THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 15, 1939.
CRICKET
NOTES
GLORY OF OLD TRAFFORD
Where The Game Is The Thing
A TOUGH BUT SWEET OLD NUT
UNLIKE THE APOCRYPHAL gentleman who took the
London, July 25. railway ticket, writes a correspondent, I am fond of going to Manchester for cricket. Others may laugh or weep, ac- cording to their philosophy, knock Manchester about with slapstick and threadbare facetiousness · I know one who always takes two umbrellas to Old Trafford-but I like it, because it's ugly.
Like the poetaster of A. A. Milne who gave an incom- prehensible recital, Manchester, I feel, is ugly on purpose;
LAWN BOWLS CHAMPIONSHIP.
COATES' RECORD VICTORY
EXCELLENT PROGRESS was made in the Third Round of the Open Singles Lawn Bowls Championship when a number of matches were decided and several in- teresting games witnessed.
H. A. Alves beat R. F. Luz by four shots after the game had gone 20 heads. Though Alves had a slight
lead for most of the game there was never much difference in the score 15 all. Luz then scored a single but Alves replied with a three to take the lead at 18-16.
and at the 20th head the score was
H. Gittins also went to 26′ heads be-
The game between A. J. Halt and
WATER POLO
as if it could be quite good looking if it wanted to be, but INTERPORT TEAM was above all that sort of thing; like the Duchess in “Alice,' Knowing that it is the respectable thing to be plain.
It is silly to hurry on your way to, the Test at Old Trafford; you should wander down its more solemn streets; wide, serious, and easy to be lost in; where the constables, when question- ed, point out the way to more streets, obviously relations, even twins, of the first street; whose faces hide large, old-fashioned offices where business is done by some of the kindred if not of the house of Chuzzlewit, and a Mr. Chuffey still shuffles about with tight little secrets and difficult papers, and there are partners whom nothing would shock except the news a Lancashire batsman had gone mad, that
hit three consecutive sixes against Yorkshire, then been stumped by four yards and several seconds.
visible when you bowled, and who might use the pull-drive in the first over; of Eddie Paynter, who times plays a stroke with neither foot on the ground; great heretics all.
A RANJI MEMORY
some-
v REST OF COLONY
DUTCH GIRL BREAKS RECORD
Rotterdam, To-day-Miss He- selaar (Holland) yesterday broke the world's 100 yards breast stroke swimming record when she returned a time of 75.6 secs.
The previous record was held by Mics Dillard (United States) in the time of 76.6 secs.-Router.
fore the former won by 21-16. Git- three heads and at the 12th head was tins scored four shots in the first
leading by 10-6.
Hall then scored 8 shots on
the
next five heads to take the lead at
the
14-10 and held this lead till end. Gittins scored a two on the 25th head to reduce the lead to 18- 16 but Hall scored the required three
The Colony's probable Interport water-polo team, without the ser- a Rest-of-the-Colony side on Friday vices of Wilfred Lawrence, will meet
at the conclusion of the interport trials.
The Colony side will be selected
Taylor, C. Roza-Pereira, L. M. from that
Lionel Roza-Pereira, D. H. medios, Roy Silva-Netto, C. Nolasco in the next head.
Re- da Silva, D. Hutchinson and C. Silva-A. R. Minu by 21-16 on the 23rd T. A. Madar did well to eliminate
ing 18-9 but 'Minu reduced the lead head. At the 14th head he was lead-. to 18-15 by the 20th, head.
Netto.
The Rest team will be selected from Tong Shiu-fai (Chung Shing); S. V ford (Y.M.C.A.); H. Winglee (South Gittins (V.R.C.), (Captain); F. Ash-
China); H. F. Rose (Y.M.C.A.); Chan Ki-chung (Chung Shing); Robert Chan (C.B.C.); C. Goldman (Y.M.C.A.).
Mr. J. H. Lawrence, father of Wil-
recorded when Coates beat H. Nish by The biggest win of the day was 21-2 on the 14th head: Nish scored two singles on the second and 10th heads. Coates scored three threes and three twos during the game.
The following were the results of fred Lawrence, has been invited to games played yesterday in the Third manage the team.
Round of the Open Singles Lawn Bowls Championship.
SPORTS PARADE
If you talk to the older spectators at Old Trafford you will find they most remember the Australian victory by three wickets in 1896 with the tremendous bowling of Jones and Tom Richardson, and the Ernest 154 not out by "Ranji" in England's second innings, when others failed to the leg boundary. One ball nick- and he kept flicking Jones off his face ed his ear, and he remarked after- wards "it was very important to get the head well behind the ball to get NO MERETRICIOUS AIDS
a good sight of it" The Australians So, by decent stages, to Old Traf-needed only 125 to win, but it took ford, whose beautiful turf gains glory them three hours and seven wickets, from its saturnine surroundings; at and Richardson bowled through those one end is the railway, where the en- three hours for six of the wickets, fine-drivers seem perpetually to be having bowled 68 overs in the first shunting themselves into position to innings. Talk of Alexander and Her- discern between the googly and the cules! genuine off-break; at the other, at a
Here in 1934 O'Reilly took three Langridge was batting for nearly three
(Continued from page 24) quaint angle, the Press box, which English wickets in one over, as it were hours, during which he hit only four suggests that it might have been de- in one flush Walters, I think, and 4s. signed by Einstein immediately after Hammond and Wyatt, and I can still a reunion dinner of mathematicians; revive the tremors of that shock. In stand came when in barely an
The brightest and most productive eccentric perch of the critics. It is a the same match Pat Hendren made Stainton and Hammond added 67 for ground which seems to have decided, a century, flowering from the early the eighth wicket. The irrepressible none daring to contradict, that the and habitual stiffness of defence into Buckingham separated them by catch- beauties of the cricketing art are self- the full warmth of extra-cover driving Hammond, but that was his last sufficient, and have no need of mere- ing. Here, six years ago, Constantine victim; so he fell one short of the tricious appurtenances; it is abrupt, and Martindale assailed D. R. Jardine England record like a rude and true remark from
wicket-keeper in one innings.
of dismissals by Carlyle or Sam Johnson; proclaiming disdain of the sofe meadows and or- chard lawns of the South, of "bowery hollows crowned with summer sea.”
with bounce and speed, and he quell- ed them and was caught in the end low at gulley for 127, and the ground rose to him.
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At K.F.C. T. A. Madar. beat A. K. Minu 21----16 in 21 heads.
At K.C.C.
in 21 heads.
C. M. Silva beat A. F. Calman 21-9
At. K.B.G.C. H. A. Alves beat R. F. da Luz 21-17 hour in 21 heads.
B. Basto beat F. Cullen 21-11 in 21
At K.D.R.C. in 20 heads.
C. F. Remedios beat R. Basa 21-6
H. W. White received a from. J. A. Luz.
a
heads.
walk-over
A. J. Hall beat H. Gittins 21-16 in
At Civil Service C.C.
At Recreio BRUCE HOBBS, the steeplechase joc- A. E. Coates beat H. Nish 21-2 in Manchester is a tough old nut, but
key, was medically examined ear- 14 heads, If you want that sort of thing you when you crack it the kernel is sweetly this month, and was passed as fit to can go and eat the Lutus in Kent, enough. Warm, even wild, are
ride, again. He has received his 11-26 heads. the elbow through the trippers for a hospitalities underneath the harsh ex-
cence to ride under National Hunt plate of whelks at Southend, or take terior of
rules. reception; dinner parties a cheap ticket to the wonders of such as only Test matches beget, and Blackpool.
conversations that tire out the night before the talkers. But some, per- haps, have never learnt the way.
TOM HAYWARD
C. Dowman beat C. C. Pereira 21—8
OPEN PAIRS SEMI- FINAL TO-DAY
At one time last year it was feared on the 19th head. He fractured a bone in his spine when A. R: Minu beat L. J. Silva 23—18 that Hobbs would never ride again.] · At Craigengower C. C.. I have not heard that John, Bright or W. E. Gladstone ever played
Pharnace fell at Cheltenham races on the 20th head, cricket, but, if they did, they should
·last November, and for a long time never have played away from Old I think that what most people who piece of bone was taken from his shin, his condition was very serious. ΤΑ Trafford, which, on a rainy day, is the knew-Tom Hayward will remember and was grafted on to his spine. He nearest thing I know to an academic in him is kindliness and calm. As a was then encased in plaster of Paris. speech on Free Trade. It must have batsman his fame was world-wide, taught many a cricketer its own philo- and those who played with or against covery, and was able to leave hospi- Hobbs made a remarkably quick re- sophy, batsmanship such as that of him will tell you that he was unsur-tal in February of this year. Hobbs Harry Make-peace or, in his stubborn passed as a queller of fast bowling. won the Grand National in March of in the Lawn Bowls Open champion- The only match arranged for to-day days, Charles Hallows, which seldom His style was strong and classical. To last year on the American-bred Bat-ship is the Open Pairs Semi-Final tie deviated into brilliance, but flowed on one who was far too young to absorb tleship. with a staid majesty like the lines of more than the obvious in cricket he
between W. V. Field and J. Gibson Milton or a leader of the great C. P. gave a well-remembered impression tual amusement of master and pupil, Civil Service Cricket Club.
and T. Robson and H. Nish at the Scott; with scarcely the easement of of almost impervious power, and the from a distance of some eighteen The game should be evenly con- a paragraph, without ever the hope remark of an opponent. "Well, Tom, yards! He was a "good, easy man", tested as all four players are ex- of an anacolouthon!. Indeed, I always they tell me your bat does go through in the eyes of the stern, a little too perienced and have shown consistent- consider that it was almost a rebuff the gauge," explains better than co- easy; but very lovable, and witty in ly good form in the earlier rounds. to Nature that Lancashire permitted, lumns his appearance to a bowler. his way; and I remember him say Field and Gibson did well to elim- I will not say encouraged, such, bats-
I first met him when he came to ing, in reference to his supposed re- inate E. C. Fincher and J. Fraser in men as A. C. MacLaren, who refused be chief coach to Oxford University fusal to bowl for Surrey (he took 114 the quarter-final while the win or T. to unlearn what Harrow and youth soon after the war. I would be idle wickets in 1807), "Ah, yes; maybe 1 Robson and H. Nish, over G. Damern had taught him; R. H. Spooner, whose to pretend that he showed any un- did; but. I suppose, gir, none of you and W. Gill by 26-16 was also worthy grace was of on one County or time; usual brilliance in that capacity, but bowlers ever as not to bat. You of note. such masters of bowling and clown at least his habit of saying far too should. "It would save a lot of time.” ing as Johnny Briggs and Cecil Par little was more comfortable than the Since his time many records kih. In more “modern ears, Old opposite. The excellence of his tul- been added to Trafford has seen the "mutiny” of tion lay in his accurate Ernest Tyldesley, whose
off-break game, but Kis vickets were bowling, often delivered, to the mu- 8,018 in 1900
the