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THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1 1932.
SOUTH AFRICANS IN AUSTRALIA THE CHINESE RESTAURANT, LTD.
REVIEW OF THE RECENT HANDICAP DOUBLES
TOUR
INEXPLICABLE BATTING
FAILURES.
SUCCESS OF IRONMONGER
DISAPPOINTING FINANCIAL REPORT
HELPED BY BRADMAN,
Bradman Improved,
FINAL TO-DAY.
Rodger Brothers Against Sewell & Wright
ON THE STAND COURT.
The China Mail is informed that the H.K.C.C. Handicap Doubles Final will be played on the Stand
The second tour of the 'South on the English turf wickets. Court this afternoon, weather per- African cricket team now being Xenophon Balaskas could not get mitting. The finalists are G. A. completed, its review affords an a place in the Test matches, and Sewell and C. A. Wright (30) interesting subject, and the com- here is a youngster, who, on and J. Rodger and G. T. Rodger pleteness of the defents provides matting wickets, provided dazzl-} (scr.). sidelights upon the strength of ing footwork.
The following has been the pro- Australian cricket as has been
gress made by the respective final- shown by the victors, writes an As in England in 1930, theists in their path to the Final Observer correspdent. The con- Australian batting was in the Round:- ditions under which the five Test hands of a select few. There G. W. Sewell and C. A. Wright matches have been played be- were nineteen Australians who
(-30). tween Australia and South Africa took.
part in the Tests, Bye in the first round. have been most varied, but at no and Don Bradman was the beat Puncheon and Railton (scr.) time have the South Africans same marvel with 806 runs for 6-4, 5-7, 6-3. met their rivals on such wickets five innings, one being not out, beat Robb and Bryden (+15) 6-1, as the South African team did on and W. M. Woodfull made 421 in 6-0. their former tour of Australia in seven innings, one being not out. beat Henderson and Monaghan 1910-11. Then there was gen- Bradman has improved in many (-3/6) 8-6, 7-6. eral consistency in the wickets, respects from his displays in beat Lecky and Waite (3/6) 4-6, and on the whole the wickets England, for he gets back on his 6-4, 6-3, were faster. Not once did the wicket rather quicker, but he J. Rodger and G. T. Rodger (scr.). South Africans meet the Aus- can still command the good for-Bye in the first round. tralians on a wicket which was as tune which batsmen making in-boat Wilson and Ferguson (scr.) -fast as some which obtained on ordinate scores will always com-
that tour; and in. two matches, mand. the first at Brisbane and the last Of the new batsmen, J. H. W. at Melbourne, the sticky wickets Fingleton alone convinced me, and a wet wicket respectively for although. Rigg was third in have handicapped the South the manner of runs made, he Africans severely. The South never looked safe. The probabili- Africans anticipated faster ty is that Fingleton will succeed wickets, and yet on the best Ponsford as Australia's opening wickets of the whole tour at batsman. Sydney in the second Test match, when (the South Africans Australia have unearthed batted first on the most perfect fast bowler in Lawrence Nash. wicket possible the South His great assets are youth and African batting failed deplorably for 153 and 161. Probably their failure was due to the earlier ap prenticeship the visitors had had
A New Fast Bowler.
stamina, and he is a vigorous fast bowler, His best bowling was when he played on a very fast wicket at Hobart in the
6-3, 7-5,
beat Lloyd and Nowers (-2/6)
. 6-3, 6-3.
beat Green and Green (15/3)
3-6, 6-1, 6-3.
beat Lampard and Clarke (scr.)
6-2, 1-6, 6-2,
KOWLOON GOLF
CLUB.
The High Handicap Competition.
11 a.m.
over
All competi-
DRAW FOR SUNDAY. in Australia on such turning first innings against the South wickets as obtained in the match Africans. There he had the against Victoria
and the Test fastest wicket I have seen in the for members with handicape of 12 The High Handicap Competition match in Brisbane. and they Commonwealth since my first or over, will be played played for difficulties which did visit to Australia in 1910-11.eighteen holes (medal play on han- not exist. It was footwork fail-think he is more than a "flash in dicap) on Sunday. ure more than anything else, the pan," As some Australian tors are required to tee off before then, which brought about their authorities seem to think he is, undoing, and the earlier educa- O'Reilly is another new bowler tion of the South African new to Test cricket, who created cricketers on matting wickets was an impression when he bowled contributory to that failure. so successfully against Victoria and took five good wickets for Neither he nor Nash It is remarkable that in the 22 runs. five tests in 1910-11, the South bowled with a consistent length Africans made an aggregate of against the South Africans, and 2,779 runs for the logs of 99 I felt quite sure that against skil- wickets, against the aggregate ful batsmen they could not have of 3,175 runs by the Australians met with the same success that for the loss of 83 wickets, where they actually did in the fifth Test as during the second visit of the match. O'Reilly is, at his best, South Africans, they have totall- a steady bowler with a novel de-
Batting Failure,
Hunt is a left-hander
The following is the draw:- J. J. King and J. Buller. G. D. Reid and A. W. Torrible. J. B. McCaw and L J. Cave. W. J. Woolley and E. R. Price. H. S. Dinsdale and A. Charman. A. Urquhart and W. R. Hillyer. W. Groves and S. MacNider.. A. A. Laughton and H. T. Buxton. W. Stoker and G. Gellatley. J. S. Smith and W. Kerr.
A. L. Powell and J. G. Meyer..
FOR SATURDAY.
Against Cumberland at Caroline Hill.
ed only 1,947 runs for the loss of livery action, though that con- RADIO HOCKEY TEAM 100 wickets, 1,846 of those rom- fusing delivery will not remain ing off the bat, and the Austra- confusing for long. He did not lians had given away 145 extras provide any difficulty when he on the former tour. Against this played in the Adelaide Test small aggregate of runs by the match. He is tall, and gets the South Africans, the Australians ball on to the pitch from a great have contributed 2,410, includ- height. ing 89 extras, for the loss of only who was tried, but undoubtedly 59 wickets. Coincidentally he is not a class bowler. The enough, the South African bowl older bowler in C. V. Grimmett The following have been select- ers have been as
and H. Ironmonger have carrieded to play for the Radio Sports, successful nu- merically in the recent series of the days as bowlers. Ironmonger Club against a team from H.M.S. Test matches as the great bowl is that type of left-hand bowler Cumberland at Caroline HI!! ing string of 1910-11, for the who, as is common with left-ground, On Saturday, at 3 pm, average cost per wicket is in handers, can perform ably on a weather permitting: the vicinity of 40 runs, in each bad wicket, and he did not have S. Singh; P. Singh, J. Singh'; tour, by the Australian batsmen, batsmen of the first flight to Hanib, G. Jack, M. Singh; A. E. P. These figures go to establish the bowl against. He had a sticky Guest, G. Singh, J. T. K. Gilchrist, fact that it has been in batting wicket at Brisbane, and he had a K Singh, and F. A. Kemp. where the South Africans have wet wicket at Melbourne. True,
Reserves: Jagcet Singh, Atta failed, and yet in England dur- he bowled on the perfect wicket Singh, and Atma Singh. ing the 1929 tour, there were oc- at Sydney in the second Test
Referee: H. Singh. casions on good wickets when the match, but then the South Afri- South African batting Was can batting was inexcusably praiseworthily strong, and when weak. Ironmonger is not a con-run-getting match they encountered wet. wickets sistently good length bowler, and point of consistency. they displayed adaptability, only success can keep him being The financial side of the South genuinely deserving the high en successful in getting wickets. African tour has been unsatis comiums meted out to the side..The opinion is expressed that he factory, but it would have been A Record of inconsistency. would go through any side on a more so had there not been such The failures of the South bad wicket in England, but he a tremendous box-office attrac- African batsroen
could not unless he bowled a tion as Bradman, and whatever were not limited to a fów? Not one was
better length then he has on the may be at fault with this young consistent amongst those from occasions I have seen him during batsman's technique, he could whom runs against any bowling this tour.
command almost as much draw were expected. And yet, on "Thinking Batsmen Out.”... ing power through his fielding. the other hand, batsmen such aa The bowler of consistence Is He is a remarkable fielder, and H. W. Taylor, Bruce Mitchell, Grimmett. Grimmett is always Oldfield still retains his position
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S. H. Curnow, J. A. J. Christy, thinking batamen out. Grime as a magnificent wicket-keeper, and Horace Cameron did exhibit mett has ideas, and he, is able to but he is at his best when the their ability on occasions, and work on those ideas. He bowled ball is not turning. But really; perhaps the most fearless of the unusually short against the I think that the feature of the lesser lights was Cyril Vincent. South Africans in Sydney, and whole series has been the extra- Kennth Viljoen, though he cer- the batsmen exaggerated his ordinary achievement of Iron- tainly made the only three- Bowling figure innings in the Tests made contact by South Africa was not the Frank Wool convincingbatsman he is in type. He bow South Africa, and Denys Morkel the five mat was singularly a failure with bat Bouth and balla man who was the three
best all-rounder of the 1929 team match
not come into monger; putting delde the week- batsmen theness and ill-success of the South African batting. "For one so well advan
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