WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1931.
SOME
曲
SECRETS OF LORD'S
The Man at the Wheel in the Score-Box,
"PATSY'S" LUCKY CORNER.
retired into the house again, to put on the white rubbersoled shoes which are as much a part of him as his cheerful, rubicund face, writes James A. Jones in the Evening
Newe..
THE CHINA MAIL.
take more than a mere notice to WAS THE KAISER
daunt those young hero-worship-
pers.
In the Score-Box:
Up in the big. score-box; as the game began its quiet overture, sat Joe Murrell, the Middlesex scorer. He was as romote from the aerried ranke beneath him as if he were watching from the edge of a cloud.
cult.
INSANE?
Scathing Book by Ex-Chancellor.
ASTONISHING REVELATIONS.
Was
the Kaiser insane?
NEW CHIEF OF HUDSON BAY.
A Romance of Big.
Business.
ONCE A WHALING BOY.'
Montagu Norman, the Governor After consultation with Mr.
Board of the Hudson's Bay cor of the Bank of England, the
Astley Cooper to be the new Gov- pany has appointed, Mr. Patrick ernor of the company.
Just after the dawn of a Summer, the net clicked his tongue. "Tek,
This game wea easy for him. He dhy Mr. Harry White opened the tek" as much as to say, "Get your did not have to use the field-glasses door of his cottage inside the wall left leg out to them, air, get it out." which lay on the table, at his elbow.
In the distance, across the grase, He knew every player on the field; of Lord's, looked up at the wispy and in grey flannels waited to reafter all, he
was the Middlesex clouds in the sky, and sniffed the turn the ball whenever it was driven wicket-keeper for years. He knew Qght he to have been deposed, air inquiringly. Then, having per past the bowler. He was one of the all their little tricks
of gesture. years before the war, on account formed those unvarying rites, hof twenty "boya" who work under, Mr. Faithfully, run by run, he recorded of his lack of mental balance?
Harry White. They are divided in his book, the cautious start of into three classes: grade four, who the match.
It is revealed in the "Memoirs are raw lade, and help with the
of Prince von Bulow (Putnam's Sometimes his job is more dim-258.), that the question was dis card-selling and the cleaning; grade three, who are a little older; and
When a team of strangers are many seventeen years before the figures in modern
enssed behind the scenes in Ger
Mr. Cooper is one of the most grade two, who do a good deal of playing at Lord's, and he has to tell
influential and beat-known the bowling.at the nets. When they at a glance which of two unknown war came..
City affairs, Three minutes later, his familiar are promoted to grade one they are batsmen, has scored a run, h. mem-Foreign Minister and Imperial in the early forties.
Prince
von Bulow, for long circles of big finance he is still He is a young man as age goes in grey cap pulled well down over his real players, and move across to the orises them in all sorts eyes, no marched softly out on to professionals' dressing-rooms in the One man may have some binding on writing and three in correcting ways. Chancellor, spent five years in Lord's to inspect the pavilion. the field of
his bat, for instance, or their two his books, after the war, and his portant posts of recent years One of Mr. Cooper's most im wicket for the day's game.
"Thanks," enid the bateman, ife prodded it with his rubber slipping a tip into the
caps.may be different, or they may manuscript was locked up in a was his appointment as Chair. bowler's hands. And then, his face scarlet/ be wearing different kinds of gloves: bank until he died.
man of B. I. Holding Company, The strain of picking them out, all after the exercise, he marched back through the day, is firing to the Kaiser are astonishing. His book the auspices of the Bank of Eng His revelations about the which was formed in 1929 under to the pavilion.
Near Joe Murrell sat the man of the Kaiser that has come from the leading banks and insurance is the most unsparing exposure land and with the co-operation of In that hallowed place there was who worked the scoreboard.. He sat any German. It is like corrosive companies to reconstruct the already a sprinkling of members in front of a wheel, just as though acid.. There is always something rather he were driving a motor-car; as he
Banca Italo-Britannien. awe-inspiring about those, demigoda turned it to the mark which stood to me," he says, "to say that he portant South America
"Eulenburg wrote repeatedly He is a director, of several 'im- of the M.C.C., something a little for one run or the mark which was continually preaching cau-panies. crashing about their distant dignity as they sit behind the guarded a slid one after the other on to the among other things that Cardinal and games have made Mr. Cooper the big white figures tion to the Kaiser, pointing out Travelling, soldiering, rowing, ings or appear for a moment at board. Have you ever noticed that Hohenlohe (brother of the for- very their portentous windows, something the runs are on the board almost as mer Imperial Chancellor)
different in appearance altogether humbling to the lesser
had from the usually uzcepted type of batsman has hit the written confidentially to him, City man. folk in the public stands.
ball? That is because the man at Eulenburg, that the Kaiser must) the wheel can judge the result of a be very much on his guard, very Broad Street a full head and He came into his offices in Old stroke na quickly as the batsman cautious, very prudent."
shoulders above the majority of himself,
those who were hurrying along the corridors of the building.
font.
"That's all right," he said.
eye raund him. He cast a keen The old pavilion, an aloof harmony of rich brick wall and white bai.
sun.
conies, lifted its towers into the Summer morning; it seemed wrapt It contemplation, dreaming of an cient, days and ancient battles. In the
The new stand, a little over bearing in its emptiness, stared over aristocrat of pavilions with the thrustful air of nouveau riche. And all around the mun in the middle, like a lovely car pet of freshest green, stretched the smooth field.
at the gracious old
a
Waited 30 Years.
eyes.
meant two
soon na the
New Ideas.
com-
of the tallest men in the City
Mr. Cooper is 6ft. 4in. --one and his energy is remarkable. which inspires energy.
across the field in the early sunthe impression that he was à can strolled about the turf, steeped in would gladly lend their hands to And he has the happy manner
After all they are really the Par liament of Cricket. There are some Not that Mr. Harry White's 5,700 of them, and 16,000 on the thoughts were anything like waiting list for election. They had.
"The Carding!, he said, had A Cricket Muscum. poetic, as he gazed critically at to wait years for their turn. Even
The players tropped back to the positively that the idea was be written to him that he knew Lord's. He is a
Lord Derby's election did not come pavillon for lunch. very practical, level headed man, whose job it is as until 30 years after his name had White's six groundsmen galloped declaring the Kaiser not respon
Mr. Harry ing revolved in many minds of groundsman to look after the been put down. Lord Duran out on to the field to rope off the sible for his actions; there were
a father. He nodded, after his spending a lifetime under wicket, and a turf like
thousand people highly placed personages who Batisfied, and then walked back
didate, has just discovered that someone forget to enter him; he will shine and content. A line of the institution of a suit to that
them stood round the guarded end." be lucky if he lives to be elected wicket, and commented on it with
An interview with Mr. Cooper now.
Bulow's memoirs, so carefully is a prompt and precise business. placid knowledge.
written and revised, will rub salt "The war changed the ideas of into the wounds of the Hermit many young men," he said when of Doorn. Nothing has yet been asked why, written more calculated to destroy law, he had decided to come to after studying for ever the "Kaiser legend" the City.. and to set William II. down fo
Mr. Cooper is one of the many "mockery."
light.
Magic Acres.· The hands of the famous clock in its stumpy tower announced that the hour was nine. Lord's still looked deserted-a lake of green encircled by white cliff-and it st breathed that memory-laden en chantment which makes of Lord's,
Everyone has to take his turn, Earl or commoner, it is the same to the M.C.c.
•
Some of thoge men who sit in planetary isolation behind the white barrier were put down for election
"Looks all right, eh?" "Oh yes, dead true."
The half-dozen printers, in their clattering workshop under the new and, were turning out the lunch them out in batches to the waiting boys. "Match canards!" cried the
even in solitude, a cricketer's para as soon as they were, born. There score match-eards, and handing ever as a failure, a craven, and a Scotsmen who have found suc.
appeared on earth:
One
their
faced an ever-thickening crowd, who Lord's own tavern, the barmaida with patient determination demand ed food and drink
dise. The turf, beautiful under the is a rule now that no boy under the young sun of a Summer's morning, age of 14 can be a candidate, but all over. Lord's. At the bar of seemed to have a soul of its own was different before the war. Reemer, any field like this in the or two were actually entered before world this field whose turf was they reverently carried from the old fathers took the chance that the Lord's at Doreet Square to, a new approaching stork would bring a one a century and more ago, and bay. Others were proposed before they had been christened: thair then borne on here?
surnames were sent up first and their Christian names later..
Is it any wonder that these green acres are full of magic? So many millions of people have sat round them, so many famous men bavo done famous things on them, that
itself.
not.
14
In the white slopes of them, 'wero
tidy for the day.
Hendren's Own.
the tables, bats
The people who watch cricket are, parteé. of course, the salt of the earth,
minds down to things. that they are Incurably un- tidy. The morning papers which are so useful to sit on, the pencilled match-cards, the empty bottles, the paper bags-It is a strange day's cricket at Lord's which does not leave a ton of auch things to be swept up next morning. The won der is no spectators are found still sitting there, lost in meditation.
"Arthur" yelled one of the men in the big stand.
I once asked him why he did it! "Habit," said Patey, cheerfully, in irrepressible smile on his nut- brown face.
:
.
And
cess in London. He was born in Aberdeen, went to Aberdeen University and then to Trinity College, Cambridge.
His life has been strenuous, and he has probably, made more business journeys to all parts of the world than any City man,
"Do It Yourself,"
to ge
A Barbed Shaft.
came the Foreign Minister and He recalls that after he be-
"I found work in the City in- colleague of Prince Hohenlohe tensely interesting," he said, "Sausage foll, miss, please."
the Chancellor, the Prince twice "and made up my mind that my "deliberately and gravely asked line was business and not the "Come on, Mary, got a move on!" me if I considered William II. to legal profession." "I say, misa!" Lord's does its own catering, and
be mentally quite normal.".
Bulow replied that he consider it is not a simple business. Lord's ad the Kaiser sane, but "ncuras can never tell whether five hundredthenic and so is always oscillat In the three dressing-roome at or five thousand people will being between excessive optimism they have come to stand for cricket one end of the pavilion the profes there; an hour'a'. sunshine at noon and excessive pessimism."
sionals who were to play in the may make a difference of a couple then, barbing his shaft, Bulow "If a business problem arises Lord's looked deserted, but it was match were changing into flannels. of thousand in the afternoon crowd. added: "Fundamentally, his na-in London," he said, "and you | The floors were cluttered with The members, having lunched in ture is not bold but timorous." discover that the crux of this! Scattered in the stands, quito lest cricket bags, white boots stood on their own restaurant, magnificently Bulow seems to take a malicious problem is located in 'some other were propped aloof, strolled about in the pavilion, delight in referring to the Kai-art of the world, then there is twenty men, busy making Lord's against chairs, and the air was loud That place is a cricket museum, but ser's dash into Holland as his) no better way out than
with banter and full-blooded re- they were 20 familiar with it that "fight" which it no doubt was there and see the thing yourself. they never glanced at the paintings,and he rubs it in hard by con- The two upper dressing-rooms be- carteens, sketches, and engravings trasting the Kaiser with his wife, business is to get to the facts by "A big principle of successful compounded of a placid wisdom,long to the home team, and the lower. which look down from the walls and the Kaiserin August Victoria. · Į being on the spot." run of common men; but they would Hendren, the twinkling star of was a lordly Gainsborough; not far says; "Test the Kaiser, if he Cooper a keen desire. for travel.
An early adventure gave Mr. patience, and tolerance beyond the one to the visitors. Kut Patay elimb beside the staircases... Hero"She was apprehensive," hel admit frankly, if you brought their Lord's own men, always dresses in away was a village 'sign-board, realised the gravity of the posi
dane one corner of the visitors' room painted by nobody in particular, tion, would suffer a complete col- on a whaling expedition and visit- "As a boy," he said. "I went the corner by the staircase. He which swung in the Sussex breezes lapse.... But when the debacle ed. Iceland. will never go anywhere else, and the
a century ago.
came she stood out like the "Since then I have been to al- Here, in glass-cases, were bats mulier fortis of the Scriptures. most him leave. Patsy's corner, free. It that were very old. Here were an- She would never have abandon-world." men who are going to play against
every country - in the la his only superstition.
cient Lord's posters announcinged the army and left the nation "Good stabling in the ground and in the lurch if hers had been the to end of Canada, on three occa
Mr. Cooper has been from end! "An ordinary at three o'clock."'
hoice." Bulow adds that only asions, has travelled the, whole of But the mellow-toned bell outside few days "after the Kaiser had the. United States, and has been the pavilion proclaimed that the game was starting again, and the fed to Holland," the Kaiserin fol- to South America half-a-dozen times. During the past two ted.
members walked out into the sun- "Oh, I wouldn't say that," he light of 1931
years, when working on the re- said, cautiously.
Forty Wickets..
organisation of the Banco Italo- was travelling "He looked very woe begone," Britannica, he Cricketers will never admit that
Gently the sun dropped down the they are superstitious. They will sky, and the shadows lengthened on he adds, "and not a little awk-backwards and forwards to Italy
frequently, ward," but she gave him declare stubbornly that they don't the grasa. Lord's was strangely feel the least tremor when their beautiful in the clear, cool light glance which meant, "Whatever His training as an athlete has score is thirteen. But I remain un- which comes on a Summer's even you have done, you can always served him well.
ing; in those dreamlike minutes rely on my love, my understand- The amateurs were dressing in time seemed to stand still, as it ing and, if need be, my indul- the rarer heights of the pavilion reluctant to smudge no lovely a gence."
When at Trinity he organised, At eleven o'clock you could hear Feople sometimes Imagine that the picture
Here is a scathing, devostat- recruited, and trained the first se the dusk. But every the plonk! of bat hitting ball some professionale resent the separation. thing must-end. The last ball was ing summing up of the Kaiser as brigade of artillery in the O.T.C. where in the Nursery. There the They don't. Amateurs and profes- bowled, the field emptied, the crowd It is a deeply tragic circum-with, artillery brigade.
supreme War Lord:-
at Cambridge, and went to France people who had come early for the sionals have their meals in the same ebbed out into the street, and silence atance that this same monarch, was seriously wounded in 1915. match could see the most human room; and often, when the rain. is came to Lord's..... cricket that ever happens at Lord's falling (and rain falls impartially But in the middle, oblivious to tached more importance to his came associated with a group of who took more delight in and at- At the end of, the war he be the members practising in the on Lord's and on the ceremon earth the magle of that most British military dignities and privileges trust companies, and his ability against the professional bowl outside), the amateurs come down scene, Mr. White stared down at than anything else, who was brought him important positions.
to.the dressing rooms and play ping the wicket. When the match was taken up with the signs of his There is none of that ley Brad-pong, and shove ha penny with the over he would have to bring pieces allitary rank, sometimes almost directorates and has been not- He now holds many important manesque perfection about the bat, professionals, or listen to the of seven-year-old. turf from the revelled in them to a degree al-ably successful in restoring busi fing of the mon
gramophone. But for the rest nursery, and mend the holes worn most unheard of in any other nesses which had fallen into de- Ing.vn
well, the professionale prefer things by the players feat. Every Sum prince, who never lost an oppor- cline... Pas they are
mer: he uses 2,000 of those turf tunity of weilding the marshal's The Bank of England invited "patches." At noon, when the two umpires The middle of Lord's needs all his baton, near had his all of parades him to assist in the reorganisa- walked out to the wicket like two care.
and parade-marches, cavalry tion of the British Italian Cor- white coated tortoises, the crowd More cricket is played there than charges and frontal attacks on poration when its Italian sub- Ewas sunning itself on the stands on any other ground in the world back when Bellona turned her nica, was in difficulty,
the manoeuvre ground,-"drew sidiary, the Banca Italo-Britan- Only the little first-aid hut, holding He has to make forty different stern face towards him and real
"Yes" shouted Arthur.
"Dump your bottles behind and
I'll get 'em."
"Right," replied Arthur.
And they went on getting Lord's rendy, little black figures moving about in space.
netsi
cra.
The Twenty "Boys".
The men are
flannels, and the
Jacob'a cour
of them are
now and
can will not
apin when the
of perce
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"It brings you luck?" I suggest
convinced.
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Kaiserin's Indulgence.
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He
an ambulance man and two nurses, wickets every Summer and he can war began." reminds you that accidents will not use any artificial aids. All heDuring the world war: any ter of Natural Resources, and Mr. Hon. Mr. O. P. Goucher, Minis- ppen, even within the enchanted can do to the turtle to roll it and sort of serious military, collabora H. D. Biden, manager of the Nova lisades of Lord's
water it, water it and roll it, year tion on the part of the Supreme Stotis Exhibition, have returned cluster of hogs, bright-eyed and after-year
waited outside the dressing
clutching autograph books. HAA ru notice close by said Mikor
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Anyone
“may; be^remayed
Ord
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Edward GIsl
ishing
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War Lord, any interference or from the recent Bermuds Exhibi- decision, gradually becama scar-tion. The exhibit displayed by car and scarcer, and finally ceased Nova Scotia was outstanding. In every respect, they said, and was Spoared more and more viewed by thousands of people. and when he Included in the display were two felt and treat barels of "Land of Evangeline" entralmost a views, which attracted much atten
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