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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1937.
NO EXTENSION FOR NEXT YEAR'S CRICKET TESTS
AUSSIES
NOT TO
HAVE WAY
FOUR-DAY MATCHES DECIDED
London, Nov. 16.
The Cricket Board of Control Advisory Com mittee meeting, held to- day, decided that the Test; matches between England and Australia next year will be over four days
each.
The last Test at the Oval will be played to a finish, however, if at the conclusion of the fourth match, the difference in the matches won is not greater than one.-Reuter Australiana for years have been aginting for Test matches in Eng Tond to be played to a finish, as they Australia. They contend are in that it is absurd for a team to travel 13,000 miles to play indecisive games in the most Important fixtures of the tour. No mention is made in the above cable regarding the hours of the play on each day; so presumably, they remain unaltered, that is, from 11.30 am, to pan. on the first day, and 11 to 6.30 p.m. mu subsequent
daya.
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What the Australians would lite to have are five-day Tests or piny to a finish, with hours from 12, or 11.30 nm. at the earliest, to 6.30 p.m. In match was to be played to finish, they would advocate starting at an hour later than 11.30 each day. Apparently the objection in Eng- Iand is that an extension of the time for the Teats would interfere
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POLICE
Where is the Limit HOLD
Ain Football?
The Football Association are plan- ciple that the money the game earns ning a ground to hold 150,000 people, must remain within it, that directors and even if they succeed they know that it will alfi be inadequate to tinfy the demands of the public. For last season's Cup Final they re- ceived more than 400,000 applications, for tickets.
Is there a limit to the development of football? i have asked nuthorities to picture the game twenty years bence, and they have confessed that It was a prospect beyond their con- exption. "Let those who come after us look after it," they say.
Meanwhile, they are assailed by the fear that money may talk to loudly and that it may control the netivities of clubs to an even greater extent than it does to-day. There is, too, the dread that it may pass Into private hands to be exploited for private gain, as in the ease of the! huge Anunciul interests which domin ale American baseball.
Only by holding fast to the prin
were
shall not receive fees, and that share- holders shall not be allowed more than 7% per cent, on their invest- ments can the ruckeleer be kept at bay. Already he sees in it a quick and easy way to smuggle the turn- se takings into his own pockels, and I have no doubt that his itching Ongers will get them if he is offered the slightest chance.
have been consulted as to the possibility of buying up a team of lending Bellsh players. Could it be done for £30,000? I was neured that this sum was avaliable for the purpose. It was a
crazy scheme. The Idea was that this team of cham plons should travel the football coun- tries of the world taking part in ex- hibition matches.
It was even believed that games with foreign national teams might be played in London.
But the proposal was illuminating in showing how the money-makers were ready to seize the rich pos-. tooed that the dates
sibilities of the game even by suborn- properlying and ruining the careers of the greatly with county erkekel, but first nuranged. öbjection, any Australians, lus no Recently there seemed to be players. validity now tint four days are favourable reaction in England to the I was presen!, too, when the agent decided. A man playing in a Test suggestion of five-day Tests, and of a foreign country unblushingly now misses two county games, and he | it was hoped In Australla that this offered the manager of a leading would still miss only two games if congesalon would be made by the English club a bribe of £500 if Ite the Test went on for six days, provid- | English ruling body.
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FRANK M. CARRUTHERS ARBITER of "The Daily Mail"
H. K. S. R. A. TO DRAW United Hockey Tournament
(By The Pilgrim")
CARNERA CLAIMS HE IS
FIT ONCE AGAIN
ARRIVES IN ENGLAND AND
WANTS TO FIGHT
"Dally Express" Staff Reporter
London, Oct. 13. Fourteen inches of blood-red shoes, two yards of blue tros- sers and overcoat, a smile that showed half-inch teeth and seemed wide as the door, and a pearl-grey_hat, descended in just that sequence from the cabin of an Imperial Airways liner at Croydon yesterday,
Playing on the Police Training School ground in the United Hockey Tournament yesterday, the Hongkong Police held the
Primo Carnera, the Ambling Alp. H.K.S.R.A. to a 1-1 draw. It has come back to London to prove was a fine performance by the he is not "punch dranke" (term ap- Police inasmuch as they were plied to the much-battered boxer without the services of four of who is partly stupefled and of un-
certain balance, 1 their best players, Parker, Wall,
grinned, abrond for a series of games, and the Howlett and Jackson.
shook
hands all rounds ingenuous mauner in which it was
obilged photographers by. put forward told plainly that it was
The Brigade drew first blood in the waving the pearl-grey hat to na not regarded as an unusual one. In-initial half when their centre-for-Imaginary crowd of welcoming fans. Ben Huntman, the promoter, had deed, the agent was mystified by the ward, Jem. Tara Singh, found the
net with a high shot after 20 Just been saying to me: "So they Indignant prolest "with which it was minutes plny, Their superiority any he wouldn't tnice 18. ed. in the received.
Albert Hall I'll show them.
Fortunately, the rulers of British football are thoroughly alive to these dangers. They realise that there is not everywhere the same resolute endeavour to keep out corrupt prac- tlees as in this country, and not only will they, not allow clubs to treat with private promoters of matches abroad but they have to be satisfied with the propriety of every tour be fore they sanction it.
These dangers which i have point- ed to are, I suppose, inevitable, since the game has thrown out its ten- tacles in all parts of the world and others have not our conception of it.
rather They remain without
than within, but, the authorities reatise that the strictest safeguards must be provided.
WANTED-SPEED
For this season they wish it were possible to provide their own ground for the Cup Final and other import- ant matches. They would do so nt unce if it were a practical proposition rather than that any the money which is received from thom should pass into outside channels.
was noticeable in this half,
"So they say he's punch drunk! I'll show them.
On changing over, the Police were still on the defensive until Narwant "The Boxing Board refuse him a Singh got possession and ran downllcence because they say he isn't fit. Well, Lord order will decide that on Friday. We'll show them!"
... kept attackers out,
Hayward
crossing
the ball
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They have as a guide the example of Scotland, who have not only claimed Hampden Park as their own big-match ground but have increased the centre, ita capacity to 150,000. Significantly. Bachen Singh, who equalised with too, the whole of this space was fthed a scorching drive.
The Brigade then made several last season when the 140,000 people were present at the match with Eng-ne movements and Jessop was forced land. Even this does not meet the himself equal to the fusi.
to rush out and clear. He proved Spectators were then treated in two charac- Jem. Tara Singh, but he failed to get teristle dashes down the centre by past Jessop.
demand.
However football expands and de- velops will be largely determined by the public. In many ways they are already the Big Boss in diclating the policies of the clubs. It is they who have compelled the spending of pro- digious transfer fees; it is they who have caused directors to borrow
thousands of pounds to erect new stands and left them to pay off the debts.
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NOW 181 STONE Carnera shook off the autograph hunters, said: "Well, how do I look to you?" in a double-bass valce.
To me he looked big enough (0ft. din.), heavy enough (10% slone), steady enough on his tremendous fect.
It
seemed Incredible that this Was the man who, after fighting Negro Leroy Haynes at Brooklyn ta 1936, taken paralysed to the Italian Hospital in New York.
Doctors ilien feared ho would end j his days in a bathchair,
Now he braced back his shoulders, pulled out his enormous chest, said: "I am here to show I can fight. I om here to show I am fit.
"Am I punch drunk? Well, look for yourself. What do you think?"
He gripped me by the arm and! grinned.
"I was paralyse. I was in despair and think I never fight again. I think I am all washed up with fight- ing.
"Leroy Haynes hit me on the side of the head." He tapped the right side hie skull. “And I was paralyse all down my left wide. I could feel nothing. I could not use my leg." He knee.
bent down, tapped his left
"FIT AS ANY ONE"
"I am in hospital maybe five or six lie there at first and cannot move. months. Yes, I am very ill. I just
"Then I get better and better, I have been back in Italy a year. Now I am at as any man.
wns.
Lord Tennyson
Captain of the English cricket team.
India The side includes
1100
eight Test cricketers.
BOB WYATT
AND WARWICK
London, Oct. 26. R. E. S. (Bob) Wyatt has been deposed from the captaincy of War- wickshire. At a
meeting of the
Eeneral committee of the county club,
ERRATIC SHOOTING Hayward broke up many promising
"I am strong and well as ever I
I will show them." movements by the visiting forwards, who had the misfortune to be erratles brother, Sccundo, an Islington invitation was extended to Peter.
He grinned again. He embraced with their shooting. The Brigade mosale would have gained a victory had they
worker, who had come to Cranmer, the England rugby fout-
baller, to captain the team next displayed more
meet him. opportunism und better finishing in the circle. Their
"It Is good to see my
brother zon.
Ever since I was announced inst The present generation of en- full-bucks, Dalip Singh and Kishen again," said Primo. thusiasts do not know how much Singh, were reliable and did good
"After I have seen Lord Horder I meeting to consider the
week that the committee would be better the game might be played, but work, as did Yusuf Khan at right am sure they will decida. I nm At to
caplaincy, rumour has been busy. the authorities dare not go back to half. Khuda Bux, Tara Singh and dgat. I shall start again. Sure
It was stated that Wyatt had not seen eye to re the old offside rule.
"This
publie Lieut. Godby performed creditably am At-just look at me." would not stand for it," they
He folded his arms across his chest year and that he had at times not with members of the committee last in the attack. "They want continuity and speed,
and grinned.
been goals and excitement." So, for good or ill, the volte from the terraces is the deciding one, and it has gained in Influence and nuthority season by
season.
The formation of an International competition, either distinct from or as part of the present League system, with teams flying to and fro from the Continent, will come about if the public demand it. At present it is nothing but an airy possibility, and fascinating as it is the time when a novelty is needed to excite a new interest has not yet arrived.
Meanwhile, I confess to
being frightened by the power of the vast Anancial interests which ore being bullt, of football being taken out of the realm of games, and even the players becoming simply wage- earners going into a mulch Ike workmen who have their eye on the clock and are glad when their job is finished.
SCHOOL SOCCER LEAGUE
Ellis Kadoorle Indian School beat La Salle three goals to one in the School Soccer League yesterday.
Play was oven in the first half. La Salle opened the scoring through Sonny and the Indians scored their Urce in the second half through A. A. Tipe.
For the Police, Hayward de- monstrated that he could be relied upon under pressure, Brown was a not make the full use of the oppor- of the halves. Teja Singh hard worker, but Wills was the besttunities which went their way.
and Except for spasms of wild hitting, Nurwant Singh were speedy but did the game was fast and interesting.
A Cricket Problem
A correspondent submitted problem to the New Chronicle;
the following cricket
A batsman hits a hard caught-and-bowled chanco, which the bowler stops with one hand. The ball drops on to the top of the balls, the batsman is well out of his ground at the bowler's end, and, on a loud appeal from the field, is given run out. Meanwhile, the bowler has caught the ball as it bounced from tho wicket,
T-Which batsman is out?
2. Can both be out?
3-Does the fact that the man was run out con- stitute his dismissal, as he was first out and the bail is henceforth dead?
4.--Does the fact that the striking batsman was caught and bowled at the second attempt annul tha decision of the umpire that the other batsman is out?
5.-Can the fielding captain choose which báts-'
mari is to go?
The Chronicle. Cricket Correspondent, Frank Thorogood, replies: (1) The man at the bowler's witkot: (2) No: (3) Yes; (4). No; (5) No.
ADD TO YOUR SPIRITS
SPARKLING PYERIS
BY WATSON'S.
team.
on the best terms
with his
brighter countles last year and quite Warwick was not one of the
to
a number of spectators blamed this Wyatt's handling of the team. Wyatt's supporters, however, pointed out that he made over 2,000 runs Inst season and that on many
Occasions his tactics were admitted by the fact that he had carried the team on his shoulders.
of
COMMITTEE'S STATEMENT The county committee have issued statement expressing appreciation Wyatt's services and expressing the hope that he will continue to play for
the county. The change, they say, In the captaincy, was made be cause it was fell that the side had got into a groove. Wyatt has a birth qualification for Surrey and it has been suggested that he will play for them next season. Colour was tent to this by the fact that he visited Mr. H. D. G. Leveson-Gower, presi dent of the Surrey Club, Inst week.- Mr. Leveron-Gower refuses to discuss the rumour and said that Wyatt had been a friend of his for many years. and called on him as he was in Lon don for the Motor Show.
**I consider him the second best bat In Englatið," said Mr. Leveson Gower. "And if he came to Surres It would be my county's gain. "Wyatt has played under other cop- tains for his county and also in the England team under another captain. It would take him sometime to throw off his old love."
Wyatt has refuted to make any comment beyond denying that he had at any time considered becoming a professional.
USE
Danderine
FOR DRY SCALP AND FALLING
HAIR
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