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"HE popular Kent skipper who captained England's team when we won the Ashes in 1926. and also on the victorious visit to Australia in 1928-29, here sums up our chances during the forthcoming Test tour.
T
HE M.C.C. team now in Australia has not less
than an even chance of re- gaining the Ashes. It is
| solid in batting strength; it has variety in bowling; it should be exceptionally good in the field.
the
The five Test Matehes. first of which will begin at Brisbane on December 4., are
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
They will be tremendous trials of enduraneg, and although on the face of it an Australian team in itu
own country simuld br better able to stand up to a condolen in their bereavement, gruelling ordeal of this kind. ad attended the funeral yester-netually and disadvantage in the visitors tends to disappear as
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lay.
The
The tou progresses,
Hongkong Telegraph. Physical Strain
Tuesday, Novussian 20, 1936.
ITALY'S TRADE WITH
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Final Words to
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THE way in which a touring TEST MEN IN AUSTRALIA.-- team its together, becomes Worthington Derbyshiir) un left; Hardstag (Nofts), end aouther a wod-knit unil, gets an intimate Derbyshier man, Copan, ay right knowledge of its own strength all 2+11" to Teet evšeket and weakness-these are factors.
Avntratio which help to enneel out any alificalties of climate, and each week shows the balance in these
themselves to spin, and, unless there is a thunderstorm follow-
are merciless at any tmie to- wards loose
balls; in the last. two hours of thu
day, with bowlers tired. they are capable of scoring 5) rapidly 20 to make all !!! difference be- tween losing and winning a match.
Hammond is quite able to put
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the shutters at ene end. It is imperative,
in my view. that this policy should be carried out by others of our bowlers during the
last two hours of the day. The fact that 17 players are
the middle, and whatever form our Test teams take there should be plenty of making the tour need not worry runs down to Number 9. us, Form in the early matches --six against States or represen- There is one aspect of the tative elevens will be played be game in which the Australians fore the first Test-will solve have always had the whip some of the difficulties of selve. hand, and that is in the vital tin, and there is no question of hours between 4 p.m. and 6 the loyalty or keenness of any
of the men chosen. p.m. each day.
It will. I imagine, be found In that time it is essential that
up that the minimum of runs are batting unduly, will be included the batsmen should be so tied had as many fast bowlers as possible, without weakening the scored, Australian bowlers
ed by hot sun-the type of succved very well at these in the Test sides; and if all goes visiting side. matters more favourable to the wicket on which Verity would be, tneties; whatever has gone be wall the following may be foui in the first Test in December for they seem able to adapt (though not in this batting
unplayable--are full of rups.
When the team captained by Two Decisive Hours
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Two of these Tests lasted into officially fixed the exchange rate the seventh day and the other of the lira to the native dollar at was completed in six. The 30 to 1. although the "natural" ays spent in the field and in value of the dollar is at least travel.ng involved a physical twice as great. It has, more-strain which was almost un- over, been declared to be n criminal offence to change The present tour has been -currencies at #1 rate more arranged with much greater in accordance with intrinsic care, and in my opinion the values. Two
England team has been chosen results follow
with discretion and judgment. The selectors have shown much patience and devoted consider- able time to their task. :
in the dollars that the
I would have preferred to
THE only Australian I know
who could spin the ball dangerously on these wickets was Arthur Mailey. He was infinitely a greater thorn in our side out there than Grimmett could ever hope to be, in'spite of his immaculate length and un- tiring persistence.
THE TESTS
Brisbane
Dec. 4-9
Dec. 18--23
Jan. 1-6
Jan. 29-Feb. 3
Feb. 26-March 3
Sydney Melbourne
Adelaide
Melbourne
In bowling we appear to be much better off than Australia, although the State matches may themselves to the urgency of reveal something which we do this phase of the game, whereas not yet know.
our men seem disinclined to shut down,
In batting Australia will be tremendously powerful, but the M.C.C. side looks impressive in
order):
G. O. Allen
Ames
R. W. V. Robins! Fishlock or R. E. S. Wyatt
K. Farnes
Hammond Leyland
Hardsta
Barnett Fare Verity
Even though it means the omission of that brilliant wicket- keeper Duckworth, the recovery of Anies, who has been batting splendidly and seems to have shaken off all the effects of his carly season illness, is. I am sure, going to be most opportune for England.
The team has left England · with our best wishes; there is an exceedingly good chance that Bradman, McCabe, Fingleton, they will return to receive our Darling, and the rest of them, heartiest congratulations.
MYSTIC DICTATOR
see Todd, the Kent all-rounder, I HAD an appointment with him at among the seventeen, but that apart, the Selection Com- mittee, at П period when English cricket is not on a very high plane, has done its work admirably.
9.45 pm. Every evening, Mr. Oliveira Salazar, forner university professor nad now Portugal's mystic dictator, takes a long walk in the suburbs of Lisbon and on that night i was to necompany him,
The car was already walling in
front of his modest cottage when
from what I had imagined--inore
E. Frederic Lefevre
can assure the freedom from the State and through that of the individual. Freedom means respect for law and right and if the State is unable to impose this respect there can be no freedom. The State is not free in a parlamentary regime, because the ministers ate the slaves of Parlia-
there will not be one Parliament in
at once. In the first place, internal trade is continually hampered. The peasant tends as far as possible to withhold the dollars, and the lira increasingly takes its place. The purpose here might conceivably be to substitute Italian coinage for that of the country in order to strengthen Italy's holl. This, however, can hardly be the objective when the
I mrrived. A young servant girlieves that Catholicism is 1ll the only
A staunch Catholic, Solnzor hotnent, and the members of Parliament the slaves of the electorate, while the effect on existing foreign trade is
opened the door. There were no
treasuries of the political parties are Australian wickets, under guards and none of the precautions force capable of ending the crisis and
fed by inancial groups and economie considered. It is obviously normal weather conditions, are
with which the apprentices in dieta- victoriously fighting greet and the sugarchies. "I don't want to make impossible
prophecles," he said, "but I guarantee torship like to surround themselves, excesses of luxury. In other words, for the trader the best in the world. They are
As we were halting hands I felt he believes that only religion can
that in twenty or thirty years hence to pay for his goods from faster than ours, do not lend that our interview would be different revive in the seal the taste for the true and simple things of life and
vested with legislative powers. A the producer of raw materials
signilleant As soon ng he had said thereby regenerate mankind. It was
former professor of iny I know from a few words
I ceased seeing the apparent, however, that he drew theory and practice what a complex Before me was a man church and State and
charp line between dictator.
the power of insk is the elaboration of even the up-country man demands, and first. of course.
did not in teost Important law, and I assure you whose eyes burned the flame was given. al superior resignation and absolute dis-the
least consider it his task to that no assembly can legislate seri- receive for them from the foreign Nuremberg, when Herr Hitler interestedness and honesty, such as evangelize Portugal. His sole con- ously for this would be contrary to
cern is the maintenance of the human nature. Moreover, the par business man lira at a value only announced his four-year plan to great mystics, the fire of Sacred Sur-nancial,
and political amentary system excludes personat one half of their real one in rela- make Germany.
considers the es- n mission he had not order which he
most Im- responsibility which is self-sufficient. chosen himself and from which he scatial premises of moral order.
portant factor of progress and raises tion to dollars. It might be clear Signor Mussolini aims similarly derived neither prot nor pride and Labour Minister, the socialist Henri mentary regime nobody
I mentioned that the Belgian men above themselves,
In a parlis- the Italian rulers that the at making his new colony
perhaps not even joy. Quite natur-
gives the ally he had given up his chair at the de Man, had spoken to me of the maximum of work, initiative and In- result of their artificial rate is jealously-guarded Italian
University of Colmbre to serve his poverty in the soul. Salazar shares because a member of Parliament is necessity of reviving the spirit of ventiveness of which he is capable the serve.
country and one felt that he would very rapidly to destroy.
The contrast is expressed just as naturally take it up goin to view but he thinks it is a dificult not personally responsible."
10 tusk requiring long and patient edu- existing foreign trade altogether in theory in the recent Reports
Portugal, however, Mr. Salazar cational work.
pointed out to me, is not and is not "You and to expel the foreign trader. † of the Economic and Finance ing Portugal and to this work be "that men should be saved In spite state" nelther on the economic nor helleve then," I ventured, going to be a so-called "totalitarian With what purpose? Can there Committees of the League of gives himself unconditionally, with- of themselves by a strong power, on the spiritual plant. He does not
out regrets and without any shadow dictatorship?" be any other than to clear the Nations-who alvise, exchange of doubt on the goodnes of his "I am convinced," he replied, "that believe that the Siate should play merchant, manufacturer and bank ground for a new type of trade, stabilisation with the exact op he so generously gives himself to his acute. that dictatorship will be a initiative
policies and attitude, And
because the economie crisis will become so director. Duly controlled private Is still the most fecund flowing in a single channel ex-posite ideal of encouraging trade country, the mystic dictator demands necessity, because it is the only factor of the economic progress of t clusively through Italian hands between nations on the basis of
much also from his people.
regime which can teach people that nations. We
spoke of the crisis, the menace they need very little to be happy,
"The
modern State demands belween Addis Ababa and Rome? the world being one open market suspended over the world and its after all."
asecties," he explained. "Just as various Causes,
no! If that is the goal, it affords a for all--and in action by the re-glothe his ideas in concise formulae views on polilleal dictatorship, which depraved countries, so to-day the
Salazar does
He then proceeded to explain his saintliness flourished in the most second recont striking illustra-cently-concluded agreement for of all crises, he considered the moral freedom is trampled upon and men he added thoughtfully, I doubt but I gathered from his words that.
becomes a vital reed when Individual statesmen must do penance. But," whether many of them realise it and policy of Fascist States. The Britain, France and America.
was to him Arst and foremost a crisis parliamentarism and powerful finan- live up to it.” of religious conscience.
cial oligarchies. Only a dictatorship (Continued on Page 4.)
to
pre-
may be found only in a few
render to
Morrow.
Just now, however,, Salazar is rul-
economie
LTD. tion of the world's economic this purpose. reached between crisis of the most serious and that it surrender to the occult forces of