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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 25, 1937. :
ENGLISH COUNTY CRICKET TITLE.
In London the German champions in couple skating Herber and · Baier again won the world's championship.. They displayed a com- pletely new repertoire and demonstrated clearly their superiority over all the other competitors.
SOMERSETSHIRES
BRIGHTER TA
GLOUCESTER'S PROMISING
YOUNG TALENTIA
C. F. WALTERS CONTINUED ABSENCE
(By THOMAS MOULT)
London, April 30. BY this time next week the bulk of the counties will have returned to action for the cricket campaign, which begins with five first-class fix- tures on Saturday. Which county will make the readiest response to the recent demand from Lord Hawke, of Yorkshire, and Sir Charles Hyde, of.
Cambridgeshire Before Warwickshire, as Club Presidents, for brisker
Cesarewitch
JOCKEY CLUB'S DECISIÓN--
London, April 30. IN future the Autumn double will be known as the "Cambridge- shire and Cesarewitch," as the Jockey Club agreed on Wednes- day to the Cambridgeshire and the Jockey Club Cup being decided a fortnight before the Cesarewitch and Champion Stakes.
work on the field of play?
THE QUESTION CAN BE PARTLY ANSWERED ALREADY -BY RECALLING THE MORE ATTRACTIVE SIDES OF IAST YEAR WITHOUT PANDERING IN ANY WAY TO THE CRAZE: FOR NOVELTIES-LOUD SPEAKERS AND THE LIKE THAT |HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH A GAME WHICH, ASʼSIR STAN
LEY JACKSON SAYS TRULY, WILL' LOSE NONE OF ITS POPU=~ LARITY IF IT IS PROPERLY PLAYED, DERBYSHIRE (THE CHAMPIONS),
GLOUCESTER- SOMERSETSHIRE,~ ~ ESSEX?
AND, OF COURSE, SHIRE, WORCESTERSHIRE, SURREY —— YORKSHIRE, IF ONLY FOR THEIR FIELDING, AND KENT, FOR THEIR WELL-VARIED BATTING WERE ALWAYS THE- CROWD'S FAVOURITES.
The proposal was made in the He supposed that it was because first instance by Mr. James A. de of the way races were run nowa- Perhaps Somersetshire ought to head my list, for the hearty Rothschild last December. He days that it appeared more difficult and sparking wind of the West Country blew wherever they went, suggested that if the shorter to run a horse over the shorter and especially were their own crowds delighted by them. If the race were run first many owners course when he had been trained ghost of "Sammy” Woods watched them, it must have been a happy- with the ambition, of achieving and raced over the longer course ghost.
the “double" might run their a fortnight previously. horses again in the Cesarewitch. (Continued at foot of next col)
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They fought as he would fight, carefree but. strongly, and they were rewarded by reaching the seventh place in the champion- ship: a jump of seven places since the previous summer. Gone is their reputation as one of the weaker counties, and if
they can stabilise the team by the Graces, you know!" That is keeping the same eleven to-how Sir James Barrie described it· gether, that reputation will not in one of his early plays, but a return.
FIVE BLUES FOR SOMERSET The regular players suffered from the irregular addition of ama- teurs, who were introduced so fre- quently and unsystematically that as many as 34 names figured in the season's record, 24 being those of amateurs.
more modern reference would be to the county of Hammond and Barnett.
Recalling their batsmanship in full bloom, it is no wonder Glou- cestershire are rivals of their West Country kinsmen from Somerset attractiveness.
Again it is plan
sant to be able to speak of success But the advantage of keeping a in relation to a side who play the team together as often as possible game for the game's sake. Two is so obvious that it will have been summers since they finished realised ere now by the Somerset fifteenth in the championship; last Committee, and the players who year they finished fourth-
next are entitled to a greater security in to Yorkshire. the team are again available under R. A. Ingle's captaincy.
A shadow fell on their sunny climax in 1936, though: DA C A unique feature in County Page, the captain, who helped the cricket is that five Varsity Blues club through a difficult time, was will join the side sooner or later-- killed in a motor smash at the very N. S. Mitchell-Innes and J. W. Sea-end of the season. His successor mer, of Oxford, and R. J. O. Mey-will be B. 0. Allen, a Cambridge er, J. H. Cameron, and E. F. Lon-Blue, who bats stylishly and fruit- grigg, of Cambridge. Luckes, the fully wicket-keeper, takes a benefit when Middlesex play at Weston-super- Mare on Aug. 4.
SUSSEX OVERBURDENED Allen will be supported by all the regular members, except Dacre, “COUNTY OF GRACES”
who has resigned,” and several "Gloucestershire the county of young players are ready to stand-
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their trial. B. H. Lyon, D. N. Moore and G. W. Parker are A similar argument was ad-pected to appear more frequently vanced for the rearrangement of and the county's only serious need the Jockey Club Cup and the Cham- is a fast bowler.
plon Stakes. He hoped that under ]. We used to think of Susser al- the new procedure owners might most first among the popular coun- run their horses in the Cup in their ties, and there is no reason – why preparation for the Cesarewitch, they should not regain an enviable more so as there would be no pen-distinction. Maurice Tate is still alty in the Cesarewitch for the win-an outstanding personality, and ner of the Cup.
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