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Six rune were scored by running and after this the batsman tossed the ball down on the ground, The case was referred to the M.C.C. who ruled that the ball was "dead" us soon as it lodged against the batsman's clothing and therefore no runs could be acored off that stroke.
In another who had played
instance a batsman the ball and de-
Playing for the Police against began to run, while the wicket the Municipality in the nomi- keeper followed him. final of the Government Ser- vice Cricket Competition V. S. do Krotaor, who was well set and had scored 18, played a ball off Bakel man and found that it lodged bo tween the top of his pad and his thigh. The wicket keeper Chap. man, promptly rushed
up to the batsman and took the ball away from Its place of lodging and ap pealed to the Umpire at the bow ler's end for a catch. The Umpire posited it between the top of his gave the bat man "out," writes pad and his thigh raced across the Onlooker in the Ceylon Observer. field past the batsman at the other
In the experience of nearly every end, reached the boundary person present on the ground such pushed the ball out, over the boun- an incident had never proviously dary, and claimed six runs. The been seen by them. There were M.C.C. ruling was the same as in only two or three in the pavilion, the other case "The who were positive that the 'Umpire 'dead' and therefore no run could had made a mistake. One of them bo scored." was the
N.C.C. wicket keeper, N. D.-S. Wijeysekera, who quoted a similar occurence in a match in which he had once played and the batsmen given "not out" as the ball was "dead," when it lodged in the batsman's pad "against his cloth ing."
I happened to be in the pavilion at the time of the Incident and showed some of those seat- ed near me the M.C.C. Law on the subject, as appearing in the score book. The Law 33b reads:
"If the ball, whether struck with the bat or not, ledges in a batsman's clothing, the ball shall become dead."
I have before me as I write this
a copy of the Laws of Cricket with Decisions and Interpretations au- thorized by the M.C.C. This book
contains the following explanatory note on Law 33b.
Explanatory Note.
"Lodging in a batsman's clothing includes practically
all ways which a ball can be said to lodgo
in or against his clothing."
in
This explanatory note was 'add-
ed more than years ago to the Lawn of Cricket by the M.C.C. owing to certain cases being brought to Their notice.
Addendum to Rule 33B.
and
|
It is clear from the last phrase in the M.C.C. addendum-"against | his clothing" that the ball was dead when Chapman took the ball and claimed a catch. V. 8. do Kretser, should have picked the ball out of his pad and thrown it down. He could not have been given "out" for handling a "dead" ball.' But the fact is that he, Ike nearly every one else on the ground, was not certain of the law.
Another Curiosity.
A few years ago I received, a re- port of a very curious incident that occurred in
a Richmond College Mr. Ludowyke, match at Galle. the Ceylon University scholar at Cambridge, sent me an account of this "curiosity." ball was
It appears & that rose, bataman played a ball struck his hip and lodged in his right trouser pocket. The ball was rightly regarded as "dead."; Mr. Ludowyke enquired whether
been such an in there had ever stance in the history of cricket. As I had not heard of a similar in- stance I wrote to my friend Mr. Ashley Cooper the famous authority on the game, who collecta "curio-| sitles of cricket" and was told that he had never heard of such a case before.
The addendum to rule 33b was therefore necessitated.
Th wording of this note is clear enough.
"Lodging in a batsman's clothing includes practically
all waya in which a ball can be said to lodge in or against his cothing."
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LOCAL CRICKET-To-day—Lengue_1.- II.K.C.C. y. R.A.: Indian R.C. Civil Service C.C.; League I Civil Service C.C. v. Indian R.C.; II.K.C.C. v. Police R.C.; Friend- les-Kowloon C.C. v. Craigen-
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HOCKEY To-day Mamak · Shield Police v. RA.SC.; H.K. Ladies Inter-Club Match; G.B.A. Ladies' v. St. Andrew's Ladies; Y.MC.A. v. H.M.S. Kent.
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In one case a batsman, on find- ing he had hit the ball and de-
between posited it
the
of his pad und his thigh,
TENNIS-To-morrow--U.S.R.C. Mixed Doubles Tournament,
Bad Luck.
So much for these curiosities. The adverso decision against V. S. do Kretser was B very unfortunato one for it ended a capital
de partnership between Kretser and Brindley, who were fighting hard for the Police at a time when their opponents seem- ed to have victory in hand. the end of the, innings the Police were only 24 behind their oppon-
ents,
At
Ordinarily the game looks like be- ing decided on tho first innings, which will give the Municipality the victory. If that
wrong de- cision had not been given against) de Kretser the chances ars that tho result would have been reversed for} the batsman was playing with his] "back to the wall" and was well set. | Still things like this are all in the game which gives to cricket the peculiar charms It possesses, and that makes it a game of glorious uncertainties.
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WHAT IS THE EFFECTIVE DISTANCE OF A MASHIE SHOT ?
IDEAS OF APPROACH,
A correspondent has taken me to task for a recent remark that sug- gested that the most effective dia- tance for a mashic shot is under 70 yards.
He says that he takes a mashie for anything under 125 yards, and that he does not consider 150 yards
Accuracy Essential.
course knows whether he needs a mashio, an iron, or a wooden club) for any given shot. He is nothing like ao confident on a course that is; new to him.
If asked to name the distance in yards, he might easily be very far
out.
System of Reckoning,
That is why we talk of holes not) in terms of yards but in terms of “A drive and an Iron" or "A drive and a mashle,"
"A drive and a chip" is so much mora simple to picture in the mind than 235 yards.
Yet this system of reckoning has its dangers. There is one hole I know that is called a midiron shot, or even a mashlo shot when the A slow and thoughtful spoon shot wind is directly behind. Yet not can be much more accurate than a
one player in ten ever reaches the forced iron, and a comfortable iron pin with an iron club. I know a should be infinitely more accurate golfer who for ten years has sald than a forced mashie. The golfer the same thing about his shot at should play his shot not so much this hole, "Good direction, but with a view to reaching the distance short." It does not occur to him
too far for a mashie. I would not as with a view to leaving himself to try a stronger club. He has the a putt. He may or may not apply hole in mind as a mid-iron ghot,
for a moment dispute this. I have seen a mashie used for every pur-stop to the ball, but there should pose from driving to putting; it is always be the feeling that his aim not to reach the pin, but to stop the ball beside it.
a versatile club. But I was speak- Ing of laying the ball dead to the pin.
There is nothing clever in reach- ing the pin, but there is definite golf
I stress the importance of com- in causing the ball to come to reat
fort in approach play.
Maximum Distance.
within a yard or so of it.
and that is the end of it.
Considering Length This hole is deceptive, with a sharp falling-away under the tee, and a sharp riso to a plateau in front of the green, But it is vanity, not distance, that deceives The Results of Forcing, a player who has driven porsistent- That cannot consistently be donely short of the plu for year after Not one golfer in a hundred can with forcing shots. Every-so-often; year. play a mashle shot of more than a a "death-or-glory" chance will auc- hundred yards in comfort. He can ceed, and the golfer will have the take a death-or-glory swing at the exhilaration of having hit a really ball and-as my correspondent says big shot, but for consistently suc- -even reach up to 150 yards, but cessful golf It is necessary to choose no golfer is going to hit a mashie the club that gives the feeling of shot that distance with the certainty control rather than of distance. that would be behind a similar fron shot.
Golfers are strangely reluctant to realise that a maahie-niblick is not necessarily, a more accurate club than a mashie, and that a mashie is not necessarily more accurate than an Iron,
A club is only accurate when it is being used within its distance.
It would improve the game of a good many players if they would consider the length of any hole that is new to them in terms of yards.
No two players drive the same distance from the tee, nor can they Since I am taken to task on this play the same distances comfort- question of distances, the oppor- ably with an iron. If a good drive tunity arises to put a very interest is hit, the player should know its ing question. How many golfers, length before he stops off the tee, taken blindfold up a fairway; and and by deducting that length from then allowed to see the pin, could the gross distance to the pin, he tell how far away from it they were should have no doubt, at all about standing? How many could allow ] what 'club he will need for a com- for a dip in the ground, or a steady | fortable approach shot.--(China uphill rise?. The golfer, on his own) Mail Copyright.)..
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