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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 20, 1949.
It Is an
70,000 at
HARD-HITTING ARTICLES BY A GREAT CRICKETER
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every
more
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alf the
But
BRADMAN SPEAKS OUT
County Cricket Inadequacies by Don Gradman
over.
be so
It is
'Lost' Ball
for the
and at
now
of
which in
should be to doeldo sounder for the players and more attractive for the spectators. I am still of the opinion that the eight- ball over is preferred by the Dublic.
Maybe the shortage of fant
Bod B
The job of the Cominanwealth Premiers is to prove to India that the fat you know is better than' the Mirage you imagine.
So the Golden Curtain has at last fallen over Hong Kong..
bowlers in England is duo to, the wear and tear of the long County Championship programme. But English cricket
always nie. fas
a fair proportion of fuat In the past, and I see no reason why it should not do no in the future.
1 has been suggested that English wickets have been slowed down too much; that this has broken the hearts of fast bowlers, and discouraged their art.
But, in the main, wickels on our last tour were more helpful to fast bowlers than they were before the war.
to
Lanter than
What I do know to that there in no short cut to succens.
Circle Grimmett had to pest Now away for years, firat in, Zealand, then in Australia, and changg his style considerably before he became the wonderft slow bowler, who could still, in the veteran stage, peg away until he dropped. Witred
Rhodes, they bowled as youth for hours on end in a barn.
say,
Our Bill O'Reilly travelled the hard road to fame, too. His grip of the ball was rather out of the ordinary, and when he was in danger of falling to make the grade he was urged to alter ite but he stuck to his guns and, sa the result of his
own natural genius, became the greatest bow- ter of his time.
neeri not
A cricketer orthodox, Individuality should be encouraged.
No Short Cut
•
Seems there are lots of fire- works going off around the Bonn
3
The plane "Sunkist Lady" has been
more aloft for
than month. Must be pretty well browned off by now.
The cold war nations are now going to get busy on Antarctica. Enough to make whales blubber:
a lot of blue
"Heroin is one of the manifes- tations of the superiority of the Rocialist system of economy over the capitalist," says Pravda. Either the typesetter or Russia's "Truth" is a bit dopey ....
ORACLE LOCAL When Vested Interests men assail With writings indiscreet, They gather at the Wall and wail, Their Wall in Wyndhain Street,.. And very soon a Voice is heard Whose accents always please The consciences most sensitive of vested types like these....
fear
To thoughts of further
squeeze!
The Communists have now set a deadline for cutting the KMT lifeline.
Sometimes when you see a VIP A Very arriving by BOAC it's Important Prisoner....
Man nie 223 aspirin tablets and was soon expirin.
•
"Optimism is raising its pretty little head here and there in the American business world."—A‚P. Must be the Pax Factor affect-
ing it.
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"Do swans fly across country. If so how far?-Ignorant."
"Yes, the distance depends on where they are going.-Editor."
"The Scottish Farmer". For long journeys, of course, they start farther away.
A eltizen
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In my visits to England I have follow the game caally.
I cannot has not increased in Australia; if disappointed by the
prove this by figures. but amit has changed at all, it has de- ricket always been
પા county
certain it would
3opular clined, inadequacy grounds.
that it would jusiify the cont of In England things seem to me to Accommodation and facilities
have become a bit more vocal, and
Tom Pritchard, the New Zealan- for the public
lag behind recting modern scoreboards,
I rather doubt whether the public The late Hedley Verity—lovable 1. so well versed in the game as in
der who plays for Warwickshire, of the game, the popularity while players' dressing-room ar-friend-once said: The only pre-war days. That
Is probably took about the highest number of those rangements are far below reason thing
Australian ncore due to war-time interruption wickets in county cricket in 1948. He is the fastest bowler playing how first-class cricket. abla
boards don't do in tell you standards.
Not that Hedley
There is a know it will be argued that to get 'em out."
generation regular county cricket, but is not
fast
Lindwall standards. watching the game and sometimes by today English cricket authorities needed any help.
Seeing
we had the faster attack there cannot get permission to build,
In the centre of the Australian
the young chap of 22 or but this was not so before the scurceboard, too, is shown the shouts in nocing first-class cricket all round last summer this refutes
number of overs bouled, over by
Arst time, He does
not.
the suggestion that Test wickets war, and accommodation was in-
In England, there in the therefore,
good make 50
an are made to suit the home team. adequate long before 1939.
Aus- antiquated method of signal audience as the boy who Ins A bowler has either the ability in anomaly that
the other bowl faster than tralia we can sent more than the approach of the new ball by
grown up with the game, coloured discs.
But thin Test match Mel. displays to
lons of opportunity fellow or he has not. There is no For centuries the Empire bourne, a city of rooghly 1,250,-
one Test match this
ledge will automatically adjust Lindwall can bowl Krew and developed, enviedono people, whereas Lord's, in year someone forget to put up with its consequent Lack of know- logical reason, that I know, why So that, relieved they turn from
times the
diser-greatly to my discom-itself na the the
by. metropolia about six tim
Alec Bodner, and criticised by the outside
fort, not to say disadvantage, as The Australia
for rea- Bout world, but forming the larg-size, will hold only
capta
of the fielding side, It
sons which will
plains in a stable amal- as many spectator. This at est and most
upset my tactical uso inter artick is better educated in gamation on earth of peace- game's accepted headquarters!
the finer points of play." I know it is an important con of the bolers.
At another ground the scorers'
And here, on a personal note, loving peoples striving to-
sideration that in Australla the A
on the opposite side 10 let me say that I have had recop wards freedom and demo-same grounds are used in the box was
the scoreboard. Therefore, when tions from the publle which I shall cracy. Its centre was always winter for fouthall, which pro- the
dises
went up they were
remember all my days. They have London. which provided vides much-needed finance.
any and all annoy Australia
stands not on the scoreboard; they were swept aside order in to keep
bulit
box. As I was ances. I go out of flannels with the troops
because it was felt they would on the
watching the scoreboard I did not fondest thoughts of crowd at home troubled regions, a Navy to
increase the popularity of sport:
find out where the dine were and on tour. and security people would know they could get ensure safely
Leeds, in particular, before 1 could At until two overs
the along the trade routes of the a seat, and we would thus secure
look ave take the new ball; and 1
Apontaneous and enthusiastic wel- And (cvoking little their attendance,
we have
ahead a bit more than that. come on my last visit to the crease thanks from all the other en proved right in practice.
Then there is the question of brought a lump to my throat. I believe I am correct in sayirug
Leaving the crowd and return a great pity maritime powers who with that at eve
sight-ereens. Test match played out cost derived the bene at Leeds in Iny time, thousands they are not uniformly used on ing to the game itself, I was often fits). and British taxpayers of people, at some stage or other all English grounds, not because asked in England: "Why are there fallod to get into the arean so much to the batso few fast bowlers? Why is Eng
will get land so shurt of them compared inoney to build roads, dams, or the game,
man in the sense that the ground.
mure runts, but because without with Australia? What can be done bridges etc.
I hear there is a
programing them there is serious risk of a man about it?" Then
second the came
ufoot to enlarge the accommoda..
being injured by fast bowling. If you look through cricket his- great war, and especially in
tion as soon as possible. I hape
tory you will find it goes in cycles, The Far East the nationalistic this is correct.
A country is strong at one period pleased At Mancheste. I was
in feelings of the foreign-gov-
a particular phase of the game, t another period that strength erned peoples were crystal-to hear of the ambitious £100,000
Trafford A Nottingham we had great disappears and something else lised by the tongue-in-the-scheme to rebuild Old
un modern lines, I wish them trouble this year, particularly from takes its place, check Japanese propaganda uck, and trust Lord's" and einer the pavilion end. We had similar For instance, Australla was on MOST great players have had practise and practise. In and the disappearance of the Test grounds can soon be extend- difficulty at the Oval against Sur-top In 1920-21 with J. M. Gregory to
rey, and in the Test at Leeds and Ted Macdonald as the great modern cricket there is a tendency colonial powers. One after ed in a similar way.
Was very hard to see the ball Last bowlers, while England had to run away from hard work. other they demanded
against the background of the
no outstanding men
If a chap thinks he can put in their independence, and In- Women Welcome
crowd.
By 1928, however, the the had 10 minutes at the nets and become dia, Pakistan, Ceylon and
Remember, also, the changing
turned. Harold Larwood was just a Test bateman he has another People will give up trying to Eire,
conditions during the day. At ** Burma received
coming into big cricket and
think the
Equally, the boy coming. too, decided to sever bonds and facilities are not there. Even before lunch
see cricket if the accommodation Leeds the most trying period was other men were on the way out who is a bowler must go to the
when the sun W35 In 1928-29, when Gregory broke nets and bowl for hours on end with the Crown and become
now many must stay away be
shining brightly. a completely separate repub-cause of the queues, the doubt
In the buckground for the bats down, Larwood became established he is to make a name. Only by
practico as the fastest bowler in the game. such
study of lic. We withdrew our troops about getting in, and the crowded
nian, was a mass of people with inside.
their conts off and it was waste remained to until he retired. technique and tactics will cricket
development see the
of future and abandoned the mandate
One English, friend went so feult to pick up the gut of
stara. Aussie Pioneers of Palestine, and removed all
far as to "There are so many the ball against that mingled pic-
say:
There is not much scope now for et ture of white shirts and darker traces of British occupation cricket lovers crowded out
AFTER that there was not much now methods. So far as I know, from Egypt.
women ought not to be admitted trousers. to Tests. I would not like to More than once a batman who in it until 1938, England had Ken (overy basle method of utilising a
Wall and suggest that in Australia, where was hit or nearly hit by the ball Farnes and G.O. Allen, while we cricket ball has been employed. Ernie You can apin it only from left to welcome told me alterwards that he lost had Tim
right, right to left, with overspin sight of it against the backgrounil. McCormick.
In Australia there is not a Now we come to 1948, and it so or
always ground in first-class cricket with happens that we have a very good out a sight-
Ray Lindwall, players coming along who t-screen at sach end. fast bowler in not be allowed to interfere with turn in the cycle.
a variation of something dong possible conditions. the best
I for cannot tell
you why England before. Their method is a little players, especially when these has no fast bowler, and I do not different and tends to be more chaos and the obvious decay, Another important part of the
Anglo-Australian games ra
rank. as think
any particular effective because it is new and cricket, reason for it. I only know it is batsmen have not become acqua. is the provision of information
No, there is no short cut to Teat them unprepared to govern concerning the performeny and delays in England caused by people one again. themselves. The Israelites the play. That is why footbalters walking behind the bowler. This It may be interesting to mention cricket, an my own experiences also want it both ways.
cannot happen In Australia where here that we in Australia are the will show. But this I will say:
The road to big cricket has At any rate, most of the "People still write letters to the the ovals are always enclosed by a pioneers of the eight-ball over,
to be a great been painstakingly trodden former Empire is still close-British Press suggesting numbers fence, with the sight screen inside which we claim
six-ball through the years by a long line on the improvement That is unneces- the fence. ly associated with Britain in on cricketers.
Good conditions for players help system.
of famous players-back to, and But I would dearly like. various ways, and the extent
The
Grace, the menning to which this is maintained tralien system
to see England follow the Aus- to improve things all round and
with in England and In catering for prevent misunderstandings in the merited all over was experi- beyond, W. G.
of whose centenary celebrations crowd.
M.C.C. decided and developed
against its use. was not lost on the Australians, will have crowds.
know one reason advanced No game, probably, has been enormous consequences not 1 would like to see adopted at
English that barracking in Australia MWAK that it discouraged fast K richly served by glorious only for the Commonwealth least at the principal
Hea of vociferous and objectionable is bowlers. But the whole argument players. What a chance there is the Australian but for the world at large. Todern, informative score oards really unfounded. This gives the forthcoming English scoreboards give the conference a striking impor-minimum tance.
the
it.
conditions once
a
women aro such feature of our crowds.
Nor, of
course, do I in any
Whether all this has been to the good of the peoples to mention concerned, not the world at large, remains to be seen.
Indian races demanded self-only as showing how crowd prob rule, but when visitors now lema 4rd pressing on cricket exclaim at the misrule. the authorities in England.
of phee.
and
there
aro
do
Even the oppro-way sympathise with the idea for brium has not ceased. The England. 1 have mentioned it Financial considerations should which seems to me only another something with the ball which is
there 18
they claim that Britain left attruction of any public pastime the highest grade of interminable certain that England will have tomed to it.
are numbered.
sary.
the
Then there are the
The general belief in England
falls to the ground as we produce for the youngsters who will take
a magnificent fast bowler with the trouble to benefit by their dia- the eight-ball over whereas with coveries! the alx-ball over there is no sign of one in England.
hotter
climate and on harder wickets we still have the eight-ball over. That shows you what we think of it.
Caustic Comments "Austro- Information;
For Han Indicators give it all," The future of South Africa Instanço, In Australia the hard times, as in the case of the man field- The wit may be caustic some will almost certainly be one and a light flashes
men's names are on against a who is said to have sung out to the major item on the agenda. man's name when he fields the late and much-esteemed J. W. H. T. Dr. Malan, for many years ball. That is unheard of in Eng Douglas: "Go on at the other and,
system of Johnnie, and look at your analy We take the view that the eight- violently anglophobe, is now land and so is our
over trightons cricket by believed willing to remain recording, run-by-run, a bowler's sis!", Bat my experience is that,
Analysis
by and large, it is not too caustic. decreasing the number of inter- inside the Commonwealth, In Australia the names of all! All told, I think We Australians vals. Even if the dust bowlers while rejecting the Crown, batamen out are given with their suffer quite as much at the hands domur, 1 any sure the slow bowlers and this attitude is probably wickets. In England this In-1 players do in Australia; perhaps
scores and the total at the fall of the English public as English plump for it.
Cricket is not conducted for the shared by Premier Nehru of f of formation 1# restricted to the more.
benefit of one particular class of India. In point of fact, In-
I am quite certain barmicking i bowler, and tho whose wicket has last fallen.
final analysis sundries "extras"
mon
dia's position must be the Filmogen-are never shown ]
main subject for discussion, lo
and provided her leader is on English scoreboards. willing to compromise, it is Australian scoreboard is the con England's albernative to the considered that, in spite of tinuous issue of cards on which DO YOU
out.
his recent declarations of all this information is not neutrality in war, a mutual. When I discussed this with a ly satisfactory formula may county club official he pointed be found. Purists and fana- out that a comprehensive' acore. board would render score cards ties, of course, claim that it unnecessary, and revenue is à contradiction in terms their sale would be lost. to be both a republic and a member of the Common- wealth.
KNOW
from
Tactical Upset
In disagree. More people would
YOUR HONG KONG?
This may on the surface attend cricket matches, happy in be true, but this great but the knowledge that they could loosely-connected 'association
of peoples has survived until
cause
GinƐ you, re«. sognion” where
now, not only because of its ther they will or not swear this ploture was common aspirations, but be. allegiance to the Crown, taken? The "an” of its adaptability. | This may seem like the end war in PARY The new conferendo may re to the diehard, but it may on the contrary be only the
sult in self-governing ́mem.
bors having the option whe beginning.
Seven.
ball
complains that arriving home, after being held up by the police for a' minor motoring offence, he found that his house had been entered by robbers, who took everything and. Except his name, of course, which he had luckily left with the police.
!!H'm!--most unusual, What happened to the goalkeeper? “
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