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HISTORIC TEST THRILLS.
SOME INTERESTING CRICKET
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Remarkable stories about old Test match players and notable incidents in Test matches between Engida and Aus tralia are recalled by a writer in the Ceylon Independent, who says:-Perhaps the most exciting in the long series is the historic runs match ́"
at the Oval
AFTER-WAR PROBLEMS,
PLEA FOR SEAMEN AND EX-SERVICE MEN.
Mr. Basil Peto. during the debate on the Address in the House of Commons on December 10th, supported the cause of ex-Service pensioners, and entered a pled for consideration of the position of British seamen in view of the clause in the trade treaty with Germany respect- ing the employment of Germans in British ships.
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He hoped the Minister of Pensions would look at the case of the ex-Service men from a wide point of view. There had been so many changes of Government that the ex-Service pensioners had haz nothing done for them. It was a rapidly- diminishing obligation, and, therefore, there was every reason for dealing with these cases liberally
The following stirring account appears of that dramatic contest in R. G. Barrow's Forty Seasons of First Class Cricket,
I shall never forget this match while 1 tive. The excitement was indescribable and the scene after the match something to remember for all time. The strain on the spectators was so great at the finish that one onlooker dropped down dead. Another with his teeth, gnawed pieces out of the top of his umbrella. When they were considering the poss That was the match in which for the fionlibility of the employment of those men amp while the celebrated batsmen A. remember that under existing industrial half-hour you could have heard a pia who were partially disabled, they must P. Lucas and Alfred Lyttleton were conditions a large proportion were bar together and Spofforth and Boyle bowling red from earning anything at all. When at them, as they had never bowled be the Royal warrant was issued, that con- fore. That was the match in which the dition of affairs was not taken into con. last English batsman had to screw his sideration because there was a grant courage to the sticking place by the, aid movement for the employment of all ex- of champagne."when one man's lips were Service men, but that had not worked ashen grey and his throat so parched that out. he could hardly speak as he strode by Twenty per cent of the disabled cases me to the crease; when the scorer's band received nothing at all, and had to have sbook so that he wrote Peates name recourse to Poor-law relief. The nation
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whose had only one pocket, and the question opinion is quoted above by Barlow also was whether these men should be thrown said:"I doubt whether there will ever on the Poor-law or charity, or get their be such another game for prolonged and deserts from the Government terribly trying tension. Lest we forget Australia won that match by 7 rupa.
GERMAN REPARATIONS.
As to German reparations, what was the position with regard to the war losses
In another veteran's roninisence of that match I remember reading that of people in this country? He had T. B. Studd, with, his pads on, waiting always understood that those who suffer- to go in, could not remain in the paved by the sinking of our vessels by Ger tion, so great was his mervous tension in submarines were to be dealt with so they had to put him in a cab and took as a first charge on money received in him for a short drive outside the Oval. the way of reparations. There were sea He then went in and carried his bat cut men's claims and claims such as he had for nought.
in his constituency of men whose sole wealth in the world was one little ship sunk by the Germans.
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GLAM HILL'S" FEAT.
There have been other very exciting
It was understood that, at all events," games and extremely close finishes. For instance in 1902 when Australia beat these claims would be settled by the England at the Old Trafford by three British Government, but the Commission runs the excitement was profound. The set up under Lord Sumner bad only most memorable incident in that gaze £3.000.000 disburse, and they whittled was Clem Hill's catch at square leg. down the clainis to what they thought, where he dismissed Dick Lilley of Hugh was right and then went into the case Trumble's bowling. I have just glanced from the point of view of how far it at Lilley's book "Twenty year's of could be mess within the limit of the Cricket and find this reference to the £5,000,000, not a penny of which came incident I have quoted- When I was from Germany, but from the British at the wickets together with Rhodes we Treasury. were within eight runs of victory, then made a big square leg hit off
The Treaty of Commerce and Naviga-" Truiable and Hill, Belding on the boun dary towards long on started of st fulltion with the German Reich included. speed. It did not seem possible at first perhaps inevitably, a provision by which German anh cts were once more to be to make the catch, but the wind sed admitted to the rights which other for to get under the ball slightly turning it eiziera possessed of serving in the in its flight and enabled Hill to bring British mercantile marine. off a magnificent catch while running at
Undoubtedly every German steward full speed. Clem Hill by the way and every German seaman who was em to-day one of Australia's threr Saleployed in a British ship would met one The fast batsman in was F. Tate British seaman, unless they were to be to more unemployed British steward and
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ing his debut in England. Australia lieve the claim of the shipowning com matches. Tate Senior went in with eiga:munity that these. German stewards and Geraan semen were so essential that runs more win. He hit a ball to (eg they would enable them to undertake for four but the next one bowled him what they could not possibly do without and Australia triumphed by three runs these German-speaking people on "board: There other instance on record in
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CLLYETT'S CATCH. - . Talking about sensational catches in Test matches one is reminded of the in- cident that took place in 1882 also at Manchester. Ullyett's Catch" has be come historic in Test match annals. George Giffen in his Reminiscences "Fights for the Ashes" says The when we came to consider ratifying the catch with which Ullyett dismissed agreement with regard to Imperial Pre- Bonnor 1 regard as one of the most bril- ference it would be a very reasonable lians I have ever seen. Bonnor had been proposal that a cargo which claimed pro- sunt in to knock off the dangerous York-ferential Customs duties should come to shirenmn. He got one fourer and then this country from our Deminions and made a mighty drive. Every one looked Colonies in British bottoms. down the ground to seo where the ball landed, and the spectators began to open a space in the ring but the ball did not reach the crowd. Ullyett put up his hand and meeting it with the right spot of his hand held it. I was Bonnor's vis-a-vis at the time and fully appreciat ed the merit of that effort.
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ARMAMENTS YEAR-BOOK. PUBLICATION BY LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
Another historic catch made in a Text
The Secretariat of the League of match has been credited to G. R. Hazlitt, Nations has issued an Armaments Fears a member of Rev. E. F. Waddy's team, Book, containing information concerning. that came to Ceylon in 1914. Hazlitt 37 countries, Members and non-Members played for Australia. England at of the League of Nations, as follows:- Sydney in the Fourth Test. He was feld Albania, Argentine, Australia, Austria, ing a short leg to Hobbs, who was a Chile, China. Czceboslovakia, Denmark, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, ing Dr. Hordern. Here is Plum Warner's description of that catch Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany, "Hazlitt was felding at short leg to Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, "India, Hordern, Hobbs cocked a ball up, Hazlitt Italy, Japan, Latvia, Luxemburg, The duebed in shot our his right arm and Netherlands. Newfoundland, New Zea falling prone, caught the ball a couple land, Norway, Poland, Roumanis, King- of inches from the ground." Hazlitt dom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, made yet another historic catch in a Test. Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Union of watch England at the Oval in the South Africa, Union of Socialist Soviet Triangular Tests of 1912, when he per. Republits, United States of America. formed somersault, at short leg in The Year Book consists of a series of catching pooter off Macartney..
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