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"H.M.V." SERIES OF THE WORKS OF GREAT COMPOSERS-INTERPRETED
No.. Composer
BY LEADING
ARTISTS AND ORCHESTRAS.
223
BEETHOVEN
211 BORODIN
-242 BRAHMS
198 CHOPIN
248 DVORAK 164. ELGAR
210. FAURE
Work
Choral-Symphony Quartet in D Maj: Sextet in B Flat Maj.
Four Ballades
Symphony in C Maj. Violin Concerto Quartet in C Min
GILBERT & SULLIVAN Complete Operas
195 LALO
224 LEONCAVALLO
50 MENDELSSOHN
216 MOZART
103
84
PUCCINI
RACHMANINOFF
232 RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF
68
SCHUBERT
209
SCHUMANN
· 54 STRAVINSKY
192 STRAUSS
TCHAIKOWSKY
114
237
WAGNER
Symphonic Espagnole
PAGLIACCI (Complete Opera) Trio in D Min. Concerto in A Maj. Madame Butterfly
Concerto No. 2 Scheherazade (Symphonic Suite) Album of Songs
(Complete Operal
Concerto in A Min. Patroushka (Music for the Rosenkavalier (First Act) Pathetique-Symphony
Die Walqure (First Act)
A LIST OF OTHER ALBUMS INCLUDED IN
THIS SERIES WILL BE PUBLISHED LATER.
BIRTH.
Were the OLD GANG Better?
W. G. GRACE.
them, indeed-Lord's, for in- stance were something of a terror to his contemporaries.
Conditions of cricket being so different in his day, it is im possible to draw anything like
The first test match commences In Brisbane to-morrow. "Plem" Warner analyses England's chances.
a true comparison between him I shall probably be asked to and the Australian champion, bend down the next time the but I am going to suggest that M.C.C. Committee meet for say, Bradman is at least his equal ing this, and I realise I can. if not, indeed, his superior. never again go to Harrow !
3. Was Hayward. a better And yet Woolley, in his ad- mirable book, "The King of No. 1 than Sutcliffe? No-not, so Games, does not give Brad good. Hayward was a magni-
DON BRADMAN.
man a place in a World's XI. of licent player of fast bowling, "keep at It, Tom," und Tom to-day, not being sure of his and, indeed, of slow left-handed did for three mortal hours by ability on sticky wickets. I bowling, but he was nothing the clock and without an easy. have only seen Bradman bat like so good to leg break ani
twice on
To Lockwood stand two great
sticky wickets, v. googly bowling as the great feats; at the Oval in 1899, on England at Lord's, in 1934, Yorkshireman. Hayward was a wicket the equal of any that when he made 13 runs, and at beautiful stylist, and Sutcliffe-is-even "Bosser" Martin can pro Sydney, in 1933, when he played not a stylist but a more con- duce to-day, and at Old Traf- determined 'No. 1 ford, in 1902, in the terrific
Australian a splendid innings of 71 out of fident and
victory match. I have seen Larwood,
a total of 128. I would venture except Hobbs, never opened the three-run to differ with "The Pride of innings for England.
4. Was Lilley a better wicket--however, bowl at times in a Kent." Bradman would always
keeper than Ames? Possibly, but manner which has not been sur- ERE the cricketers of my hè my first choice.
Ames is easily passed by the fast bowlers of That some of
the best wicket- any age. to-day?
the elders find-
W better than those
of
When I began to play first- It difficult
to
H
Asks
the moderns may"
be in-l stanced by the'
keeping bats 6. Are there any, bowlers, in- man England dividually or as a pair, like
class cricket, and during the gives their due P.F. WARNER has ever hadilarnes and F. It. Foster? No.
rrenter
career, part of my there was no such fierce light as now bosts around the personall- PEARNE-To Mr. unl Mrs. John R.
story of the famous cricket- Lilley or A. Pearne, (of the R.C.A. Com-tics of cricketers.
We lived in a quieter and er who, when Bradman was and little munications,) at the Kowloon
his The cauldron of playing
great innings difference Hospital, on December 3, 1938, calmer age. a son, (John Arthur).
criticism may occasionally have of 254 v. England, at Lord's, skill. bubbled, hut it did not, seethe, in 1930, kept on remarking,
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1936.
DAYLIGHT-SAVING
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batsman Wiliam
Better Barnes is the best bowler on all than wickets I have never seen. Aus Storer tralian opinion is emphatic that
or no appreciable he is the best bowler England wicket-keeping hus ever sent to Austraila, and that Foster is the best bowler of
in
5. How does Larwood com- us type. Barnes was a very and our failures and short- "He's got a lot to learn yet," to pare with Richardson or Lock- "hostile" bowler of fast-medium comings escaped to a large ex- which his companion eventually wood? No fast bowler ever had pace with his arm in "the sky," more beautiful action or an impeccable length, pace off tent unnoticed. Rather was it the replied: "If he learna much a mode to emphasise our successes more he will ruin the game!!!" greater control of the ball that the pitch, and the power of being
Larwood, but on performances able to turn the ball both ways. and to pass lightly over
Foster's left arm came over is Lockwood must be given the falures.
over him and, if it had been in a bucket of oil W. G. Grace was a king who 2. How does Hammond com- preference could do no wrong. He was al pare with MacLaren or Jackson? Richardson must be bracketed for a week, so smooth and easy was his action: he kept a perfect ways an heroic figure, even in Great as MacLaren and Jackson at least equal with him.
Lockwood in his day was the length, and he often straighten- the season of 1891, when he were (men used to lay a level
19 with an "fiver" at Sydney that Mac- best fast bowler I have ever ed his inswinging deliveries. His It is characteristic of His averaged only
aggregate of 771 runs in 10 Laren would get a 100, and scen-no fast bowler ever had fast ball came off the ground Excellency the Governor that, innings and a highest score of Jackson's record in Test matches a better slow ball-but Richard- with the speed of a genuine fast sensing public sentiment, hebut 72 not out.
in England-most unfortunately son was the more consistent, bowler,
7. Is Verity a better bowlor Those who maintain that the he never went to Australia-is and could bowl for hours on end should have sprung somewhat
cricketers of to-day cannot be wonderful), I think that Han without losing his pace, as he-thay-Rhodes? I think not, for of a surprise on the Legislative compared to their predecessors mond is every bit as fine, if not a did at Old Trafford in 1896, he does not possess Rhodes's urged him to finger spin nor his flight, but he Council yesterday by champion-will experience something of a finer player than either of them, when "W. G."
is none the less a great bowler who can hold an end even on the Ballet)ing the cause of daylight-saving shock if they will look up the
best Australian wickets and can get the Australians out-when
Lord's, in 1934, obtaining 15 wickets for 104 runs. Rather faster through the air than Rhodes, he may yet equal that great cricketer's record and go. in first for England..
for
to the extent of putting forward, records of the last thirty years.
It is well to remember when- the consideration of all criticising the moderns that our who might be affected, alast two feams in Australia wan
the rubber 4-1. provisional proposal for ad-
What of individuals? Is Brad- vancing the present standard man a better batsman than time of Hongkong by thirty Grace? How does Hammond minutes throughout the year.Jackson? Was Hayward a better
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COUGHING the turf is false, as he did, at
The coughing season has be- are no two coughs alike in the
8. Is the fielding as good as it is a No. 1 than Sutcliffè? ̈ ́Was gun. Coughing has nirendly been world.
was? There is no slip combina desire to secure more time for Lilley a better wicket-keeper heard to drown the parson's saw,
According to every cougher tion like MacLaren, Braund and outdoor recreation, will, we have than Almes? Is Larwood as though examples are few as yet (and who should know better Jones, but Hammond and Mit
fine a fast bowler as Richardson because proper respect for re-than he?) there never was and chell, of Yorkshire, are glorious. no doubt, find fairly widespread
or Lockwood? Are there any ligions keeps at home on Sun- public approval. His Excellency bowlers, either individually or days many a cougher who would never could be a cough like his. slip fieldsmen. Robins is magni- cited the objections raised some as a pair, like Barnes and F. R.not shrink from coughing twice It is an insuit to suggest that ficent anywhere. There are such a cough his ever before some fast deep fieldsmen, like four years ago by the General Foster Is Verity the equal as loud in a theatre or a concert been heard, or heard of, and the Fishlock and Hardstaff and
of Rhodes? Is the fielding" as | hall.
student never makes such a sug-Allen has made a name for him. Chamber of Commerce to a good as it was? Is captaincy similar suggestion-objections better or worse? :
Coughing has come in a little gestión unless he deliberately self at short leg. The fielding 1. Grace and Bradman.-earlier than usual this year, means to drive his entertainer of the England X1, at the Oval. which, as he pointed out, were only played with and against perhaps because of the un- to give a better show than her. India, could not have been sur-
passed. not stated in detail; and he was Grace when he was past his orthodox summer; but, having ever gave before. able to show that in Malaya, prime. But what-a-batsman he arrived, it can be fairly counted This is all the stranger be- 9. Is captaincy better than it where the proposed introduction was! He was not a stylist in jupon to stay till next summer.
every cougher tries to was? Yes, generally speaking.. no month in! the sense that Hobbs, Woolley. Indeed there is
force upon every other cougher It is less stereotyped, and more of daylight-saving was at one Ranji, and MacLaren were, but which it thrives so well as May, the one, only, infallible, remedy clastic, and the setting of the sometimes makes old time similarly opposed, experi- what a magnificent player he when the Easter indiscretions in for every kind of cough-except, field ence has shown its value to the was of fast bowling, even at the matters of overcoats and under- it seems, its advocate's. But stagers stare. The energies of are better pre- wear have hud time and' op- community at large. It is of age of 501
ters little; any rough and ready served. Jardine is a past master interest, in this connection, to He was a big man in every portunity and spring weather the medical classification mat- fast bowlers
sense of the word, was W. G. enough to do their worst.
division will do cigarette, in this respect. recall the stiff opposition which and he was big enough to nd- The student, of coughing, and nervous, bronchitis, desire toThere is, however, too much the late Mr. William Willett, the mit that he did not think he coughers, then, has a good six attract attention, emphysema, bowing short of a length- originator of the idea in Eng-stuff," but he was so superb as a researches; and he will be it-teases, relaxed throat, crea- called with only two or three would have liked "that googlicmonths in which to prosecute will-to-annoy-because-he-knows- bowling "defensively it is land, encountered before the re-a bataman technically that he deaf and blind to omens if he tive joy of artist.
fieldsmen in front of the wicket. form was finally adopted. The would, I am certain, have mas- does not foresee unusual enter-
Hence many runs are scored by- Referring each specimen to the hook stroke. idea which Mr. Willett had in tered that type of bowling as he tainment from a season which mastered every type of bow-
In my time bowling was very has begun with the silence of one or more of such origins, tho mind was to secure a working ling that he
has collector is free to enjoy the seldom on the short side. Lately Father Coughlin, who day more closely approximating time. Let it not for coughed up the last of his any great variety of sound and man- there has been an approach to
be forgotten
the old and sound principle that the hours of daylight. For moment
thing but phlegmatic political ner. he played on wickets which
He will observe to what noble length is the foundation of all years he carried on his cam- were nothing like so true as addresses on the air. paign, and when finally in 1909 the modern pitch, many of Yet there is little hope, un-use some coughers can put com-good bowling. The Australians fortunately, that there will be paratively slight gifts; how with bowl a length and at the wicket. a Bill incorporating his pro-
many hearers of coughing very little cough there may be To sum up, bowling is not so posals came before Parliament of many would be open to serious į qualified to take advantage of an imposing volume of shout, or good as it was though it musi It was rejected by one vote. objection. There
also what promises to be an excep-crow or squeak; and how others always be remembered that the Seven years later, however, the arguments for and against tionally good season. Nearly neglect to cultivate thele gifts, improvement in wickets handi- the suggestion that the clock every one is content to suffer and having what envy calls real caps the modern bowler. As for Summer Time Act was passed. should be advanced to the same as a rule in craven silence-from ly shocking coughs do their best { batting, we have no four such
:
met in his
one that
are
.:
in not to lot them be heard."
batsmen as MacLaren, Jackson, and in the following year a com- extent in winter as in summer. other people's coughing,
Fry-or Hobbs, He will lament the deadening Ranji and mittee. which was appointed to Matters of detail apart, such as church, in the theatre, at the report on its working expressed the effect on the Kowloon- talkies; in the office, in public effect of habit, and see many a Sutcliffe, Woolley und Hendren, Canton Railway time-table. vehicles, in domestic privacy good cough, once used with skill of recent years. But Hammond
itself as being strongly in favour weather reports, etc., the Few, indeed, are the true tus-(in default of a foreign accent is a glorious player: and Hard- of its continuation. Ever since, scheme; in general principle, sians, or bechophils, who, so far or a slight stammer) to lend staff looks like being as good as daylight-saving has been part of would appear to have much in from inwardly cursing and try point in conversation, now de: anyone with added experience. its favour. The reactions of ing to stop their ears, listen graded into an ineffective, tire Where England are strong is in the national life of the country. the public generally and of keenly to the sounds and reflect some, or even ridiculous trick. the absence of a tail. Many It must, of course, be remom-business interests in particular upon what they hear.
He will wonder at the unequal of our bowlers bat uncommonly bered that Hongkong is a city, will doubtless bon determining Doctors admit indeed, they gifts of, nature; hearing one well. Moreover, we have several not a big territory like Malaya factor when the Legislative pretend to have discovered man wheeze monotonously, like promising young men-Comp Council comes to consider any that there are several different an old sheep, and another ton, Edrich, Gimblett, Hutton, or England, where the adoption concrete proposals placed before sorts of cough. Their categories (peculiarly welcome in domestic Dollery and N. W. Yardley. The of the system by one town out It.
must be sadly jejune, for there (Continued on Page 4.) 2000ltan years, are past.