Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 4, 1941..
"R. Abbit's" Cricket Comments
1940 Activities At Home
Following Friends Through Wisden's Pages
A Peculiar Omission
Rifle Shooting
Week-end Meet Arranged By Middlesex
Under the auspices of the 1st
ment, the Hongkong Rifle Asso- attended by 124 members.
ciation's shoot on Sunday was
IT IS A MATTER of considerable satisfac- Battalion the Middlesex Regi- tion to me that I have always felt very sorry for the Israelites when they were forced by the Egyptians to make bricks without straw, now that 1 am in the position of having to write cricket notes without any cricket about which to write.became very clear later on, with the
However, it has occurred to me that many of my readers may be interested in an account of the publication of "The Cricketer" during 1940.. To those who have got it I apologize and suggest that they turn the page. But there are a good many others who may be interested.
There is no overlapping be-j tween the "Cricketers' Bible"-- Wisden, and "The Cricketer." The former is a serious annual which deals in much detail with the cricket of the past season, and is full of statistics of various, cricket records.
Parenthetically I have never berit able to discover why T. A, Pearce has never been included Therein under "Charterhouse and Kent." ile is also I believe a member of the M.C.C., and at any rate has played for them as # recall seeing him al Lords in 1937. ·
There are quite a lot of players who are included for their schools and M.C.C., or schools and Minor Coun- ties, so the omission Is oven strange.
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note
The Cricketer on the other hand came out weekly and published also a Spring and an Autumn in about March and November respectively. It had an excellent decount of County ericket; of both first class and minor counties, but beyond this it published a very full account of Club games.
Keeping Track
TO PEOPLE out here who used to
A. Sandberg
Winner of the 2 miles bleycle ruce at the La Salle College sports on Saturday--Ming
Yuen,
CLOSING DATE FOR TENNIS
ENTRIES EXTENDED
The weather was cold und damp, and for the first hour the light was badl
with a considerable amount of mist
hanging low on the hills. However, it
result that shooting Improved con-
derably and the wind which had been range dropped to almost nothing by the
blowing strongly straight down the
of the morning's shooting. The prizes were provided by the 1st Battalion the Middlesex Regiment, and
at the end of the meeting the Regi- men's Commanding Officer, Lleut-COL H. W. M. Stewart, o.... M.C.. present. ed the prizes!
Results
Following were the successful com- petitors:
talesex's Spoon,
Class "A" Highest Net Score-Licut G. J. P. Carey, H...N.V.F.
Chighest Net Score--Mr Pang Shum, Baaltached.
Che" Highest Net Score-L/Cpl G. Inkway, 1/Mex. Regt.
Clas "D" tighe Net Score-P. C. W. KY. H.K PN.
Hongkong Palce Neserva (0.0.).
It verver.Sa Puran G. Singh, H.K.P 19. Her Spoon; Bmdr W. Tansley, FOR VDG-HKRA. Spoon.
Connesten Gnapetition.-230
yards, L/Cnt A. G. Martin. H.A.0.C.; 500 yards, Sat W.
ILK.P.
Clay Bird-Captain CHR. Hydе. The following were the winners of the FIL RA Hohtleap Spoon:
Class "A"-9gi Ó. F. Breese, R.BI., H.A.S. "Tamar". and Sgt Puran G. Stigb, K.K.P. Class ""Mr R. N. Medhurst. D.R.C.. SE P. Thang, H.K.PR. and Set . E. Russell, J.K.P.
Class CL/Cpl D. Cox, 1/Max. Rest, and Pia M. Myles, 3/R, Scots.
Class "D"-P.C., K, W. Tong, ILKP.K and St S. T. Harvey, 1/dx, ilegt.
Leading scores were as follows:
Class "A"
H'cap, 300 300 Tul.
yds, yda
Lleut G., P. Carey 2 W/O. F. Tollinen Ser. Sgt. F. Breese 1 Cpl. R. Langford Sci. Sgt M. F. Rushuman Scr... Sgt J. R. Wall 3....
Set Puran G. Singh 3
Ane J. H. Richardson
Class "T"
Sgt T. Baker Ser. R.Q.M.S.. P. Itale get a season's Club cricket every four Entries for the Colony Grass Cruft Ber. Pio W. Nii or Ave years it was invaluable as one could keep track of all one's old Court Tennis Championships, Pie Whitehouse N
which cricketing friends and their doings,
closed officially оп B. (R) C. C. Chau 3 There were also a great many in-Satudary, have been extended Major BELE. White 3 teresting articles by authorities onto Saturday, March 8 at 6 p.m. the game, though to my mind, in recent years ton much space was given
Many entries have been rocclved but to the pure statisticians. There were
the Taut brothers, former holders of the also some amusing verses from the pen of G. D. Martineau, and a Singles and Doubles titles, have not L/C Alli
yet reglstered. interminable series of reminiscences from "A country Vicar", who from the amount of cricket he was able to see must have had a very easy parish or a very hard working curate.
an
_1_do_not_recall exactly when the Cricketer whose Editor 14 of course Plum Warner-first came out. There had been many at- tempts at magazines on somewhat
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Trul Yan-pui stated yesterday, that he and his brother had not yet de- finitely decided whether to take part In the championships,
Referees' Meeting
Mr Pang Shun T
Mr It. N. Medhurst Sgt P. H. Thong 7 B/MI. W. Kifford & Sat T. E. Russell
/Sgt 0. T. Leong Bgt I. Burkitt 7 Bet W. Sargent 5 Cpl J. Berry 5 SF. Cole 4.
"AF." Evans B SAt G. G. Clarke 8 CS.M., W. Bein Cpl G. R. Morton a B. D. Bolam
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It'cap. 200 500 Tul.
The monthly meeting of the Hong- Pie J. Scott 4 kong Football Referees Association Pie J, Jennings 7 will be held at the Hotel Ceeli to-day Cat F. W. Ewens a at 8 pm when inter alia, a talk will Pie A. G. Jennings 7 be given by Mr T. G. Stokes, honorary Set: W. Gowans 5 life member of the Association and Councillor of the Hongkong Football
Clay "C" Association, on "Certain Aspects in re- gard to Refereeing without touching upon the Laws of the Game."
1.Cpl G. Barkway 9 Set C. Priddy 10 Set C. Wong LiCp! D. Cox 10 Sg1 K C. Wong 10 Capt. C. 1. B. Hyda
similar lines but none bad lasted Pie M. Myles 10 very long.
Z/L T. D. Hunter Hi Taylor G. C. Dawson I have bound volumes from the
Piper F. Stewart 10 1020 season onwards, but I um Pie C. Hatfield 9 pretty sure it started some years be- Bas. K. Nix 10 fore that. I played quite a lot of Pipper G. 5 Lochrie B ericket for the North Devon C.C. in pc., (m) w. K. Yeung 13
Class" 1928, and I think it was then I first pc. IR K. W. Tang 14 came across the magazine, took it in set"8. T. Harvey 19 regularly, and when returning from Drm. E. Klintworth 12 leave left a standing order with my Cpl 1. Davies 12
LAG. RIAS, “Callaghan bookseller, which he has nobly filed as A. Hilkene 14 though I had a spot of bother with | Pie P. Nolan 14 him early on because he thought he Tie A. Duller 13 Entries close at 12 o'clock knew better than I did and would ASP. (R) D. Lole 13 1/Cpl D. Haymer 11 NOON on THURSDAY, 6th March, send vin Siberin.
Cpl A. J. Hobron 14 he had had pie W. Alien
Ple J. Commerford 13 replace half dozen numbers that he
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fell in with my views and sent them 10 winner of net spoon-it) by the 'sca route. (It is funny to handicap spoon winner at ()
will have his handicap reduced by one Secretary. think, now, of those peaceful days point.
when your malls came in as regularly its clockwork).
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Still Running
1 ASSUMED that there would be no Cricketer in 1840, but I was quite wrong. It cut down its size pretty heavily to save paper, but the first copy was published on the 4th May.
Civil Service Selections
Matric Class, winners of the Inter-Class relay at La Salle College sports on Saturday. A. Lopes, Leong Sweeisen, Bernard Pomeroy and. A: Mackechnic.-Ming Yuen.
Sportsmen's Names On Roll Of Honour
G. G. Macaulay and R. Shayes
LONDON, Feb. 21 (Reuter).Another grand cricketer, the third in recent weeks, has been killed on active service. He is Pilot-Officer George G. Macaulay, a Yorkshire stalwart for fifteen years.
GREAT LOSS
TO TENNIS Shayes Killed In Action
LONDON, Feb. 20 (Reuter). -Lawn tennis enthusiasts will learn with regret of the death, on active service in Rhodosia, of Ronald Shayes, the British Davis Cup player.
Shayes, sergeant in the RAF.,
was one of the many lawn tennis stars in that service, and he is the latest of a growing list of leading sportsmen who have been given their lives in the present wor
Macaulay, whose bowling was just above medium puce and was deadly on a helpful wicket, played for the White Rose County from 1920 to
1935 and took 1,773 wickets nt an average cost of 17.08 runs. During is career he did the "hat-trick" four times, and in 1925 he took 176 wickets' at. 15.21 apiece.
Macaulay scored 5,758 runs for Yorkshire, and he once reached the heights of greatness in a test match. Playing for England against Aur- tralla, at Headingley in 1926, he and George Geary, of Leicester- shire, defled the Australian bowling in a ninth wicket partnership which put on 108, Macaulay claiming 76.
To The Rescue
THAT was the match in which Charles Macartney scored his Shayes, who joined the RA.F. famous century before lunch after after serving for a time as a mem- the Australians had been put in on ber of an A.R.P. unit, was just about a wicket which had been soaked to complete his training when he overnight. Australia scored 404, and lost wickets quickly. Then was involved in a flying accident. Englund
Sensational Rise
Frame Macaulay, tight-lipped and
help force TIS risc lawn tennis stardom square-jawed to
for England. was almost sensational, but he honourable draw
There is the gallant
is an interesting skielight to. was one of the enigmas of the
At times be played like a the lost match. Just before he lant part Macaulay played in game.
that world-bealer: at others like a novice. But when at his best he went in to bat he said to Hendren:
an
could make the most difficult shots it. Have you got
"Pat, want a bat with some runs
with the greatest of east.
In May, 1038, he volleyed his way
in_it,
In reply Hendren handed over his
to an unexpected victory against favourite willow and said to Macau- Bernard Desemeau in the Davis lay: "Forward the Light Brigade."
Hendren tells this story
ory in his book. Cup match with France. He New "Big Cricket" and adds: "It was helped Great Britain to beat
time to revive the eple; Into the Zealand in the same competition.
cricket sense went
Shayes, who was 23, was married laws of death in
in June, 1938, to Miss Queenie Har-George. But the hour provided the greaves, daughter of a well-known man. Paris dental surgeon, but the wed-
S. African Tour ding had been kept very secret and
MACAULAY went to South Africa
was not announced until two months luter. A reception was subsequently held in Paris and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were among the guests.
in 1022 under the captaincy of
Mann and he distinguished himself in his first Test match by taking a wicket with his Arst ball and made the winning bit when England won by one wicket.
When playing against Leicester-
Home Racing shire in 1034 Macaulay injured the
Fixtures For 1941
spinning finger of his bowling band jand many thought this caused him to retire ontller than otherwise would have been likely.
Since retiring from Brst-class cric-
LONDON-THE JOCKEY İket in 1935, however, he had played. CLUB have abandoned all fix-chire and Yorkshire,
with League sides in Wales, Lanca- tures arranged for this year.
A now fixture list will, how. evor, soon be published, to- gether with the approximate [dates of substitute races for
When at his best he was re- cognised as the finest off-break bowler in the country. Not many people will remember that he be gan his career with Yorkshire as a fast bowler.
the Derby and other classics. It was George Hirst who told him Lord Harewood, the Senior to concentrate on spin and length Steward, explained the reason for and pay less attention to speed. the cancellation of the 1941 fixtures. The main objection, he said, was the despondency which would be caused Billiards
Service Cricket Club will play a two- It would not be to the general ad-| The first cleven of Hongkong Civil in racing circles. On the other hand, und the final one-the nineteenth day friendly Cricket match against vantage to hold racecourse executives
Kowloon Cricket Club on the latter's
on the 7th September,
They did not reach me in sequence ground beginning on Saturday, March to an expensive programme which for about six weeks. I had given up and ending on Sunday. Following might be beyond their means to number five for lost-and had ittle have been selected to represent Civil carry out. hope of replacing it. But it turned Servies Club:
New Eventa complete Attwell. F. Baker. W Colledge, H.
Kichardson (Captain), KI Particulars of new events for the,
up at last and
J.
W. J. Peall Celebrates
set together with the 1940/41 Annual, Crimine, ce e Tawking die Ferry. year, closing on Jan. 14, were pub 86th Birthday
also largely cut down in size,
Turning the leaves of this Annual,
I suddenly found that the Cricketer
One Match
n. G. K. Thompson, N. Whitley, R. Mlished in the Racing Calendar. Wood and A. M. J. Wright,
The substitute races, with added The second eleven will play Hongkong Cricket Club in friendly match on the amounts, are: Derby (£2,000 ndd- was first published in May 1020. So, latters ground at m. on March 3, and ed); St Thousand Guineas record holder, was 80 recently, an WJ FEALL, the Grand Old Leger (£1,500), Oaks Man of billiards and the spot break plast I am shy of nine volumes. i will be represented ry:
1. E. Strange. (Captain), G, Almalle, 1
(£1,000), '
One Thousand J. narrow, G. Davidson, F. E. Lawrence. (£1,000);
Guinens his figures of 3,304 were put up 50 Lockhart, J. J. MacGowan, J. Mi- (£700). Gold Cup (value £200, years ago. chell, G. Stone, N. L. Smith and A.
with
St James's £2,000- I SEE that I.R.C, second eleven Watson.
added).
Standing little over it, he is gallantly carried on with a match v.
Painco
Stakes
(£1,000), Craven probably the smallest of all the HLM.S. Tamar. It is good to see a
Stakes (£300), Coventry Stakes great players who have charmed naval side playing again, though I
(£1,000) and Queen Mary Stakes the British public with his magle em afraid I do not know any of them.
(750).
cuc. His record break was made They did not do so badly, consider-
The Racing Calendar also an-ngainst C. Dawson in 1800, and he fng the fact that they were two short,
nounced that Cal Douglas-Pennant averaged 300 during the whole of total 100 runs with Whiteside (30) Callego will be held at the Caroline National Hunt Committee. Mr Col
The 25th annual sports of St Joseph's has resigned his membership of the the game and Hopkins (30) top scorers. The Hadlum on Thursday, March 6, IX.C. had nono too cory a passage from 2 pm to 8 pm. Mr. J. M. Willer, who was secretory in the com. and M. I. Razack's 45 (retired) saved son, BBC, will distribute, the prizes atmittee for over 30 years, has also thom. They made 127 in all."
rea!gned.
School Athletics
the end of the meet.
Peall, who was champion of English billiards in 1892, could ‚ score' a' thousand points in under
an hour by spoi stroka.
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