THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
My Advice is:
DON'T GO ON TOO LONG Too
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says
"Patsy" Hendren
GRAND cricket acason has died hard -harder for me
than for most people, because I'm walking out 1 am going, because it is best to leave
while one can still WALK out. It doesn't do to go on too long. But this does not make the parting between Hendren and blg cricket any easier. I have had a glorious tunings. There is much can look back on-and a lot I hope to look forward to. It will be impos alble after so many seasons of big cricket, for me to keep other than
close very close-to the Rate. I wonder what in my new role of spectator I shall see?
Changes? Possibly. But nothing drastic. Cricket is a game that won't sland for being turned in- aldo oul. Apart from the aban- donment of top hats and long whiskers, cricket has withstood all attempts at so-called reforms," and will, in my view, so on.doing 50.
But like the most expensive, high-powered car, cricket is going: need its perlodien: adjust- monts,
to
Controlled weather. of course. would be ideal. But you can't switch on sunshine, and 'erleketers will have to go on making the best of the weather.
OUNTY cricket badly needs the "kick" which
between Yorkshire and Middlesex administered this scason. It brought in the crowds and the money, and spread the interest like wildfre.
Now, what about an annual **kick"> Why shouldn't cricket, like football, have its own English Cup competition? Imagine the excitement of a knock-out compe- tition in big cricket!
It could be impaged.
like to see it started.
I should A careful
"Patsy" first appeared for Middlesex in 1909. Ilc has made more than 57,000 runs in first-class crleket-with 170 centuries, Including last
Monday's.
and alight cutting down of the countles' programmes would leave a certain number of free days.
On these days could be wetged in
the Cup matches-thrilling. one-day affairs, with the innings time-limited; crowded hours of glorious cricket adventure. Watch the takings swelli
I know the players themselves would love it. I wish it could have In my time. I think it is happened 2 bound to come. It can do no barm to the game, but could accomplish a tremendous amount of good.
Another thing. Cricket to-day Iacks the old-time thrill of really fast and accurate bowlers, who, in my opinion, provide more excite- ment than the biggest hitters in the game.
Throughout the years I have scen the gradual slowing-down of bowling-there have, of course. been exceptions, like Larwood-and I havo regretted the decifus of the speed-merchants.
A great fast bowler would be worth-Oh! anything you like-to
UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL
̈Cambridge~~Need A | -) Key Men Wanted........
To
Goalkeeper
Woolcock has gone "down"
At Oxford
H. The Oxford University Association
All a vacancy in goal will be football XI, will be led this year by only one of the problems which Cum-the ctd Malvernian, E. O. W. Hunt, bridge have to face this season.
who was captain in 1935. He will fourth appearance They have elected D. E. A. Pettitt, be making bis the International, as captain, and he is confident he can build up a good tcam.
against Cambridge.
The secretary is H. S. Seaford (Oriel), who has not yet abtained a For one thing there will not be anyBlue, but was reserve for the side
last December.
F.
shortage of centre halves. Last year
The Blues available are J. W. Peltitt had to move to wing half to let in K. R. G. Pennington, who is Naylor (Ashburton), goal; R. M. the new hon, scc. Now I boar that Hollis (Charterhouse) and M. there is a fine centre half coming Simson (Winchester), full-backs; H. A. S. Disney (Winchester) and H. "up," and as they cannot all play in one position there will be some more A. Davies (Bradfield), half-backs; and, in addition to Hunt, A. B. King- "converting" to do.
sley (Winchester) and G. Evans (St. Actually Cambridge will be fairly Asaph's), forwards. well off as far as Old Blues are con- Three places have to be filled and cerned. Apart from Pettitt and Pen-two of these are key positions, centre
forward, so nington there will be J. Allen, the half and centre full back, and two forwards, K. filled for two or three seasons by P. Goodyear (originally a half-back) H. Williams and J. Lee. and E. D. W. D. first.
A strong candidate for Williams's
ably
the
England next season when Australians will be here. I would Bay to any youngster with real fast-bowling ability, stick to your speed. Don't be persuaded into making changes. Cricket wants' fast bowlers badly.
Captains must be courageous and have got to realise that it is results that people want. R. W.V Robins has set a good example this season. He has always been out for a definite result, and no mem- ber of the Middlesex side has been chided at any time this season for getting out in an effort to bring about a conclusion to a match.
It isn't all honey for the cricket professional. Ho is shot at from A good and under- all angles. But standing captain can make all the difference in the world.
Now, here is a curious thing about cricket. While, as my own experience shows, the setting of felds is carried out much more skilfully to-day then it was 20, or 30 years ago, there is a tendency to under-rate the value of good fielding.
I feel so strongly about this that I say, here and now, that however great a batsman a player might be. I would not have him in my leam unless he was good in the field. It is so easy to lose a match through a dropped catch.
And I should like to put this point of view to those counties who Day talent money.
T
HE falreat method of apportioning, talent money is to award it on
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER
clined to agree with the aug- Restion that players, not needed
опе by
should be county allowed to move to the county that would be, prepared to give them a place in the first cleven. without the necessity of a rest- dential qualifying period,
The whole future of cricket lles
in giving the public the best possible entertainment served up by the best possible cricketers, and this cannot be, while goed players are forced into idleness for whole
at a time of because
rules qualifying which are, to say the least, out of date.
БСПЛОДА
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Believe me, до Buggestion I have made has been made in any revolutionary spirit. These
I things which RTC
hondatly think would help the game which has been, and will continue to be such a big part of my life.
VERY game must move with the times. It can-
cricket, nowadays is faced with every conceivable form of sporting competition.
So far its thousands of loyal refused to bo supporters have drawn, in any great numbers, away from cricket. The amazing attendances at the Test matches prove this...
..
But unlike us öldunsthis? young fellows coming along now, have begun to sit up and take notice in a world in which cricket is no longer without its rivals as,
-a system-of-marks-given-for-para-summer.sport......
ticularly good pieces of bowling. batting AND fielding, bearing in mind the state of the wicket and the conditions generally. Add the marks up at the end of the sca- son and then pay the bonuses accordingly. I am not suggesting that professional cricketers think of the money they get out of the game Arst, last and always, but, after all, it is their livelihood, and nothing rankles so much as the feeling that the rewards are not being fairly distributed.
They will be in a position to which game pick and choose they shall play, and which gome they ahall support.
It would be a grand thing for cricket if every side had its Jim Smith, or its Wellard-mighty thumpers, whom everybody likes to seo in action, and whose care- free style comes as a welcome con- trast, very ollen, to the methods of the men who have preceded them at the wicket. I am in-
position is E. H. Reynolds (Alleyn's), SCHMELING
TO FIGHT IN
One of the main things will be to who has had considerable experience, find 11 centre forward. Goodyear while if Seaford plays at centre for- may, possibly, be fried there, but award and proves satisfactory, there man who might develop is R. N. may not bo mony changes in the Lloyd, trained by W. T. Whewell attack, unless some of the newcomers NEW YORK
SENIORS CLAIMS
And F. W. Wilkinson at King's are outstanding. School, Ely. He is on the small side and has been a trifle disappointing Among seniors
be
who may
Armstrong (Canterbury), goal; S.
Berlin, Oct. 27. so far, but is expected to improve in deemed worthy of a trial are W. T.
Max Schmeling has finally agreed his third year.
There are one or two other seniors Schofield (Belton Grammar School) to fight Harry Thoma, of Chicago, or D. R. Grunt (Winchester),December 13 in New York, accord- who have shown good form. F. E. and Templer, from Bradßeld, is another full-backs; R. P. H. Derwall-Smithing to informed circles here.
Allon centre half, but can play a good, (Shrewsbury), W. H. II. game as a wing half. A. G. Murray (Shrewsbury),
J. G. Eggar (Chel-
is also a centre half, but if he is to tenham), and J. S. Raskell, halt- from Highgate, and J. M. Lomas, a be considered it will be as a full-backs; and C. R. Ward-Perkins back, from Charlerhouse.
A n: Corrie The training will be carried out on back. C. P. Greenway, from Win-Winchester).
C. II. Risley the same lines as the past two years. chester, I fancy for the left wing, Westminster), R.
The Axture list is much the same while.E. S. Washington may be tried (Winchester), and R. O. Sturdy
(Jamalen), forwards.
no usual, and in addition to games as an inside,
Among the freshmen good reports against the best amateur sides, in- matches with Birmingham, have been received of a goalkeeper cludes from Shrewsbury, an inside forward the Arsenal, and the 'Spurs,
The freshmen are largely an un- known quantily but their trial may tell us something..
20 & 30 cts.
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WATSON'S MELCASTOL
FRAGRANT, SWEETENED CASTOR OIL
AN EASILY TAKEN LAXATIVE
oven That is why.
though cricket is not in the slightest danger of ever languishing and dying, no effort should be spared to Add to its attractiveness, when this can be done without any sweeping the making, of
changes.
It's nice to be able to say a full-page farewell to cricket-as a county player. I shall remain "in the game as much as over.
To-day's Thought Oll. willow, willow, willete!
Oh, willow, zolliów, willow! -OLD BONG.
Badminton
Dark Blues Win At Rugger
London, Nov, 2. Oxford University to-day won a rugger encounter against the Oxford Greyhounds by 22 points to 1,--Router,
BOOKIES SAVED BY THE TRUMP
Could Have Lost £120,000
Melbourne, Nov, 2. The Trump, winner of the Caulfield Cup recently, to-day also won the Melbourne Cup at Flemington, thus saving Aus tralian bookmakers from what might have been their heaviest loss since the success of the Amounis-Phar Lap combination in 1930.
The winner was an 11-2 favourite and had an advantage of only a neek over Willie Win (40-1) at the finish, and the same distance separated the latter from Sarcherie (40-1), which 'was third.
The lime was 3 mins. 21.6 seconds for the two-mile course.
First prize for the race was £10,- 000 and £200 trophy; second £2,000 and third £1,000,
The Trump had been coupled with many others for the Cup "double" this year, und bookmakers would have been in a bad way if any of the not- sa-fancied horses had been successful lo-day.
It is belleved that if Black Mac, one of the runners, had won the Melbourne Cup,, the bookles would have had to pay out a sum of £120,- 000, The Trump was coupled with other horses for the following amounts:
Black Mac, £120,000.
un, £100,000. Balkan Prince, £70,000. John Wilkes, £50,000. Walan, £60,000. Mala, £50,000, Manolive,, £50,000, Willie Win, £25,000.
-A Correspondent.
WOOLLEY RETIRES London, Nov. 2. The Kent County Cricket Council has declared that Frank Woolley will He relire after one more season. holds an unrivalled record, playing in 20 52 consecutive Tests, of which were against Australia.-Reuter Bul- letta.
Frank Woolley
agc is no respecter of persons,
VERY LITTLE CHANCE OF BADMINTON INTERPORT
Malaya Likely To Experience Difficulty In Raising Funds
(By "Vorilas") '
While no official intimation has been received from Singa. pore in rely to the Hongkong Badminton Association's recent letter apropos the suggested visit here next January of a Malayan badminton team, as to whether or not Malaya are prepared to send a team under the conditions outlined by the local association, a recent comment by the Badminton Correspondent of the Singa- pore Sunday Times leaves small room to believe the projected visit will materialise.
The writer, who is usually well informed, states that not only is the Malayan Badminton Association fully cognisant of the difficulties created by the disturbed political situation in south China, but the fact that Hongkong cannot offer any guarantes of expenses makes the tour very, unlikely..
The writer emphasises this point by observing that the MOTO inclined to subscribe to China's Malayan public now. Salvation Bonds than to finance a sports tour, and for this rea- son alone, he holds out little hope of Malaya sending a team.to Hongkong this season.
1937.
Cochet Still A Genius At Lawn Tennis
His Grand Overhead Smashes
By Stanley N. Doust
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Cochet reeled off 10 gomes in a row, which gave him the Arst set at 0-4 and took him to 3-0 In the second set. He lost the next game and then went out
Henri Cathet, who won the cham- pionship at Wimbledon in 1927 and 1020, and is now 36 years of age, la still a genius at lawn tennis.
Playing For the first time in England as a professional the In the final set Cochet simply Empire Pool, Wembley, recently he juggled with the ball. He half- best D. Maskell, the chief profes volleyed Maskell's hardest drives, sional of the Lawn Tennis Assocla- advanced to the net, and finished off tion, by 6-4, 0-1, 6-3, In the first rallies with hair-raising volleys. round of the professional iourn- Husslein (Germany) beat Martin Plan in the second singles match by
nment.
It was an amazing performance,6-4, 6-2, 6-3, The German over- for Cochet had to accustom himself whelmed Pina by keeping a beautiful to conditions that he had not experl-length and attacking all the time.
enced before.
Cochet will now play the winner of T. C. Jeffrey (Britain) and W. T Tilden (United States) in the semi- final and not Nusslein, as shown on the programme.
Nusslein la now placed. In the lower half of the draw and meets the winner of the Stoefen (United and R. Ramllion (France)
It took some time for this great French player to get used to the artificial lighting and the wood sur face. Maskell, driving very deep and hard, and making some excel- lently timed volleys, led by 4-1.
We thought that Cochel was in danger of being beaten by a younger states) pinyer--Maskell is 29, and seven match. years is a big handicap In lawn In the first round of the doubles, tennis of such speed as these two W. T. Tilden and I. Stoefen bent T.
playing.
But д different
C. Jeffrey and D. Maskell, 6~~~2, 0–~2, Cochelor rather the Cochet of his 7-5 heyday-suddenly rose up
(Nussteln won the singles title by FLASHING HALF-VOLLEYS
beating Tilden in the final.) We sow the
those flashing hall-volleys
were
of yore; well masked passing shots and scintillating low volleys had Maskell guessing to which side the
ball was going, Cochet, too, produced Australian Rugger Men those overhead smashes that no pinyer in the world has ever done so well.
All these strokes were made so easily and nonchalantly that Mas-.
Win Again
London, Oct. 27.
In Rugby League match to-day
kell, who worked hard and tried Bradford Northern succumbed to until the end, was made to look quite the touring Australians by 10 points
to 8-Reuter, an ordinary player.
BAD NEWS FOR
W. HAMMOND
Walter Hammond, world's No. 1 all-rounder, is not visiting India with Lord Tennyson's powerful English team, which sailed recently, because of rather alarming advice from a specialist, states a London report.
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Hammond, who is bitterly disappointed at having to refuse his invitation for the trip, was warned by the speclailst that, if he did not rest this English winter, the attacks of rheumatiem, to which he is susceptible, might provent his playing any more first- class cricket. In the season just concluded in England, Hammond was about 20th in the easily topped the batting averages, and bowling.
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