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SUSSEX-SURREY MATCH.
me:
An old man once shook his head and announced gravely to "Ah! Girls are not what they were jin. my young days!" The state- ment was, of course, unarguably true, however unkind and untrue its implications might be. It sent ribald thoughts darting about in my mind like shrimps in a stirred sand-pool.
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I often think of that old. fellow when I am sitting in the Pavilion at Hove or Horsham watching the county play, writea Hugh de Selin- court in the Evening News. No wonder. There's no place like a cricket pavilion for seeing,old men gathered. Only cast your eye. round and look. Did ever you ace such a collection?, Quite all right of course. Nothing could be bet- more natural. Many of them are as jolly old blokea you could wish to see or chat with. Keen as nippers. Appreciative. Some are not. Some are certainly not. And in these, bad days, their eroakings have more influence than is right. From girls to the Gor- ernment, nothing at all is as it was or as it should be.
ter
or
Present. Condemnation.
as
It's an old story, of course.
Our Sports Diary.
LOCAL
WATER POLO~~To-day-Divi- sion 1-Navy.v. Kowloon.
LAWN TENNIS-To-morrow- "Division Army T.C. v. Kow- loon C.C.; University v. Radio 8.C.
LAWN DOWLS--To-morrow-- First Division-Kowloon, Docks R.C. v. Craigentower C.C.; Kow- loon C.C. v. Kowloon, B.G.C.;. Police R.C. v, Club de Recreio; Civil Service C.C. v. Talkoo R.C. Second Division Taikoo R.C. v Yacht Club; Craigengower C.0, v. Kowloon C.C.; Club de Recreio v. Civil Service C.G.; Kowloon B.G.C.
Hong Kong Cloetric R.C.
ABROAD.
CRICKET-To-day-
England v. New Zealand (Second Test).
Derbyshire v. Lancashire. Somerset r. Yorkshire,
Hampshire v. Glamorgan. Northants v. Essex. Notts v. Warwick. Gloucester v. Leicester. To-morrow, Monday and Tuesday.
Surrey v Notte. Sussex v. Middlesex. Yorkshire v. Lancashire. Kent v. Somerset.
Leicester v. Northants, Hampshire 7. Gloucester.
• Werenster v. Baren, - Derby v. Warwick,
Glamorgan v. New Zealand. ATHLETICS-To-day- Inter- Services Championship. «
Sunday France v. England st Paris.
LAWN TENNIS-To-morrow- Oxford and Canibrkige v. Harvard and Yale for the Prentice Cup.
FOOTBALL-To-niorrow-Scot- tish League commences.
CRAIGENGOWER BEAT INDIAN R.C.
Comfortable Win at Sookunpoo.
S.C.A.A, GO DOWN.
Playing at Sookunpoo yesterday. afternoon, the Indian R.C. lost to the Craigengower C.C. by 3 sets to 6 in the "B" Division of the Lawn Tennis League.
Scores:-
3. 8. A. Curreem and F. D. Pereira (I.R.C.) :—
lost to G. Lia and J. W.
Leonard
lost to E. Zimmern and F..
Zimmern
lost to Y. Hachiuma and
W. J. Howard ...
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1- 6
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A. H. Madar and 0. Ismall (LR.C.):-
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2- 6
lost to E. Zimmern and F.
Zimmern beat Y. Hachiuma and W. 3.
Howard
2. 6
7. 5
S. A. Ismail and A. R. Minu |. (L.R.C.) :—
bent G. Lai and J. W. Leonard 7 6 best E. Zimmern and F.
Zimmern
6- 2
6-7
lost to Y. Hachiuma and
W. J. Howard-
Army T. C. Win.
The Army T.C. defeated the South China A.A. in the "B" Divi- sion by 5% sets to 8%.
C.C.0.
Lengue Table to Date.
Seta.
P. W. D. L. ‚F. A. Pts. Girls, bless them have always and the surroundings at length Chinese R.C. WDF 14 16 shocked their elders, and will, I reached the wicket-and stayed Recreio 10 S
2 584 30 16
28 rust, continue to do so; they seem there shuffling out to make good University 10 8 1 3 82
...10 5 2 3 43 48 12 pretty wall able to look after them-length balls easy till the bowlers CSC.C.
48 selves. The Government, well, the must have sickened at the sight of HE.C.C. 11. 24 51
90 3 47 34 him; playing his own, gație, its Indian R.C.. 9 1 1.1 40 country has been going to the dogs, ever since there has been a coun-complete success being really its Army T.G. 739 4 28
Kowloon C.C. 9 2 0 7 27% 534 try, to go anywhere. And cricket only excuse.
M.B.K. ..... 6 there they sit watching it with Any young player who shaped. China gloomy eyes; and cricket has be-like that in his first County game Nippon C. 10 come to those saurian watchers would be wiped off the slate, be- hopeless caricature of the game fore he'd played his first over, by they played as boys. "With what
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GOLF.
Starting Times
Sunday,
for
those beady critical eyes, that work I most enjoy, contented least re- out a player's form by the book mains the true diagnosis; and, in to the last decimal point. Even i proportion to their past enjoyment he made a decent few runs they is their present condemnation, would be regarded with amused That is all natural.. Old age is contempt, as a fortunate accident. No styld. Moves his Ja difficult business.. It affects No bat.
some old men in this sad way. right foot playing forward! And But the mischief is that their a tame little stylist who gets bowl- dreary comments have somehow ed, always making a perfect shot, come to be taken seriously by other is encouraged again and again, non-players who write about and the fact that his bat invari- cricket, and have even been listen-ably falle to hit the critical ball ed to by august persons who sit is regarded as a pure misfortune un selection committees, and even that may happen to anybody. He more mischievously and more in-shapes well: that fetish is enough, the following list of starting explicably by those still more august persons who administer the laws of cricket,
Change and Decay.
Surprising Results.
AT HAPPY VALLEY.
The Secretary of the Royal Hong Kong, Golf Club supplies
times for Happy Valley on Sun- How any young player, emerging day- from that thick atmosphere of critical watchers in any pavilion,
It doesn't much matter, I supon that long walk to the wicket. pose whether the stumpa area has nerve enough left to play any little bigger or not-Maurice Tate ball anyhow is what surprises me. soems still to have the knack of.
What's wrong with cricket? shaving them more closely without Anyone who saw disturbing a ball than any bowler in England-but it does matter wagging against Surrey at Hor sham-young-Pearce and "Tich"
7.80 a.m. & 8.48 a.m. S. T. Butlin,
N. K. Littlejohn.
& 9,40 a.m. G. W. Reave, J. B. Mackie,
&:10a.m. A. C. I
8.00
& 9.08 a.m. A. C." Ellis, F. Lobel.
8.28
the Sussex. tall.
8.44
9.00
9.04
R. D. Wrigley, LH. Ruffin.
9:08
A.^C. "Ellis, F. Lobel
9.12
C. B. Johnson, P. Tester.
9.16
very much that the absurd cry Cornford slowly bringing the score "Something must be done about
nearer and nearer the Surrey-total,
it should be listened to by those till a mere dozen runs more wore in authority.
wanted will find the answer easy. It la the wrong policy to alter Nothing. Nothing at all Easy, the game to suit the players in alas!, also the answer to the other any way whatever. Men use their question that pops into the mind wits to invent new tactles, applic What's wrong with those aged 9.20 able under the old rules. Ingenumelancholy critice in the pavilion? Ity becomes hopelessly misdirected. Everything, Poor old: miseries! And the "amount of ingenuity to That any attention should have be applied to the game of cricket
been paid to their woe-begone wails is Infinite:
For examples I have paver seen
ls an absurdity.
a really high-dropping full toss, un Making the best arrangements
Bowker, H. H. Mundy. C. B. Robertson, K. S. Robertson.
F. J. de Rome, J. W. Franks.
W.
Stewart.'
J Laing, R. C. Law.
» H. ̈U. Ireland, R. K.
Hepburn:
J. G. Campbell,
9.24
9.28
0.82
O., Eager, A. D. Hum-
phreys
9.86
J. H. Pengelly, A. G
Ursell.
0.48:
PP J. Wodehouse,
F. E. Booker:
to which the batsman must look for the county championship is one bowled in a serious game. I tried thing; tampering with the rules of After seeing one once in a practice game. The cricket is another. face of the batsman was a study such a game as that between Sur- Jih bawilderment. He was still try rey and Sussex at Horsham, who 10.04 Ing to decide whether to use his the exact place of either of two 10.08
Ceres much one way or the other bat, as a tennis racquet or a cro- quet mallet when the ball dropped auch champion sporting sides on down upon his wicket. All that the little championship list? deadly ball wants is a little skill the game that matters, every time. and a vast amount of cheek,
No Game Like Cricket
TOON ****** Cheek is Required.
And while quch games are play-
It's 10.12
10.20,
Cheek! There you havo it. It'sjed as that match which graced the cheak that's wanted; cheek that opening of the Horsham Week, overy coach and every schoolmas-over the oldest, worst- grouser in
LA Newton, E. D. Matthews.
D. Gilmore, Whyte Smith.
D. G. Bruce Dodwell, CHBradley. MacLareni
3.
G, S.
Some of the golfer's worst shots
ter should encourage for all, he's the pavilion will perforce forget are due simply to faulty
worth
of are and Remember, with heek is a boy's Indivi-the dual geniu Inconvenient-asit a
may be in th
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Nine times out of ten
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