THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1953.
THIS WAS DUNKIRK
London.
THIS is in the nature
T
of a personal con- fession. What Is more, it will play
IN
FLANNELS
By Beverley Baxter, M.P.
I
directly into the bands of explain that Lord's has another. Now in these days those ardent readers who nothing to do with the of broadening democracy accuse me of having gone peerage. It all began with they all go out together.. native. So let them sharpen a fellow named Lord.
As a good Canadian, brought their pens and dip them in
Lord's is the holy of up on sebell and on Canadian blood.
rugby, I had a lofty contempt holics in the cricket, world. for cricket. Was it not Kipling You can only join it if your who denounced the flannelled father was a member and foot at the wicket? And when if you yourself have shown It takes five days to play
του are passing the a passion for cricket when match,
boundaries of time and on- at school. There are excep
And croaching upon eternity, tions, but broadly it is as I this year six days were allow- have described.
cd for the
Anal Test match with Australia!:
Just imagine
But they must not dis- miss my confession as unim- portant merely because it has to do with sport. The British gave many things to the world, and not the least of them was the playing of games. The innocent pastime of rounders dove- Lord's is held in auch re- loped into the vast North American industry of base ball. The harmiess pastime of ground hockey, prin- cipally played by girls schools over here, grow to the ferocity of ice hockey in Cantida.
thereby cleanes my
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to win. Up in the club house the Captain, Len Hutton, paced the floor. To, dare everything: To tell his batsmen to go for runs, to play for a draw?
Like school boys we MP'a wero shouting advice to Hution, som? urging pallones. for taking a chance and otherz The fact that Hulton was quite unaware of existence made
no
bosom of fortunately, it necessitates a much perilous stuff, Un
passing mention of a Marquis
Iess
than the person no Marquis of Doneml-but let me differe hasten to explain that mother since he is an Irish and Then suddenly
was Canals he decided for Hutton. One of our
our
the issue was
only ranks with a Baron over side was clean bowled, England here. At any rate, Donegal is could not afford the loss of not wealthy and works hard for another wicket. Now it was a a living. Thus is democracy caso of night or Blucher! moïified.
The Aussies crowded close their around the wicket with bare hands, for there is none of this pansy nonsense of gloves except for the wicket keeper. In fact, the Aussies were rinking
On the
eve
of the fourth test match between England and Australia this summer Donegal sent me five rover tickets, one Toronto and for each day. This meant that verence that pilgrims come Montreal playing one baseball I equid scrounge a seat In the life and Imb, but it had to he from distant places just to match for six days from 11.30 publle grondstands if any were done. Yet they could not get Otherwise, was that extra wicket, and the game gaze upon the sacred plot of the morning to 0.30 in the vacant grass where the ball meets evening, with a short luncheon privileged to mand on my own ended with a draw, with England
and an even shorter two feet. the willow in mortal com- interval
When Prime Minister what they arranged for the last bat. Menzies of Australia comes Test instead of the normal Ave to a Commonwealth con- days, Terence, he alternates be
Wood.
No Blasphemy
for break
13 tea. But that
It must not be imagined that
on the neighbour hood of Lord's and remain Indifferent or unmarked by the experience, For example, the annual Eton and Harrow match is played there, and motor cars
I
Last Day
batting.
Talk about Mafcking night. the whole of England celebrated that night. As for my wife and
and
had SOTI
daughter who TT is not my intention to bore watched it at home on television, you with a description of the they were quite incoherent with match but to bring you to the excitement, and even Disrael final day, with England in A desperate situation. Perhaps he had gone crazy.
dashed upstairs and down as if would be wise to explain that to win a cricket match one side must not only score more runs also
Sir Francis Drake con- tween Westminster and thi tinued to play bowls after sacred pitch in St. John's the Armada was sighted, which shows that even in the sixteenth century sport was taken seriously. At the Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto, I have seen men also finish a game of bowle although the last launch to hooting its the city final warning. And do not into the club house, which jawed English fathers wearing play. tell me that it would be dark is reserved for members morning coat, before the last launch left and their guests. Not a and a silk topper
We the wharf.
expres single advertising hoarding: Englishman can do.
deface the sionists cannot be bothered is allowed to
cathedral austerity of the with data like that.
scene. They don't. like blasphemy over here.
are parked up Hamilton Ter- than the other but must race, debouching all rangy get their opponents out. Thus A hundred THIRTY thousand specta- daughters, small boys in toppers a team might be
or straw hats (according to runs behind, but the match tors can crowd into the which
school), imposing un- only a draw If the losing team place but not,
lantern is still batting at the close of mammas end
WOR
Holy Of Holies Now it is
of course.
pro-
Once a year there is at necessary to Lord's a match of Gentle bring you to London and men vs. Players, the Gentle describe the locality in men being amateurs and which my conversion took the Players being place. For seventeen years fessionals. When the County I have lived in a house in teams compete, the sides St John's Wood, which is are composed of both pro roughly about half a mile and amateurs, but up to a from Lord's Cricket Ground. couple of years ago, when in order to assuage the the teams left the field the fierce democracy of some of amateurs went out by one my readers, let me hasten to gate and the professionals
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when Lord's is in session and our neighbours are like beteged garrison.
we
But it is pleasant to sit in the garden and enjoy the deep re- ligious silence of Lord's half o mile away, punctuated now and then by a wild shout as though a sinner had found grace.
Now comes the moment when I must begin my confession and
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WELL, that is my confession. They say that the convert is always more fanatical than the faithful, but when we sailed for Cenada In August it was with
Test match.
ali-
al-
Yat now that
POCKET CARTOON
by QSBERT LANCASTER
"and here is Leonardo's supreme masterpiece-the Mona Lisa 13. Are you, too, afraid to open your mouth when you smile!"
No
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Of
FRANCE'S TAX COMMANDOES
By Sydney Smith
Parls, beaches where luxury cars, THE war is on against and yachts abound. Any
expensive-looking
be fair game. The licenco plates of costly Imousines
The Tax Commandons have their orders from Finance Minister Edgar Faure and imported sports car. "Go and get 'em."
Hunting ground for the tax detectives will be the lush resorts of the fabulous Cote d'Azur.
They have been ordered to the fashionable resorts and
Brainwashing
Ex-Prisoners
By Derek Marks
THERE will be no "brain there is strong washing" of British against him. soldiers who
were indoc-
One of these trinated with Communist idens in the prison camps of North Koren.
evidence
will bo scrutinised, the owner's name noted and hia tax declaration checked at Treasury headquarters,
If the story the owner has told the income tax collectors does not tie in with his obviously luxurious living standards, than ho can look out,
The formation of the Tax Commandoes the expression, la M. Faure's the first step in a much-needed campaign by the French Government to camp down on the country's wealthy income tax dodgers. It seems probable that the heat is being turned on the well-to-do be- cause of Premier Laniel's econo- mic recovery proposals, which hit hard at lower paid Govern- ment workers.
Toothcomb Methods
Tax inspectors will use small toothcomb methods to track down the dodgors, Their instructions men was my: "Check up on all people
moved from the Asturias at who travel with a large donics- Singapore for his own the staff, own racehorses or who safety. A number of others give fabulous parties,
“As for os yachts are con- also asked to be taken into
off if the protective custody nt Hong-pered don't be put
bout flies a British flag. Mora often than not this is just on otibi and the owner is really French."
The Cabinet has decided that the best thing to do is to let the men return to kong. their families and regain
The future of soldiers who their former sense of values
were successfully indoc- in familiar and happy sur- trinated is not causing much
One of the most widely- roundings.
practised forms of income, tak concern. It appears that evasion in France is to open a
were Reservists or practically non most National Service men. They account and
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to civilian life quickly.
existent bank
On the last day. England's only one regret that we would position was so desperate that
Information reaching the the stands were almost empty not be in England for the final
Ministers shows that the when play opened. The
Reds released some of the are expected to be returned cash. And the my pulse is conquering Australians were
men in the order of their in- inest certain to get England out normal again I must confess that by lunch, and the crowds did there is one aspect of this sub-
doctrination-so that those not want to see the slaughter, ject which still puzzles me. It
who professed to be the As a rover I had a grandstand anyone does something crafty or
most unfair
Communist-minded men almost to myself.
or just too sharp
were the first out. England, one is apt to hear the had spread. England was mak- chords isn't rekel In
cricket is straightforward,
But by luncheon
ng an epic Dunkirk
the
news
for
I wonder why.
in
a
If the wicket is wet or spongy,
is
other words, stand. This was In flannels!
There synonym
sportsmanship. stemod, no question of England for upper-lipped integrity and winning, for Australian could hardly be overcome. And Thousands arrived on us the the wings of rumour and packed the place to the last inch, I does the captain who wing the suddenly realised that cricket toss go in to bat? He does not, can be the most exciting game He makes the other side'take the
of rub. Or if England's tail ever invented by the brain
batting and the wicket is bad, man.
does not Hutton declare so as to put Australia in a bad spot? Of course he does. Still further let us take the Test match at Leeds where the Australians had or soccer, football or rugby, it can sus a good chance of winning before tain a breathless climax for five stumps were drawn on hours a quality which day. shores with Wagner's music. Can you imagine a game where like the crowd rises to cheer mad becmise a butter has merc ly blocked the six balls of an over and not rezred
Two Objectives
JNLIKE baseball
run?
single
the last
Intimidation
Whe up
ML right in assuming that after nearly every over of six halls the English felding That is the genius and the rearranged so as to take double-barrelled fascination of Umo? And equally when An the game. There are two ob- Australian batter was out and jectives: (1) To win (2) Not postlively rar to the pavillon to lose. And curiously enough, while his successor speeded to the second can be the more ex- teke his place was it to beat citing of the two.
the clock?
to go to Unhappily I had
Then there le that wild, work де Westminster after intimidating cry of "How's that?" lunch, but on the way there in which the fielding team trics people were crowding round the to influence the umpire. Imagine were it at Wimbledon a tennis player stands, passengers shouting the score, from buses, served and shouted "How's ond London wBO a seething that?" at the same moment? mass of cricket maniacs. And Imagine if in the ring a boxer to think that I could not see the shouted it when his opponent finishi
sent a right to his midriff.
ROWS
But wait a minute. We have
a television set (a poor sot, It to
Even in baseball no one trics influence the umpire's
is true, but it works in a sort decision belong the gives it. F of a way) at the House of Cam- admit that sometimes when he and at five o'clock declares a home player to be out, mons, could get clear from the debate the crowd quite rightly throws and watch the finish of the ginger pop bottles at him and match if it was not all over. the home team gathers around
to express doubts about the. Yes, at five o'clock England marriage of his parents-but only was still batting. Glory Halle after the decision has been giveri, lujah! 1 pushed myself into the room, which was crowded with Tories and Socialists in a single-minded unity. Forgotten were our differences. England was at bay and England must not give an inch,
Scoring Fast
IF have
Mystic Meaning
Reporters have been watching the "most difcult" men--the most influenced by pro- paganda in the North Korean prison camps.
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pay
alt bills. in majority of French people keep wealthy their money in home safes and convert it into gold or jewellery. French Treasury dossier already curry damning evidence about tax dodgers' methods.
One Parts businessman doclared a revenue of £326 a year. He owned two cars, one of 25 h.p., had four malda and was known to give large dinner parties. After investigation his
It was for this reason that Colonel
of the Carne, Gloucesters, who steadfastly resisted all Communist approaches, was one of the to ile everyday things-like tax declaration was "rectified" to last to be freed..
This is how they are reacting
the time British newspapers | £10,000 a year. were brought aboard. On information 80 far
Que newspaper carried available it appears that no vivid account of ex-prisoner officers or senior N.C.O.'s Y's ordeal in a Red camp. were among those who fell victim to Communist pro- paganda.
Ex-prisoner Y denied that he had spoken to any reporter.
The fact; The reporter took an account from ex-prisoner X, who gave Y's name and home town.
And X led to the reporter to
Another tax evader at Nice had "forgotten"" to declare that he bad two houses and a Cadit- Jac. He had now been, assessed at
£16,000,
Thieves At Work
A third had three cans, three servants and D large luxury,
declared "AD apartment and revenus".
These are the first thres casos
"down with high living" drive,
There is some concern in London that charges are discredit "despatches from the to be dealt with under the new now being made against a capitalist hack." small
of group
British
These men Use the catch soldiers of betraying their words of Hyde Park Com- comrades in the prison munists. camps.
Always along the river or coasta
tho CULTAT during months the, jewel thieves and safe breakers get to work. For the wealthy French, with their dislike of bank accounts, travel with their liquid assets. In the last two weeks £150,000 worth of jewellery and banknotes have been stolen along the Riviera coast from Monte Carlo 'to St Tropez.
The Communists tried to in- doctrinate Private Reginald Influenced by
what
Dymond, of the Gloucesters, by happened at the end of making him read Kari Marx six World War II, when many hours a day. Instead he read groundless accusations of reports of the Arsenal matches this type were made against sent from his home in Bristol. ex-prisoners, the Cabinet
General Van Fleet, former has instructed the Army to United Nations Commander in class himselt a stronger man than act with special care.
Karca sold in London: "No Rene Mayer, who, as Finance doubt many, men said they mister in 1948, tried to bring It is understood that there greed with the Communists to out a law against tax evasion get a few privileges. But by people who lived on uneOKA- will be no court martial of week or two at home will put ed income. The law was passed any former prisoner unless them right."
but never enforced,
IM: Faure succeeds he will
AMERICA COLUMN from NEWELL ROGERS
THE VANISHING BACHELOR
Nurs
Census
New York. QuORE Icave was waiting for has just opened, is already get- WONDER the girls 173 men of the Canadian ing star treatment.
cruiser Quebec and the aircraft- grumbling: the
carrier Magnlicent, but they Bureau has just put off the sights of New York proved they are right about to line up on deck and give the vanishing eligible bache blood to the American Red lor. meaning of the phriso "It Isn't cricket?" if tho answer
the world what in
mystic
THEN THE
is given that the game is played to the rules I would reply that every game-even all-in wrest-
TF the scene in that room could
been reproduced in ring-la played on similar terms. a film, the whole of the non“. cricket world could only assumo I would go so far as to declare that the British were quite mad, that there is no game over in-
the television
screen we vented in which-while obeying
On
would see one of the surviving the rules--so much is done to batters suddenly take a mighty stack the cards against the other swing and hit the ball for four side. As a ouvert de cett runs. "Oh, Nol". cried the in favour of every device politicians, almost covering their will confound the Australians' with their hands. The knavisk tricks, but in my in- risk of it But the batsman had nocence I am dashed if I under- seen an opening and figured in stand why cricket has become a that split second that he could synmym for blue-eyed sports- use up more time with much a manship, stroko instead of merely block-
faces
Ing.
But this is England, un- changeable England. No wondere Then
it happened again, who required a-quarter of tha England was scoring: fast, The earth's mirtion, for ho. other utterly impossible had happened, country con so completely com Froin bring hopelessly behind, bins righteousnes-with worldly Stegtaret - "had a' gambler's chabos reward,
Cross.
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two grenadiers...anl.a victory like a flawed temple bell
Out of every 100 adult civilian A FUEL TANK cap cost Major males only 15 are single, where- Edward Johnston
as in mother's time the gure and a record in the Bendix was. 30.
For every 100 debutantes of 18 to 19 there are only 68 men aged 20 to 22 to escort them.
Where are all the young single mont
Ask the call-up, boards,
TDEAS
Trophy. ono of América's . Our Anna, both in appearance greatest air cross-country races. and style, looks very like Our It jammed, took 15 seconds to Gracie, unscrew, and Johnston finished second by 4.8 seconds".
| ANDLORDS in New York The winner Major William T. Whimer, covered the 1,000-State have been given seven milo course from Muroc, Call days to repair or replace kitchen. fortia to Dayton, Ohio, at 603 #loves, refrigerators, or other miles an hour.
kitchen installations about which tenants complain," or else i show lho complaints are groundless.
Failure to obey may mean a rent rotiuction, states the Reut Administration.
from: workers have saved American taxpayers WHO gets the next bomb? the price of 11 bombers, or worried, business men in 22,000,000 dollars (£7,867,000), Kanem City are asking, i announces Admiral Dewitt C In one wook five big shops Ramsay, U.S. Navy, retired were wreckalt by bomba, There president of Aircraft Industries is no clue to the criminal, In Association,
* splte of a 5,000 dollar (£1,780)
raward for information,
And just so alve one of his examplos of how cent-saving mounts up: Standardising of a CHE is a new name on Broad" single bolt and nut was; worth way but London-born Anna
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