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THE NEW WISDEN,"
PROWESS AND POLITIES.
THE GENESIS OF THE GOOGLY.
Reviewing the dew issue of Wisden," the Cricket correspondent of The Observer writes:
Same
STATE DRINK CONTROL. IDEAL PUBLIC-HOUSE DISLIKED
WOMEN ATTRACTED FROM HOME.
(BY BIR PERCIVAL PHILLIPS.]
CARLISLE Socialists and other misguided theorista Those who appreciate a broad and statesman like review of the widest issues point proudly to this ancient border affecting English cricket will probably town as the first fruits of the policy of turn at once to the Notes by the State ownership. The drink traffic is a Editor," the work year after year of the Government monopoly, managed from pen, which set the key to the Whitehall, and it is the dream of the judicial and accurate temper of the whole present leaders of Labour to extend its! book. This year Mr. Farden is whle to paternal influence to the rest of Great write in a distinctly, more hopeful vein Britain.
If you examine the so-called." Carlisle as to the general level of our cricket, and suggests that our continued failure scheme carefully, and without official to beat the Australians has tended to assistance, you will find that the people blind many of us.to the very genuine in who are now compelled to buy their beer provement in our form since the disas- from the State view it in an entirely, trous summer of 1929. Perhaps we may diferent light They regard themselves, so far supplemen; his verdict na to say not as pioneers in a glorious social re that, leaving apart the ill-tack of the volution, but as the victims of a parti toss, the presence of another "straight-cularly shabby confidence trick on the forward bowler of real class might very part of the Government. well indeed have turned the scale in Aus tralia. Macaulay, for instance, under happier circumstances, would have been a great addition to our bowling strength,
PURELY A WAR MEASURE." but as Lord Hawke himself admitted, be had, for his exclusion, no-one but himself
Thus the State became the Licensed to blaine. In this connection Mr. Pardon writes frankly and firmly of the lack of Landlord by the simple expedient of discipline that, in more than one in giving privato landlords ten days notice stance, marred the harmony of last year's to quit. A appeal to patriotism stifled cricket and he puts bis finger upon the the very natural objections to this un- one unfailing remedy, the assertion of usual procedure. Publicans and sinners authority by the captain." The disis-alike were reassured that it was purely trous effects of last year's weather upon the halance sheets, of most of the counties i cent measure, and as such it was a
not unnaturally led them to play with
Nearly nine years ago the State turned publican, ostensibly to protect the thou sands of munition workers in this area from the evils of drink.
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But it continued after victory." White-
the idea of protecting the whole of the hall began to look on its new venture as wicket, but most cricketers will agres a going concern. Carlisle does not know in his exactly how it came about, but one day with the Editor of "Wisden satisfaction that the M.C.C. have refused in 1991 a new Licensing Act was born, to be stampeded into any drastic legis- lation, and that even their very limited innovation is permissive "only and not obligatory...
MR. BOSANQUET ON THE GOOGLY,
confirming and more firmly establishing jurisdiction over the traffic in deick, with the Home Secretary and the Secretary for, Scctland as Head Publicans on a kind of William-and-Mary basis, and a Central Advisory Board, fortified by local advisory boards, to reader such com fort and encouragement as might be ne ssary in quenching the thirst of the controlled border district
THE STATE DOESN'T CARE
This year there are but two special fea- tures in the Almanack. The death, at the age of ninety, of George Wootton has suggested to the Editor tha the modern
Thus the working man discovered that generation might well be reminded of a long bygone but important phase of the peace had its horrors no less than war. game of which Wootton was the last He has endured State beer for nine years living representative. Before the era of and has come to the considered opinion international matches began there were that the Home Secretary is a bad land.. Bo games that excited keeper interest. lord. He wants a change none that produced a higher standard of play, than the meetings between the "All- The State public-house offers him a England" and the United elevens. To large, open room-no little nooks or
secret become a member of one of these famous
corners, for they encourage combinations was then the height of every drinking-with curtains tightly professional cricketer's ambition. not drawn across leaded windows, low-beam- merely because they alone represented fored ceilings, walls of a restful" tint him the certainty of regular employment adorned with copies of old English all the Beason for county cricket was coinured prints, and orderly oak tables still spasmodic-but also because to play and uniform chairs or settles ranged for them was to gain the blue tiband of the cricket world. Mr. Pardon wis primly facing a large central bar with with authority of the elevens and their its upper half enclosed by a lattice of un-
painted wood.
Yet he is not satisfied. The cold, bard matches, and appends a most interesting talk of averages, which will, perhaps brightness and studied uniformity cause- evoke a smile from those who do dotigue discomfort. Here is the Ideal appreciate the nature of a Lord's wicket Public-House which, if shown as one of sixty years ago, or for whom the names the settings in a musical comedy (where of John Jackson and Robert Carpenter
of the most attractive seem rightly stand for little or nothing. More to such to belongy would woke expressions of ad- quite indif gentlemen's taste will be Mr. Bosanquet's; really entertaining little article on Theiration, but it leaves Him Googly: the Senpegoat of Cricket," He way have agreed with the party which he tells us of its casual origin, oratory who continually cram the creed irresponsible and often scandalous child of Socialism down his throat, but he bus hood, its days of brilliant and haffling discovered-although perhaps cot yet virtuosity, and, so far as its prope associating the discovery with any theory pareat is concerned, its determined re of Socialisan-that he has a machine in tirement after a discreditable old age.stead of a buman being for a host. Peculiarly interesting is his opinion that
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In-
to speak of the googly as having neces stead of a potman there is a State ser aitated a fundamental revolution in the ant: instead of a landlord he sees only
3 Government inspector. The batsman's art is pure noose
He must drink what he is told to drink. googis, he points out, is merely the off If he does, not like the beer brewed by break disguised, and the disguise can the State brewery (and he says very readily, and should be, penetrated: once frankly and with rhetorical teimmings unmasked, it has no peculiar threat to that he does not like it) he can go with. offer.
out. The State doesn't care. WOMEN'S BOOM-
ROME FAMILIAR NEATE KES..
There are roonis
The obituary list for the past year is His womenfolk are given special bars heavy, and includes many names once as of their own-strange innovation which familiar as household words in the Rena private landlord would ever have Walter Money and Walter Humphries there passed away two who made history dared introduce and this adds to his
perplexity of mind. with the now rarely seen and generally where men and women may sit together, despised lob. Money in the late sixties, was one of the most brilliant members of but nearly every State public-house has strong Harrow and Cambridge elevens, at least one apartment for women only, whilst Humphries lob-bowling actually land as a rule it is wet filled during the evoning. The special drinking facilities wad him a place in an English eleven to for women are encouraged by many sup- Australia: Anongst others to be com memorated are Alec Bannerman, the porters of State control a the ground Scotton of Australia, who once won his that their homes do not afford suficient
zoeans for recreation.
Undoubtedly this feature of the new country therubier" by batting seven and a half hours for Of Jack Board, public-house has attracted women who the Cloucestershire wicket-keeper, whose cheery temper and love for the game will would otherwise have stayed at home. I be sorely missed by all who knew him; have seen them sitting in tightly packed Walter Lens, whose lovely catapultic rows against the walls, or on wooden benches between the tables-so many of action rendered him an almost worthy them at times that there was scarcely,
of successor to Lockwood; Ernest Bobson, Somerset, who, when well past fifty, could still bowl a better length for his county! and George Street, whose than most; tragic
ant wicket-keeper.
rosto more..
The area covered by State control com- rises the city of Carlisle and a portion of the surrounding country for
tance of about 30 miles. Altogether there As in the last two years, Mr. H. S. were about 300 public houses in the con- Altham writes fully on the Public trolled area. Not all of these were taken Schools, and once again he is fain to over. In Carlisle the State acquired 110 admit that he finds no side that he would and left only three licensed premises free. In some of the surrounding districts hare backed to beat Eton Bugby and State and private ownership divide the Charterhouse both had welcome revivals, and Sherborne were eminently successful.licensed houses between thent. Five bre If the form in the two "representative wories were taken over.. matches was, not very convincing, it is
to be remembered that the whole Reason
Cricket Records," which for years has
was sorely against boys, and there are been one of the outstanding features of certainly a number of young cricketers the book, seems this year to be even more. whose future carrers seem well worth voluminous and comprehensive than watching. Mr. Holmes, of Malvern, mest ever it is betraying no secret to say fills the public but it would be an that this is Mr. Ashley Cooper's province, wise to forget Mr. Turnbull, of Down-so that their authoritativeness need not side, who, for-Glamorgan in August, be questioned. But, when alt is said, tar showed that professional bowling on mud delight of Wisden" for the average wickets had no terrors for him, which readers lies in the sasarance that, where- the two Etoniane, Messrs. Bateson and ever be opens the book he will light on Colibold, gave us welcome proof in the something of interest. By the merest big match at Lord's that length is not yet a lost art in amateur bowling.
The Five Cricketors of the year comprise the two South African batsmen, Mr. Taylor and Mr. Catterall, Mr. Mac Bryan, of Somerset, Whysal! and Richard Tyldesley The astonishing collection of (Continued at fact of next Column.)
hazard I glanced at the bowling averages for the second-class county matches, and my eye was caught by the following legend-8. F Barnes, 13 wickets for 7.18 apiece! And that at the age of forty- eight. I wonder whether even Maurice Tate will make such a shoving early twenty years hence.
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