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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 19, 1932,
SCOTTISH GOLF.
GREAT OPENING BATSMEN MRS. HOLM AGAIN
PLAYERS WHO
HAVE MADE CRICKET HISTORY
REMINISCENES
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Almost ever since cricket became nserlous pastime and batting a fine art, certain exponents been renowned as essentially first- wicket batsmen-players Ho spletuusly intended to open the hut- ting that it would appear nimost other- an outrage to place them where in the order of going in. With Dr. W. G. Grace facile princeps as usual, the list is a very big one. Most prominent among first wicket names are A. Shewa- Jury, G. Ulyett, A. E. Stoddart, R. Abel, T. Hayward, C. B. Fry, J.
Palairet, Vine, I. C. H.
A. C. Maclaren, A. O). Jones, Iremonger, J. T. Brown, J. Tunnicliffe, P. E. Warner, H. T. Hewett, Hobbs, Sandhum, Hallows, and Holmes and Sutcliffe, who have now broken all records.
Of opening pairs in oversons Victor cricket the incomparable Trumper (with R. A. Dull) must inevitably be placed first. Earlier than they, H. H. Mussie and A. Bannerman, McDonnell and J. J. Lyons, G. Trutt and Bruce, and J. J. Lyons. G. Trott and Bruce, and subsequently Bardsley and Macartney. bave been starting couples terribly hard to dispose of. Since their day, Hobbs-Sutcliffe partnerships have swamped every- thing.
QMASHING a spand record that has stood since 1925, Fred Frame
Los Angeles race driver, Rashed across the finish line at Indianapolis to win the annual Memorial Day 500-mile race at an average speed of 104 miles an hour. The previous record was 191 miles an hour, set by Peter De Paolo. The winner received $20,000 as first prize, and stands to collect a total of $250,000 as featured driver in other races during the year. Frame is shown above crawling from his car at the finish.
Champion of Champions
London Parks Bowls Title
CHAMPION
PROTRACTED FINAL
MRS. COATS LOSES AT
THE 23RD
Cruden Bay, June 25.
Mrs. Andrew Holm, who won
in 1930, fa
Scottish
champlon
nyala, having beaten Mrs. George Coats at the 23rd hole in the final here to-day. In the morning she
defeated 'Miss Millar, 1 up, get-
ting round in 78--âgures repented BABE RUTH
by her in the Anal. Mrs. Conts. with 73 for 17 holes, bent Mrs. Walter Greenlees, 2 and 1, in the other semi-final.
the
The final opened with three halves In par Agures; then Mrs. Halm gat her tee-shot close to the fourth, and won it in 2 to 3. She collected another hole at the fifth, lost the sixth, won the seventh, but turned only up. AL 14th the match was square; at the 15th Mrs. Holm missed a short putt with a wobbly wrist that sug- gested all sorts of horrors. Mr Coats was now fighting with the grandest determination, and she very nearly holed a run-up at the 17th.
RUB OF THE GREEN. Both were malurky at the 18th, Mra. Conta's long drive kicking off a baked hump into burn, Mrs. Holm's coming to rest on the rond by the tennis courts, obs- cured by a large dock-leaf, so that she could not see the ball when striking at it. Mrs. Holm got out magnificently, only to miss a 4ft. Bult which would have given her! the match. One of the same length was in and out again for her at
INJURED
TEARS LIGAMENT IN FIELDING
MAY BE OUT OF GAME FOR THREE WEEKS
New York, July 18. "Babe Ruth, one of the home run leaders of the current Ameri- can baseball season, suffered a torn Bigament to his right leg when attempting to field a short fly in the seventh innings of to-day's
match.
He will probably be out of the game for three weeks.-Reuter,
SPORT ADVTS.
RIDING SCHOOL.
On the other hand, we have and have had those superb batsmen,
At Vauxhall Park, the London; but a recovery by C. Brownridge who, whatever the order of their
Parks B.A. held the semi-finals | (Mountsfield) reduced the figures, going in, shine just as brightly and rarely go first to the wicket, and anal of the annual champion- Sowter winning by 21-17. Among present-day batsmen the ship of champions, an even, in The fit lasted 27 ends. Sowter the 19th, where Mrs. Conta pat a
At the 20th both | HONGKONG most conspicuous examples of this which only champions of clubs in led 4-3 at five ends, and at ten run-up dead. are W. Hammond and Messrs. A. the preceding year may compete. ends by 94. Watson had a run missed possible putts; at the 21st Pymmes Park, II. of four winning ends in the next rs. Holm's twelve-yard putt hit Last year. F. Chapman, A. W. Carr, and Watson (North Greenwich) com- five, A useful four put Watson the hole and came out, while Mrs. P. G. H. Fender. In the part, Sir
to Couta's short one just missed. peted in and won a strenuous final jup 3 shots, but Sowter stuck Stanley Jackson and K. 8.
At the 22nd Mrs. Coats put a (Old Jockey Club Ranjitsinhji rarely went in earlier against A. A. Simmons (Clissold him and caught him at the 24th
has Park), and again be
come end with a four-IB all. Each perfect tee-shot on than first, second, or third wicket
to the green | Stables, Causeway through and won the event, by made a single, and Sowter, at the Mrs. Holm's was shout "and" in a down, nor did M. A. Noble
Bay) Thener she as near Australia. But une might multip-21-19, thereby retaining the cup last end, had a fine chance of win-deep hollow.
presented by Alderman Cornish,ning with one on, and a safe draw.ļas nothing holed her pitch, and ly instances,
J.P.
He played his last wond a little the hole was halved in 3. This "W.G.'S" RECORD.
In each semi-final, a good game too firmly, moving his wood and was the decisive moment. for it horsemanship. Schooling ponies Because in those days the feat
being Hegn. After was
13-3 the jack slightly to Watson's, but the rd Mrs. Coats was away to and horses. Ponies for hire. was so comparatively rare in big
That one was the right amongst the sandhills: Keeping ponies and horses. exposed, and Watson, with a firm Mrs. Holin neatly suka six yard Ponies and saddlery for sale. wood, perfeetly directed, removed putt. Thus Lo her went the Sowter's shot and won the cham-Scottish title for the second time CAPT. N. A. ROJDESTVIN, pionship for the second successive and the longest ladies' champion- [year.
ship final on record.
for
games, "W's" firstwicket stand down, Watson overhauled T. Mar- still being one in.
In the of 283 runs with B.B. Cooper, for tin. winning by 21-- 17.
other heat, F. S. Sawter (Whit- Gentlemen v. Players of the South breads) held the lead all the way, at the Oval, in 1869, remained a record for years. Grace's share
was 180 and Cooper's 101 (in $2 Hove. Among many delightful
total of 553), and both fell in exactly the same way-e. and b. Mantle, "who had been put on as a
forloru hope." The G.O.M.'s later opening-wicket exploits included, with T. G. Matthews, 208
for
episodes of the kind to Lionci Palairet's credit, first place.may be given to his and H, T. Hewell's 346 | versus Yorkshire, when Somerset to was justifying her elevation Gloucestershire v. Yorkshire in 1873 of high renown, A. C. Maclaren and first-class rank. Two other stylists 20 with A. J. Webbe for the Gen-R. H. Spooner, enjoyed an opening tlemen in 1875, 170 with Scotton stand of 368 for Lancashire y Australia in 1886 and 172 with Mr. Gloucestershire at Liverpool in Sellers in 1. Zingary's Jubilee 190, Maclaren's previous best of match at Lord's in 1895-hitting the kind having been his and Hay- off without loss the runs required. ward's 314 at Sydney against New It was in successive seasons, South Wales. A Shrewsbury and IR97-8, that J. T. Brown and A. Jones's 301 before being Tunnicliffe can up scores of 878 separated took place at Bristol. and 551 for Yorkshire, before & against Gloucestershire in 1899. wicket fell. In the first of these Much could be, and has been, events, at Sheffield against Sussex written of the first-wicket stands of without Fry and! "Ranji"), Hayward and Hobbs, Hobbs and Brown, with 311 runs and only one Sandham. Hobba and Sutcliffe, life, hit what was then the highest Holmes, and Sutcliffe. Lord's wit- ever made for Yorkshire. The other nessed the great triumph of Holmes occasion was Walter Sugg's benefit in the Yorkshire and
Middlesex muteh, Yorkshire v. Derbyshire, at contest of 1925, when the gifted Chesterfield. With the total of Yorkshireman, in scoring 315 not! 564, whereof he had contributed out. eclipsed Mr. Ward's 278, exactly 300, Brown knocked his which had been the record at hend- OWA stuns down. The poor quarters for over a century. Peakites lost by an innings and Holmes's superb effort was chance- 387...
Wonderful little "Bobby" Abel (Sutcliffe) had to retire through less, and though his first partner collaborated in great opening part-an injury, the score was up to 209 nerships for Surrey with Huy for only one wicket. ward, Brockwell, and the linte D. L. S. P. Kinnear, the stolid War- A Jephson. The highest scoring wickshire batsman, partnered J. F. of these several efforts, 379 with Byrne in an opening stand of 333 Brockwell, at Kennington, in 1807, against the Lancashire attack in was at the expense of Hampshire. 1905. He many times started the It beat by one run the partnership county latting with Quaife, and in of Brown and Tunnicliffe, above re-seven seasons he exceeded the 1,000 ferred to, which had just previous aggregate, His average for P. F. ly set up a record. Abel's share Warner's second team to Australia was 173 and Brockwell's 225, and was 412. The feat of which Kin- during Surrey's long Innings of near himself was proudest was that nearly 600, all the Hampshire men of carrying his bat through both went on to bowl. In 1900 Abel and innings against Leicestershire in D. L. A. Jephson devastated the 1907-70 out of 239 and 69 out Derbyshire attack to the tune of of 266.
264. The former had hit 193 when That Incorrigible maker and caught by Bestwick (who had pre-breaker of records, the Victorian, viously missed him), while the W. H. Ponsford, was associated amateur went on to score 203. with E. R. Mayne in "collecting" With Brockwell for partner, Abel 456 for first wicket of his State v also put up Arst-wicket scores of Queensland at Melbourne in 1924. 204, v. Warwickshire, 270, v. Kent, In Australia, too, Hobbs and and 231, v. Sussex (all in 1897), Rhodes' magnificent 323. for War- and 265, v. Warwickshire (1898). ner's second team, at Melbourne, A REMARKABLE DOUBLE. set up a record for Tests! for n In an extraordinary match at lengthy period the Commonwealth's Hastings between. Sussex and first-wicket highest remained at Surrey in 1902, when 1,427 runs Bardsley and Sydney Gregory's were totalled and but twenty-two 180 at Kennington in 1909. Once wickets fell, the 200 for the first more, at Melbourne, we must noto partnership was uchioved by both Hobbs and Sutcliffe's fine stort of aldes--Abel and Hayward 246 for 283. v. Australia in 1923-4. It was Surrey, C. B. Fry and Vine 238 Hobbs with Hayward who stop- for the home team, who declared at shed the world by exceeding the 705 for eight men.
hundred for first wicket of Surrey There were a number of other four times in one week of 1907-** such partnerships between Mr. Fry 106 and 125 v. Cambridge Univer- and Vine, including 287 against uity, 147 and 105 v. Middlesex- Hampshire and 220 against Cam- and by making over 100 together bridge University, both in 1904, on three consecutivo occasions in and 210 v. Kent in 1902, all at five days of 1908. Prodigious!
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