HARRY CARPENTER talks to
His (new) Cricket Highness from
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1961.
PUNJAB, Shiwant
Rablak
DELE
PATAUDE
Shar
Meet UTTAR
PRADESH
No, the Noob hasn't
Only in England would you be pri- vileged to see an Indian prince going in to bat with an L sign on his back, This happened in a charity cricket match of Abingdon. The learner? The
even
20-year-old Mansur Ali Khan, Own
Nawab of Pataudi. His Ox- ford undergrad chums know him as the Noob.
Slight and dusky, with wrists of steel, the Noob is no L-driver with a bat. He may become one of the game's great run-getters. Centuries stream from his bat three in his last three
innings.
You might expect royalty to own a bat. Not the Noob. He shares one with India's Test star, Abbus Raig, in the Oxford team.
"I just don't have one of my own at the
moment."
the nawab ull-
handedly.
said
Put
Nor does his highness own a car.
he's about 10 RO into joint- ownership with an undergraduate friend.
"He's in London buying
got his
bat
the
Bize
of
England's
smallest
THE NOOB 'once lived in a palace."
He had a heart Palaudi-aboul E age of 41. We're going for a second-attack minutes after playing | Rutland, hand Jaguar XK, or a new palo. Er was his son's 11th | county. Morris LOBO,
bieshdag.
now.
#:
The price roughly the same you know."
Half a century ago, schonibas – fletion writer Frank Richard: Inerated a Greyfriars elnure- ter, Burree Jamset Ram Singh,
JmBan 4012
prince who whizzo at cricket.
WAN
The 5. Tin, tawabami his father before him--have turned romantle legend into more fas- cinating fact,
His famous father, the Nawab, died on January 5, 1952, at
tties
...
England"
I'm back
FLASHBACK: The Noob laged 12) tearns the. busino;s from the groat Frank Woolloy (foft) and Alf Gover.
He continued wistfully:
"I three fam friends; ali vrickei į the prince, "only in a different wish 1 could remember my Blues; David Greeti, Alan į religion.” father better. He taught me to Smith, and Abbas All Balg.
The Noch has a prominent play, but I only recall batting | Together, they see lims, drink nose, heavy eyebrows and darkly with him once in a game. I beer in the pubs and dais girl- lustrous brown eyes. It is * was about ten.
friends. For off-duly reading, classfeat Indian fave,
Ikea Hannond nawab
anti the
of naveli
But Green once good-natured- (Bhowani Junction) y pulled his log with
crack: "y God. Now, you're who an ugly so-and-so." Mancunian speaks broad Lancashire, credited with Inventing
the father died. the term "Noob." The title should most of his be pronounced Ner-wahb. "It's
careers
seem
"No, I'm not conselously try the ing to be like him, although our Innga
be
running) John parallel. He was at the same Masters, Oxford collego Balilolas Green, me."
Slace his
nawab has lived
ai #1
AL
e in England: first Hemel Hempstead prep, school, the same as maharajah," then at Winchester College, now
at Oxford, where he is reading Arable and French.
Guardions
"may enter the Indian foreign service when I leave hure," he told me. "Nothing is deelded yet." He leaves Oxford in summer, 1902,
An English family, the Mac- conakis, act as his guardians here. He frequently stays with them on their form at Wis- This torcugh Green, Sussex. qualifies him to play for Sussex.
He laughed off my suggestion Ilis mother is the daughter of that he night be termed the Nawab of Bhopal, who wealthy. "Compared with some once ruled 750,000 subjects in
of India's richest States India royalty. I'm only a poor three daughters" he said. "No. nothing
like a millionaire."
The father, who played in Tests for England and India bes and after The last war, fore utive hit four successive hun-She and her dreds for Oxford,
now live in New Delhi
Ruler
In 1847 Indian royalty was deprived of power
and unt
"We used to live in a palace. I suppose you'd call it that," sad the nawab.
"Naw my mother and sisters
few
He inherited jewels, a works of art and an amount of been in- money, which has vested to bring in an income. He and his family also receive
but for that the Neal RJ live in house, not particu- | a Kraut from India's privy Oxford would today be heredi- | Jarly big.
purse.
tary ruler of some 20,000 "I do some big-game hunting, In Oxford the Noob is strict- Moslems in the Punjab Staté of | play some cricket ... the ine IN one of the lads. He has
Four D. Jones 23 ENTERS THE
BY MADDOCKS L
POLICE STATION
ISAY, I'VE JUST SEEN A COWBOY IN RUSSIAN UNIFORM RUNNING TOWARDS
THE AIRPORT
OUR ONLY
POUTICAL
PRISONER HAS, ESCAPED
THE POLICE TAKE OFF ON A FAISE ERFAND...
L
TAKING HALF THEIR JAIL WITH THEM
the
For some time after this, the nawab
known wha
as the Vulch (short for vulture) Draccers
Page
WORLD OF SPORT
SPRINT BARRIER
By JOHN COTTRELL
With the retirement of Germany's Olympic 100 metres champion Armin Hary, the new "wonder boy" of world sprinting is tearaway Dennis Johnson, the Jamaican student who has now equalled the world 100 yards record of 9.3 sees four times in two months.
Pensylvanila, Budd iso did 9.3. and but for the presence 01 is fourth timekeeper be would have made 11 6.2. sec. The officia! watches recorded.
4.2. 9.2, 9.3., and 9.4
Like Hary, young Jolinson has | Tūts month, nt Villanova,
been turning in such consig tently fast times that doubts about his starting technique have been raised by the Americans, who were accus- tumed to contnati the sprints before the Nome Olymples. Observers have claimed that he
rises so slowly from his marks Into the "sel" position that ather runners feel undue strain while waiting for him in the tensed-up nger-tips- and-toes pusillon.
ur
sald
(Undergrad
for
flut
Dracula).
"Or sometimes
we just call him Syd," sald another member of the team.
FLASHBACK: The Newab of Pataudi-tho Noob's tather...in action for England in Australia in 1932.
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His tutors address him by his first name, Mansur; the Press
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Fame
9.2 seconds?
Bud Winter,
Johnson's
coach at San Jose State Cul- lege, claims that the sole pur- puse of this slow movement is to maintain his runner's relaxation. nat upset the ri-
vals.
refer to him as the Tiger ("Meanwhile, interest focuses on the possibility of Johnson at last breaking through the 0.3. barrier which has now been reached, ant! never officially passed, by cleven world cham- plons and on 18 vecasións, Consistency makes Jelmsca the favourite to achieve 0.2. scc. But one man could beat himm to that clusive target- American Frank Budd, who was fifth in the Olymple final.
On the field he is the smallest in the team,
quickly i
moves ard catlike, wears two sweaters, and, handles his team-he was: made captain this year-with quiet confidence.
Not
averse 10 brightening cricket, he has bern known. when the other side is deter mined to dig in and be dull, to scrape his lank black hair down over both ears in order to disturb batsmans con- centration.
Never mind those three suo cessive 100's. I found out that; his fame at Oxford currently rests on a greater feat.
In that rollicking Abingdon match he smote two successive sixes. Then he turned to h fielder.
"Pick out a car on the boun- dary," he said. The helder did
So.
Next swipe the ball landed plumb on the root of the selected car.
The owner, delighted at have Ing been thus honoured, asked the Noou
10 autograph the
dent.
I
Temptation
a
Recently praised Cormen Basilio, the onion-picker who became world champion, for his wisdom in retiring from the ring. Alos, thoro is now don- gor of his being tempted Back to taka Runishmont.
more
hear that boxing manager Al Wisa has offered Bastilo £7,000 10 make a comicback bld against 23-year-old John Smith, Colifonia State middleweight champion.
It may sewn like easy money for * the tough tle guy who defied Sugar Ray Robinson In bis prine. But my iak ize IN: Don't be tempted out of your crease, Basillo, or surely you will end up being stumped.
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