THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1935.
A SHORT HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET
TO VISIT CANTON
V.R.C. Sending A Team For Aquatic Meet
The Victoria Recreation. Club will send a team to Canton during the week-end. They have accepted the Invitation of the Tungahan Aquatic Sports Association to participate in a
Hendly aquatic sporté meeting,
whan
BOWLS PAIRS TIE
MATCH CONCLUDED
YESTERDAY
DUNCANS WIN
Continuing their, match from the
fifteenth head yesterday, L.A.R. and R. Duncan Dent J. Purves and H.H. The best swimmers of the Tung-Rose by 22-10 in the third round of
Aquatic Sports
Association have the Open Pairs Competition on the boen practising hard recently in pre-Hongkong, F.C. green. paration for this meeting. Samo When the match was abandoned: good races should be seen. A water Wednesday on the fourteenth head, polo game has also been arranged, it the score was 9-9. is understood.
Mr. Idu Chi-wen, Mayor of Canton, has donated a championship flag for the occasion.
Are
The Victoria Recreation Club team
leaving Hongkong by boat on Saturday night returning on Sunday night.
Purves and Hose scored on only one hend yesterday. On the fifteenth, they notched a single, but from then onwards the Duncans dominated th game. The Dunenna reared
three,
that order to clinch the issue. two. four, two singles and a two in
fe
Young Duncan was playing a game. He lay most of the shots and
pre-block. 1
at p..
day in pin, when the following pre-re his father little to de except to gramme will be staged:--60 metres Rome was unfortunate in that he free style; 100 metres free style: 100 found R. Duncan very areurate in metres breast stroke: 100 metres back his locking, and his driving suffer- stroke: relay race (team of four) ed in consequence.
and exhibition diving.
The V. R. C. have selected their only 36. Pie. Nolan captured three team as follows:-W. Lawrence, L.wickets for six runs.
VISIT OF
TEAM
1907.
THOUGHT STRONGEST EVER SELECTED
TOURISTS IMPRESS ALTHOUGH TEST LOST TO ENGLAND
SEVERAL NOTABLE PLAYERS IN THE OPPOSING SIDES
CHAPTER IV
ZENITH
(By "R. Abbit"\
A great many people think that the
wicket-keeper, who was a sound bat worth his fifty or sixty runs against j'almost any bowling, went in number: tent All the samo, Jessop, in hla "Cricketer's Log," records that there panic on up at Lord's
Roza Pereira, N. Delgado, Dr. D. Against Company, "A" Cont-farks the highest point of wore it off
team which visited England in 1907 was
pany won by nine
H. 1. Ozorie, Ed. da Roza, C. Roza | Company compiled 185 (Leut, E. M.) present team may prove to eut faire the First Test Match, and this i
Laing, E. Marques, S. V. Gittins,
Pereira, and J. A. Guterres,
MILITARY CRICKET
visitors.
wickets. "B" South
African Cricket, uniestthe
the reputation possessed by the Dawson 39, L/Cpl. Crabtree not them.
After the convincing way in Lack, however, WEB against the out), Pte. Pearson taking three wie- which the South Africans had dealt South Africans us the weather was team which was beautiful before the First Test and capthined by Warner, there could be the wicket excellent, white England Test Matches in won the toss. Even so, up to a point, one question about
nd three at Lord's, the English side did not do too well at Leeds, om at the Oval, Despite a well-played 1 by Pie, arranged
ns, five wickets were down for 158 The South African side.
side runs. Then, however, came a great
ket for 18 runs.
Thanks to 50 by Cpl. Allison and 47 nut out by Lieut. Williams, "A" Company knocked up 106 for wicket.
310
Kamus, ot
Good Games Played In Rekersley, who made his runs out of for these games, and for all others, stand between Braund and Jessup
East Lancs. League
"A" Company are carrying every-sible for thing before them in the Inter-Com
n total of only 17, "(a)" Company of course, and to be selected from which put on 145. were beaten by Company by ten fifteen players only. It left a wickets. . 8. M. Elvin was respon- small margin of safety, though it
Set to face a total of 128 rans, the the dismissal of "Dis)" not actually meet the side as it might South African batting, save for Faulk pany Cricket League' of the 27/Estompany for watch a small tatai, lak-very well have done. It is interest ner
and Dave Nours ing six for 39.
completely Lancashire Regiment.
Pte. Dickenson vaping to ante that this year only fifteen collapsed and they had to fellow on. tured three for 13.
have made the trip.
Then Sherwell showed that he was n Elvin followel up bir bowling per- forunner by hitting up 2 not out, the tour are not available, but the Though he usunity went in very low Infortunately the detailed wares of grent captain and a great cricketer. and with L/Chi, Gold-worthy contri-minke up of the side was this. First down in the order, on this occasion he buting 12 not out, " Company; and foremost, of course, come the put himself in first with Shalders. won by ten wirkets.
Playing against “D_(s)" Company. "A" Company won by 140 runs, They inde 185 rus (Lleut, J. P. Williams 87. Pte. Ridings 21, Pte. Helt 20), to which their opponents replied with
four googly merchants, R. O. Schwarz, The latter was outed for a duck by Vogler, Gordon White and Faulkner, George Hirst, but Sherwell preceded
In
It interesting to note that Tip Fos.to rattle up a century in an hour and fer, the English captain, placed Voglern half by splendid foreing cricket, and SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSENESIS fira, though figures one might at the close of play on the second day
have expreted the
the South Africans were only a hun go to Reggie Schwarz. Then they had dred behind, and had three wickets
Palma mingnificent wicket-keeper, an inspired to go. Next day, down came the rain captain, and a brilliant hardhitting and the match was saved, hat in Percy Sherwell, win was u
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wicket keeper to distraction. Then for fast
MATCH AT LEEDS
and the weather had been terrible. The next match took place at Leccis
bowling there was J. J. Katze, now The wicket was a sodden one but it his third visit to England. He may perhaps have been
hade past his
was not sticky on the first day. Again England batted first, opening with best, but he had started when he was Fry and Hayward, and the difficulty twenty-two and was now only in his thirtieth year.
of the
SEVEN BOWLERS
pitch is shown by the fact that nt lunch time the score was 34 for one wicket. After lunch the pitch As usual, J. II. Sinclair and 5. J. proved even more difficult, and Haulk- Snake were there in supply the stock hou shut out the rest of the side in an bowling. The team thus had seven hour, when the total only reached 76. owlers, four of them at least much made off the very wet wicket, and
He amazed
everyone by the pace he above the average, and none of these four quite like ane another; they had against the flower of English cricket. nctually took six wickets for 17 runs a brilliant wicket-keeper; and, above But the wicket suited Blythe alse, all, of these eight men who have been and South Africa could only manage mentioned, only Vagler and Kotze to total 119 rank. Still with the pitch
weak in their batting. were sliffen
this
as it was and half an hour to go, a array they had A. Nourse,
the
left-hander, W. A lend of 156 was the equivalent of a Shalders, an opening batsman, M.
at least on a pitch. Hathorn and L. J. Tancred. G. D. Robinson and S. D. Snooke, too, were pretty good bats, while I. Smith was
34
a seful all-round man. The team cricket than during that last half hour. Won right of their first
C. B. Fry and Hayward both scored doubtful if they ever played better A great number of centuries but it in
When Foster was engagements, whether he should change his order worrying an to including a game against a strong or not, they volunteered to go in and C. C. side, but already there were not only did they keep their wickets nigus that the batting was not
as strong as it might have been. The up but they knocked off 25 of the
weather was
this
as none too good, and while
кріп Fave the
bowlers
n chance
ours.
NIGHTMARE WICKET
of which they did not fail to avail theniselves, it did not help the bats There was little criekot the second who were used to fast matting day, when the score was raised to a wickets. But this year England were 110 for four wickets, but it cleared up very strong ind
indeed.
during the night, and a drying wind,
I. E. Foster captained the side, combined with bright sunshine, made with C. B. Fry and Tom Hayward as the wicket something, of a nightmare the star batsmen besides himself. He on the last day. The lust six wickets
addition of 62 ran
had Gilbert Jessop to hit and a fell for an Гандікі leg-break
bowler in Len
| Bruund, who was so good a trumilerip has recorded that
Charles
54, made here, was probably.
that one almost forgot that he was one of the best innings of his career. nearly as useful with the bat. Hirst Rut for all that. it looked quite on also was another splendid all-round the cards that England would be man who bowled left and batted right tem
tru, and, but for
ben-j handed. Braund, if my
great performance memory by Colin Blythe Feat they would have serves me, did just the reverse. He been! Thanks to him, swever, South certainly bowled right-hand over the Africa were all out for 76. lie took wicket. Colin Blythe was in his in all 15 wickets prime.
for 90 runs and, curiously enough, he never hit the STRENGTH IN BATTING
stumps once. The strength of the batting was so brought to
This proved to be the only Test) great that
Dick Lilly,
conclusion. In these the great days only three days were allotted to
a
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
the match and only three tests were lost the rubber more highly than two were placed at a tremendous dia played. It was not for another 22 aides (1005/6 and 1000/10) which advantage and this, no doubt, accounts years that five games were played in have won it. But the 1907 team were for the apparent weakness of the England, though this number was al-playing in England and on grass wie-batting, such an it was. It is, per- ways observed in South Africa. The kets, while the English sides in laps, not unreasonable to suggest that third game at the Oval ended in a South Africa, though also at a dis- the help given to the bowling by the raw but it was in England's favour. advantage from local conditions, were weather was more than off-set by the C. B. Fry again played a magnificent never representative of the country's havoe it wrought in the batting. innings.
Full strength, whoreas the 1007 team R. E. Fontor, however, writing in had been the strongest South Africa "Wisden" after the season did not TOURISTS IMPRESS
could rale. It is for this reason that hold this opinion. But though they lost the rubber the many critics hold it to have been the South Africans created a tremendous anost side.
In any case, finest side or not, the impression In England. That, South
South African team was a very good The Afrien could defeat the 1904/5 touring ting and it has been pointed out that impression, not only in the way of only wenkness was in the bat- one indeed, and made an excellent team in a distant country-(and in but for a particularly wet summer cricket but personally, for they were those days
days distances seemed greater the googly bewiers, lacking the mat most popular and always played somehow)
w)-did not come home to the ting wickets to which they were "erickol” man in the street nearly so forcibly accustomed and the
consequent nip
Barnsley F.C. have signed William
As the fact that they all but beat Eng- they got on to the ball, might not land at Leetin. In all their engage have been such a startling nuccess. ments they won twenty-one games out On the other hand the South African Andersen, right, drew six and lost four only. It batsinen, who practically never had from Sheffield United, at a consider a 21-years-old full-back may seent curious to rate a side which had to face wet grass wickets before, able transfer fee.
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