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WIDOWS TO SPORT
ADVERSARIA
AS THE BUS red,
the
înto chauffeur threw the engine
a sulky, low gear and it ground roaring response. It was then Her that I noticed the girl's face. lips and her mouth, like her eyes, Her were peculiarly sensitive. teeth closed suddenly over her lower gaining lip. The car roared on,
hands momentum, and the girl's closed together tightly in her lap, the the knuckles whitening from force of her clasp. The lines in her forehead deepened until they At last, became almost black. seemingly against her will; closed her eyes..
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she
THE CHAUFFEUR SHIFTED into high gear and the roar of the steady engine subsided into a low
hum. Slowly the furrows relaxed
camie
hande
up
back
Cricket, it appears, has passed between her eyebrows, ber from a mere sport of enjoyment softened and disengaged themselves, into a sterner business, with the cloud vanished from her fea- players regulated in meticulous, tures-and the girl opened her eyes almost totalitarian, gravity, quarto look quickly out of the window, antined in a wifeless solitude, as if she were trying to bide some- Tennis has on occasions reported thing of which she were ashamed. the same strict government There were halts, many halts along Each time the Members of the Australian Board the long, hot road.
was thrown into low of Control apparently subscribe engine
and each time it snarled to the doctrine of Francis Bacon gear; that "he that hath wife and growled its exasperating way children, hath given hostages to the hill, the furrows fortune; for they are impedi-again to darken the girl's forehead, ments to great enterprises, eith- her hands tightened again and she er of virtue or of mischief." Such closed her eyes desperately. impediments as wives must not be allowed to impede great vir- tuous enterprises of players on in the girl's face. The engine, in cricketing ovals. Hence Mrs. low gear, sounded like the relentless down Bradman is not permitted to join roar aero motors swooping
to Canton's roof-tops. It her husband in England at the close end of the Australian team's was the song of death; the terrible playing tour, and cricket wives blood-letting song which thousands join golf widows as the forlorn of children, like this 17-to-18 year- of sport. If this harsh tendency old girl of the Kowloon bus,
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IT WAS ALL THERE, “written
will
to break up happy homes con- never forget for the rest of their tinues unchecked, players of in days. It is one thing to hear that ternational sport in the future song. It is another thing to see will pass from the banns of mar it on the face of a girl who is half riage only to the more powerful woman and half child. bans of widowing boards. prospect recalls Princess Ida's at
The
THESE
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ARE THE THINGS
which seldom get into the newspa- pers and are not often read in war correspondent's dispatches. They They are only war.
T.C.G..
are not news.
taban; and apparently the Board holds that what is allowable at Colombo is impossible in London.
tempt to make her damsels "ab
and the jure tyrannic man," pretty pickle of the newly-mar ried gondoliers when the Grand Inquisitor, on seeing their wives prepare, to accompany them to the Court, cries in consternation: band in England on the 1934 "Stop, stop that won't do at tour. Indeed, the Board, by al- all-we can't have any ladies." lowing the wives of the players to In England, in fact, the daily accompany them home from Press has hastened to sympath- Colombo, has little logical justifi- ise with Mr. and Mrs. Bradman, cation in refusing to permit any and the Board of Control is pro wife to make the extra trip of bably appearing in the role of a few weeks to England. Kipling Grand Inquisitors Unfortunately, has sung that the moral crimes the Board, by its actions in the of Clapham are chaste at Mar- past and especially by its re- fusal to explain its actions to the public has itself given colour to charges of an autocratic dic
In fairness, it must be recog- tatorship. It has considerable nised that a test tour is a vast power over the cricketing world, business undertaking involving and such power, as we know from considerable responsibility. The experience of other boards, is players are treated generously on apt to breed a pride of its unyield the financial side, and they sign ing exercise. A certain dispute agreements before they under- with selectors over the number take the tour. The Board pro- of players to be chosen for a test bably considers that the rules of team comes to mind, and so does the tour should be kept, and the ban on cricketers who wished variations should be requested to make the tour to India with before the team sails, not made the Maharajah of Patiala's team, afterwards by cable. Everyone a ban imposed in spite of the will agree that the players, while opinions of the State cricketing on the actual playing tour, should associations, who were most be single in spirit and state; the closely concerned. In the pre-practice of banning wives is here orcascertained, the Board rejected freely recognised as such by the sent instance, as far as can be reasonable and wise, and it is Mr. Bradman's request without players themselves. Once the any full discussion, personal actual playing tour is over, there opinions being merely solicited seems to be no sound reason why from members of the Board by the wives of the players should mail. A precedent for granting not join their husbands and ac-.. the request, moreover, has been company them on the homeward given by the permission accorded voyage. In short, the Board also to Mrs Woodfull to join her hus- might "play cricket."
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