AT THE WICKET
with Norman Yardley
Lord's is my lucky ground
but
not England's
Lord's, where the second Test is now being played, is the greatest ground in the world for any cricketer who has ever played there.
As I looked over its pleasant green this week and felt again its tradition and atmosphere my mind flew back to the incredible moment, just 25 years ago, when I saw "murder" done on that sacred turf.
Jahangir Khan, of Cambridge, | had four sixes and 24 four in was howbing when it happen- what is still the second highest ed. Toon Peacee, the former Ess | inning, ever played in these an- sex captain, was battint, aut jauni gumes. was helding in the gully. Khan bowl and Peares For tip for shaped for a shot.. but there was no muff the balt meet inst wallow.
Yet the hall dropped in the block-hule. And when 1 rust ed up. the body lay there, low
the body of a
sparrow which had chosen precisely the wrong mament to zoam had
low across the pitch. II
11
been hit fale and square tlight by the ball, and killed stane dead.
Unlucky ground
The sparrow was stuffed aud now holds a place of honour in the Long Room - for murder
- Two of his sixes kunder) on the roof of the grandstand, and the
her two were slammed way
to the back of the Mound start, i i can't #magine that
Jesse!
ever hit a cricket ball harder | or sweeter. it was breath-tak- int. I nude 8 while all this was
Fong un.
|
¦
For others, of course, it may
be Hedley Vority's 14 Austral:f wickets in a day in 1934 that will stond out as their greatest pccasion at Lord's. Or Duleep sinji's 173—or Dona Bradman's 251 in the Test of 1930.
Watson's stand
wil Some
that remember fantastic backs-to-the-wall ef- for by Willie Watson and Tre- vor Bailey to save what seemed Marlin Donnelly's 162 not an utterly lost cause in 1953. oul. also for the Gentlemen,! came in 1947. It didn't have j the big hitting content of Bartlett's affair, but it was n classle Just the name-a clas- sie of neat, perfect artistry.
I can still see his perfect bal- anre as he turned his shots, off his toes, drove through covers
like that had never happened and cut with surgien! precision,
before. Certainly not at Lord's.
me
آن
Yulson, ули will remem- Test against ber, in his first Australla. defied the bowlers fur 51⁄2 hours and made a Hundred and Bailey stayed there for 414 hours for 71. Atter the game seemed well in the Austrailan pocket, 11 was saved.
Yes, and
24
The dapper New Zealand Oxford left-hander claimed That is enty
my fours on an occasion that w1 memories of Lord's, never the live for ever in the memories luckiest of grounds for Rogland ¦ of all who saw it. in her great battles against Aus- tralia. Only once in over sixty year has there been an English victory over the tourists here. I Hope the time has now come for their turk to ehonge.
But for um, personally, it has been a ground of splendid and. in some ways, histéric memor- les. For instance. gart from that meilent of murder 1 Wit lucky waugh to play there In the very first Kare in which Denis Cumple appeared as young professional on the Lord's ground staff.
Cricket classics
It was away back in 1933, and
I was one of the Young Amat- eurs and Deals one of the Young Professionals, 1 believe Denis made about 40, and although that was not very tall scurbig It was enough to convince everyone here that a new star | was on the way up.
Ende 189 in little over three hours in that game, so it was a memorable cension in my car. eer, tuo. Especially, booking back, when I recall that it was Compton, with one of his in- nocent-looking top spinner who got me bw, I suppose I could regard myself as The first of the many he claimed like that.
In 1937, de 101 for Cuin- bridge against Oxford, and al- though that has special import- ance to me in the record banke, It was not an innings that sinudi out in my mind half as much as two others by my old bur dies... Hugh Bärtleit und Mor- tin Donnelly.
Never hit harder
They are regarded as clsa- NICH all the cricket *ver played at Lord's. I feel hon onred that. for part of the time anyway, I saw them from the other end of the pitely
Bartlett's classic 175 not out! wo played for the Gentlemen against the Players in 1038, Wally Hommand, I remember, had captained the Players the previous year and now was Jending the Gentlemen. ARI Lord's never looked more hand- коте.
The feature of Bartlett's in- nings was his tremendous hit- i ting. O'Nell and Burke, May
and Cowdrey, all bit the ball pretty hard today. But not hard- er thon Bortlett on that neça- tion.
In one fantastic nyer, he hit Peter Smith for two slxes and four lours. And mitogether be
SWIMMING MATCH
Überhausen, June 35.
bent Hol-
Western Cermany
land by 114 points to 10
two-day swfaiming match which
ended here today.
Holland led 02-01 after the
Drst dayRouter.
I am sure that Martin will play a few of use shots all over again in his mind's eye this week, for he is back in England on business. He's ecrinin to try and have an hour or two at this
Test match it be en.
Four D. Jones BY MADDOCKS
FERDINAND
NANCY
although it has been singularly tough on England in these Australin battles, Lord's has always produced incident
and great moments.
I have been tempted to recall then this week as a reminder Lord's
that, for most people, really does have something very special
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́A MISSION, SIR ? FOR ME? YOU MEAN YOU ARE GOING TO SEND ME OUT ON AN
EVIL DEED ·
AUNT FRITZI SAYS I HAVE TO APOLOGIZE TO
IRMA
ALONE?
BRICK BRADFORD
THE SPACESHIP RGARS AWAY FROM THE ASTEROIDE
POAD
WOULD YOU
PLEASE WRITE A LETTER FOR ME?
SURE, NANCY
“ERNIH BUSHMILLBUR
I'M GOING TO CROWN THAT ARİKİ HS TIPPED OUR HAND TOO
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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1961.
HAT-MAKER EMILE CAN
USE HIS FISTS TOO
"Emile the hat-maker" cau mogl often be found in a busy first floor workshop not fur from
New York's busiling Fifth Avenue, using
artistic grace he brought with Kim from the
Virgin Islands to deftly weare a piece of Ince to a mluk creation. But at other times, Emile Griflifhs is hard at work holding on to the welterweight boxing chain- pionship of the world.
And what a difference in his earnings: batmaking for 45 dollars a week, and boxing for 45.000 dollars a fight.
NEARLY GAVE UP
Howard Arthur, who says, "I'm a frustrated amateur boxer" not only is Emile's joint box. : ing manager, but is hui- factury employer,
"When I spotted Emile in the workshop three years ago 1 naw that he had all the phyai- cal attributes. So I draggC him down to the gymnasiunt for a workout. He took 1
hiding, nearly gave up, and then slowly he began to like
YES SIR. YOU'VE GOT TO START SOME-
TIME
NOW, LAD, THERE IS A CERTAIN HUMAN I WANT YOU IO NOBBLE
JUST SAY, "DEAR IRMA- I APOLOGIZE FOR CALLING YOU AN APE"
FORSET IT, SADIO! HAVEN'T WELL! WE
HAYS A BIGGER, PROBLEM NOW}
the sport. From that moment
on there was no stopping him,
We're thinking of a trip to Lon- don. And we've had an offer to fight Brian Curvis." Meanwhile, amlable Embe goes on making hats.-London Express Servier.
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“THAT SHIP WILL- BIG BACK WITH MORT MEN ÄÄRI YOU WANT FOR A CHANCE AGAKEN
"THEME"
English football
faces
its
biggest crisis
By ARCHIE QUICK
Firmani, Charles, Greaves, Law, Hitchens. The drift to Italian Soccer continues. Where will it end? What can the Football League do? Next August when, the 1961-62 season is duo to commence the game in England will face its biggest crisis-a three-pronged one.
A strike is imminent, star, lors' eyes early in the season. players will be missing in the Personally, I would bring Bobby ne-up on the day of the big Chorlton to inside forward and kick-off, dozens will be unem-
start looking for a left winger. ployed and the remainder will either not have re-signed their clubs or will be dissatisfied with their wage terms. There is also the longer-term problem of the break-up of the national side becau of the departure of two great forwards Greaves | and Hitchens.
Added significance
Meanwhile the airike threat has to be tackled. The League has torn up its facit agreement with the Players' Unlan and the Ministry of Tabour and the whole bifier quarrel will have to start again from scratchi,
So many snags
Outsider wins Europe's richest race
Paris, June 26. Balto, a 100-8 outsider, to- day Won the £17,000 Grand Prix De Paris, the riches! race in Europe, at Longchamp.
Hallo, ridden by Maxling won this one mile Garcia, seven furlonga oyent for three-
year-old by tour lengths from
the 2-1 favourite, Mätch, who was runner-up in the French
Derby.
The
wiring owner. M. Andre Ruel?, collects £32,100.
The race, in which there were 18 starters, was an all-French
affair, the British entry Phil 11 and ibe German horse Whist having been scratched after the fol eallover.
The
LARGE, BETTING
runners were backed ta a tune of over £1,000,000 vn the tale-run belting organis- tlon, and weepstake prizes in the national lottery total
1,380,000. Third today
was Granadero
0
(Maurice
Risk out of gove Garcin wla E1 this roce. Maxime Bonaventure the 1951 дай
The World Cup serien in Chile in due at the end of the season On the surface the only በትነ already England team question settled is the lifting of manager has a dilemme on his the maximum wore. But has hands. His carefully collected it been settled? Already one and highly succesful team Is In
top player has saitl to me: (Bernard Marguerite), half danger, for no matter what the Would you keep giving the length bohind Match, who was millionaire bosses of the Italian ball to a man who is getting ridden by Fred Falmer. Fourth, clubs may say it is difficult to £100 a week: when you are in further envisage their releasing Greavesting only £35" With their was
two lengths away. Rely On Me and Hitchens for duty in South eyes set on a £25,000 pick-up Larraun). America. They soon clamped in Italy the players are object-
Hallo, by Wild John Charles doing ing to a fixed salary plus fra Bouclette, down on any such thing for Wales.
t+ ຜ appearance money. As second one has put 1: "If you are in-Trainer jured and out of the senior side also prepared through no faul of your own 1950, winners. So the early season Inter- your wage packet immediately nationals against Wales and drops by 10. That is not Rely On Me led from the Ireland, the
Inter-League fuir." Tho £10 deduction start and kep! ahead nearly matches, the friendly with would also actually apply to all the way to the anal bend, Austria and the second "leg" player away OF International At the half-way mark Bailo of the World Cup qualifying duty!
not was
among the leading !e vill Portugal will lake
There are so many snags, su nine horses, but as the runnets on added significance.
many problems to be ironed out entered the straight he shot It is vital that a reconstructed wood for the trees.
that I for one
and finished an cannot see the into the lead
easy winner-Reuter, team be got together at vner and given raining together. of Third Divi- Johnny Byrne. sion Crystal Palace, will be an important cop in the fresh plans which will have to be laid. He will have assume the mantle of either Hitchens or Greaves us for- to strelnu forco at inside
word
A or centre forward, second goalgetter will have to be grafted into the side. With Johnny Haynes the brains of the attack, a second ball-player like George Eastham is out of the question. So there is a "eppi" going a-begging for a forward who quickly entehes the Selce-
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