Famous Sports Stars
I Have Met
J. C. White
By ARCHIE QUICK
" you should motor through the picarent lanes of Semer- setshire from the County town if Taunton to the 'dbasi at Perleck you will assuredly pass a neat, prospercus-looking tarm The Helds of which stretch Up nid the foothills or the rolling Mendips. Would you recognise the owner if he happened to be arcund?
Obviously of yeoman stock, Lul no bucolic in the rural chion. A studious face, hooked
of nese, surmounted by a erop
white hair, Look at his long. celiente Angers. He played for Somerset at cricket, he went to Cambridge University although he never got hy "Blue"owing
IC
World War T-but be. did play for England, and with
- great honour loo,
The name
is J. C. White, "Farmer John bola here and In Australia, and now 64 years et age, Remember that pmble に the wicket and 1hc antalising slows he used to trundle along?
it.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1955,
HUTTON WILL BE BACK
AND IN FINE FORM
BY NEXT SEASON
Says BRUCE DOOLAND
So many people have started burying Len Hutton as a Test player that I gladly take this chance to say that he is not dead yet. Far from He did a fine, sporting thing when he walked into that meeting of the England selectors last Sunday week and told them he was packing up the Test struggle for the whole summer:
That couldn't have been easy to do. Put yourself in his place. He had been picked as England's captain for the full season — and that means £75 a Test match, apart from the honour-yet, because he didn't feel at his peak he said "Leave me aut...I need a full summer away from it all."
This is
as
prophesying thy: Hunton will strike such excellent form before very long they just won't be able to keep him out of the England side,
wisest thing of good players have come back don't mind the
old col Hutton has ever done. Ferhaps to. Test cricket. My he should have done il last year league Don Bradman did it
ripe old cricket age of 40, when he first cracked up under the the strain of non-stop cricket Just after the war he had such esponsibility. If he could have a bad back that he hardly play. taken the full season off then es any cricket at all. Yet he he might have been a new mar cune ever here in 1948 and still seemed to be able to pick off a hundred when he liked.
over here there
now.
fact
|
I
But Hutton will bc bock against my cobbers from Aus tralia next summer. He is still ton good a player not to be, it 10น can follow
that logic, Maybe they won't saddle hira with the captaincy again; in doubt whether. Len Down Under they sultan of want it, Bat he will be hly as the greatest of English knocking up the Turts, slaw bowlers, probably because they remember that incredible tear of his in the Third Test Match at Melbourne in 1929 when his
and accuracy endurance payed the way for an English victory by three wickets gainst the might of Woodfull, Richardson, Kippax, Hendry Rydex Bradman, Oxenham, Oldfield Boekell. Grimmett and Bluckie, Larwood took four
Why am I so confident? Be cause now that he has shed the weight of test responsibility- and nobody should
under
Then
was a
fellow called John Berry Hobbs who also did a bit of useful batting rather late in the day! Hobbs restarted his cricket after the First World War when he was 38 and was still playing in the England side until he was
47.
estimate that Burden in these arm
Bui Hobbs was
I am writing these notes be- fore the scooed Teit starts so reaches print by the time this I am hoping young Ker. Bar- rington will have tako his second chance. I would like to congratulate the England Seks- tors on this gesture of faith in the youngrier, only hope they go further and give him a third game as well.
The selection of Fred Titmus be- was another shrewd move, the most cause the South Africans have you say? shown an astonishing weakness correct player ever,
against the sław off-turner, Agreed, but isn't Hut.un 1007
in Timus took eight wickets Because of that war-lime jury which shortened his letterings against them earlier full inch-and-a-half į in the season and they have by
tumbled before the same stuff days of intensive publicity, Len has a somewhat odd grip. radio, and T.V.-Len may His lef,
bands is too far rouni tren young Herton of WareS-
tershire and McCannen of quickly snap into his old form the back of the bat handje to be
But look Glamorgan, And if he con do this. I completely orthodox. guarantee his lumbago and low he clips that square drive rheumatism will disappear,
of his as a result! Anyway, though.
to dip into
After all, when you look back down the years, quite a number
rash wickets
in the mate, Tate four, Geary Ave, Hammerd one-bul White captured six. It was not the ax wickets that mattered much as the.
way
in
so
which
he closed one end for 14 'overs
and enabled A.P.F. Chopman
to rest his shock attack;
Over after
Over White
S
down and of the 114 of them, no
fower than Gifty were
"maidens"! Tate managed 32
""maidens", but the next wasge
03
Wally Hammond,
White's
effort was a match-winner, and ü elinched the series for England.
"DOUBLE
CENTURY
Lords the
it's always the future,
A
Can A Top-Class Cricketer Become Cup Final Referee?
When John Langridge, George Cox and Jim Wood retire from first-class ericket at the end of this season. Mr White was ab other day lorking very much the Den Smith will become the senior Sussex professional at
West Country farmer.
me that he gets very
He toki
little time
to watch County cricket; in fact,
Saw
Somerset
only
two
the early age of 31.
For the 15 years he has been on the staff he has been known essentially as an opening left-handed bat. In fact over that long period he had taken only nine wickets at the expensive cost of 513 runs as a bowler.
The reason? They still can't j get used to the idea that by this curtly you have to get right behind the flight of the ball and right to the pitch when it is turcy. The alternative is to gee right back and play really off the back foot when you have
BRUCE DOOLAND
The MCC Are Terribly Worried By The Cricket
Crawl In Test Matches
Chairman of England's Test Selectors; Mr "Gubby" Allen, one of the eleven-in-the hectic bodyline" days, said.... at Nottingham during the latest cricket crawl there: "The MCC are fully conscious of what is happening and, are sccn how much the ball is break-terribly worried about it." He was referring to present g. The South Africans, I fear, day lethargic batting and the slough in which Test cricket are still reaching too much anri
leaving too much of a gap be in particular has fallen.
tween bat and PATEURS
PAY THE
Did you notic: the
other day that Norman Yardley, the Yorkshire skipper, was advoca- ing the adoption over here of Australia's system of paying fets to all players who take part in first-class matches? In other words he suggests that
"amateur" and "professional" disappeared is time the terms
On the Trent Bridge wicket, a pitch noted for prolific run getting. England and South Africa managed to total 561 runs between them in the first three days' play. An aggregate of eighteen hours' play, less a quarter of an hour's stoppage through bad light, brought an average of 31 runs per hour.
altogether, and
The crowd yawned, but soon the crowd will be staying away what will the do then, poor thing? Many Nottingham spectators were off home long before the Anish of the day's boredom.
Johnny
t
1 the covers, so did Hammond an
Hobbs, while "Ranji" used to go one step further and turn them right round to leg.
and that all should be known game
As I say, apart from Compton as cricketers and treated alike.
It is certainly taking you 2.
and maybe Worrell, Weekes and Wardle was allowed
Walcott, there is not зе, ощу
ang time to get round to that idea over here. I asked you
to bowl
Test record of
world class batsman today who single days last summer.
bluntly-who can possibly afford
thirteen
"maiden" successive am just a vice-president of the
can place his strokes accurately local club," he said.
to play regular full-time cricket Recalling
enough to make a bowler alter no one is going to overs, and The the Melbourne triumph, he said:
Captali., Smith's run of seven successiv without any pay whatsoever in tell me that men fit to play for new. Susta
his length and his held. Indeed their "Yes,
Robin Marler, however, has seen maidens he said. "Bowlers these
"Very few these days?" › in a
country
ignore Yes, I suppose I did help
should arm days disa the ball just short of are lucky enough to have jobs scoring of 78 consecutive de- potential way but don't forget Hammond his
as a let a double century, Sutcliffe a medium class bowler, as a reja. length, testing a batsman's which can pay them enough got a
to liveries. At the end of the single one, and we had fair bate placement for Wood. That faith patience and teasing him outlive on and yet leave them free day Wardle tried to induce Ian
ing strength, in Hobbs, Chap-was at last justified at. Tun-it is negative cricket and it
to play cricket all day in the Smith to hit out by sending him Batsmen are man, Hendren, Jardine
Smith Lock ruining the game. and bridge Wells when
a full alang a long hop and too, for not being 501 Geary.
wasn't all the first ve Kent wickets, to blame.
were gently pitch. Both girls to drive enough of them clean bowled for only quick-footed bowling.
patted back.-" that sort of stuff." 35 runa.
the first match of the He bowl unchanged for 2 Tunbridge Wells week, Frank hours. excluding a lunch break, Tyson fett carly for London to
as well,
John took 2,358 first class wickets in all aixi obtained 100 "wickets in a season on 14 wea-
runs,
Also
a day, Worcestershire, at Bath on
1919
at a cost of only 83 runs. He also succeeded in scoring 1,000
runs and taking 100 wickets in Smith's
summer on two occasions.
all,
In
i3
summer,
return of
.I agree with Yardley, that one of the things that could
TO COURT FAILURE simukte County cricket today
be the would amateurs who could take part It is all very well to say that save the attempting to matches without in sions. He tick all ten wesending down, 30 overs and 18 see a doctor about his heel and occasional an an innings against Worcester-of them were maiders.
follow-on South losing by it financially.
Africa could In fact Northamptonshire lost. Says
risks, but shire at Worcester
for in 1921
If they were only paid enough not afford to take
has become 1 73 and had 16 wicke's in seven of his first nine overs were Alan Walt: "In my days if we
compensate for
general Carnings this against hapless pot reored off and the five runs are in
danger of losing, a he had hit off his bowling were player would
elsewhere, it would be state of affairs, not only in tais have had to bat lost
match
but
Test many alf in his Arst over.
sufficient incentive, with a ruNNQF,
If we didn't do that in Aus- matches preceding it. Once a good County footballer.
of it all has gone "Tests are taking preference
The joy winter hobby is re-lover County
we wouldn't have any games because of tralla,
out of the game for the players financial angle, and that first class cricket at all. Every. his Dis C1245 I certificate. This is wrong. Godfrey
Evans will body has to de a job there and because they cannot afford to court failure, and simultaneously to be now qualified
Jest to Kent for twelve nobody can afford to play four-f Tests during A.P.F. Chapman's means he
joy has departed for the triumphal our of Australa in on to the Football League list.matches this season, but he is day cricket, or Test cricket, long-suffering paying public.
without some compensation for
Bowleas today play de- his last Test Will he become the first top-on the County pay sheet," and had
must be a Match a Lords in 1930-the class cricketer to arcferee a Cup Kent
struggling financially, salary lost. There
fensively just short of a length off stump, and only other time he appeared Final? The rarest I know to have signed three professionals lot of good cricketers over here outside of the against the Aussies. He played that recore is that Johnny Lock on special registrations-Petti in the same boat.
the tragedy of it is that there once ord,
COACHING HINT
gre no batsmen. in four Tests in South Africa in ton, the Surrey amateur
today whose the Australian; Brazier three times refereed an Amateur Cup Final. from Surrey and Disbury from 1.,am never dogmatic about footwork 1931, appeared
sufficiently good -against-the South Africars in |----
I remember enough to alter the length £10krip reculiarities, Lanenshire. They each get £ Erigland in 1929 and had his Alan Watt, the dimer Kenta week all the year round plus the great Bradman 100 well for those deliveries Dents Comp first Test against the West ladies | bowler was al Tunbridge Wells expenses, on a three-year con- that. But, I think cne gentralisa-ton, perhaps, excepted. at Manchester in" 1928-fourteen land he had some pungent things tract, and Kent can
to get full power l-afford lion holds: Tests in all...
the hands must be together.
Mr While played in all seeing, and he has just gained the
1928,
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