKET'S INFANCY. FINSBURY'S CLAIM TO WORLD DISTINCTION.
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THE FIRST MATCH.
ATHLETICS.
THE CHINA MAIL,
RULES ROME.
NEW RECORDS AT STAMFORD PRINCE POTENZIANI ON HIS"
BRIDGE.
POWERS.
BRITISH IN FORM.
London, July 7.
CIVIL DICTATOR.
Prince Potenziani, Governor of
in the windows of the most popular Inns, and would be attended by such Crowds that the roping off of the playing area soon bocame noces- The Amateur Athletic Champion- Rome, who recently visited London sary. Though the gates ofton in- ships, which are a miniature Olym-as a guest of the City Corporation, cluded "many persons of distinction paid, opened at Stamford Bridge to holds a unique position which has of both sexes," who no doubt fol- day. There was a strong Continuzzled thousands of persons faml- Itar only with English forme of
A little, active man, Prince
stern chase is a long chase. f lowed the enthusiastic lead of the antal and Dominion Olympic entry-municipal government.
with
uven when error is the hunted Prince of Wales, they also attracted The weather was glorious and the
a very rough element and with bet-meeting was watched by a crowd of Potenziani described his post to a and truth the hunter, It ta
ting on all big matches widely pre- 35,000. The events produced some "Daily Mail" reporter in his per- all but A century now since Nyren wrote of his Hambledon valent, ugly scenes were only too magnificent running.
fect English. He said: heroes that "these men found out common.
S. Lay (New Zealand) won the The Duke of Richmond and his javelin throwing with a throw of tor.
The Governor of Rome is dicta- cricket," and from that day until
Ho 18 like the managing this general belief. has prevailed team assaulted in the streets, a poor 222 feet 9 ins, thus creating a new director of a gigantic business un- that cricket if it did not spring like woman. knocked down and her leg world's record,
dertaking, and is appointed by the Minerva fully esparisoned, at least broken, a deserter rescued
Lord Burghley smashed the exist-Government. appeared for the first time in deve violence from the military picketing official world's record for the
I have just bought two electric loped and scientific shape on the accking to arrest him, the "light 440 yards hurdles in 54 secs.
railways serving Rome. Within a the Olympic. half-mile week or two, if I so decide, I can smiling upland of Bread Halfpenny, fingered gentry" inciting the crowd Of course, there has been evidence to the contrary, but Mr. Waghorn's two books of the earliest cricket re- cords are "caviar to the general" whilst for top men who have brows.
Lowe,
to disorder that in the resulting champion, strengthened Olympic start building a new street. The
confusion they might ply their trade-such were some of the In- cidents attendant on "big cricket." and it was no wonder that, as time) went on, the leading patrons should Pycroft probably not more than one has seriously welcome the more orderly atmos- studied Mr. Ashley-Cooper's notes phere offered them by a private in his monumental edition of The Kround.
ed through
Cricket Field. Mr. A.-C., of course.! was not deluded, but it has been left to another gentleman to give the old delusion its coup de grace by marshalling such an array of ́evidente as not even the most de voted sentiment could withstand, Hiding under a modest anonymity of "H.P.T.," humour, Ingenuity, and astonishing erudition, he has in five successive monographs publish- |
For more
The
than fifty years the Artillery Ground continued to at- tract the best play and the biggest crowds, but eventually its supre- macy passed to a new arena. story of Thomas Lord and his three grounds belongs to the boyhood and not the infancy of cricket, but it is linked with that infancy in the fol- The first "London lowng way. edition" of the Laws of Cricket was issued in 1744-and if anybody is
ed since the war elaborated with ex- really interested in the original traordinary skill a new version of cricket's infancy. In barest outline game let him digest "H.P.T.'s" most it is us follows:-"Boys' cricket," illuminating analyses of them in the elementary, haphazard style of
"Old Time Cricket." This edition
game, was endemic in England from was revised in 1755 and again in time immemorial: there is evidence 1774 by a summittee of "The Star "and Garter" or “Te ne suis Quol"
Deal, England. The youngest
Spears, 16-year-old swimming Channel aspirant, Miss Beatrice
training here for her attempt to champion of this city. She is
conquer the Channel,
to suggest that Edward 11. played Club the most distinguished gather- it, when Prince of Wales, at Newen- den in Kent, it was certainly played ing of its type in London, presided at Guildford School in Elizabeth's over by "The First Gentleman in reign and Oliver Cromwell, accord-Europe" and including most of the ing to one of the Royaliat libels, In- leading patrons of the gume, cluded it in his discreditable dis. amongst them Charles Lennox, sub. sipations, when he first came up to whose Duchess gave the Quatre sequently fourth Duke of Richmond, London at the age of eighteen. But Bras bull, the third Duke of Dorset, "the man's game." systematised and Inter our Ambassador at Faris at defined in at least an oral code of the time of the Revolution, and Sir laws, grow up within the exclusive Peter Burrell, who presided over enclave of The Weald, and it was the trial of Warren Hastings. These the Revolution and the enforced re-gentlemen bagen about 1780 to tirement of noble families to their play cricket country seats in Kent and Sussex White Conduit Fields, Islington.ahend of the German, Engelhart. that brought the young bloods of As years passed, however, and Lon- society into intimacy with their
con stretched her tentacles north- tenants chief delight. Contact
ward, the comparative privacy of once made, conversion was inevit- their ground became more and more able and rapid, and when at the invaded, until at last two of their Restoration they returned to Lon- don to make England "Merrie" once Earl of Winchelsea, approached the members, Lennox himself and the
again, they brought with them the club factotum, Thomas Lord, and Jump with a jump of 24ft, 2 1-4 Ins game which had been their own suggested that he should make a consolation in exile, writes a cor- respondent in "The Observer."
THE FIRST MATCH.
hapes by retaining the title, his time
regularly in the being 1,50, 3-5, finishing four feet
private ground, promising him their support if he did sơ. The die was cast, on May 31, 1787, the first In 1668 mine host of "The Ram" match was played on Lord's first in Smithfield is rated for a cricket ground, and by the next year the field, and by the end of the century White. Conduit had become the .London is fast becoming the focus Marylebone Cricket Club.
for first-class play. The first matchi
of which we find Press notice was)
played on Clapham Common in 1700,
BASEBALL.
Lowe also won the 440 yards in
50 secs.
British record for throwing the dis- Paulus (Germany) created a new cas, his throw measuring 147 feet. Debeer (Holland) won the long
-a new championship record.
120 yards hurdles with a time of 14. Atkinson (South Africa) won the 7-10 seconds a new British record. tion pole jump created a
Kelley (England) in an exhibi- British record with a jump of 12 feet 7.
new
Legge (South Africa) won the 100 yards in 9.9-10 seconds holding off the Germans Koenig and. Wich-
but by 1787 London are playing An alteration in the baseball mann, who were second and third, Croydoa "home and away," and schedule has been made by the Legge won by a yard while inches twelve years later the county cham- Association for the coming week-only separated second and third. pionship starts with London v. end as follows;
London, July 6.
Kent on Lamb's Conduit Fielde, Junior Division-South. China v. At Stamford Bridge to-day in the Bloomsbury. This match was stop St. Joseph's (2 p.m.) Saturday.
Sentor Division-Filipino Club ped owing to a dispute, whereupon Kent sued London for the stake South China (4 pm) Saturday.
Junior money before the Lord Chief]
Division South China
British athletic championships v.marathon from Windsor to Stam- ford Bridge, 20 miles, 385 yards, K. Payne (Woodford Green) won in 2 hours 34 mins. 34 seconds, a
Justice at the Guildhall, who Scouts v. Y.M.B.A. Sunday: China promptly ordered them to play it Athletle v. Kiorne, Sunday,
out; after some delay the sides met
again, this time on the White Con-
duit Fields at Isinghton, and. Kent
FILIPINOS v. DRAGONS.
The Filipino Club on Saturday
lost match and stake by 21 runa. are playing the SC. "Dragons" in- Four years later Surrey take the stead of the H.K.B. Club. The for-
field, and in 1728 we have record that Kent beat Sussex, their oldest rivals, three times in the season. From then onwards county games come thick and fast, and every com mon in what is now South London) echoed to the sound of bat and bail; great matches would be advertised by hand bills, "posted" on adver tisement posts on the high roads or
mer's line-up will be:
Kusano C.F.
T. Leonard--18. Hachfuma-C.
Zafra-P.
D. Leonard-Curreem-3B.
Murata-S.S.
J. Alvarez-28, ' Fernandez-Delgado-L.F. Rull-A. Alvarez-R.F.
London. A girl athlete introducing a new type of traffic here. In ber gymnastic Ayro wheel che spins round Trafalgar Square.This new athletic device, which has become, a fad in Europe, has been tested and O.K'd by the British Army,
British record.
D. McLeod Wright (Maryhill Harriers) E. Harper (Hallamshire Harriers) third, 2 hours 30 mins, 8 sees.
STANDARD TIME.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONG KONG.
Sunrise and Sunset in Hong Kong during July, 1928, standard time for the 120th meridian, East of Greenwich, is as follows:-
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Sunrise. Sunset.
July
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5.49 7.10
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7.00
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6.50 7.09
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5.54 7:04
Two quarrymen, T, Pepper and F. Cowperthwaite, at great risk, rescued a sheep which had been crag-fast on a ledge. half-way up Honlaton Crag, in the Lake Dis teket, for a week.
Government of Rome holds the rank of an Ambassador, and wears a Napoleonic uniform of black” and gold. He is the figure-head of the city and must attend big functions all over Italy as the ropresentative of the capital.
Every department tramways and schools included-except police and I give orders to them-is con- trolled by 'the Governor. My office is the ancient Capitol, the seat of municipal government. Twice a. week I confer with Signor Mussolini, whose advice is invalu- able. There are no councillora. There is, however, a Vice-Governor, who is in charge in my absence, and a general secretary. The secret of success for a Governor is to appoint the right hands of the different departments. When I de- cide to do a thing, perhaps after] consultation with the National Gov-) ernment, I confer with my head of financial affairs perhaps, and then give ordera for it to be done. The syatem makes for simplicity and speed.
Through a lamb running against the loaded gun which ho was hold ing. Isanc Chambers, 49, a farma bailiff, was killed at a farm near Chatham by the, weapon exploding.
Caught in a mackerel trawl, a grampus, Bft long, was landed at Brighton
Buried by a fall of earth while working in a sand pit at Toddington (Beds), Jack Batlin (27) was dead when dug out.
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FRENCH ACTOR TO PAY £1,140.
M. Fresnay one of the leading notors of the Comedie-Francaise, has been ordered by the Paris Civil. Court to pay the management £1,140 for breach of contract.
He recantly left the theatre to appear at a theatre in spite of the fact that actors of the Comédie- Francaise, which receives a subs vention from the State, are debar- red from appearing elsewhere on. the stage in? Paris..