THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1981.
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By ALL-ROUNDER
HEAVY SCORING IN STORE.
Lindwall and
Miller
-the Test terrors
By JOHN MELVIN
There is likely to be annie Right arm loose at his side, dark-haird Ray Lindwall jogged
big hitting and heavy scoring
when Somerset play Warwick shire on July 20-August at the Militeld School ground. This will be the first County Champion- ! abig match ever to be played on the school ground, where there Is a 60-yard boundary all round
CARRIED PAST THE WIN- NING TAPE ON STRETCHER AND WINS PRIZE. Angela Brimstone. a 15-year-old Seat- tish schoolgirl, was carried past the winning tape on ʼn stretcher In the women's 8-mile walk at the Auchterarder Games and was awarded second prize! She i looked an easy winner when, 50,
from yards
the finish,
she collapsed, and Mrs Gladys Czarnecka (Hackford), who was, 200 yavde behind her, went on to win. Omeints awarded second prize to Angela because of her guliani effort.
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ANOTHER EXCITING MOSS- BRABHAM BATTLE. The fierceness of the battle between Stirling Moss and Jack Brabham in the rain as the International Trophy meeting at Silverstone in May, when Moss won fzz duzzle style, Is certain to be repeated in the British Empire Trupby meeting on the same truel on July All the big names will be appearing in the main event for Inter-continental Cars-top mars; such as Aston Martin, BRM, Cooper,
Lotus,
Scarab and Vanwall, and the tot drivers, McLaren, Hill Surtees, Salvadori, Clark and Gurney in addition to Moss and Brabham. No fewer than four of
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into his 16-yard run up. Then he accolorated, winding up like a spring in the final yard before he sent the ball hurtl- ing down the pitch at 90 mph.
Burly Freddie Brown, the batsman at the receiving end, suffered
a half-second of agonising indecision before the red blur whipped past his proffered bat and crashed into the stumps behind him.
One half of Australia's mest frightening
attack *Inee Ted MeDounid and Jack Gregory had claimed another victim.
Partnered by controversial Helth Miller, Australia's shock bowlers were the bane of English Test batsmen for more than a decade.
Lindwall, well-built and an ich under Bft. had a perfect, rhythmile netin which could make the ball rise nastily under the armpits. Even in the hottest weather at Brisbane and Adelaide he codd bow! his daily ration of 20 eight-ball overs withet slackening speed.
a man with bat
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Man of moods Miller, less predictable thus his colleague, was moods-brilliant ball when he felt like it; just as apt to send down an off-brenk an an unplayable thunderbolt.
Lindwall and Miller became tise frunt line of Australia's assault in 1948. By the time tandwall played his last Test. in 1948, these twa
apostles of pace had played in 108 Inter- nationals, token 308 wickets and contributed
4,400 Funs Australia's cricket success.
Like many other batsmen of his period, Freddle Brown found the "Miller-Lindwall partnership even more devastating when the teda were against the Aus-
the now E type January re promised for the Grand Touring car race, with such drivers tralians, Salvadori, Melawn, Parkes and Sears, Among the exciting Formula Junior cars there will be even more thrills as
two Formula Junior rares are being run, with a special price for
the overall fastest. and every driver hoping to win will need to beat not only his competitors, but also the timekeeper's watch,
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in
Bedser and Brown howlet them out for a lowly 217.
With Nultinghamshire batsman Reggle Simpson and Yorkshire's Len Hutton in superb form, England began to consolidate the superiority their bowlers had strained to achieve.
Not even the Lindwall-Milier mastery could do much abuut that.
KEITH MILLER
beatch 14 out first innings,467.
of Australia'R This match was also re markable for the fact that Australian left-hander Arthor Morris And England's Deals Compton both his two separate hundreds.
Recognition
While they always struck fear and terror Into Englund #15 bowlers, Miller and Lindwall also changed the course of Test matches na batsmen, and here they were never greater than in the 1940-47 series.
Only 14
the runs separated two sides on the first innings of the third Test at Melbourne. When Australia's seventh wicket of the second inlogs fell at 341, four balts, Vis
England still seemed in with a chance,
The runs flowed and for once It seemed the Australian attack had lust Its power. First cau- tiously, then spiritedly, the England partnership dorished. The score mounted from 40 for one to 204 unt! Hulton beaten and bowled by the of spin of Graham Hole.
But when Lindwall and Miller look the new ball a completely; different complexlon came over the game. In the most dynamic
apell of fast bowling scen
Australia for nearly
20 years
Onslaught
Then Lindwall, going in number nine, joined wicket- keeper In
Den Tallon and the onslaught was brief and brufs- ing. In 87 merciless minotre these two batamen made a mockery of the description "tali-enders". Englund's attack disintegrated as the two hitters Inshed out. In seven minutes under two
they ripped the middle out of; the England innings as the score tumbled to 213 for six.
Bewildered
Denis Compton was bewil- dered by the speed of Lindwall and could only edge the ball to Mler in the slips: David Sheppard's token attempt to keep a Miller missle out of its wicket resulted in catch behind to Don Tallon.
Godfrey Evans suffered the anime fate as Brown-though his tormentor was Miler-and the backbone of the innings shattered.
WIN
Only one
debed men
the And the chips were slacked Australian hostilky, Simpson Jilet on February 27, 1951, batted on stubbornly and when when Australia's 26-match the last wicket went down with spell without defeat seemed the England score at 320, he sure to come to an ignominiàushed contributed 156 not out. end in the fifth Test.
It was this performance which Australia had already 45- WISHL the game, for Australia tablished a handsome 4-0 lead could muster only 107 in their in the series, but now their bats-second lunings, leaving England men scratched shakily as Alee & mere 95 to win.
hours Lindwall completed his century by going down
the pitch and driving medium-pocer Alex Bedser all along the ground to the sightscreen.
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Lindwolf's 100 Included a six and 13 fours; the partnership with Tallon (92) was worth 154 and put Australia
In-i in an vincible position-551 runs ahead with seven hours to play,
That the
game ended in a draw-only the third in the history of the series was no fault of Lindwall or his partner. Miller's turn to shine with the bat came in the next Test al Adelaide. In majestic style he resisted all the English bowling from the seam of Alec Bedser to the clever leg-spin of Doug Wright, while scoring an in
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to recognition of the feat the South Austrálian, Cricket As- suctations presented watches to both batsmen and to Lindwall, who polished off the England irst Innings by taking three wickets all clean bowler-In
This great fourth Test
pro- duced another
draw,
but Australia with a 2-0 lead were 210W assured winners of the
By taking seven wickets In the two matches he beat Clarrie Grimmett's all-time Australian bowling record of 216 wickets in Test cricket.
WORLD OF SPORT
ARE THE OLYMPIC GAMES GETTING TOO UNWIELDY?
By DEREK JOHN
One of the main criticisms of the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome was that
they were far too unwieldy.
With 18 sports being conducted at numerous centres over a 20-mile radius it was impossible for anyone to follow more than a fraction of the programme.
Most critics agreed that the and Teave the summer festival Games were too big. Yet what more or less clear for huge happens at the recent Interna-ihlettes tional
without Olympic
programme Committee's such light restrictions in the Congress in Athens The Games number of entries. are made bigger still.
th sports,
The programme has been in- creased from 18 to the record number of 20 additions, for the first time. being judo and volleyball. But the Gaines will Inst no longer than usual.
Should the Games be re- duced in size: Theoretically, It seems the best thing to do. In practice, the troubles begin -When one has to decide which sport or sports should be dropped.
For if the IOC had cut the programme one of the first sports to go would have been Association football, which many delegates consider to br roo professional a sport.
Solution
Archie Moore's successor?
What
next for
ageless
!
ahead
on points when Archto caught him with a haymaker in the fourteenth,
shown
reason-
But hard-hitting Harold has improved form since then and no one can ably say that Archie is im- pro ing with the years. Now only the complicated polllies of American boxing seems to stand between him and Moore's tfile.
The last word Johnson won the National Boxing Association version of
Archie Moore, who has the world light-heavyweight tille by beating Jesse Bowdry, successfully defended his
when Moore had been stripped world light-heavyweight of the title by the N.B.A. for yet again, bringing his failing to defend it within the fantastic record to 213 specified time. professional bouts, with
over 180 victories and 130 knock-outs?
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The latest rumour is that he will be meeting ex-champion Ingemar Johansson in an effort to strengthen his claim for third crack at the world heavy- weight title.
that
Still great
D
Johnson has played in an orchestra In recent years
make extra dollars. But
when
shannal
Another Hutton
he catches up with Archie again rubber.
fancy his money worries will Ten years Yater Lindwall's
be over and that Moore's in- Test career seemed destined to
credible career will finally end, Bnish along with that of Miller,
As is customary, however, iel who had already retired.
But why soccer? Why not
loquacious Archle have the last show-jumping where riders win English batsmen were prema-prizes of hundreds of pounds
word. Says old man ture in their relief.
Moore: At the age
But with all due respect to "I've always said that Johnson outside the Games? of 37 Lindwall bowled himself athletics where some gold medal wonder man of the ring be- his imitation,
Or even the 45-year-old (or is it 409?) is a very good fighter within back into the Australian team
Hie Hmitation winners are reputed to plek up leve for the final two Tests of the 200-300 for a single appear-against him ever realising that
anno domini 15 is in fighting me," 1958-59, series.
ance in a big meeting?
dream or of hanging on to that distinguish fairly
is really impossible to kworld many sports where shamateur-
Light-heavyweight title between the very much longer.
ism exists. And there is no hope for the Progressive who would like to abolish the onateur-professional distinction in the Olympies. Indeed, the IOC
are tending to become even more rigid in their inter- pretation of amateur status,
But there is one
practical solution, which is bring meat- ed in the United States. That is to let all major amateur sports be represented by having a Spring Olymples in addition to the Winter Suminer Games.
Spring Olympics, held quite separately, could dispose of the indoor and team sports
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That may shock the Archle fans and I hasten to add that I am not saying he is no longer a very great fighter. It's Just that I reckon there's a man strong enough to beat him at Jast.
I hear that Yorkhire's com- That man is the 5ft., 10in, mittee are keeping a special Philadelphian Harold Johnson, watch on Sir Leonard's 17-year- who (33 in August) is no box-old son Richard Hution; but ing baby himself. His record: Richard may prefer to join the 70 bouts, 64 wins and 30 knock-county in which his father now outs,
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