CRICKET IN SOUTH AFRICA
EARLY HISTORY OF CONTESTS WITH ENGLAND
INTERCHANGE of tours OF BENEFIT TO BOTH COUNTRIES
(By R. Abbit)
THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1935.
HELEN WILLS
IN KENT
TENNIS FINAL
PREPARING FOR WIMBLEDON
HER
COME-BACK
meet
Royal Hongkong Golf Club REVIEW OF the man with perforis ances
Meeting Held
AMENDMENTS MADE TO ARTICLES OF
ASSOCIATION LAST EVENING
Round about 1891 he had been un- England's champion, Miss Dorothy vecial Resolution"
Murrow.
the
proportion of fer by him. If such
"Ex-Intentand refund to
PAST SEASON
LOCAL RACING CLOSES
FIRST HALF OF YEAR
above-mentioned com pares favourably performances of animals running weight for Kgs or weight for inches throughout the length and breadth of the globo,
Without in any way wishing to belittle,Bag Tor's splendid effort! must say that I was sorry to see | Able Amazon defeated. All lovers of horses love to ase a good horse | win and no one can say that this sfflendid mare failed through Jack (of courage to concede more than 20-lbs. to another really good horse. These two had met times "out of number but always at weight for inches or thereabouts-- noyer, with such a huge penalty.
thposed:
THE BEST AUSTRALIANS
Of the 1930 Australians fore- comes Cold Morning,
CHAPTER 1
the art of fighting the ball. (CONTINUED)
doubtedly the best medium paced bowler In England. In 1892 he Before going any further with was stricken with tuberculosis and the history of South African went to South Africa which was ericket there is perhaps one point then a recognised retreat for the which should be made clear. In vietinis of this dreadful scourge. giving the date of the first visit Recovering somewhat be returned as 1888, It must be remembered to England in 1895-6 that the South African cricket obliged to return to South Africa season, us in Australia and Hong in the winter of the latter year, in its visit to England. Marray kong, runs roughly from October when he accompanied Lord Hawke. Bisset, who had represented the tu-March. in casca where only/Settled down Bear Magersfontein Western Province, led the side very one year is mentioned, it must be he recovered some measure of capably. He was then twenty- Companies Ordinance 1982, and fresh ance fee, been transferred to an- Champlons and never recovered his cord shows that he is capable of
but
WOR
other station.
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and he also beat the best of the b
that hand-
J. J. Ferris, the Australian who were touring the country when the I well remember as a small boy Colony to the privileges of the Club member is transferred from me and he also beat the best of the Subs, contented with giving her a canter tralian tone of 1888, in which he Altham'a book it is recorded' that and recollect thinking that J. J. regulations and byelect to such on within 12 months of election of all years carrying his full weight over the courac. Shooting Star,
settled in England after the Aus
the
course,
Saucy
Several amendments to the Articles | mambers_who, Immediately after pay. of Association of the Royal Honging the full fee, were transferred to kong Golf Club were approved at another station, the following new special meeting of the Club in Messrs. Articlo was approved to follow Article Jardine Matheson's Boardroom Inst 17:17 (A) The Committee may in evening; and. Messrs J. D. Kinnaird their discretion, in the event of a full Beckenham, June 10. and C. b. Lambert; were elected Life member leaving the Colony within one Mrs. Helen Wille Moorly, former members of the Club,
year
of the date of his election, world's champion Women's tennin Mr. S. 1. Dodwell, Captain of thei transfer such full member to the player, now attempting to regain her Club
register of
members" with the first resolution, hereinafter fermer laurels, is expected to
that in Article 1 the definitions much full me of the
Kent
and of
(Continued from Page 8).. Round, in
here 10-traordinary Resolution"
ball
I fall
camber roturas to the Colony tournament which opens
Fresh from her vietos, in cancelled and the following definitions he shall but his Champion time, 2.38.4/5 shows the St. George's tournament, her first shall be substituted therefor:-(n) been refunded to him together with that Ire is a good an. His stable con- muet to her very creditabla tennis Luurnament since 1938 when "Special Resolution" means special a further sum of $25.00 under Artiele nections are to be congratulated on due
in. the Resty -FIL she dramatically forfeited to Miss resolution of the Club passed in ac- 21, upon receipt of which sums the getting him at the top of his form at win Helen Jacobs, the former champion cordance with Section 110 (2) of the Committee may restere Buch full the right time. He won his three Derby. Her subsequent efforts
Ordinance 1932, is regarded as the strongest compeli Companies Or
race in a row. The Tower Stakes, have not been at all successful, (b) member to the register of full mem-
The Subscription Griffin's Challenge but I feel we will find her Resolution tion Miss Hound has met in the past "Extraordinary
cans bors as hereinafter provided. an extraordinary resolution of the two years-United Press,
The Captain said: The present
and the Sub, Grifin's Champions, prominent again Sup
when the St, in accordance with See, entrance fee is $150 for a full mem- and funnily enough, Lucky Club passer tion 118 (1) of the Companies Orber. Cancs have occurred where new secret to him an ench occasion. This record to her as dinance 1932. The Chairman said: ly elected full members have, Im-lalter was a pony that showed much take-winner comes Our old Artleles became out of date mediately after paying their full en- promise but went lame after the some chesnut, Got That, whose re- consequent on the passing of The construed to be the October date, health, but his last visit to Eng-years of age and was destined, a
form. However, we may expect to taking on the best of all acasona Your Committee feel that in some hear more from him in the Autumn. at one mile and under. Rose.Ann that is of the first of the two yeage land was as manager of the South good many years later, to receive definitions of the phrases "Special concerned. Thus Aubrey Smith's African team in 1901 and he re- knighthood. Ite died at the end Resolution" and "General Resolution" cases this acta harshly and therefore
BEST OF THE NEW SUBS.
was perhaps the unlucky one of team played in the 1888-0 season. turned to Afrien only to die in the of 1931. A. series of defents early new ordinance are introduced.
to conform to the sections of the ask for power to refund in such casca
A this year.
notorious bad Two years latér a further ven-last month of that year, at the in the tour rather lessened the
entrance fee paid. a proportion of the
Having dealt with the most sue-[starter, her poor showing in the Actually as $75 is paid on election to ture took place, this time a private | early age of thirty-six. He in one interest that the public took in the
VISTORS
the waiting list, (if and when the Cessful Sub, we now come to the beat Derby was definitely due to this one. In 1881-2 Walter Read, the of the many fine cricketors who doings of the side but there were
The following Article was approved balance of $75 on promotion to full miles; he has carried 168 lbs, to tempt to get into the race, but was waiting list is in operation) and the of the 1936 batch, Wadebridge. defect, for she was left fint-footed He bas run well from six furlongs to and her rider, wisely, made no at- great Surrey amateur, took out a have passed on untimely.
| some fine cricketers playing. Pour strong team which was. altogether This team of Lord Hawke's had | George Lahmnan, who died the
to replace Article 7: member, your Commitle propose to ber shall be allowed to introduce too much for the South Africans, some peculiar experiences, as they next winter, managed the side. visas not being residents of the refund $75 in approved cases where
Jameson raid took place. In Mr. seeing them play at Southampton, houses and
for Inchics.
Derby Day and Mount Pilatus are Krounds
as shall be This amount is not however stated
all sprinters of merit, able to in the amendment as I do not think there arc was so successful--he played for they were hurriedly summoned to Katze was much faster than Chris made from time to time by the Com. 11
many hold their own in any class. Gold- Gloucestershire at home was a Jolinnnesburg. "to distract local Heatletine, the Hampshire speed mittee for such a period or periods, Article 17 which deals with Entrance others of this year's vintage that will smith's chief asset was, I am in- inember of Read's team and did attention from political issues,"
fees does not specify the amount pay-survive their Sub year as race ponica and
fees as upon payment
such most of the bowling for the side, and that there they "auw Cronje has been pretty generally conceded
merchant of the late nineties. It Committee may from time table by those elected to the waiting there are limits to the optimistic at siined to think, his classifications:
list or to full membership.
I can't, somehow, see him winning titude of even the most sanguine It seems probable that he settled, with us victorious com- that J. J. Kotze was faster that time determine for each visitor.
owner, especially when such optimises in "A." in the country afterwards, as he mandos" and dined with the Eng- anyone except Kortright and per-Committee have hitherto been tied in
LIFE MEMBERS ELECTED The Chatroun explained: Your
custa $60 a month in livery alone, A died at Durban in 1900, at the lish "prisoners". Unless this re-haps N. A. Knox in later years.
On the whole, the 1935 Aug- few I have not mentioned will per- the matter of visitors or temporary early age of 33. As was the ease fors to the prisoners taken in
The amendments were carried on colate to "D" clans, but the mujority tralians are a alee even lot, al- SINCLAIR DEVELOPS before, the local men, thowever Johannesburg for complicity, and
members. Under the present Article the motion of the Chairman, seconded will soon say goodbye to the race though I must say I was not im- Rowe and Sinclair did most of 37 such persons can only be allowed by Mr. C. Bulmer Johnson.
pressed when they first arrived. badly they may have been beaten tried in Pretoria, this last state the rest of the bowling. The for-
the use of the Club for a period of The Chairman: Having now discourse for ever.
They have given us splendid ddrived inspiration from the visit
It is now proposed posed of the amendments to our Regarding the Australian, of the team, and in 1894 the greatment is perhaps a little doubtful. mer does not appear in the list of three months.
to give your Committee the power to Articles of Association I have, Gentle-ponies the outstanding performance of racing both as griffins and in the
a longer period. adventure of a tour in England. 1. Foley (ton, Cambridge, cricketers given in Winder, and
men, one more pleasant duty to per- the senson was, of
open class, and the popularity of Worcestershire and Middlesex) did not play for South Africa in admit visitors for was undertaken by the South Afri- actually rode with the Jameson any subsequent tour as far as can
There are some cases where keen fern.
Faces's 1.15 mile. This black mare this form of racing is best illus- the pari- Thn ericketers. It was the fore-
golfers generally Juniors come here
Your Committee unanimously rens always been prominent over distraged by a study of ruid and was captured. In his be traced. Sinclair, however, f runner of nuny.
book of reminiscences, "Autumn whom mention has already been to replace others who have gone ou commend that under Articln 40 fax tances up to mile and her effort on matted returns.
leave. Such replacements
two further Life Foliage," recently published, he made, was just developing into his rule to six months and generally take now amended) makes no mention of this dinner game. He was a very big, man place in the summer season. To ask
The first of those in Mr. J. D. Kin- Mr. Altham records that it at Johannesburg, but he does re- and hit tremendously hard. In substitutes to join the Club ng mem naird who has for many years done played second class sides for the cord that Lord Hawke and his team owling he spun the ball a lot und bera for six months only in the sum yeoman service on the General Com- mer is asking too much of them. Also mittee and as Convener of the Happy most part, and did not ́nftruct passed within ten yards of him was a past master in the art of
at the mach attention, though it beat aand the other prisoners, in a train flighting it.
present rate are Valley Sub-Committee and Father MOTH-PROOF This was not Aur-
green fees too high to induce those who are here of the Junior Section.
In the lat
latter strong M. C. C. team, captained while they were under arrest and prising for he had been taught by temporarily to play much and in any capacity especially Mr. Kinnaird has
BAGS FREE by W. G. Grace at-Lord's. This on their way home to stand their that supreme artist, George Loli- case the facilities lapse in three had a great deal of work and has had victory, to anyone of a reflective trial. They were, It seems, in
With Hathorn, Shalders month freer hand-gimur Committee
exercise much
much tact and fatherly mind, should have recalled that some railway carriages side-track-and Louis Tanered to stiffen the
care.' Your Committee feel confident first great Australian victory ated just off the main line near batting, the side was a much bet-propose to make a sliding scale for that you will be as unanimous ส Lord's sixteen years before, when, | Ladysmith.
ter que than the record showed,
visitors ar temporary incribers, and they are in wishing to recognize his to the Club by while in Halliwell they had, as all to extend their privileges to six valuable services on May 28, 1878, an Mi C. C. side,
Life member. composed of the finest talent in
admitted,
month's in any one year. You will note electing wicket-keeper who could hold his own with anyone, England, went down before the
is made for members, (Applause); provision It is evident, however, that the
to whom B. refund is made under} Mr. G. 9. Archbutt seconded, and visitors in a single day. Thirteen vicissitudes of this tour di not
even in those days of great sium-
this amendment, to rejoin the Club the motion was currled unanimously. years after the vialt
of this cause Lord. Hawke to drop South pers,
It is a melancholy fact that on their return to the Colony, by The Chairman'-I now propose the ploneer South African eleven, the Africa! In 1898-9 he paid a retioned is now dead.
every one of the men I have men- paying life absent fees and repaying election of Mr. C. D. Lambert as i early promise was more or less turn visit, and once more it was
that proportion of entrance fees that life member. fulfilled, us, though England has found that South African cricket results of the tour were, the prac-
However unfortunate the match had been refunded.
Mr. Lambert has devoted an enor We are advised that we cannot in-mous amount of time and thoughit never lost Test match in them had
considerably. at Home, the 1907 South African Much of this improvement may be tical value was undoubted, for sist on such members. rejoining the to problems, mostly engineering, con nected with Fanling. The hard work team undoubtedly represents the traced to
South African cricket was steadily Club if they return to the Colony. the keen ambitions
aver zenith of their cricket in visits to aroused by the institution of the experience gained of the methods
and care that he has put in on the up grude due to the greater
such matters as the water supply England, unless, of course, the Currie Cup for competition among
of the best English players.
to the Club houses, our old electrical team now at home are going to the provinces. The English ale other great help was the visit of number of life members from six to light) its replacement by current sup Moving a resolution increasing the plant (used when we made our own make history in this present year included, besides their captain, Joe Darling's 1902 Australian team
ten, the Chairman said: We arc Plum Warner, Frank Mitchell,
plied by the China Light & & Power Co., which visited South Africa after limited at present to a maximum of and the new installation of lights, out, and the value of the expert-all of the latter being in the mid details must be reserved for the Committee aek for power to increase efficient state in which our tractors In 1896 Lord Hawke took a team Trott, Haigh nad J... Tyldesley; their summer in England. The six life members. We have at this fans and refrigerators has been of
moment ence gained in the English tour twenties. They were not beaten chapter on cricket between South the possible number of life members and
five auch members and your great service to the Club. The was fully demonstrated, for it was but in the first game against South Africa and the Australians, but it to ten. frankly admitted that the stand- Africa, Warner's century alone en should be remembered that there
mowing
have been machines, kept, and the consequent marked im- ard of South African cricket hudabled them to scramble home by two seasons, the one in England cussion of the amendments I am going Coursen, has been largely due to Mr. provement in the condition of our greatly improved. True, England thirty-two runs. In this Lour. won the three Test Matches easily J. H. Sinclair of the Transvaúl,
and the other in South Africa to propose that you accept the Com-Lambert's supervision. In
addition mitteo's recommendation to elect two enough, but their side was a very who had previously, as a lad of
paved the way for the improve- } more Life members at once. We hope us Convener of the Fanling Ho ment of the 1904 team, which was
Committee Mr. Lambert has had strong one. Lord Hawke himself twenty, made a considerable in the fore runner of two sides which we hope to see elected to-day with many small domestic problems to set.
that the present five and perhaps may be considered the live for many years, and your Com tle and has been of the greatest help cricket, thuse of 1905-6 at home possible further greatest in All South
African mitteo wish to neke provision for to your Committee and the Secretary. Mr. Lambert is leaving the Colony elections of this unless this present side make hin- and of 1997 in England, that is, the following Article was approved honour
very soon and your Committee feel that he has indeed well earned the of Life membership. (Ap- tory.
procedure into the with the of the Companies. Ordin- provisions ance 103-Every special resolution
M.C.C. TEAM BEATEN
of grace.
ta
LORD HAWKE RETURNS
progressed
.
was a very fine batsman in those pression, proved that as bowler days, and he had with kim C. U. he had come, on a great deal, and Fry, who was then developing into his subsequent career more than the magnificent cricketer he was fulfilled this early promise. Once
become: Tom Hayward, and more, at the end of the tour Eug A. J. L. Hill. Lord Hawke, him- land left a hostage as Frank' MI- self was thirty-six, but the others chell (Cambridge and Yorkshire) only twenty-five! All of elected to settle in South Africa them are alive today, so far as and subsequently captained the records go; they certainly were at very useful team of 1904 in Eng- the end of 1934 but then record land. censen out here, for the moment and there is some doubt about HIR.
were
DAYS OF LOHMANN
It is very possible that S. M. J. Woods, (Summy) was in the side but accurate records are not to hand. George Lohmanp, then aged thirty-one. was the star bowler. He was, it his day, a master of
CHAPTER II
THE BEGINNINGS OF GREATNESS
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An-
SPORT ADVTS.
NOTICE
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mmitt
LIFE MEMBERS
After the conclusion of the diu-
the two
members be elected.
him
to be substituted for Article 72 tor G. IT. Wilson seconded, and the
bring
motion was carried with acclamation.
with the notice convening the meeting Matheson for the use of the Board- A vote of thanks to Messrs. Jardine, at which such special resolution is to room was proposed by the Chairman.
be proposed shall be posted in a con- spicuous place in the Club houses ni Happy Valley and Fanling. All re solutions duly passed at any general or extraordinary general.mecting shall seribers, honorary members, life mem- be binding on all the members, sub-
bers and visitors of the Club."-
ABSENT MEMBERS
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D. F. LOPES,
In connection with refunding a pro-i Hon. J. D. Logan sponsored a team
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