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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY - 22, 1958.

IT'S BACK

FOR

T

ME

HEY say that where's there muck there's money,

.but the tag seems to have got all twisted-up in the case of Eddie Paynter; who any middle-aged cricket fan will inform you was England's Hero No. 1 on a steamy, screamy February day In Brisbane just a quar ter of a century ago.

Tell me any other Test cricketer who came out of hospital to win the Ashes off Australia with a six.

But about that muck. I found plenty of it when I called on the little man from Lancashire in the alien land of Yorkshire the other day. There was grime on the grass and the stacks of the woollen mills of Thornbury, near Bradford, belched their smoky tributes to t'brass, Just over yonder lies Pudsey, whose illustrious sons, Sir Leonard Hutton and Herbert Sutcliffe.

doubtless doing all right.

Not so with Eddie Paynter. Slice the war killed his county cricket and his

beneẞt-Lancashire

hopes of a

ve him

£1,000 in lieu"--the little left- hander from Oswaldtwistle has had a prely thin time.

Boyhood accident

"Ah'm strugglin' like." an- nounced 60-year-old-but-still- very-spruce Paynter, proffering a pint of honest ale with a right hand from which o boyhood neeldent in the brickliek pas removed the tops of the first and seand Angers.

We were seated in the private quarters of an industrial firm's

sports club that

starled life ая

11 farmhouse.

Paynter and hla

wife, Moy, were

the stewards. use the

I

are

WHERE

ARE

THEY

"NOW?

by GEORGE WHITING

Vore against the tense because wood und

such as Woodfuit, they've handed in their nolice might' of

Fingleton, and will be out by the end of Ponsford, Bradman,

Oldfeld, Grimmett January-browned off they say McCabe, by the job.

and Ofiellly.

This was the body-line tour. The tour of which my colleague, eye-witness Bruce Harris, has reported P. F. (now Sir Pelham) ns exclaiming. "Now the Warner

thank we all our God," when

Poynter fingered his Laten- shire te (It cost him 18s. d.) and recalled the ups and downs of an ex-county cricketer who I once was the toast of half

world,

Historic ball

Professional at Keighley, two pubs, coaching in India, a renson of umplring, labouring Those brickfelds, and then u seven months' spell of steward. ship at Thornbury. The mixin ture Paynler frame is now mere st. 5lb.

"Now Ah suppose It'll be back to brickfields. Ah started theer and Ah look like inishing theer," said Paynter.

I

TO THE BRICKFIELDS

says

Eddie Paynter, the man who ran

hospital to win the Ashes

we

minutes our lads were losing their wickets, and when heard that England wero 100 for five I told the slater I wanted to

of get out

her Lospital and go to the ground.

"She wanted no part of 1, but Bl! Voce grabbed a inxi and off we weat-mo In my pyjamas and dressing gown.

Gubby Allen got out at 210 for six while I was pulting my pads on. I felt a bit wobbly like, but I had my sun hat on and a white scarf round

and I managed to my throat, stay put,

pul. He certainly did stay At "stumps," as the Aussies call close of play. the Uttla Lancashire Invalid had cumulated an undefeated 24 in

90

acm

nerve-wracked minutes, and returned to a night of tonsil- painting in hospital.

Next day, with twelfth man Freddie Brown bringing him Lablets

every and medicine hour, Paynter and the late Heeley Verity pulled their side

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

sparsely

out of

that

out of tribulation with one of Leyland had put England within of the most exultant six-shots the pluckiest partnership in 63 runs of the 160 required for cricket ever saw.

Seven victory and the rubber, Storm the annals of cricket. Australian bowlers were defled clouds gathered in black orTRY

and until three o'clock to the tune over a quiet of 92 Invaluable runs, and tenanted ground, Eddie Paynter had put England 10 runs ahead before, with personal contribution of 33, ho skled one of Bert Ironmonger's left-hand spinners to Victor Richartison at short extra.

Victory near

"Did me a world of good," says Paynter, "Sweated all the fever out of me."

Austrella, smitten by Lar- Allen, Verity and wood. Derbyshire's Tom Mitchell, passed out for 175 in their econd innings and all un- knowingly set the stage for the Paynter ellmax,

Today, 25 years later, ttle red ball has came to rest In a china cabinet at Thom- bury, near Dradford, And Eddie

who Hummond caught at cover, Paynier,

that night Leyland in the slips. Leslie Wrapped his awn-off fmpers Ames is joined by the now round champane, now rulsed a convalescent Paynter glass of modest alo- and re- almost with the Lally at 130 for four, flects that memories are short, They prod for runs at a pace and life a bit of a struggle. that seems in keeping with the

FOOTNOTE: Paynter quotėd black anmiets worn by the

XL of the early Autralian fleldamen to mark this Players

to mo *thirties

as the iment the death that day of the great

ever as- and much-loved Archle Jack English cricket team

sembled: Hobbe (captain), Sutcliffe, Hendren, Hammond, Now they are within four Woolley. Paynter, Tate, Lat runs of the Ashes. The rain has wood, Voce, Duckworth, Free- begun to splt. Stan McCabe lots man. Would kusu an unashamed full toss arguer

the and Eddle Paynter, from the brickilelds of Lon-le-Moors, gives it meut-

con

of-the-bat treatment 05

Ind

Clay-

be

By Friday, February 10, 1933, swings it gloriously away from monumental Jardine and an his right shoulder and over the unusually restrained Maurice square leg boundary for

+

onc

"

anyone like to

-(London Express Service).

TOMORROW

The Angel of Dien-Bien-Phu

RODERICK_MANN'S show business

Mr. GUINNESS WEARS A HUNTED LOOK

Eddle Paynter clouted a Stan He is snowed under with offers

McCabe full toss into territory deep and square for the winning

six.

Harold Larwood had thun- dered fast and true to leg- skie field at Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide with Paynier. nt cover the solitary oft-side sci- tinel. Thic shattered Aus- tralians ad accused Jardine

of 'dotty lieutenant-colonel parts'

A

LEC GUINNESS wandered hesitantly into the restaurant with the hunted look of an underprivileged shoe-salesman who has just been caught pocketing a pair of laces.

and Larwood of intimidation, He gave me a medium-sized Hello and then heaped fevered cables had sped neri- himself in the corner as far away as possible, us though the world. thetrying in some curious way to press himself through the mony across lour looked like being called

wall into the next-door restaurant, oil, and there was dithering at the Dominions Offee..

"Tell me about Brisbane,"

A lot of replied,

fuss by flamelled changing the subject

Muybe

but such with all the finesse of a hospital folls? visitor squashing the grapes was the state of the cricket poll with a hobnail boot.

England when

arrived

I had been warned, of course, that the celebrated Mr Guinness was not at ease during interviews.

Tricky business. They'd always fire on us when they saw us coming......

"Perhaps they wanted butter," I suggested.

He smiled bleakly. "Fer- haps," he said.,

по

"Don't

you play a mortician

la your next pleture?" I asked. "Tho im version of Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One?" "

"Alas," said Guinness. "That has just fallen through. The company which was to have made it has run out of money. They asked me to do it for nothing-but I thought that might create a bad precedent, so I said 'No.'"*··

LIKES IT, BUT...

in

That was putting it mildly. From the distance he was putting between us I was forced to the past some interviewer had gone berserk and dealt

nasume that in

Alec Guinness... ill at edip,

him

savage blow--and 14 that from now on

"In America," 1 sslå sitting

chunces.

Brisbane for the fourth and, as For answer, my host pointed it happened, deciding Tesi. to an humlanted address in gilt

on the wall; produced, allver

mounted, the ball that soared Out of the game

for that historic six over Brls bane's square leg boundary; and then, with an air that edged

on reverence,

handed me silver ash-tray. On it was in scribed:

"To Eddie, for the Ashes, 1932-33, from a Gra'cful Skipper."

Breather there a man with soul to dead who does not know that the grateful skipper Was Douglas Jardine?

Slowly, shyly, Eddle Paynter groped his way through the recapture mists of memory to the glories of 25 years agʊ;"

England were 2-1 up in the

England perles — an matched nucleus of Sut- eliffe, Hammond, Leyland, Paynter. Verity, Ames, Lar-

that

"You'd be surprised how as the cardinal in The Prisoner,

fidence,

are our "you

best Mr many parts there are in Bri- They reasoned that I was in it on my hands to give him con- known star. Have you ever Guinness, was taking no tinh films for detty lieutenant- so it must be a comedy,

colonels."

I reached over with my knife thought of moving permanently

"Does your

I said that, oddly enough, to spear some butter. Gulness, to Hollywood?" success in After two days play Jordine and Sutcliffe har mustered 09

The Bridge On The River I wouldn't. Not with the perhaps misunderstanding my Intention, shrank even further in reply to Kwai mean that you will present apate of war films. into his comme hen he said: without loss

Innings total of ulla's first

ΠΟΥ riposte, encouraging 340. An

except that Paynter, the solid but often adventurous lett- anger at No. 8, had retired to hospital with temperature hotied up by acuic tonsillitis. For him there appeared to be no more joyous prospect than the sombre "absent ill."

but

making fewer

He seemed encouraged by be

this, and uncurled 1 little. comedies?" I said,

"Not at all," said Mr But he was still well out of Guinness; from his corner. range of flailing fists.

for some strange "But reason producers think only in terms of what one did

I last. Since played a

THEY ROARED "Funny how one gets he said. "Au- Jubelled," "I got no sleep at all that dotty lieutenant-colonel in night," recalls the 1058 Paynter. The Bridge On The River diences always connect me "Next day Bill Voce sat at my Kwai all I'm offered are

with comedy parts. bedside and together we listened

"You know, In the provinces

"No," said Guinness, "I lo but I could never live there permanently. Anyway, they I've just finished Barnacle rate me something of a freak there because I refuse to wear comedy, It' another about the sea, I'm a pushover a toupee in private life," for anything about the sea.

As he left me-marvelling, I I've only got to hear a hornpipe felt, to and himself 'stili intact to burst into tears.

-ho added:

to have big

"I think it goes back to the "I am thinking quite seriously time the Navy got me drunk of adopting Bing Crosby's Idea. ! Maita. They asked me to He has decided

Then when and I was so ple-eyed 1. couldn't possible position. in my name on the bulkhead toupee photographed from every even spell Guinness properly. ever someone takes a picture of was In the Navy in the him he can hand out this appro-

to the game on a portable wire-dotty lieutenant-colonel they roared with laughter when war," he said, "Running mor- priste shot of the toupee o less. It seemed that every few parta.

1 Drst appeared on the screen garine to the Yugoslav partisans. stick on it."

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