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NOURSE HITS HIS THIRD HUNDRED
South African Punishes Oxford Bowling
London, May 18. After a most interesting day's play Oxford are left with
some-
played an indeterminate stroke to a short ball from. Darwall-Smith. and his patient innings was end- ed by a catch in the gully." thing of a problem to face. South
Then we had a little excitement Africa won the toss and made 372.
Oxford and then Oxford lost two valuable-pair.ful excitement for
was wickets for 68 runs, writes a cric-supporters-for ke: correspondent.
It has been an odd game so far. apart from the fact that Nourse has scored his usual century. This Nourse is becoming a nuisance. He
bas new made three hundreds in succession. and h's average is hor- ribly high.
rurs
Stlu. we do not grudge him his He is beautiful player with a refreshing confidence and strength
him.
left The about
NEW LBW. RULE SIGNALS The M.C.C. are to ask all the county clubs to arrange for umpires specially to signął all 1.b.w. decisions under the ex- perimental rule.
By this method already in operation at Lord's the M.C.C. hope to get a record which will be helpful when the effects of the new rule are considered.
Cameron dropped three times. Although be pleaded in cold fingers may extenuation. these lapses proved to be costly. After the luncheon interval Nourse and Cameron set about the
bowling. and before we had realy settled down Nourse, had raced to his third successive hundred
LEGARD GETS GOING At this period Oxford were in a sad way. There were 230 runs on the board and only three wickets down, but suddenly Legard changed the whole course of the game. Swinging very late. he made Cameron edge one to Mit- chell-Innes at first slip, and this time the catch was held. Then, continuing a magnificent over, he tied Dalton up into a small par- cel and sent him back to the pa- vilion Dalton was all bút kb.w. to the second ball. and beaten by the fight. and bowled by the sixth, a yorker.
Nourse felt that he must put a
stop, to this, so in Legard's next
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1935.
U. S. BASEBALL
Giants Suffer Reverse
New York, June 2.
The New York Giants suffered defeat to-day at the hands of the Boston Braves who won by two runs to n in the National Base- ball League. The leaders, however, are still well ahead of the other competing teams.
There was an unusual per cent- age of home runs scored in the between Boston Red Sox match and New York Yankees In the American League, in which the leaders won by seven runs' to two.
There were altogether seven home runs registered. Dickey, of the Yankees, claimed
two.
:
of which Bill
Results of to-day's matches as cabled by Reuter follow!
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia Brooklyn
R. H. E
T 10 5 11 3
0
(Bucher and Taylor scored home runs for the Dodgers,
New York
Boston (Urbanski
0
2 6
1
secred a home
run
for the Braves),
St... Louls Chicago
6 · 10 57
2
t
(J. Colling scored a home run for the Cardinals).
Pittsburgh
8 13 0 Cincinnati................ 0 5 1 (There was violent rain during
shoulder well over the line of the ball the punch through the cov- ers, the straight drive, the cut, over he drove him superbly past and the hook-these are his wea-cover to the boundary four times |
uses them with drastic treatment which might the match). pons, and he
break any bowler's heart. power.
and
Legard. however, does not take It amazes to think that Nourse and all the tourists are Saturday his cricket too seriqusly, and he afternoon players in South Africa. I had his revenge. In the next over the sort of players who turn out he beat Nourse with a beauty. It for Hampstead
Wimbledon swung in, broke away and went here. Lonk at Nourse. off the shoulder of Nourse's bat though, and you see a class hats man; and he is not the only one In the side whose mature style is surprising.
Ever
FLUCTUATING GAME
I say it has been an odd game because
fortune has swung so sharply. South Africa had made 232 with only three wickets down. and then a few minutes later the scoreboard read 283-{$.
to Balance in the gully. When Legard followed this triumph by getting Virtent palpably 1.b.w.. he four had taken four wickets. "in overs for 17 runs, and Nourse had runs in four made 16 of those strokes.
...
LAST-WICKET STAND Balaskas did not last long, and eight wickets were down for 257. A dramátic change, indeed. Tom- This collapse was due to some inson and Langton checked the admirable bowling by Legard, who landslide, but when Langton was played for Oxford in 1932. Legard caught at backward point" off- .is L right-hand medium-paced Singleton with the total 283, we cowler, and to-day he was swing-were by no means prepared for "ing the ball both ways very late another swing of forture, and a and varying his flight and pace last-wicket partnership which put cleverly. He took Dve wickets al on 89 invaluable runs. together, and at one perlod his Tomlinson played excellent cric- analysis read! 4-2-17-4-arid | ket, though, and Bell kept this bat of those 17 runs Nourse made 16 out of danger. Thus Oxford had in boundary strokes!
to face the very respectable total Mark, then. when we were about of 372,
dis- to congratulate Oxford ori
The Oxford innings began missing their opponents so cheap-half past five, and it began very ly, the last South African wicket cheerfully, Benn and Halliday put on 89 runs. Tomlinson battled | showed no respect for Bell and uncommonly well but the truth Langton, but after they had scor- Is that Oxford were a bowler shorted 18 briskly. Halliday was for an innings of this length. to a brilliant slip catch by Vin-
The morning was so cold that | cent off Langrow. enly a few penguins were needed Then came-De Saram, "most at- to complete the Arctic scene when | tractive of batsmer: and he stir- Darwali-Smith and Legard open-qur hopes with a glorious ed the Oxford bowling to Wade cut off Bell. He was apparently and Siedle. The wicket was fact seeing the ball well but at 37 he and true, and the South Africans was 1.b.w. to Bell, and Benn and were obviously in no scrt of hurry. Mitchell-Innes played out time
with complete confidence.
WADE SOON OUT Wade, quite naturally, was an xcus to get rurs. for he has not had the best of luck so far. But when he had made 10 he tried to turm a short one from Darwall- Smith and was easily caught and bowled.
Then, immediately afterwards, Rowan.chased a ball from Legard outside his off-stump and cut it hard into Ballance hands in the gully. Two wickets down for 21. and the South Africans had made. another bad start, though they 'seem to thrive on adversity.
Siedle gave half a chance the alps, and Nourse edged one from Legard in the way · which gives a bowler mingled feelings of¡ mortification and hope, but they these two fine players "settled down to business. Nourse particularly impressive: he batted with the confidence of a man who' knows that both his eye and his luck are in.
er.
SOUTH AFRICANS
H. F. Wade, c and b D.
Smith
I. J. Stedle, c Ballance, b
D. Smith
E. A. Rowen, e Ballance,
il
at
out
square
10
52
b Legard
3
A. D. Nourse.
c Ballance.
b Legard
148
39
0
H. B. Cameron, c M.-Innes,
b Legard
E. L. Dalton,
Legard
X. Balaskas, e M.-Immes, b
D. Smith.
in
C. L. Vincent, .b.w. b Le-
gard
D. Tomunson, not out.....
70
14
24
8
Nourse ar economical play- He wastes na scoring oppor- funities. Anything overpitched he drives with a full-blooded thump, and anything short he hooks vic- lously.
Walker switched his attack about. He tried Baliance, the slow left-hander, and Singleton with his off-breaks. Singleton started over
A. B. Langton, c Benn, b
Singleton
A. J. Bell, b Ballance
7, 1-b 1
11
3
Total 372 OXFORD UNIVERSITY
A. Benn, not but
J. G. Halliday, e Vincent, b
Balaskas
26
0
F. C. de Saram, b.w. а
Bell
11
. S. Mitchell-Innes, not
out
B 5. 1-b 21
ו'
20
ཝཱི*****།
7
Total (2 wkts.) 68.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston New York
R. H. E.
2. 8
....... 7 10 0 (Almada scored a home run for the Red Sox and B Dickey hit two home runs for the Yankees. for whom Ben Chaprian, Crosetti, Rolfe and Welkirk also homered).
Cleveland
6 11 t St. Louis
..... 2 90 (Trosky and Averili scored home runs for the Indians),
Washington
Philadelphia
Chicago Detroit
711 1
8.11 វា
5 10 1
0 14 3 (Charles Gehringer scored home run for the Tigers).
BABE RUTH TO RETIRE
"Not Play Another Game"
а
New York, June 2. Babe Ruth, the Boston Brayes assistant manager and formerly of the New York Yankees, has an- nounced that he is retiring from
baseball.
After watching the Boston Braves play from the stand Ruth said that he intended to go on the voluntary retired 1st.
"I hate to tell you boys this, but I will not play another game so long as Judge Emil Fuchs remains at the head of the team," added Ruch. "I've got money enough to live on anyhow."
Ruth alleged that Fuchs ordered play to-morrow despite. him to Ruth's request for permission to go to New York to attend the ar- rival of the French luxury liner. Normandle. Reater.
RUTH RELEASED
Boston, June 3. Fuchs, announcing that Ruth had been given unconditional re- lease, said that he had never had
any trouble with the Babe until he i
turned down the latter's request to go to New York in connection with the Normandie celebrations.
Ruth has no immediate plans,
but he is still ambitious to manage a Big League team- Reister.
HIGHEST PAID PLAYER
It is twenty-one years ago since Babe Ruth Arst took up baseball professionally. When he left school in 1914 he signed a contract; Ee the Orioles for $600.
D. F. Walker, J. W Beamer. R. with
M. Kimpton, A. P. Bingleton, later joined Providence and then
the wicket and then bowled round R. S. H. Darwal Smith, T. G. L. Boston Red Sox for whom he for a couple d' overs, but the Baliance and A. R. Legard, to bat. o'clock the hundred went up, and SOUTH AFRICANS-First Innings
batsmen were rooted. At one
Nourse" reached 80 by crashing Legard" påst mid-on to the boun-
It was not until the partnership had put on 117 runs that Slede
O M. R. W Darwall Smith 31 5 109 3 Ballance
25 883 1 Singleton
18 4 -58 1 Legard
39 10 114 5
pitched in his first major league baseball season.
In 1919 he decided to abandon pitching and became an outfielder the better to develop his hitting. He still pitched in some games however,
CROSSWORD PUZZLE:
yu
24
„NOTE-Figures in parentheses indicate number of letters in the words
required.
ACROSS
1-A weed, a wrinkle, a boat, or
a mollusc (8).
4.A break for players to travel
in (8).
10. Take the nails and other things out of this box, or it may be destructive to clothes (9). 11-Income derived from. Govern-
ment stocks, (3).
13-A thing that happens some-
times! (5).
14-An importunate fellow (6), 16 Smoke finds one through the
chimney's Due (6).
19. To drag along the ground (5). 22-An expert sportsman (5),
23. The sweetest time for lovers may vary and reach a "SCUF pitch" (anagram) (9).
23. To proceed thus shows cau-
tion (8). 28-Cordial (8).
DOWN
1-One trained to mark out and
respect the cloth (8). 2-One of the four cardinal
humours (6).
3---A dark red resin (3).
5. We must take things as they come, whether they be good or this (3).
6-A foretaste of thirigs to come
(7)..
When a man gives this to in- dignation, one finds a way out! (4).
NOW
ON SALE
8.This kind of tenant may serve
in place of a better (4). 9.-Most of us see the point of this in solving clues (8). 13. To submit tamely to another's
demands (7),
15.-One will have to solve this in
a roundabout way. (6). 16. Most emphatically yes! as
some say (6). 17-Make haste and look this, so
to speak (6); - .
20-A knight who takes an order.
and (4).
21-gladly, apparently! (4). 23.In this we can find a colonel with one "1" less. (W' you allow it to pass?) (3). 24. Just the same number is wanted for this final clue! (3).
The following is the solution of yesterday's puzzle:-
Across-1. Excise: 6 Oberon: 10. Anchovy; 11, Herald; 12, frente: 13. A-stride; 18. Rated; 17, Shore: 18, FIL-7:
22. 19, C-1-vet: D-R.A.F-t; 25, Referee: 29, Aerial; 30, Yankee: 31, Citadel: 32. Guinea; 33, Stream.
Down--, Ether; 2, Carat: 3, 8a- lad: 4, Ends: 5. Char: 8," Ovid; 7, Byres: 8. Rondo; 9. Niche: 14. Thief: 15. Idler: 19, Clang: 20, Verdi: 21. Trace; 22, Deal-t: 23. Ankle; 24, Therm: 26. Elia: 27. Edam: 28. Eyes.
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