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Cricket News From Near
And Far
HE break in the weather and
The impossibility of playing
at Horsham before lunch led to Fishlock, the Surrey left-hander, being denied the opportunity of trying to reach a three-figure score for the third time against Sussex this season.
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The Surrey captain closed the innings at the overnight total of 1396 for seven, with Fishlock not jout 79.
Sussex were soon struggling, for Gover, in the course of five lovers, took three wickets for 17.
Improvement came when Cook settled down, and James Langridge | timed his shots on the leg side admirably. Shortly after the tes interval however, Gover enjoyed his fourth success getting Cook caught at the wicket.
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Lan Surrey bowled at James zridge without reward for the re-i mainder of the day, but they got down seven wickets. H. Parks helped Langridge add 46 and Wensley was seventh out at 174. At the close James Langridge was not out 68,
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SMITH AND SIMS
IDDLESEX, with G. Q. Allen Me lead them, found the
early Northamptonshire batsmen in form at Northampton, but Sims Smith caused a. collapse after tea, the last six wickets add- ing only 15. Middlesex last three
and
Martha Genenger (Germany), above, came second in the final of the women's 300 Metres Olympic breast-stroke championship to Miss Hideo Mayeshata (Japan).
BRITISH ATHLETES
BEFORE BERLIN
J. C. STOTHARD SHOULD HAVE MADE THE TEAM
THIS
WAS CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS
SAYS LITTLE TECHNIQUE IN BROAD JUMP
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(By HENRY MCLEMORE)_.
Berlin, August 7. OVE of country, something he never knew he
really possessed until he left the US. shores, drove Jesse Owens, Ohio State University's fleet- footed Negro, to three new records at the Eleventh World Olympic Games. The stream- lined fireball from Ohio told me so to day as we talked in his little stucco cottage on Saxony row in Olympic village.
"I always thought I had run as fast as I could," Jesse sáïð, "until I got to Berlin. When we stepped off the train among all those foreigners and saw that big American flag up over the end of the station and that band started playing that Stars and Stripes piece, I knew I could run faster.
(By J. E. LOVELOCK)
"You know I never will forget, how I felt right then. I could London. July 17.
feel my blood sorta running around under my skin and the hair THIS week-end, after the great excitement of the “A.A.A.} on the back of my neck kinda frizzle up. I don't aim to brag, Championships, there comes a comparative lull in the but I knew they were gonna have a time catching me when that athletics world Meetings are being held in different parts of pistol cracked out there before all those folks. the country, but for most of those chosen on their championship "I kinda hoped one of them] form to go to Berlin in a fortnight's time, this is now a period of effort involved in making their places in the team. rest and recuperation after the big nervous strain and physical
Before I mention one or two of the larger meetings where some of the stars may show the public something of their bril liance, a few comments on the championships and the selection of the British team may not be out of place.
First, it seems universally (a similar thing by the exclusion
the hurdles,
foreigners would get out in front of me just to make me ALL-INDIA TEST
really boil down that track.” I j like to rum behind every once in a while just to be able to give my legs the gun."
the
last
PLAYER SCORES
HIS 1,000 RUNS
Merchant Takes 75
Off Derby
CHANGES AT THE OVAL
Last Year's Memories As sounds of the St. Louis Blues men for 36 and were 262 behind agreed that this year's' champion, of Ben Eastman, so that now the drifted in from Frank Wykoff"s
ships were the greatest ever held field seems comparatively clear. at the close.
portable phonograph across S. C. Wooderson's splendid run-hall, Owens recalled a race in England, and that despite the Bakewell scored his third
most strenuous efforts upon the ning in the mile hundred of the season, and North-
was justly re-rear when "I was last at the fifth able part of a disgruntled weather god warded by the retention of way and Tims gave him
to ruin the meeting for competi- title: while to me it was an added I just said to myself 'you are goin' his hurdle going down the 220 yards. assistance.
London, July 21. Bakewell drove brilliantly, and (tors, officials and spectators alike. pleasure to see J. F. Cornes gain to get the hell beat out of you]
Bill Thomas's Record his place in his second Olympic unless you get going! So I shov in the match between Surrey and There was a remarkable change Northway stayed while 91 were
Thomas, incidentally, bad a team. ❖་ jadded for the second wicket.
ed the throttle to the floor and Lancashire at the Oval When play for his Another splendid effort was that get in by a head." Timms played the cut in his great day of success,
started to-day everything pointed style and the Middlesex bowlers "stable" comprises, in addition to of D. O. Finlay in
"What about the broad jump?" to a draw, but now Surrey seem “ put to it to keep Sweeney, an amazing collection of less on account of the amazingly asked him, recalling his record assured of victory, for they only were hard down the runs. Scoring 11 off champions and British representa-fast time accomplished with a breaking leap of 26 feet. 14 need 114 to win. Lancashire có). Bakewell tires, including D. 0. Finlay, A good following wind than by the inches, which followed his record lapsed before the bowling of completed three-figures after bat-G. Pilbrow, A. Pennington, C. B. perfection
of his technique, the breaking performances in the 200 Gover, and were all out for 110 Holmes, J. F. Carnes, and myself, ease with which he raced away and 100-metre dashes. "Have you after the first wicket, had put on ting two hours 50 minutes.
Northamptonshire, with 283 on while a number of others, such as from a first-class field, and the board for four wickets, were P. D. Ward, do not hesitate to cash and spirit he displayed. He, well on top of the bowling at tea, seek and accept his training ad-should be well placed at Berlin. but Bakewell's dismissal on resum-vice. Surely this must be a re- ing heraided a breakdown.
cord of championship success for Bakewell occupied four hours one coach.
his
included 144, which thirteen 4's.
three successive
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Y LOUCESTERSHIRE were match for Derbyshire, Derby, and were beaten by 10 wickets. This was Derbyshire's fifth success in eight matches.
Finlay hurdled faultlessly, prov- ing himself to be a class above! any other member in a really good j championship field. His record,
the
J.W.A. STEPHENSON'S
BATTING
though helped by an appreciable Gentlemen v. Player's
Match At Lord's
wind, is one of which any athlete may well be proud.
done all you can do in that?"
64. Actually Lancashire lost seven Coaches Afraid
wickets for 28 runs. "Naw, I don't think, so. They
After dismissing Glamorgan for are always afraid I'll pull a muscle 133-Eastman took four wickets
go they warned me to be for 29-Essex, who led by 98 runs, careful and take it easy. In the declared at 125 for 7 in their sec- Olympics they couldn't blame me ond innings, leaving Glamorgan to for doing my darnedest. So I just make 225 to win. L. G. Crawley rared back and let fy with all I
was unable to bat for Esser owing to a strain.
had."
Jesse revealed he thinks there is little technique in broad jump-i ing and just something coaches It is not generally known that Tke to talk about.
In Strong Position Yorkshire are in a strong posi- The quarter mile. great as it
tion against Notts at Trent Bridge, was, did not in some peculiar way Lieutenant 3. W. A. Stephenson,
"To me there is no such thing for they lead by 232 runs with The spin bowling of Mitchell the reason
reach the anticipated heights, for whose 9 wickets for 46 was the as jumping form," he said. "I five wickets in hand
that A. G. K. Brown outstanding feature of the Gentle you an jump, you can juzep and Thanks to a fine eighth-wicket and the pace of Copson and Pope won without a struggle. (A.) caused the Gloucestershire batsmen to fall easy prey.
In the end Derbyshire were left
Mitchell in the match obtained
1;
崩 great recovery the take-off and try to sail as long against Leicestershire at Worces-. {as I can".
ter after losing seven wickets for 89.
Most Popular Athlete Owens, Nordics and Hitler to
V. M. Merchant, who scored 75
men v. Players match at Lord's, that is all there is to it. All I do stand between Howorth and the J. C. Stothard
was considered even up to three is just run as fast as I possibly Hon. C. J. Lyttelton, Worcester- Much comment has been caused or four years ago more of a
can, yank my legs up under me at shire made to get only 90 to win, and Alder by the exclusion of last year's batsman that & bowler.
After a period of service with man and Smith completed the task champion. J. C. Stothard, who fail
ed to find his way into the final the Army in India, Stephenson in 70 minutes.
Though I do not wish to deny the was stationed in Essex and played (splendid running of B. F. McCabe. for Witham, one of 11 wickets for 121 runs--a splendid who by his performance on the oldest dans are of the county the contrary, is by far the most against Derbyshire to-day, became the American the first All India batsman to com- Apart from Sinfield and God-day and his consistency earlier in tracted many Army players, not-popular man on
It is physically dangerous plete his thousand runs for the Lieutenant C. P. Hamilton team. the season thoroughly earned his jably dard, Gloucestershire gave another
Hudson for him to leave the village due season. Before this game his total unconvincing display. Half the inclusion, I cannot help feeling and Captain R. E. H.
their to the hundreds of Germans who was 956, and he scored 23 in the side fell for 90, and the most pro-that Stothard, who was undefeat-No doubt the excellence of
ed last season, in three weeks' ground is 2 great attraction. swarm all over him feeling his first innings.
His feat is the more meritorious [ductive stand was that between
time should be a completely dif-Anyway, here, Stephenson played muscles. They grab him and hold
seeing that he was out of cricket Sinfeld and Crapp, who put ou
ferent runner. 139 in half an hour,
many a fine inninga, yet rarely on begging for autographs.
There isn't a finer conditioned for a month through a thumb in- America seem also to have done laccomplished mach with the ball
athlete in the whole village than jury.
performance.
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CAMBRIDGE'S FINE WIN
NAMBRIDGE beat the Army at Fenners by Eve runs. The University lost their last two wickets for 14, and the Army needed 197 to win.
With half their wickets down for 144, they seemed favourably placed, particularly as W. E. Beer- Davies, the son of a former Chief Justice of Hong Kong, troubled by a badly bruised finger, |but Jehangir Khan bowled splen- didly, and received excellent sup- port is the field.
WILS
There was a sudden collapse, land- nine men were out for 165. At this point Whitty went for the bowling boldly, and Hugonia, who has kept wicket for, Essex, also proved useful in a desperate pozi- tion. Just when this last stand promised to bring success, Whitty failed to hit Camerón" and was leg-before-
ORIENT'S NEW PLAYER
Clapton Orient have signed on A. Rezaiter, a full-back who, last season, was with Gulingham He had previously played for Crystal Palace
3
The start of the Olympic Torck, Eelay ancient Greek city of Olympia. Our picture par thousands of years old mirror (standing on the grom "with" the "ald "af" which a young Grock wazan tit Olympic fame, de
the modest, likeable coloured boy; The match between Warwick- whose head has not swelled 2 (shire and Sussex was again delay- particle under adulation.
jed by rain, and no play was pos- sible until after lunch, when Sus-
AMAR NATH SPEAKS declared at 214 far, 0, both
RIGHT OUT
"Our Tactical Errors On The Field"
Parks (J.) and Hammond reach- ing their centuries.
After scoring 93 for two in re- ply to the Navy's total of 213, the Amay collapsed in the Services' match at Lord's and were all out fór 180.
Commander S. Boucher was in fine bowling form, and took five
JILIMIE DE SOLA LOSES TO BOB OLIN
New Delhi, July 20. Amar Nath, the Indian cricketer for 32. who was sent home, interviewed on his return to Labore from Bhopal, said: "It would serve no useful purpose to appear again before the Board of Cricket Con-) trol in the role of sinner. I have Brooklyn, August 4-Bob Olin. already suffered enough humilia former light-heavyweight boxing tion in apologizing from door to champion of the world, took-an door.
easy eight round decision here to
I am not indispensable to any night from Jimmie de Sola, a team, nobody is, but if I am to play Spaniard. Olin weighed in at 181 for India again the Board mast lh, while the lighter de Sola tip- institute an independent inquiry ped the scales at 17623b-United into my case and obtain a poble Press. japology from the guilty pasar
whether that party in myself the to play under
(úr) captain, or the manager.
I en boldly say that every have member of the team would be glad h
Major C. K. Nayada.
errors in the field rget of English