THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1954.
RUSSIAN
SUCCESS AT HENLEY
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Cricket Is Full
Of
Says
Oddities
ALEC BEDSER
Cricket is full of oddities. That is part of its fascination.
Here is one. Umpiring in the Surrey and Cambridge University match at
the Oval recently were Frank Chester, known the world over, and Norman (Buddy) Oldfield.
What's so atrange about that? Well, a month ago Oldfield, who played for England against the West Indies in 1939, hit a century for Northants off the Surrey attack on the same ground!
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ENGLAND'S CAPTAIN
on A
1s
and
when
former
Number unusual
3. Wicket- experience progress of Wolton, who is also
be D comes about this way. He was a brilliant fieldsman. The first keepers do not seem to
that
breed captain lucky
in matches be- relaled t Northants
professional match basis, but despite
Derbyshire, Tom Dollery his
shrewdly pro- century Oldfield's
appearances moted Wolton to Number 3 in batting order thereby Charlie the were few. So Harris.. the
Notts giving hun extra responsibility.
Wollon has decided batsman, had to withdraw from Second..
Oddity
tween Surrey and Recently
Dawkes muscle.
camera) (nearer The Russian pair for the Silver Goblets, Ivanov Buldakov, going out for their race against the Belgian pair, Van der Steen and Baetens, whom they beat easily at the Henley Royal Regatta. Central Press
Famous
Photo.
Cricketers
I Have Met
By ARCHIE QUICK
Being in the presence of a genius is a profound experience, Sitting between two of them on a four-hour railway journey is alarming, yet satisfying.
It befell me to accompany two greut brains of our time, C. R. Fry and R. U. Robertson-Glasgow on a train trip from London to Leeds to
watch a Test Match
against Australia and I was not able to speak one single word from King's Cross | to Yorkshire.
Deth these 1iterios Kal
Wele
Double Fire at fixlord. ench Bcknowledged a the at standing scholar of his day
$20 University
President 1
Although
Va
furme Robertson - Cargow
each achieved cricketin
("us" to his friends) reach- ed only county heights wit Somerset and
Gentlemen,
To
vols
f
::
AUTH
work Nerd tatil Alec Bedre. bout # rentally, allt took 135 Test wickets- Lenten by Sydney Barins, Bedr. Clarrie Grimmett
bar de $221bas apart the tale portion of his the naval vadet Tranny
Humtur only Mereury" River A Commander Fry he t: bees. The ments of instill- or the traditions of the iloval Navy into hundreds of young 200 wickets in three su→ boys, and, of course, his Jearts- ed works is the field of liter ture are known to all.
played for
Charles
the Burgess
a wonderful man,
THE LANDLORD
not only went on to gain
Fry
Text Match honours but
also
the
captained his country in vintage years at the beginning
of this century.
The
Conversat
of
Is
Thou!
rallway journey was an educa- tion. Talk ranged from sport to the classics and back uguin with i the genial Crusoe's unrivalled wit thrusting and parrying against the more severe sonality of his oratorieal oppon- ent.
NEVER A DULL MOMENT
Penda
eord,
Truly,
The Jundlord of the
quiet East Sussex village seems www. but his fare
Not all Lamillor somehow
for be as the surprising thai, Tannu Maurier Tale, greatest
いい! alt English
Matel fil
bowlers
Ja
The mumbling gait, the splayed feet, the huge sooking pipe bes tused of all newspaper cartoon Jets are all in evidence, and "Chubby" still talks from be- hind the bark of his hel RS though his worst enemy
Robertson-Glasgow 1 got know many years since
14
Istening
4.ት.ኤ
JE
Accret.
Fleet Street colleague cricketing Press boxes up artch down the rountry,
CORT-
art
the
panion who provided you with never a dull moment with tongue of rapler-like satire or of shafts of wit,
Fry is of an older generation and was one of my boyhood heroes. Not only was he the great scholar of Merton but he won tu dual International playing for Hampshire and England at cricket and South- ampton, Corinthians and Eng- lond at Soccer. In fact, in 1902 he played for the "Saints"
in
the Cup Final against Sheffield United at the Crystal Palace and 48 hours later made 77 for Dr W. G. Grace's eleven against Burrey at The Oval doublet
What a
But that was not the limit of the abilities of this Admirable Crichton of sport. He held the Amateur Athletic Association's long jump record for over years unill Harold Abruhoms beat it and he was no mean exponent at lawn tennis, golf, aquash rackets and rowing.
THE
20
ไป
ETARI
1,000 run
and
wuther ↓
Tras
took 2,784 Arst-class wickets in all, and hit a
Afric citury against South He took his 100 wickets i Jan 14 thras
FIL
Tate Davello i the world, but he is sul pure Sussex speech and outlook despite hi Wanderings to Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, the Wed
Jezika
Taci Soula America.
A tm Peter Pan, for he bar ever grows up and is still, at heart, the
buy Sham
of th Weald who forced his way into the country-side with his father 42 years ago.
SOU
WUS clark
A
He rivals Potsy Hendren as he and if ever
macoditeur.
is called upon to make a speech it always ends up in a series of
He erleketing anecdotes. just cannot be serious for long.
the umpires list Oldfiesta! alled to hit the ball with refreshing
power. There is obviously the vacancy.
lesson here for other players.
concerns
Odelity number twa the brilliant form of Bert Wollem, right-handed Warwick- shire batsmenn At the 14143 115 last year
n Derby George
a dislocated
calf
Two years ago in the corresponding game he slipped a disc.
Arthur McIntyre of Surrey. though escaping Injury this Eric Hollies, Warwickshire ume, has had his nose and img-service leg break bowler finger broken In separato and the man who bowled Sir matches against Derbyshire.
for touch and go Tonald Bradman for a duck in his last Test innings, has this 19
say about
Welton:-"It's a Jong time since I've seen any player with such 'middle' to his bul"
whether Warwickshire, County Champions in 1951 and making a strong challenge this mer. 9410
should retain Wulto, Since
the Jointing 1947 Wolton, up To this year.
hart mude only two
order
sum-
stuff
in
venturies
Now the inevitable question does Wollongo
from here? This month he was
and he was a moderate middle-rises-where
BUL trendly this term at the time of writing he has hit three centuries and
Jus
a 98 and seems set to break a 26-year-old revorti for rouniv
teaching
35 Is that too old to START a Test career?
1000'1
ds in the shortest time
A LESSON HERE
Warwickshire
TVANODS
for
advance
Fortunately
Derby their was wicket-keeper reserve
bat- playing in the role of a mun. With the permission of
skip Stuart Surridge, Surrey per, he went behind the stumps.
SHOULD BE ALLOWED
that
Job be
avail.
In my opinion wicket-keep- ing is such a
apecialised a replacement should མ་་ know there have been allowed If there is one instances of players much alder breaking
Into interna-able. I have seen a felder don the gloves and make & sorry tional cricket, but they have
hash of things when a capable usually been specialisty, słow
reserve wicket-keeper was sit- Towlers of the Blackie Iverson
ting in the pavilion and could all that Does I make Typ
have been brought on. if the candidate 19
I wonder.
two
cafference
a batsman"
The remarkable
No Man Has Ever
So
Fascinated The Wee Sma'
By A CORRESPONDENT
Been
By Ball
The man who has devoted his life to golf more than any other, it is said, is Bernard Darwin, student, player There must have been many and writer of the game. others, particularly hoary Scots from St Andrews and the the to like, who gave their time from cradle to grave tantalising sport, but there can have been none who have so willingly handed over so many years to the pursuit than Charles B. Macfarlane, a present Scot.
"C.B.". now 73 years of age, but still a handicap seven man and an betive player, was one of Britain's best amaleurs ever, but
зна he wus content with that. for some twenty years he wrote upon the game for the London "Evening News", and, now that The Tales, like the Lathe is retired, he still follows the
Park richges, the จ
Dukes, the and the Cornfunds are Sussex, n it has been Maurice's big
disappointment that Pat got no further than showing promise.
The grual Maurice, however, <'it 11 have
enemies. Of course, he used to hate Austra- Hans when he was bowling of them.
stud that is a frame nind it would be useful for sume of our modern trundlers to cultivate. But Tate met folk.
he haz no e to converse with he gradually droops and withers. And Australians always swore that the nest way to get him Gut or put him off his length was just to ignore him. But he had few off days as The Aussies well know,
Tate makes an ident boniface, John He is a typical beamin Rarleycarn and fits perfectly into the bar parlour scene of an English "pub". Maurice does a little journalism as a sideline, and takes it very seriously, and
Best
800
his
fourmament circuit alt summer and looks in at the Alliance matches in the winter months. No
has ever
been fascinated by the wee ama' ball.
man
A RELIGION
**
The Royal and Ancient game
HORSE'S AIR TRIP a religion to Charles, and
WAS WASTED
there is no one who can better assess a shot, point to the crux of a game or forecast the likely outcome of it. From Carnoustic Italian Derby winner Bot-to Westward Hol, from Sand- ticelli will not run for the wich to the Western lales and
£20,000 King George VI and
the lush courses of Northern Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot Ireland
plus-foured the lean on July 17.
"C.B." s not only a familiar sight--he is part of the scenery; an institution and will remain so holes, as long as he can walk eighteen
he la also cotich It nearby He received injuries after Tonbridge School.
landing at Lympyne Airport for Customs clearance. The injuries He was always a glant; now are superficial, but would pre- he is a rotund giant, but it is
vent him from being at his difficult to realise that he
best. He had been flown to hending for his 90th birthday.
England especially for the race. His 30 wickets in one series against Australia
-(London Express Service)
WEEKEND GAMBOLS
I HAVEN'T SEEN KER SINCE WE 1, WERE AT SCHOOL-F'M LOOKING FORWARD TO A NICE CHAT
Cik bear, there must be something
9" (1 HEARD THAT HER
HUSBAND HAD
LEFT HER
Do start them talking v
is
Test
we n
SUE MARRIED AND WENT OUT TO INDIA
REALLY
Mouse YOU THINK WILL WIN Foreman TELL MAR. BUDO ABOUT THE })
THIS YEARS DERBY, DEARE
CLARENCE THINKS THAT ALL FORMS OF BETTING
ARE EVIL
воз
was "Chick" Evans, the great
did the American, who wine holes In par figures—and was Bve down! Macfarlane was out in the incredible score of 31, incredible because he took wit sixth at the fourth, but once all of he was on the greens his nine mults were sunk first timel
gramun
plt
Talk from The the
I
the
When
11
WAAA The latest picture, taken during the Championships, of Miss Jean Desforges, who has been chosen to captain the England Ladies' Team for the Empire Games at Vancouver. She will compete in the 80 Metres Hurdles and the Long Jump--Central Press Photo.
Sport Before Marriage
A
school
Derbyshire have an extreme- ly promising young off splaner named Edwin Smith,
Jean Desforges, British ber 20; and London v. Moscow not playing cricket he miner in pit near
Chester woman athlete of the year, at the White City, October 13, Deld.
Even If Derby have ahas put
before sport
Jean, who holds the 80 Metros three-day break in their
pro-marriage. She became en- Hurdles and Long Jump les was the first Engishwoman to Smith goes down the
gaged in January to her schoolboy sweetheart Ronald beat 20 feet in the long jump.
the 80 won Miss Desforges (24). season, apartPickering
Mutres Hurdles in 11.4 seconds weather, has becagumes master.
at the WAAA Championships inability of Len
Her diary is so filled with on June 19 and the Long Jump captain, to find his
has had un-sports dates that she must wait at 10 feet 1 inches. She has
"sometime
at October" strong rivala until
the Empire Games in either event as Gwen before she can get married.
Some of her important x- Wallace has been clocked
hurdles tures
11.1 seconds over the are:-Empire Games
31-August 7:
while Yvette Williams of New Vancouver, July European Games in Switzerland, Zealand has jumped 20 feet 74
inches, August 23-29; England v. Bel- the White City, Septem- glum
England's
form.
He fortunate time. the victim of
Hutton.
an First he was Jumbago. Then
he was hit on the ankle,
In and out of the Yorkshire team he has not settled down.
Test In the ill-fated first
at Lord's with Pakistan he Was bowled for
one of his rare ducks by a yorker and only a dropped catch saved him from similar fate when next he came to Lord's in Yorkshire's match with Middlesex,
Бил
He had worrying time fac- Arsting a hostile Alun Moss, who with toured the West Indies him. But Hutton's loss of form is only temporary. When the shines he will make big scores again. In the meantime his opening partner. Frank Lowson, is showing form which stamps him as one of England's most attractive bata.
Charles has remained faith- ful to the Fulwell Club at Hampton Court for many many years, and, so well does be still play at his advanced age, that he partnered Dick Burton in a Guildford Alliance meet- ing.
"Mac"
them all
"Not Bloomin'
Likely," Says
Mr Shentall
is full of anecdotes of the days past and their He has colourful characters.
his since known carly days in Scotland, and his Bagc Judgment
wipe advice is always
"Quit ways available for
I was
and
*
the beginner whether he be golfer or a journalist. with him recently and a Hyder Cup player of huge proportions went by. "What a pair of shoulders," sald I "Pity he
know doesn't
how to use them," was the pawky Scottish
One of his greatest fents was in the British Amateur Cham- pionship of 1914 at Royal St Georges. His hapless opponent reply.
Barry Appleby
SHE HAD FOUR OR WAS IT FIVE | CHILDREN - POOR SIRL FOR
Oh dear, George isnt. getting on very well,
WAT GEORGE WAS SAYINGS (OZAINUDE) ON, „JATS: EXACTLY)
ABOUT INCOME TAX pmen
REALLY THAT'S MY IDEA TOO
GEORGE DEAR, DID YOU TELL
BUDD ABOUT YOUR BAD LUCK) WITH THE POOLS THIS YEAR
"DON'T AGREE WITH FOOTBALL POOL
LATER FINE FELLOW THAT MAN I BUDD -ABREED WITH EVERY WORD 1SAID → WE MUST MEET ADAIN SOMETIME
Dita
Birds Eye
fruit and Vegetables straight from the gardens in or Out of season
the World Cup | because of a squabble and 1. few black eyes? Not bloomin' likely.
That was the blunt resort of Chairman Mr Harold Shentail. of the Football Association Selectors to a suggestion that England should step aside from slug-and-hack international foot- ball such as seen in Switzerland, Stormed chubby, Pickwickian Mr Shentail from Chesterfield: "We started this game of foot- ball and no one is going to force
us out.
"We taught them how to play Soccer and, by gum, we'll teach them how to play the game.
"The
conduct of Continental teams has improved with time, and we must be patient and Leach them by good example." -(London Express Service)
in
in
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