THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1961.
Beginning today: The China Mail's special weekly cricket series BENAUD THROWS DOWN THE
BENAUD
The challenge is made,
WORLD CUP SOCCER
Scotland beat Eire 4-1
Stretlard
Glanzow, May 3. beat Eire (rish Req.blies by four goals to one here tonight in a first leg match for the preliminary round of the World Fuotball Cup.
*** Scots et 2-0) at half te. The return martel is to be played in Dubilo next Sun- dar Aruowd of 50,000 tumed To watch the match at Hampden Park, Inside teft Bard scored twice for Scotland Eisen A 4001 minute- playa
Centre-forward Herd niso reore: twice in the 59th and 87 minutes,
The Irish goal was scored by Left-winger Haverty In the
52nd minute.—APP,
N. Ireland lose
to Greece
Athens, May 3 Greece beat Northern Iceland by two goals to one in their Frolinemary Grog match in the Work Football Cup Tourna- ment here today.
Greeve led 1-0 half-time. In- nide-right Paparmanuel scored both geals for Grove-in the
B1 and 75th minutes.
Ireland's Mellroy, Northern imate-righ, scored North re- ladki's goal hve minutes before the cel
A crowel of 20,000 watched the match-the first surver meeting between the two countries.
The short crisp pausing of the Greeks paid better dividends than the speculative long passea of the Irish team on the hurd, bumpy ground-Reater.
BARCELONA
IN EUROPEAN
CUP FINAL
Brussels, May 3. Barcelona beat Homburg 1-0 In their European Football Cup mi-final replay here today.
The teams had to replay after belu 2-2 on goal aggregate
after the first two legs of the
tier
The Spanish club WT meet cilner Rupid (Vienna) or Ben- Nea (Portugal) who play the second leg of their semi-final fa Vienna tomorrow.
Benfica won the fits leg 3-0. **Router,
UK soccer results
London, May 3. Results of today's Boccer matches in Britain were:
WORLD CUP Qualifying round-first leg
4 Bre INTER-CITIES FAIRă cur Semi-final-arcond ter mingham C. Internationale
(Miant ENGLISH LEAGUE
Sculland
Bloke City
Bacinley
Quingham
Division II
3 Liverpool
Divion
4 Shrewsbury
División IV
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Now England must accept the
brighter-cricket challenge
Australia's captain, Richia Benaud, is a shrewd man as well as a bold and brilliant cricketer. The policy statement ho made on landing in England promising that his side will play attractive cricket no matter what methods are used by the opposition-was a masterpiece.
It was exactly what every cricket-lover hoped to hear at the start of this crucial season for the game. The stock of Benaud and his men is already sky high throughout Eng- land,
GAUNTLET
Norman Yardley
Peter May, alter more than a To me this has the feeling of year out of the game through i o great season. Throughout lines has to play himself back the come there a genuine into the side before he can e feeling that players have got to asured of his jeb back. And get out there and entertain the Colin, who has always insisted crowds with attacking cricket. that he has been merely
It was preved last winter le the caretaker captain in May's ob- Australia but could be done sence, has to wait to see how at the highest level. Now Wr have Benami, straight from the Sydory stene, an the Messiah, with the burning message,
before lunch on the Bral day. Peter makes cut. seemed certalu.
I know that many captains hire calt "wind and water" have given us the old line that cricket. Bennud is not plan- "we will play attractive erleket? | ning to stage a slogging match But it didn't work out that But I can't remember une throw- Australia v England Tests have ocny, Compton stayed for.un ing down the gauntlet so darings | never degenerated to that level | hour-and-a-half on that dram- í ly before and adding, "regardless and I hope they never will, of the tactics of the opposition. Throughout the long history That must have got recognised as the allimate in of cricket, these series have bem the hide of every English county
Tesi mulch standards. captol like the jab
I am of u
certain that Benaud and bis hypodermie needle. And
side will esaeedally because Benaud has lively-looking
nol allow those, standarde to b just emerged frent one of the
lowered, greatest Test series of alt tim and they know he means to out
In practice every word of his determined to do is to cut out challenge,
No slogging
But I don't think we should become too starry-eyed or get the wrong impression. I have known Richle Benaud for long time and I admire his dedication to this great gume of cura.
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He is a serious and you can throw straight out of the window any idea that he plans to play what we in York-
Sports Diary
TODAY Tenals Men' "D" Division, Section 1: KTGCA (1) V SCAA, Urban Sv Stanley, KTGCA (3) v URC Section 2: CCC v PAC. CRC th v KCC. RAY .
Mixed "Thetstons Urban S. v CCC, CRC v KCC.
Cricket
Interport team practice at KCC,
11.
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What the Australian coplain is
dawdling of, recent big crickel. He will insist that his men play their strokes, and he will be prepared to risk defent in a flat-cut effort to achieve as many wing as possible.
But I am perfectly certain that if the circumstances of any Test demand a repeat of that tumous hacks to the wall, match-saying stand of Willie Watson and Trevor Biley at ferds in 1953, either side will Try to find the men for the job.
Do or die
On that dramatic occasion, you will remember. with an hour of the fourth day, and all The fifth to play, England were Sel 343 to win.
An even bet
But I give due warning Benaud and his men aké nul to suve England's
cricket. They are hero ip
1 a perfectly certain in my
hete Just wn mind that May will be back,
probably as good as ever. His strong and fit ad refreshed and
win Test matches. England has to save her own team-colleagues, in fact, 1 me
and three he looks even better Mischel. The new approach, the the ball harder than before he new spirit of cricketing adven- ture, has to the every county As is usual, whenever an Aus-side as well an England. cricket, tralian team trives here to pul It must not be left to the
new life into cricket, everybody Australians alors. is trying to peer into the crystal ball to predict the outcan of, the wrirs.
alle Ins; day. Valson stretched! | his over-ail defiance to 5% mounting tension for over four hours. Bailey held on through hours, and England eventually saved the match with wickets to epare.
Nobody could say it "Eight" or "attractive" fo the
accepted sense. 14 was the other side of the cricket coln -dramatic. tense, full of rich. vibrant character.
was!
As I have said, I am sure the Bennuð plon does not mean the elinsination of such situations.
Answer will come
The cne disappointing feature of this first week of the neu English scADICAL has been the absence of an England captain's i voice giving a bold, straightfor
ward Bcceptance -challenge.
Benaud's
!
was H.
Frankly, I think in too Party te do that. Names on paper can suggest one think.) Performance under new cott ditions can produce another. The strength of Benand's side, Est my view, depends almost entirely on how efforlively his new bunch of seam bowlers adapt themselves to English conditions.
Burning message
I am certain it will come eventually, but I feel that
Another factur will be hos somebody the President of effectively Benaud's spin will he MCC or maybe the Chatrinan en nf the Selectors should have publicly welcomed aud accepted the Benaud challenge.
Many of you might be think- ousting that Peter
But Lindwall struck two! shattering blows to openers Kenyon and Hutton, and Johnston accounteil for Graveney. At the end of that fourth day. England were left wilding at three for 12 and victory for Australia, probably
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England's slower wickets. Until the pattern of these things emerges, I think we should leave the issue an cven bet--as it Jooks on paper.
remember
that
Acat a bad
But always May or Colin Cowdrey should have been the Australia hasn't men to do it. The dimeilty there ricam to England yet. And that is that neither has yet been ap-
at least one, maybe two, of their pointed as captain of England relatively untried youngsters for this reries, They have no
will almost certainly rise to the cccasion. authority to speak up.
(GOT HIM! STAND BY TO
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Gary Player reported to have been offered
a screen test
New York, May 3.
Gary Player, the South African 'sensation of the U.S. golf season, plans to take a screen test after the Tournament of Champions this week in Las Vegas, Nevada, Sports Illustrated magazine said today. "Hollywood producer Hal Wollis, who played 11 round with Player in Palm Springs last winter, was so impressed with his pubile presence that he made à date to give Player a screen test at Paramount next week," the nationally air- eulated sports magazine sold.
Hos looks
Walls was reported to have sold Gary has fooks, fair and strong, colourful personality. think he might make an actor.
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"He was finding the public adulation s heavy added bur- den to carry in his golf bag.
"But there
la much in the Pinyer background ta Buggest that his case of nerves in only transitory."
The magasine Also went inio Player's atillude toward apartheid, tils present (pan- cial situation And his wife, who it had "certainly rates Hmong the more comely of the golfing wives."
"Player claims he is in no poslilon to judge, but he ta fooking forward to the experi-ing on the race qucation in ment. Te says he will never South Africs: give up golf because that's fin
It said Player is largely non- pulitical but quotes him as say-
With the white people in our profession But he wouldn't country in such a minority, you inlnd making one picture a couldn't very well give the year if he has the ability.” Bincks complete freedom and The magazine said Player re-power. All you have to do is cently showed himself "n ner-look at the trouble in the Congo vous harried man whose temper to realise t wouldn't be very had grown thick and whose long before the blacks would patience was wearing thin. chop off all our heads."AP.
This will definitely be a 'make or break' season
for English cricket
London, May 3,
England's cricketers started their new season on Saturday faced with
the fact that unless they provide entertaining cricket this summer, and recapture lost crowds, the whole structure of the game may have to be changed.
This is definitely a "make or break" season for English cricket. No scare
story this the stark facts speak for themselves. Last summer at 17 counties; shire (£11,000) had smaller attendances thun in 1959, and all except two sustained a heavy loss, with Glamorgan (£20,000), Derby-
and Surrey of left-arm and leg break slow (£10,758) Among the worst hit. ! bowlers.
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Somerset currently have a £7,000 overdraft, and at least two of the counties may be competing in the champion shilp for the last time under Its present basis.
Since the 1947 post-war boom of some three million spectators, there has been a steady decline in attendances nt cricket matches. In 1960 the paying at- | tendance at county games. exclusive of members — was 1,048,104, n decrease of 323,500 on 1950's Agures,
Explanations
Various explanations have been put forward as to why people do not watch cricket in the space age. They include the lure of television, and the country's general prosperity, en- abung people to develop ather interests, chief among them per haps private motoring.
But there have always been signs that the publle will stock to cricket provided It is enter- taining, and herein lies the crux to the problem.
The second Innovation, the abolllion of the follow-on, is far more revolutionary, deleting a right allowed to captains irs England since 1787.
Captains it is hoped will be encouraged to declare earlier. They will not aim at amassing huge total in the hope of win ning by an Innings, though some critics of the change argue it wit lead to more drawn matches.
Watching thle vital Kesso ofusely will be the 20 dia- tinguished members of tith Còmmlites of Inquiry set up by MICE to examine #he Tuture of the game in all its aspeola.
New interest
being a boom year is that Atis trallä provides the touring team. from New Zealand, India, and Following successive visits
South Africa--all of them dia-
One factor in favour of 1901
appointing in that England were rarely extendedthe interest generated by the presence in England of "the old enemy" cannot be overestimated,
There will be time enough in Too much cricket in Eng the weeks ahead to discurs Test land during the last decade prospects when the form of has not been worth watching, | Australia's newcomers to English and the apathy on the field, condRiona is known. But it can has been reflected by empty be stated now that one cannot alando.
Imagine a ske led by Richfe Towards the end of, the 1030s Benaud tolerating dull cricket.
Australia and West Indies an average of between 22-24 kindled a flame, uvers per hour could be expected terest with their recent series of cricket tra- In England. The figure had that must not be snuffed out. It slumped to 18 overs per hour by 1957 and has shown little im- provement since.
was not so much a matter of statistical Broworks in Australia but the positive approach of the pre-war players, and this in the lesson to be learned in England.
In other words crowds could expect to see at least 24-25 more overs a day with possibly 100 more runs on the scoreboard.
Conversely spectators no- wadays are being deprived of an hour's play each day while batsmen fail to attempt strottés and bowlers alm to keep runs rather than secure wickets.
The players have lost their spirit of adventure,
Crisis point
Now the crisis point has been reached though few will doubl it will be overcome.
Already the
county explains at their pre-canon meeting have pledged themselves to speed up the tempo of the game, pro- mising "drastic action' against those not attempting brighter cricket,
Mr Frank Bibbles, chair. mah of Lanchshiro's selection commifito, admmed up the position when he told him platora: "Bà bold. Nezard yourselves sa públic anter. Lainers and play Bitenctive
cricket,"
Two new rules are being iried
this year In English County Cricketo often the testing ground for lawn that Jater bat come accepted throughout the world.
Firstly the new ball can only be taken after 85 overs. Instead of after 75 uvèrs de 200 TONE, This is a further effort to en÷ cửurage the alindit axtinct triba
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After all cricket attendances had dropped badly in Australla loo in recent yetru, But with inforest rekindled, the sfth Test drew 271,404 people over five days, with 0 world record cricket crowd of 90,000 on the Saturday--Chine Mall Special.
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