TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, THE HONGKONG
JUNE 19,
1936.
SOME OF
CRICKET'S
BIGGEST.
HITS
ALBERT TROTT'S TREMENDOUS
DRIVE IN 1899
A NOTE ABOUT THE LATEST EPIDEMIC OF
LEG-BEFO RE-WICKET
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SOMETHING MUST BE DONE BY
H. K. F. A.
(Continued from Page 8.)
account.
to the vital
drive
which most cricket too small to con a charity football competition depeni The subject of big hitting in always captivating. In the was
some of them may well on the amount of money raised, but fine, and cricket season of 1899 Albert Trott, an Australian cricketer who grounds were.
than that the F.A. relies very largely on qualified for Middlesex, made at Lord's a number of drives of have travelled even further unusual height and length, some of them aimed at the pavilion.the 163 yards of the measured exam-Lai Wah Cup, Challenge Shield and After some discussion as to the particular occasion on which ple. Other distances of 152 yaris Governor's Cup receipts to cover its the biggest of these drives was made, the place of honour was and 138 yards ore quoted as having annual dellelt on the tengue working It is therefore inadvisable to abuse As already said, if you go to Lord's
F.A. for its apparent money- eventually assigned to a hit made off M. A. Noble in the M.C.C. een mensured at the time. match against the Australians The reminiscences of onlookers and contemplate the roof of the pre- the
pavillon, you cannot imagine making procliyities without also pay-
die attention were agreed except upon one point, which, though'small, was
that it is within the power of any ing of some interest. This point was whether Trott's hit actually batsman to clear it. But the above necessity of its financial activities.
NEED FOR GIVE AND TAKE cleared the pavilion or not. The ball certainly dropped on the stadsties and calculations, assuming to be approximately correct, far side of the building, but whether it went clean over or struck them
Reem to show that the nehlevement.
There is a need for give and the within a something on the topmost ridge was not definitely decided.
is, theoretically at leai,
And in confirmation n both sides. If, by reducing the In a hit of this height and dis-hitter's range. Mr. Warner stated that the ball.
view we have the practical strength of the first division to either pitched in a garden beyond, which is tance, apart from Troll's eifert, ever of, this what it would have done if it cleared been made by a man with a cricket precedent of Albert Trott's triumph.welve or ten teams with all lengue The roof. Another writer remem-bat? The pavilion rails are about 90 which he either obtained or was matches to be played on Saturday. bered a man, who was in a dressing yards from the further crews, trick within a few inches of obtaining. In
room
New World Record Javelin Throw
Helsingfors, June 18. Matti Jarvinen, the famous Finnish javelin thrower to- day beat his own previous world, record javelin throw when he registered 77.23 against 76.10 metres at Los Angeles in 1932-Reuter..
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LIGHTWEIGHT T. T. RACE
RECORDS GO BY THE BOARD
A. R. FOSTER IS THE WINNER
served for Sunday, It is possible, to and all other competitions to be re- complete the rearon's fixtures without having to play three and four inid- week matches during May, ther the F.A. has a right to expect proper
Isle Of Man, June 18. support from the clubs, LEG BEFORE WICKET
other hand the F.A. should not expect The lightweight Tourist Trophy
I imagine rate over Reven One of the most remarkable fea- too much from the clubs,
In glorious suggestion that
matches league
On the
POST-WAR ADVANCE OF INDIAN CRICKETAK
(Continued from:Page 8.)
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When Mr. A. E. R. Gilligan took an M.C.C. side in India in October 1926; a great step forward was made in the recognition of the strength and im- purtance of Indian Cricket. The per- sonnel of the team shows that the taste For Hongkong Foot, Prickly, Heat was no under-estimated though it must be recollected that the players
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Intest!
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at the back of the pavilion, the ridge of the rouf some 21 addi- these days when brighter cricket is saying that he had seen a bail droptional yards away, while the height called for, it as well, perhaps, past the window as if it had fallen of the ridge itself is 75 feet. Caleu- realise that this particular feat is still
worth attempting. from the sky, which is what would lations show that, assuming 10 feet have happened if the ball had rolled as the highest point of the ball's tra- Reference to centem-fectory, the distance from hit to pitch off the roof. porary observation was of no ossist of a ball that just dropped clear of unce in reconcile eles of memory.
Field
report 100 yards. Such
A. R. Foster, riding a New Imperial, of the match, quoted in n letter from lu, would still be short of the record. out leg-before wickel. The
The longest mensured hit of a cric-tegntation, as everyque known, has, to be played on Interport trial days. won in the record time average of the editor of
that
Journal, says that the ball at elena ever, but her ball is 175 yards. This was a by ruling that the baft need not pitch Undoubtedly there has been a shock-three hours 33 minutes 22 seconds, of valuable time in the with an average speed of 74.28 m.p.h. Times account says that the Boll drive made at Oxford in 1858 by straight for the bowler to obtain a Ing waste
Tyrol Smith on an Excelalor was 72.61 struck a chimneypot or some other Walter Fellows while practising decision against the bateman, fa-past, oll first division matches being obstacle on the roof of the pavilion. Fellows was an Old Westminster boy creased the chance of wickets being brought to a standstill for something second in 3:38:24
m.p.h. and Geirs of Germany, mounted The latter version of the incident Is who was in the University eleven in lost in this way, but the new law la like three weeks.
cncupli to explain the This is the sort of thing which on a D.K.W. was third in 3:38:37, repeated in the official history of the four seasons from 1954 to 1857. not nearly Lord's and the M.C.C. (p. 301),
He did, useful service against Cam-prevalence of a mode of dismissal, makes congested fixture lists in-averaging 72.49 m.p.h. bridge, and in
a thrilling Atruggle "Scores and Bio- which was once so rare, and has now evitable, and raises a grouse such as
the that advanced by Mr. Strange last between Foster and Stanley Woods, WELL WORTH SEEING. graphies" is described as "a hurd, became common. During
slashing bitter." which he certainly month of May there were, we are Monday when he pointed out that at who was riding a, German D.K.W. Various correspondents mentioned)
machine. Woods led at the first, mammano mach
fourth and fifth Inps. drives that had gone over the old have been. Its famous drive fuld, nearly three hundred cases of
is given among the "Cricket Records leg-before h
несогий pavillon, a building pulled down in in "Wisden's Almanack."
1. The dis-
establishing a record over the second 1889, but these contributions did not dance was measured by B. Martin, a
lap which he covered at 76.20 mph. Foster had a 35 seconds lend when the touch the single detail which was in professional howler, who was at the
finni lap started. But Woods dropped dispute.
Whether any batsman time in the Kent eleven
out and Foster won chaily-Renter succeeded in clearing the greater height of the new pavilion remains a
Sperial Servier. doubtful item in the record of hunan achievement.
first-cliss
matches. Kaugh gatentations ascribe about a third of these cases to the operation of the new law, but this still leaves two hundred offenders who would be rightly Riven out, even if the lay had never been altered.
Our Daily Golf Hint
five
There waR
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Scottish And Irish Golf
matches in less than a fortnight and Championships.
The next longest drive of which
Here is the secret of those the measurement has been noted in
deliente chips out of bunkers #110 of 16 yards made by C. 1., An analysis made of the scores of a
-the wrists must not move. Those who are famillar with Lord's Thornton. For the necessary com- number of matches in part seasona
C. J. H. Tolley. height and
up to thirty years ago. ground and its surroundings will be bination of
distance shows that saliyed that Albert Trotta hit. Thornton was just the type of bitter only about 5 per cent, of the wickets | wherever Is, ultimmte landing was, that we want. Though he bad not taken were due to leg-befure are 2018 must have been a truly remarkable the versatile ability of Jessop, who slans. In the summer of 135, as far one stage last seison his club had
chance, of reasonable
Anishing A drive which clears the made runs off every kind of ball. by as it has gone, this figure has risen stroke. Pavilion failings is well worth sering. every kind of stroke, Thornton its to 25 per cent., if we include, as we
runners-up; but, through no fault of their and one that lands in the balconies or producer of what are somethines must do, the victims of the new law
own, they had to play rebounds from the upper musorry called, balloons has never been equale, as well as of the old. This is to gay tools gigantic. To carry, or even to led: These were made off good that In Erst-class wickel, as it used the strain was so much that, they lost strike, the topmost ridge of the root length balls, which he met on the to be played, you would and in every
Yumes which otherwise they could
With those : appears a feat vast enough to stag-rise with a full swing of the bat, two completed imings a single case have expected to win.
in every defents went all chance of league result of leg-before; nowadays gout Aminst fl ger the spectators' imagination.
Innings you find two or three cars honours. That proposition nay be slate! In
There is a lot to be said on both two other ways, one from the bats-sides, but when all of it is boiled man's point of view, and the other down to fundamentals one is still to from the bowler's A batsinan, of actinowledge that reforms some 1005 who played afty innings during the summer might expect to be two or three times jeg-before; a bats, mut of 1935 would expect to be out twelve or thirteen times in his Ofty innings. A bowler of 1005, out of every twenty wickets he took, could count upon only one of these as a lege
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FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
before case; nowadays the same bowler 'would owe live out of every twenty wickets he took to suverstul apprals against obstruction.
ADAMS WINS ON A REPLAY
London, June 18. James Adams, Scottish Internas description are absolutely essential ftional of Romford to-day won the the football geapon in Hongtong is not Scottish open golf championship at in become forcical.
Ayr after a tie with Tom Collinge of Swinton Paris, Manchester, balk men, turning agremtes of 287.
Percy Alts, the British Ryder Cup
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The team was a very strong one and it was uniformly successful in spite of the fact that they all found the extreme heat very frying. In- dred on occasions outside help had to be enlisted and besides bringing out Mercer, Gilligan had on occasion to Borrow Leyland and Dolphin (the wicket-keeper) bath of whom were fulling "Winter" coaching, engage ments with the Maharajah of Patiala. The record showed that of the three- day (and so first class) engagements, seven were won and two drawn. The full aures were, matches 34, Won 11 and Drawn 23, no match being lost. Sandhun. Wyntt and Parsons were
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THE INDIAN CRICKETERS
After ten years, and with regard to the small rope of these articles. it would be tedious to give any analysis of the play and I propose only to refer to those of the Indian plyers who are at the present time representing All fulla in England. No tess than five of this year's side 1 shoult appeared in various games. perhaps mention here that there were two games against All India. In fiest the Indian side was eximprised i entirely of native cricketers and had much the best of 11 as the 31.C.C.
in their second innings were only a
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runs on, with only five wichsets to go. In the second game in whica Euro- peans played the M.C.C won by four See the KIWI trade mark on wickets. Incidentally the Eurongans were J. L. Guise, R. R. Brooke, every tin of shoe polish you
and R. J. 0, finest quality polish. Husic, I. P. F. Moyerall well-known cricketers.
S. Wazir All played in both the All India games and in two matches for North India. In two duys erange- ments he played for the Southern Punjab, indy-Mahomedan XI and Patinka. Incidentally, his brother Nodir All, who is not in the présent side, played in all these games and bore the brunt of the bowling
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not be merely accidental: it must be the to something that batsmen player was third with a score of 2018. or bowlers do now, and did not de in137 Including record round of 68. In the replay Adams had a card of Collinge was 11 strokes in arrears, Before advancing any conjecture as to the cuts one inay point out scoring 14. another_singular_feature.of.the.quem. Playing in the Irish native chan- It is of some interest in this con- This increase in cases of leg plonship at Castle Rock, John-Burke.. neelion to trace the contrast between before-wicket, is much more marked the Walker Cupper beat.Roy McCan- the famous bowlers of the past and in first-class cricket than in other nell by 7 and over a 36 holes final
inn to-day. Coell Ewing, selected the famous "bowlers of the present. classes of cricket.
second-class scores shows the this year's Walker Cup contest wat We may take Alfred Shaw as he of bowled in 1875, when he was the percentage of leg-before cases to be beaten in the fifth round:-Reuter. most prominent figure, of a cold and only about 10 per cent, or loss than wet summer. He was rather a slow half of the percentage that prevails should bowler, very accurate in length, and in first-class scores. Why with some spin, as well as variation this be? Why should a man who is of pace. We may describe him as promoted to county eleven be out twice as often leg-before as he was the Freeman of his day, for Freeman, it not the best slow bowler in Eng-when he played for his club? He. tond, may fairly claim to be best of can hardly have altered his style of wicket-takers in ordinary
batting to such an extent as to pro- county var 160 duce this difference. matches. Shaw in 1875 took 160 wickets at something under 10 runs OBSTRUCTION AT A DISCOUNT each. Of these, he bowled ninety- two, had 48 caught and 11 stumped Twelve or teen years ago the off him, had eight men leg-before and methods. adopted. by certain first- one hlt wicket. Freeman in 1934) class batsmen were highly produc-
Madras (3 days) and "An Indian X" CANTON look 205 wickets, afty-nine bowled, live, or appeared to be highly
(two days). In this latter game seventy-six caught, twenty-eight productive, of leg before wicket de The race was won by a short head,M. J. Gopalan and C. Ramaswami ap- stumped, and forty-two leg-before. clsions. It was fashionable to stand with five lengths between second and Whether you bowl a batsman or get facing, the bowler and to begin by third. him leg-before, in either alternative walking in front of the stumps.
Special place betting was as fol- you penetrate his defence, so. that whatever kind of ball was bowled lows: 4/7 Quashed, 7/4 Valerius, Freeman would presumably have hit Then, wielding your bat in front of 5/2 Buckleigh, 5/2 Robin Goodfellow, the stumps forty more times, if he your body or ler, you pushed the 11/3 flokbul-Router.
had not found the batsman's pads in ball either back to the bowler or on
the way, an obstruction which Shaw's the off bowling encountered so seldom as to served.
be hardly worth mentioning.
or on side as
opportunity The advantages or disad
What vantages of such a style need not be.
is the reason of this curious change discussed here. The only feature of
in the playing of cricket? Is it due it which need be noticed is that as
QUASHED WINS GOLD CUP
Major C. K. Nayudu, who appears In Wisden then as C. K. Naidu, play- ed in both All India games, and for
Agent's:
the Hindus, a Hindu-Mahomedan XI W. R. Loxipy & Co., (China) Ltd.
Ascol, June 18.
und for Rajputana and Contra! India, The result of the Gold Cup was as the last three matches being two follows:
Quashed, 3 to 1
Omaha, 11 to 8 Bokbul, 100 to 0 Nine ran.
LOUIS AND SCHMELING
and
New York, June 18. between tu new methods: of batting, or to the batsman's pads entirely covered j The fight
Louis methods of bowling, or to a the wicket, he was out leg before if Schmeling has been postponed till mixture of both? For the change
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5. M. Hussain played for
All
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batsman who goes in early:
Finally, it would be interesting to know if the Dilawar Hussain who played for Northern Punjab (2 days)
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