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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE
THE FIRST MATCH.
1ST. 1939.
"Chips and fried fish is ready at 'Uddles. son's This inderd meant the end. (It was, at any mnté, usually chips and fried fish that caused play to be abandoned for the day amongst is of a resor 50 years ago; in our times perhaps the second house at the pictures nerves se purpose, but what a poor substitute. Memory still holds that whiff of vinegar. the quelching noise as one shook the bottle, and the hailstore rattle of the
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out of those caparing tin enstors.) Chin Street and Summer Place any went their opposite ways, but as they did
The first much of the cricket season has been played. It happened the other evening a stretch of earth as virgin of grass as the African veld. Behind the bowler's arm was a block of tenement houses. Now and again from the doors of these uses a Mrs. Jones or a Mrs. Carruthers would emerge, and after look ing clowly in to the heart of the conflict would shrilly inquire. "Where's our Willy si Com you young divil; yer farther Thereupon se gloriots but by no means mate Hobbs discovered haneirat fond broke out again, with himself frustrated in the hour of triumph. decision the weapon, and continued filth He might at this point he wanting only strongest langs could not pour rate the a beggarly four past cover to complete distance and the houses between for al his century, and now out of the gandy. The more or less Parthian russ light of glory fate was matching him were: "Call yersoff Tylsley wait till H's had to surrender his militant hat. we get yer on our middia." "Our Wille, come and get the goal up 2 (Very mek pass from the scene, nu go home to fetch the coals up. Yer can't have yours is a nice ouse, ours is! CRICKETERL
ing. this Summer Place --garu innin's out when yer gets back." was-th
in Manchester Cunidias, fiat hat was sure to come to his ear as he put his car an, "Yer've given you bat up! There's where thu enniker gnawell.
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This great gang was ant arranges for by Lorus and sotue unes 1 was conducted bot y muen buer the rules of Lords us
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are conceded to be one of the very best Bander Queensly. “P3 PALAD A batsman while forms of bifocal lenses. The bifocal weg- paying the bab sud uts it, and it ment is ground and fused fate the distant
would had again, a huge brick wall du whith three wickets were drawn lens taking the product practically one chalk. "Out! would how the bowler piece of glass. The segments are totally who if he were big enough was also the invisible and the lens has a beautiful umpire. And the field was invariably wth him to a man. Yer out! Give yer appearance. Kryptok lenses of any pres- hat up!" Exp stulation stare from the cription in either regular or Toric form batman's for at his Out be blows are manufactured by the Hongkong It didu'a mever it nowhere near th wickits the chanced o be a small Optical Co., Successors to Clark & Co.. batsman the bowler showed no inclisation Manufacturing and Refracting Opticians, to bandy words. Down the pitch, ho would move in administer justice the most competent optical manufactur. strength of his right arm. "Give you¡ ing establishment in South China- blinkin bay up else yer' cop it." The located in 63, Queen's Road Central, bateman, Dame of Jenkins poi-disant
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Mikepener), had to go. Maybe he would "Fitting glasses and testing the right is depart not only from the crease but from their speciality.-ADVT. the field alt gether, announcing the world as he went, and setting the sidings to a chant in the Lydinu inode, “Hill Brown's a chral,or van ́t bow!, for müthink,"
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The wickets in the Olympian game were. ns I have sail, drawn in chalk on a wide wall. Whoever designed them plainly was" a bowler himself. In the olden times at Hambleton the bowlers used to get up! early in the morning and mark out the pitch on the obblie- " bit of land they, Géould find. In this match latween Union. Street and Summer Place the bowler had | exercised a privilege not unlike that of the Hambledon men. He gave his chalk freely to the erection of his wickets, which possessed immense height and width. Whenever the ball hit them it would bo made white on one de Batsmer who cwned mother wit and the misele to sup- port it would parry the bowler's aggres- sive."Out." Burg at them each time the ball beat the bat by demanding, with implicit irony, "Where's the chork mark on the ball Garn, thai's
not a 1100 mark on the ball? Garn, that's not a ne mark. It them wickits wot we was usin' for practice last night. Ere's the no wicket, my ind. Carry on, got yer licked his time Play up. Lafon Street"
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The match passed through widely differ- eat moods. It began win every om bat.ïnt armed to the teeth, so to say." The bowler; before going into action, swung bs ar round furiously. "Get reply, Inds." he declaimed “lioin" 'ter bowl fust tornight chuckin' googlies for good." Meanwhile the batsman was seeking get himself into an attitude he had orga seen assumed by greness at Old Trafford. Ernest Ty'd'sley!" he said, 2nd the he made sundry wonderful mirves through the air with his bat, playing an imaginary ball wherever it was his fancy to direct it. The Beldemen drew a tight net round the bat the nearest mad. to the wicket, it seemed, was the one most likely to get the bat, und in consequence an innings, at the fall of the first wicket. It sa hap- pened, though, that to-night Ernest Ty J's'ey was in great form. He drove powerfully, and the match was stopped while Haraco Wilkinson, the youngest comba.ant, climbed over Moggridge's wall and threw the ball back. There was a little more hot disputation here beroen bow or and batsman. "Yer out. IVA allus 'out' over Moggridge's wall Apparently this ruling had been rendered necessary by experience, Mr. Moggridge in the past having retained every hall that bad disturbed his reflections on Form and Weights as he sat in his retreat in the summer evening's gun. But Tyd'sloy placed himsof beyond the law to-night. "It's my ball, and it I'm out url put yer conts ou and 'op it."
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And thus he persisted in his masership at the erase. And na he diel so A strange lethargy fell on the fieldsmen. Point and cover-poins went in for wrestling, as a divertissement; long feld met Miss Auriol Tompkinson, and, after a few courtier- like addresses to the Indy as she went by. he shouted after her "Coday... mop”--- which. one inferred, was an oblique re- ference to the way her mother had decreed she should wear her hair, in an ambitions moment, some months ago Once the batsman hit a ball far across the brick- croft, and the parson happened to be bassing.
Thank yer, sir." howled the hower. "Leave it-leave it, sir," howled the batsman, staring his fifth run. The para hesitated, and then chrew it back to the howling Creaso. Interferin' old
murmured Tyd'sler. He was de feated at last, and the hat taken from him despite hie, assurances that he hadn't bren ready. The game woke up here. "Ow many are yer? *** inquired the captain of Summer Pince. "Thiry-eight responded Tyd'sley, dropping the in "thirty."Yer've been putting 'em on," en the accusation from all over the field. Batamon, it seems, are in Union Street League cricket trusel to keep their own score. "I mean twen'y eight,' almittel Ty''sley feeling the weight of evidence dead against him.
As the light faded it was difficult to follow the contest to its crisis. Mrs. Jones or Mrs. McDermott did great damage now from their respective door- steps. Even those spared to fight on got a little confund. "Tervond your innin's onst. Get out of it" This cry went up time and again into the darken- ing sky. Then suddenly over the field flashed rumours of the first importance to chowe that had no coals to fetch up
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