Here You See
The Difference
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1954.
Why Not Get On Terms With
Here you see the difference between the American and British sized ball— aganist the blade of
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The American ball is on club. difference? Maybe but enough!
ALEC BEDSER
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FOR LEN HUTTON-A GESTURE OF ADMIRATION FROM THE WEST INDIES
There was a little ceremony in London during England's last Test He accepted a with Pakistan which touched Len Hutton very much. gold medal subscribed for and given by a group of West Indian students now living in London. It was a gesture of their admiration for Hutton's leadership of the MCC in the last tour of the West Indies-the tour which touched off some controversy,
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Prime mover in this charming gesture was John M. H. Francis, student, and the son of the former West Indian bowler who is still remembered with much respect in England.
receiver!
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PL
his so-called narrowly dressing room
Putsy perfected mbstuga distinguished record. "mishelding" to such an extent
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and gained England He laughed as he took off his that
Such Middlesex many
valuable pude and sadd: "Oh, no, records are fur real balsten, not, wicket, Clowns like me."
The Bigger Ball?
Ball? BRITISH and Best
Says BERNARD HUNT
The Americans reckon they have the edge on British golf because they are better round the greens. And they say that what gives them some of that extra precision when they are near the cup is the bigger ball they use.
A number of handicap players I know have also come to the conclusion that more matches are won round the green than anywhere else and they have fallen for the bigger ball idea. And, quite frankly, in the hope of an American Journey next summer, I am playing the Yank-sized ball quite a lot myself.
I never like to be dogmatic puts a round, If you give empty your bag of your normal about these things for I believe yourself a chance to get used to style balls and make yourself that a little bit of what you it i think that might be just play half a dozen full rounds
with the bigger one. fancy does your golf more good, | about the measure of it. very often, than what might be "beiter for you".
In other words I think this bigger or smaller ball idea is a matter of individual preference. Generally, however, I am per fectly sure that handicap players would gain far more than they would lose if they got on terms with the bigger ball. It is
casier to play,
I don't suggest that you will necessarily play a better-than- par round the first time you take one out. Like most things that are a little different-you have to get used to it and get confidence It. I estimate that you have to play at least half a dozen rounds with the Ameri- can ball before you can really judge ita advantages fairly.
SITS UP BETTER
time that, you gain if you are!
This
1 certainly fool that every handicap player abould give the bigger
real chance. Too many I have found are prepared to have a few shots with it but if they miss-hit a shot they immediately blame the ball and back they go to the old familiar thing. Best way la to
ball a chance-a
The
If I can save you four to six shots a round, 11 will be worth the discipline. In case there are some people who are away behind the times the American ball is legal for all competitions in this country. The ladies, just on much as the men, could do no harm to experiment with it.
Silent Men
Of The FA
Confess At Last
By DESMOND HACKETT
The Football Association puts itself on the penitents" bench-well, almost-when talking world Soccer affairs in the latest edition of the informative "Football Association Bulletin.”
It is as frank a confession as these silent men of Soccer have made since we crawled back from the World Cup series, but it is also only an echo of what has been said and resaid aa England slumped out of the world master class.
present evident in a large pro- portion of our club games,
Flashback (March 8, 1953): the boys up. Shake Toughen
out em right
of their plush world of football played the Get out those old
The FA says: We may argue that the rest of the world has got things endly out of propor→ tion but if we are to continue with compete
the highly to skilled Hungarians, Brazilians, Uruguayans, and Germans, we must be much more serious In easy way.
training of sweaters. the selection our teams.
First of al-and it isn't easy -you have Kot to get the old English prejudice out of your mind that you lose shormous ball. distance with the bigger It la true that you lose
bit maybe ten yards on a god drive, or 15 yards if you are
wind. Into the
But
down wind; you consistently
get a better strike at the ball; because it sits up better, and it la definitely more easy to control in the pitch shot and in pulting.
The main reason why the Americans prefer the larger circumference is that on 50 many their fairwaya of their courses 1, Hutton highest honours ericket
are of blue buffalo grass. has thick blades and our smaller shoulders! give; he has rubbed
ball nestles much too easily to with the greatest in all lands
(t. The bigger ball six and in all walks of life. But
much better on top. That does here was a spontaneous gestur
Though, of course, was not not affect us here in England, I from
from students, mainly
present at the fourth Test know, but the logic of it is im- Trinidad, with no other motive I do not regard Godfrey as a
AND PRACTICE · "clown" when I bowl between England and Pakistan, portant. than
respect and admiration for
Daily Express FA: In other words the bigger ball know cricketer. I
Hutten geinst him in country matches. I hear from the other players
Recent experiments of Fazal Mahmood's bowling OVCT that he can spiritor
punch an appreciated the
up better in difficult or comment (June 16, 1953); The special training or match prac- pitched ball through the overs on a "sticky" pitch was as good silk
made It sits FA annual meeting
DO Lice semi-difficult lies.
before internationis is as anything they had seen. with all the grace and power of Who can
comment on the South Ameri- valuable. suggest
better, too, on good lies. a Worrell. He has deeply wrong with a Hutton
Apart from the skill of his most of us can hit bali better can tour. Surely this was the cricket when such things boy- made many important runs for
then a poor lime for a frank confession in I still believe profoundly
always attack he bowled unchanged at from a good le nearly England and
one end for 3 hours 25 minutes one-why not take advantage of the presence of Soccer bosses Seventeen days before the first can be the means of bring-when they are needed badly.
it World Cup match FA were told the length of England's inninga it? I am sure, for handicap and managers that
let them ing us all closer together.
All the England players were players, that advantage outcomes to sport we are a back-pick the team now, From Hutton
train together, send them off to to another
agreed Fazal's bowling was some weighs any loss of length.
Switzerland, famous English cricketer-God-
of the best they had ever on- frey Evans, the dynamic little
countered, even bearing in mind man behind the stumps. We in
the state of the wicket. England think there wicketkeeper in the touch him when he is on form and fit; and now he has bealer Bert Oldfeld's record of the most victims in Test matches,
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deeply
behind the gift.
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Godfrey is far from finished yet, and by the time he does concede England's gauntlets imagine he will have a record which will be diMcult to over- take. I owe much to Godfrey's uncanny anticipation and agility. I like my wicketkeeper to stand up to the wicket, and I realise, If the pitch is doing anything."
buting
Fazal is a Police Superinten- dant in the Punjab, vice-captain of the team and brother-in-law to A.H. Kardar, the captain.
to
up As
The theory behind the better
ой "pitching" quality
the American ball is that the club-
and
Flashback,
when
ward nation.
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Flashback (June 9,
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Johnny Wardle, the Yorkshire left-hander, is another whom would call "deceptive" cricket- er. Johnny is the Idol of many
FA: Team selections would crowds, for he does his best to
have to be carried out earlier has been usual. Clube raise a laugh, apart from being
face makes greater contact with The bulletin continues: With-than one of the biggest hitters in the
should be asked to release game. Yet, for all his jesting and
the bigger surface and makes out exception the nations which players for, say, one day a week pranks he is concentrating hard
the ball hold a better line. Also, feature strongly in international l the time. If an opponent
when it drops, the bigger sphere football are devoting much at-(for special training. "sits" more quickly, In effect tention to (1) Training
and
Flashback (July 13, 1954): thinks he is going to win on
I am delighted to hear he has you can pitch more firmly and coaching of their star players Pick the team to play Germany advantage because Johnny is so
resisted in successfully
leaving closer to the pin. light-hearted he is doomed
at club and international level. at Wembley on December i now disappointment. Johnny knows Pakistan cricket for the English
(2) Training assemblies und ... let them work as the rest leagues. exactly what he is doing.
He has received,
TWO PUTTS A ROUND practice games for international of the world work at football with my knowledge, several tempting
teams to build up understand- THE ARCH-JESTER
offers.
At first glance that might noting and esprit de corps. "Patsy" Hendren
seem very important. But it is.
Flashback (December 15, 1953) For the very simple reason that arch-jester of them again here was a shrewd man, lose such a great bowler, and I works. The same principle after the Hungary S-for Shock able to pull the legs of the trust he will remain with them also works when it comes to Day at Wembley: The Foot- to-opposition as well as the crowd, and help to shape the future of puiting. You feel there fa more ball Association must bring up goodwill gether I have not once heard one of his favourite "dodges" the cricket of his country-as I of the ball in contact with the to date the way we prepare for solution.
am sure he will do so.
blade of your pulteras Indeed international matches. Godfrey complain or admit he was to misfield the ball.
there is and the direction seems my mind it is nothing easier to find. To Well, the balsman trying to steal a rụa sóon knew short of a tragedy when keen A
the victim of an young cricketing country loses has often he had been und
best optical illusion when he found its
players. They are been quick to spot a batsman's himself yards from homel badly needed at home, weakness and
make
sugges- tions to me how to bowl him out.
I am asking a lot.
Yet in our many
Tests
has been hurt when tho boli thumps on his body hard
fast. Moreover he has
cricket
brain
and
to
ALMOST LOST TO BOXING
Great as le his genius it is n fact he was nearly lost cricket, A. keen boxer-one can imagine the speed of his foot- work--be met with BOMO BUC- cess in the ring and had to choose between boxing and cricket as a carcer.
Fortunately for cricket tho little m
man from Kent found the call of cricket too strong, No situation is too much for God-
frey, and his unflagging enthusiasm in the feld bas often been a tonle to England -teams, but his modesty always
appeals to me.
I remember when he made 90 before lunch against India at Lord's in 1982. We wore sympathising with him in the
Rare Achievement
Not many players achieve the Board of Directors of the pro- fessional League club for whom they onco played, Howard Spencer and Chris Buckley (Anton Villa); ^ Tommy Glidden and. Billy Basselt (West Brom= Albion) Blan Seymour United), Harold (Everton and: Man- ohneter United), Bob Crompton (Binckburn Rovin), Jucke Somay (lverton), did it, and, time-inčni to the list is, Gordon
Misfeld?
THE
WEEK-END
was all.
the But
Pakistan could afford
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FA: This is thinking out loud, but the general interest in putting England again on the international map is such that wo feel confident that given
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DESMOND
And Q
Jantzen's
NEW. HACKETT'S
1954): DIMENSIONALS (August 20, I hereby pledige peace and towards the FA Pep
The FA: Young players given comment facilities and encouragement goodwill
to For a ten hankicap player the are prepared work much
Plan, American professionals reckon harder to acquire a higher the bigger ball is worth two standard of skill thon fa nt
Ly
Barry Appleby
HOURS LATER ON? WHAT A REVOLTING LOOKING MESS
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