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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1929.
AUSTRALIA'S CRICKET
TROUBLES.
CLİNGING TO “OLD MEN."
Australia's plight makes the opinion' na the cause of her trou-! bles, voiced by Mr. Dan Reese, chairman of the New Zealand Cricket Council, of particular value to the cricket follower. Mr. Reese, the best all-rounder ever developed in New Zealand, played for Essex and London County in long-ago years.
He knew the game, and he knows the merits and demerits of Its leading figures. His view, ini a nutshell, is that Australia has beaten herself by clinging to the "old men."
Mr. Reese's views on Australia's cricket troubles were comunica- ted in a long letter to "Not Out," of the Sydney Referee, one of the leading authorities on the
game
on the Australian Press.
"Mr. Reese, after searching the records of the great players over In number of years, submits that the age of 24 is the zenith of a young cricketer's brilliance, though he may continue to do Kreat things afterwards.
"Just take a note of these figures, all being in Test mat- ches," he wrote,
Murdoch's Oval Centuries.
"A. G. Steel was 24 when hel made his 135 in Sydney. W. Murdoch 25 and 27 when he made his famous centuries 163. and. 211 at the Oval in 1880 and 1882. Percy McDonnell 21 when he made bis 147 in Sydney.
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"Syd Gregory was 24 when he made 201 against Stoddart's team.) Johnny Brown was 25 when he won the final Test match in Melbourne for England' with his brilliant 140.
"Ranjitsinhji was 24 when he made that 156 and 50 at Manches- ter against the 1896 team, and 25 when he made 175 at Sydney.
"R. E. Fester was 25 when he made his record score of 187, and Warren Bardsley. was 25 when he made his double century at thei Oval
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"Victor Trumper W18 24 in 1902, and so you can go on right
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after player all shining most brilliantly at that particular period of a young man's career,
"W. G. Grace was probably at his most brilliant singe at that particular age, but his career was so wonderful and such a lengthy one that it is difficult now to select, the moment of the zenith of his brilliancy.
SEAT RETAINED.
LABOUR WINS AT BISHOP AUCKLAND.
London, Feb. 8. The Bishop Auckland by-election owing to the death of the La- follows: bourite, Mr. Ben Spoor, resulted as
Mrs. Hugh Dalton (Labour) 14.- 797:
Mr. A. Curry (Liberal)_7,725. Mr. H. Thompson (Conserva- Live) 3,357.
There is no change-Reuter,
In the last General Election Mr. Ben Spoor polled 15,786, and Mr. J. Bainbridge (Liberal) 12,800.]
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London, Feb. 8.
A further by-election will be necessitated by the death, last night, of Mr. A. W. Dean, aged seventy-two, the Conservative, member for the Holland with Boston division of Lincolnshire.- British Wireless.
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Washington, Feb. 8. The Federal Reserve Board, which has just warned the banks to restrain loans for speculative purposes, has published figures showing that in the week ending Wednesday the member banks of the Federal Reserve system lent brokers a total of $5,669,000,000, which is a record.--Reuter's Ameri con Service.
KOWLOON CONCERT.
ENTERTAINMENT BY ST. ANDREW'S BROTHERHOOD.
A first rate entertainment was provided at St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, last night, when an enjoyable variety programme was submitted by "The Quertes" con- cert party under the auspices of the St. Andrew's Brotherhood."
The Sume Discovery,
From the opening chorus, which "If you look up the perform was brightly rendered by the ances of F. S. Jackson, A. C. party, to the grand finate, the Maclaren, G. L. Jessop, and others, numbers were extremely pleasing You will make the anme discovery and received well deserved ap- "Joe Darling was 27 when he plause from the audience. In- made that wonderful 160 against eluded in the programme were Stoddart's team, and centuries in Three of the five Tests that sea-other forme
songs, humorous
Hon.
#pasma and of entertainment dividual members of the party. which were ably performed by in-
"Hem Hill's greatest effort will probably rank as his 188 against
Those contributing were Mfr. the Englishmen in Melbourne Brudonall, Mr. Shepherd, Mr. when he was only 20 years of age White, Mr. Brown, Mr. Williams, but this only further exemplifies Mr. Duffy, Mr. Finch, Mr. Watling, the brilliance of youth. You will Mr. Steward, Mr. Gould, Mr. niso probably find that Harry Greenbank, "The Erbs," Mr. Good Graham's 107 against Stoddart's win, Mr. Ives Snelling. team was when he Was Found
about 24 (and a your earlier ut
Lord's he made 103.)
Was the
"That
time when policy of both sides hna become Richardson in the Sydney Test one of "keeps.'
started with three slips and no "Until some change takes place. ́out-fields and finished up with you will never again see a won- three out-fields and no slips.
derful knock as Joe Darling's 25 when he smashed Richardson's fast stuff as fast bowling has rare- ly ever been hit.
"Charles Bannerman · was when he made that dashing first Australia's Cricket Troubles (2.) century in Test matches, 165 in the 1877.
Two Exceptions, "Though all the carcers of great players I do not know of anybody but Grace and Macartney who remained to do most brilliant deeds when they may be said in have reached the veteran stage,.
"The fact that Australia should now select its No. 1 side with only one or two men under 30 is enough to make one weep.
"And it must make young Aus- tralian cricketers feel that the reatment of Kippax is not going to be an isolated instance,
"Just think of it Kippax was overlooked at 24; be was oyer- "I played against Hobbs in looked again at 26. Test match 1906, when he was dashing and records are the poorer by Kippax brilliant, but I never thought having been kept out of it. would live to see the day when. at the age of 12, he would allow Malley, in a Test match, to fiold
"England made the same sort of mistake in 1921, when they over- looked Hubert Ashton for some
to him a silly-point and a allly old soldiers, who would not sland mid-on, and only have one out-up to Gregory and McDonald," field at deop square leg.
"If players will not retire by the
Three Sound Judges,
time they are from 85 to 40 years "I should think you might have. of age at the outside, then they to get back to the type of selector will have to be left out to make the Australian players had them- room for youngor men,
selves when they managed their "Of course, there are excep own affairs, for, it in doubtful if tions like Grace, Hobbs, and Australia ever had a better solce- Macartney, who would adorn any Lion committeo than Noble, Aldo, and have been a lower of Trumble, and Darling-all in their strength even in the advanced prime, all sound Judges, and all years of their careers; but as a believing in bringing in one.or Keneral rule players should begin two young fellows at a time so to play Scotch when they get as to maintain an even balance past the middle thirties, and when for an all round side, with the out- individuals play for keeps it slows fielding properly provided for.
England must accept her "One never' sees to-day the titter of excitement which went share of the responsibility also round the ground when butsmen for picking men who must make of the type of Jessop, Lyons, Gru-Test matches slow in the extreme, um, McDonnell, Massic, and such and almost incapable of reaching. hitters walked out to take strike, the dazzling heights of some of
the deeds of the past. Stereotyped Game:
"Chapman and Hammond are, "Nearly everybody plays the of course, capable of changing came stereotyped game to-day, the whole character of present- with just an occasional bit of day Test match batting. Let us punch from somebody, but the hope they will not slow up because
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