AUSTRALIA ALSO BADLY OFF FOR BOWLERS
Grimmett Almost Sure Of A Place
(By William Pollock)
My present bed book is "Oliver Twist” (it must be about the tenth time that Oliver and I have been bedfellows), and 1 have just come across a passage that is most apt to my immediate.
circumstances.
M Sudden shiftings of sceno, and rapid changes of time and place, are not only sanctioned in books by long usage, but are by many considered as the great art of authorship.".
It la too hot to bother about low it keenly; the majority in- questions of authorship; the aptness telligently.
is that here in Adelaide, a fortnight since I landed from England, the temperature has been up to 105.de- grees (in the shode) and by day
sweltering at a cricket match and by night reading about the recent fogs of London. "Sudden shiftings of scene, and rapid changes of time and place...
have been
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ENGLAND-ITIS
We have had on view in this Test trial match most of the likely challengers for the coming "home." Don Bradman captained
one
eleven, Vic Richardson the other. Every evening the air has been filled with words about cricket from broadcasters ranging from the Once Don himself down to me. more Australia is rapidly hecoming
TALKING CRICKET- This morning, as I walked slowly down to Adelaide's lovely Oval, cricket crazy. .crossing the cool-looking Torrens lake, passing the statue to the memory of Sir Ross Smith, the man who in 1910 made the first success ful flight from England to Australia, and
on through luxuriantly flowered paths to the ground, I fell to thinking how queer that while England is in the grip of football
- Australia is in the fever of cricket,
The twelve thousand who flocked
Some of the young players given a show in the Test irfal have clear signa of what onc of them called "Englanditis." Not counting Brad man, who will skipper the side, or will eat his hat, there are only fourteen places going, and at least twice fourteen players are out after
them.
I am getting more and more of to see this Saturday's play in the the opinion, that Grimmett will get Vic Richardson-Clarric Grimmett one of the places. He bowled like "testimonial" Teat trial match have a master in the first innings of this now been thunder-stormed home: as
match, had Don scraping and I write at Glencig, Adelaide's near- scratching, and soon got him with a cst seaside hideout, tremendous beautifully-fighted ball to which flashes of semi-tropical lightning are the Don darted out--but missed. illuminating the local piece of the Pacific-but nearly every one is talking cricket,
By bowling him for a small acore Clarrie Grimmett probably did the testimonial funds no beneft; Brad- You can take that for granted. man not out at lunch time "reminds" The season is just getting into its large numbers of people of import stride and this time the stride is a ant appointments they have away long one-thirteen thousand miles from the office. But he may well to England. The "domestic" in- have bowled himself to England terest in entirely secondary;
the again. overwhelming interest lies in the side which will sall in March.
INDUSTRIOUS CLARRIE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SHEFFIELD SHIELD
Sydney, Jan, 17. To-day's scores in the Shemeld Shield match were New South Wales 295; South Australla 295 and 11. for no wickets.
In Brisbane the scores were.-- Queensland 171 for 5, and Victoria 396-Router Bulletin."
ago. But Clorrie only smiled that alightly Chinese smile of lits, which may mean anything or nothing,
They do tell me that he has be come uncommonly industrious in the nets these warm evenings, and reeing how hard up for bowlers Australia is I-well, I shouldn't, be surprised.
They are just about as badly off for bowling na wo ore. Apart from
McCormick, who bowls fast, but without great command, and the leg- spinner Ward, both of whom played in Tests against Gubby Allen's lot, there does not seem to be "now" bowler in Australia.
Slovers, who spends his time climbing up telephone poles (and doing whatever you do with span- ners and such like things up them) when he is not playing cricket, might get in.
on that frightful pitch in the last third Test at Melbourne--but you would not rank his medium-paced, up-and-down bowling as top cinas.
Slevers took five wickets for 21
On the other hand, there is a glut of young batsmen of much promise
lo say nothing of considerable. performance just as there is in I have been amusing my- England. self by trying to match Australia's potential young Test match bats with ours. I make it evens, thu28- Hutton Gimbiett
ENGLAND
(Yorkshire)
(Somerset)
(Middlesex)
Edrich Compton
Yardley (Middlesex)
Washbrook
Cox
AUSTRALIA
Ross Gregory (9.A..)
| Dadcock (5.4.)
*Jackson (NSW.),
Xiasselt (Victoria)
Hamence (SLA)
Robinson (B.A.) Barnes (SW.).
(Yorkshire)
(Lancashire}
(Sussex) *A useful change bowler. I have
scen all these young Australians except Barnes, and, be lleve you me, they are good. Barnes (Sidney Barnes again) is only in the New South Wales second team. at the moment, but Arthur Malley is full of him and says he is going to be better than most. Well, Malley believed in Fleetwood-Smith when hardly any one else did.
He-Arthur Malley, I mean----is one of three famous old Test players There are about seven million I recalled to Clarrie's mind how already fixed up to tour England people in the whole of Australia and the late Albert Trott did two hat-with the team. I hcor. Charlie about six and a half millions follow tricks (and the gate no good) in Macartney and B Woodfull are cricket closely. Most of them fol- his beneft match Lord's long the other two,
What is
there
SO
familiar
about
his
BRISK
STRIDE?
Why, it's Johnnie Walker's brisk stride, of course-but it can be yours, too. On those pleasant evenings with your friends, keep to Johnnie Walker. You'll be glad you asked for Johnnie Walker by name while you are enjoying its distinctively clean and refreshing taste. You'll be even more glad next morning-for this refreshing cleanness is evidence of the purity and age of the fine whiskies
from which Johnnie Walker is blended. You can always trust Johnnie Walker.
癒
JOHNNIE WALKER
Born 1820-still going strong
Sola Agent) for China: CALDBROK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD. BIJANOFIAT 'A MONOLONG ASTERNTSEN
TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, · 1938.
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LAST WEEK'S CRICKET REVIEWED BY "R. ABBIT”
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recorded the extras as 34. The figure should have been. 4. AN EASY VICTORY
:
2
As I had expected the Indians had little difficulty with the Club de Recreio. The latter, however, did very much better with the bat than they had done the week previouly against the Civil Service. However, they only managed to get 103 runs and with S. A. Ismail, who is an
astonishingly consistent but making 73, and Nazarin and Kitchell making 30 apiece, the Indians had no trouble in knocking off the runs. I notice that Kitchell was the most success- ful bowler, taking four for 21 but it was towards the end of the innings. BETTER BATTING
Looking back at the first half of tite cricket, season I rather think that the batting is beginning to improve
8. A. Ismail astonishingly consistent."
a bit; it is however, by no means too strong. In view of the fact that we really cannot be said to have any good bowlers in the Colony. Time and time again I find when I speak
to one of the players in, match
where his side has been out for some hundred odd runs, he tells me that. there was nothing particular in the
AMAZING POOLS LUCK:
Oxford: Blue's Success
London, Dec. 22.
H. M. Garland Wells, the former Oxford University Double Blue and now
vice-captain of The Surrey County Cricket Club, has experi enced extraordinary luck in connee" tion with the football pools. He has won eight dividends on, last week-.. end's results.
"It was a freak, week for results," -he-said, “but-I-managed-to-land- one first dividend, one second divid- end, one third dividend and five fourth dividends.
"I have been going in for the pools" for only eight weeks and this is the first time I have managed to win any- thing. I have not received an offer of £1,500 ns has been reported. If I did I should must certainly accept It."
An official of one of the pools or- ganisations stated: "We have not yet declared the dividends, but frankly they are bound to be very small."
Last Saturday was an unusual one for the pools, because so many matches were posiponed.
GOLF RESULTS ANNOUNCED
Stubbs Shield And
-G, M. Young Cup
Results in the second round of the Stubbs Shield were announced by the Royal Hongkong Golf Club as follows: Leigh and Orange beat (or received a walk-over from} Royal Engineers.
Dodwell & Co. beat Manufacturers Life Insurance Co. by 5 and 4.
P.W.D. beat J.D. Hutchison & Co. 2 and 1.
Lowe, Bingham and Matthews re- ceived a walk-over from Davie Boog and Co. scratched,
Conferation Life Insurance Co. beat Chartered Bank 0 and 5,
H.M.S. Cornflower beat Bank Line Ltd. 3 and 1.
Royal Corps of Signals bent R.A.O.C. 2 and 1.
Medical Department beat A.P.C. 2 and
1.
G. M, YOUNG .CUP
་
Results in the G.M. Young Cup
(First Round) were:
Union Insurance
A.P.C.
Society bent
Manufacturers Life Insurance w... from Standard Vacuum Oil Co., scratched.
Dodwell & Co, beat B. and S Hongkong Shanghai Bank: beat Chartered Bank.
THE ADAMSON CUP
@core of 70-12=64; Davies qualifies in the Adamson Cup played on the Happy Valley; course onJanuary 3-16. Other scores wore 2 Greenwood:68-30468 and It.
bowling, that the batsmen just got themselves out! The China New Year draws upon us and have rather been taking stock, I will not say of the Club dde to meet tho United Services, but of the side which might be picked to play against another interport eleven. It is not very easy. For bowling we have Minu, Robert Lee, and possibly F. Baker. All the rest (perhaps forgot Harry Owen-Hughes, on this
only seacon's form)
change bowlers, though admittedly some of them are quite useful. As regards the batsmen you have Alec Pearce, H. Owen-Hughes, Nazarin, Donald Anderson and Capt. Whitmarsh. The others would have to be people wha could bowl a bit and baf a bit and include one wicket keeper. I think that there is little doubt that Mann would keep behind the stumps, os
boller he is probably a
bat than Stokes, though perhaps it would depend a great deal on current form as to whether Major Rawstorno would not keep the side. With a bit of practice I can see him making a tremendous lot of runs. The other two places you could fill in dozens of ways. To my mind, so far neither of the two Finchers have established themselves as batsmen, but McLellan would undoubtedly have claims to an extended trial. A. H. Madar is a tried batsman, but he also this year, has not shown sumelent form to be taken on trust. It would probably Lake too long to discuss all the players available for trial in the various places:
Unfortunately we do not have to consider the matter! As regards the United Services match against the Club' on China New Year, there is certain amount of going to be a difficulty if the original custom of playing as near as may be half and half is pursued. Quite frankly, unless Commander Boucher is back for the game, the only Navy players worth their place in the aide are
Captain Whitmarsh, Ogle, and Pax-
ton. In saying this, of course, I am speaking with full recollection of the fact that most of the senior Navy players are away," For the Army It is a little difficult to speak, as the
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question is complicated by the seems remarkably unlucky as regards possibility that the Seaforths will be the taking of wickets.
no longer with us. However, putting A POSSIBLE CLUB SIDE that on one side, the Military names
Mann
Hayward, J. L. Pearce, F. Stokes, D McLellan, J. E. Richardson, and F. Baker. This however; is only complete "shot in the dark." Such a side would be quite a useful one.
which occur to my mind are:-Major I have no idea whether the Club Rawstorme, Capt. Macintosh-Walker, will be able to field their full strength, I do not quite see how to find places Col. Teversham,
Weedon, but provided that they are I imagine for H. F. Haymes and L. T. Ride," Chiverall, L/C Cheney, and possibly that the team will be something but the latter might possibly be Plc Hatfield. Barron is also passible) (only something) like this:-F. Mar-preferred to Richardson.
as a fast bowler, but although he shall, L. D. Kilbee, T. A. Pearce, H. I will deal with the Junior Division bowls very well for a few overs, he Owen-Hughes, R. D. Allen, A. W.in my article on Friday next..
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