THE CHINA MAIL: SEPTEMBER
AN HOUR OF BOWES, AUSTRALIA
Follow On: C. B. FRY SAYS-
(Continued from Page' 18) Badcock No "Pair" The aerial bucket has descended; its industrious inhabitants have gone back to their job. So they cannot see Jack Badcock bustling for his pair.
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Our cheerful pocket Hercules quickly strangled the serpent of his ill-luck. He had a shave or two from Farnes, and then sliced Bowes for a single.
Now he is all right, and so fine a batsman ought to get his own back on this wicket, which still remains com- pletely plumb.
Not a patch upon its smooth and genial surface.
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With the new ball Farnes is sending down some searching swifts. His sta- ture enables him to make the ball hit the pitch hard, and his good length makes him awkward to kill.
Still Bowes is carrying on. He has nearly bowled young Jack; and young Jack has hit him a rare crack to the far screen.
Bill Bowes is roused; with a leonine incursion of vigour he clean hobs the stocky Tasmanian. Stumps skittled; bails flying. Total, 15 for 1.
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McCabe pays a fleeting visit to the pitch. He has just time to avoid the stigma of complete failure by a chan- cing cut off 'Bowes before Farnes finds his weakness.
He shapes to cut the rising ball, and Wood cradles the little catch. In this. innings, as in the first, it was quite obvious that the great Stanley McCabe was on the flick. He meant, at all costs, to chance his arm.
Thoughts On Bowes
We cannot rejoice with a free heart over the discomfiture the morning has inflicted on Australian prestige. absence of their great batsman spoils all our page.
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The thought that looms in the offing of my mind is how on earth we came to omit a bowler like William Bowes from our earlier teams.
We have not such a wealth of talent as to be able to dispense with our best bowler.
Why did we do so?
At lunch we have two out for 31.
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The leonine velocity of Bill Bowes endures through the period of refresh- ment.
In his first over afterwards he finds
(First Photograph) S. Wooderson, British Olympic mile runner, fin- ishing. "flat-out" to break the world Half Mile record in 1.19.1 and the world 800-Metres mark in 1.48.2 at Motspur Park, London.
Minded To Punch
· Bright, blue-eyed Ben Barnett has
arrived with a mind to let fly a left- handed punch. He is dipping at the rising balls which Farnes can risk, now that runs are not of any account. .
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He will not stay long unless he lops his wild willow into garden shape. But as Ben had a big hand in the victory' at Leeds, no doubt he feels he has done enough for fame.
He has notched 22 în about 11 utes.
He fancies himself against Verity's enticements.
TSUI YUN PUI FULLY EXTENDED
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Yesterday's programme in the Hardcourt Championships of the Colony at the United Services Re- creation Club was confined to only three matches, two singles and a double.
As far as standard was concern- ed, only in one game was a fairly high level reached.
Comparatively unknown local- ly, Bick Szeto, in opposition to Tsui Yan-pul, gave an extremely plucky performance, and on his display yesterday, there are few players in the tournament he would not have beaten.
Features of his game were really effective drives on both hands, his fine mobility and excellent court- craft. If he showed any weakness at all it was at the net. His lack of inches made it difficult for him to deal with Tsui's accurate lobbing and forced to remain on the base-
RESULTS AT A GLANCE
SINGLES
Tsui Wai-pui beat K. K. Fung 6-2, 6-1.
Tsui Yan-pui beat Bick Szeto 6-4, 6-4,
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DOUBLES
Pang Ol-lam and Mok Fuk-in- Digitally Condemned Presently Barnes tries his fine beat I. Agafuroff and J. R. Pengel
ly 8-6, 6-0, square-leg hit on a straight ball from He Verity, who is bowling nicely. misses the ball, and up goes the digital condemnation. Fanny Walden says it!|||||| is out.
Then, the very next ball, Curator line, he lost many a golden oppor- Waite is careless enough to cock one tunity of applying the coup-de-grace up to silly point.
when his heavily sliced drives had driven Tsui well beyond the bounds of the court.
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DRIVING DUELS
He can bat; and if he has luck he
Five men out for 115; and the hutch may notch a few to-day,
min-is open.
Then Kenneth at last revenges him- self on Ben Barnett, who has properly! pasted him. The off stump dances.
Ben has played an enterprising inn- from the baseline, however, he was ings and given us sport.
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The score is 66 for four wickets. So severe was Ben on Kenneth that Walter has substituted Maurice.
Maurice is setting a crafty plan of field, and is bowling his version of Fleetwood's reversed leg break.
a master key to little Hassett's door. leg-breaker bowls The Bijou shaped for his back stroke, batsman. but was too late for a ball that fled reversed. along with unexpected venom from the innocent turf.
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In the sustained driving
duela
very little inferior to his brilliant
Tsui touched the form that was
We now welcome the only, the inimit-opponent and his fine placing and
accurate length won him many able Fleetwood.
Need I say that the only, the un-brilliant point. That is, he bowls to a left-hand bats- man the same ball that a right-hand rivalled "O'Reilly has given him the cue to а right-hand to allow him, O'Reilly, to stay at the Similarly the "googly is end to which Hedley Verity is bowling? lacking in his last performance in able the doubles. He was rarely The O'Reilly hits two huge skiers. to make as much use of the fore- One goes clear of long on, the other court as he is wont to do owing to the, steamy driving of his op- goes to long off. While the ball is in mid-air the wicket is stripped by a raid of cricketers including Fleetwood ponent and he made most of his
both points by drives on
wings from the far end.
Joe drops the catch. The wicket is played very early, varied with a rebuilt amid loud laughter and ironical
well-disguised drop-shot that gave cheers.
the heavily-built Szeto scant chance Fleetwood cannot stand this sort of of retrieving. funny stuff; so he lobs a catch to mid-
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* * The other end William Bowes howls Three men out for 35 runs. Two on; always swinging, always knocking victims to the blond giant of the north, at the door. He can pin his man down,
Few can our leonine William.
easy The man we leave out.
strokes accrue from him. The ball is never just quite convenient.
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About now they will be saying that the pitch has, "broken up," or that it is Nothing of showing signs of wear. the kind. The pitch is as sound as on the first day, but a bit, faster.
Accurate, Lively
The plain truth is that our fast bow- lers are on top of the residue of the Australian batsmen.
You see, in Bill Bowes they are meet-
New Bat It Drives Barnes decides that he will try a new bat.
The new bat drives. So Bowes has a rest; and Hedley Verity relieves his friend.
The new bowler induces Ben Bannett to have another dip. The ball just misses the wicket.
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ing a bowler of high class, who is ac- I do not think Maurice Leyland is curate as well as lively. You cannot guess how lively, if you've only met quite as good a bowler as Fleetwood- Smith; he is inclined to over-pitch the him in a railway carriage.
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Queensland Billy is just continuing ball. The worry of this sort of stuff New Shipment of his first innings. I do not think he depends on accuracy. would have got out then had he not, in
William Bowes is sun-bathing at some mistrust of Fleetwood's staying] power, essayed a rather too sprightly mid-on. He may be meditating a pro-
fessional thesis on Shakespeare's lyrics, ti v flick.
They nearly did not bring: Billy, I but he will soon be wanted as a prac fancy he owed his place to being the tical craftsman. best Queenslander available
But Billy has proved himself an ever ready help in time of trouble, and a tent of retreat in the wilderness,
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These others do not inconvenience the batsmen as he does,
Maurice gives way to Kenneth, and we are approaching 100 runs on the
Weaves.
All 48 ins, wide,
This afternoon he has not achieved board, Kenneth has gouged a deep From 1.75 to 2.25
his customary security; he has cocked hole with his right boot, and finds his
foothold troublesome, In Australia he
up an easy catch to square short les barely made a scratch, on the mar
off a good-length rising ball ́·· from mores) mar),
Farnes.220.
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the ball
The unexpected "lift" of the ball jostled him into the error; hunted his splice."
He was playing very
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5. G. Barnes is now pretty well set, WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW &
and is mixing his watchful defence with square cute and equare-leg hits,