YESTERDAY'S CRICKET
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Crapp's Century Against Australians
Features the
the Day's Play
London, Jaly, 6-The return to batting form of Bill Edrich, who scored 197 in the match against Derbyshire, and Jack Crapp's century against the Australians must have been the most pleasing features of the matches just Ffinished, from the England sçlector's point of view.
Edrich, retained as a Test probable in the face of strong criticism, drove with power and confidence in both Innings (he scored 133 and 64) and not even such accomt- plished bowlers as Pope, Gladwin and Jackson, all operating four-man leg: traps, could subdue his dynamic hilling.
Crapp, who just beat the Australians to it by completing his century off the last ball but one of Gloucester's first innings, is only the third English batsman to take a century off the present tourists this season. Joe Hardstaff and Dents Compton are the others.
selectors, gave his answer with onaj son is right in the forefront, having of the best performances of his taken. D1 wickets at just over 15
against Surrey. Making runs each, caroor every use of the new ball on a wicket affected by rain, Coxon lind figures of 11 overs, three maidens, 17) runs and six wickets..
Cropp, scored with crisp cute and flashing drives, and, given his chance, ho may well prove to be the left hander England has lecked since the daya of Frank Woolley, Eddie Paynter and Maurice Leyland.
the
Denis Compton balted with com- plete assurance against the accurate fast-medhim Derby attack to score a One not out century-his fourth of the season-and helped Middlesex to
Dick Pollard, included in Eng- land's 12 for Old Trafford, his homo Jack Wardle claimed the ime-victory. ground, took four for 09 against light with his spinners in Surrey's Glamorgan,
41. present county second innings, taking six for championship leaders. He also hit and was rewarded by being chosen six fours in his first innings, of 27,
as 13th mat for England en Thurs- which indicates
un adventurous
day. spirit which has been lacking In Against English batting displays Australia.
Glamorgan remained at the top of the championship table. Although was achieved in their no result match with Lancashire, there was a close finish with the Welsh county They had bait the taking four points. This indicates that he is on
three remaining recognition. an hour to got Test fringe of full
West Indies tour, wickets with Lancashire themselves Yorkshire's
Alee Tried on the bowler,
The end the
Test Wardle had little luck, but this sea needing only 55 to win.
24 behind Coxon, discarded by
came with Lancashire with two wickets left.
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COUNTY CRICKET STANDINGS
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Glamorgan (9)
Middesex (1)
Derby (5)
Yorkshire (0)
Gloucester (2)
Warwick (15)
Surrey (0)
hire (3) Hampshire (16)
Essex (11) Worcester (7)
Kent (4) Semerset (13)
Notis (12)
Susset (10)
Leicester (14).
Northants (17)
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0
Pis 104
0
0
0
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• Match tled. Figures in brackets after countles indicate final standing last season.
Australians Win By An Innings And 363 Runs
Bristol, July 6.-The Australian cricket tourists heat Gloucestershire by an Innings and 363 runs here today. Gloucestershire were all out for 132 and had scored 279 in runs for their first innings. The Australians made 774 soven wickets declared in their first innings.
After lunch today, when Gloucestershire's score was at 70 for two, Johnson and Ring routed the remaining batsmen for the addition of only 62 runs and thus on the eve of the Third Test, the Australians won by the hand- some margin of an innings and 363 runs.
Johnson struck a blow for the
tourists in the Rrst over after lunch i
CLOSE OF PLAY SCORES
Close of play scores today were:
At Lords: Oxford University beat Cambridge University by an in- nings and eight
Cambridge runs. University 200 and 144 (Ryneveld sovch for 57), Oxford University 361 for nine declared.
At Derby: Middlesex beat Derby. shire by 170 runs. Middlesex 335 (Edrich and 220 for four declared
04, Dennis Compton not out 100), Derbyshire 210 and 172 (Marsh 53, Sims six for 38),
At Blummingham: Malch drawn. Warwickshire 478. Kent 198 and 207 for two (Todd not out 127, Fagg 106).
drawn. At Nottingham: Match Worcestershire 200 and 205 for three (Jenkins 109, Cooper not out 113), Nottinghamshire 334.
At Westcliff: Match drawn. Leicestershire 421 and 246 for six (Berry 68, Carnock not out 55),first Essex 425 for nine declared (Pearce not out 211).
WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1948.
OLYMPIC FAVOURITES
On the left, Nam Soo II, Korean weight-lifter, and, on the right, Yun Bok Soo, winner of the Boston Marathon Inst year. Both are top favourites for Olymple titles. They were visitors to Hongkong over the week-end on their way to the London Games.
Koreans Impress At Caroline Hill
The Korean Olympic Football team, though playing in a match in which both sides changed players after the first half and the Koreans throughout the game, giving all 17 members of their team a workout, impressed very favourably at Caroline Hill yesterday with a 5-1 victory. over a Hongkong Chinese combination.
The Koreans seemed to have everything to their game that China's Olympic side lacks and lacked every- thing that China's team has. It may be remembered that the Chinese Olympic team did not do half so well against a local Chinese alde that corresponded to some degree to yesterday's local turnout.
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The game was "friendly" in every sense of the word and was highly enjoyable. The Koreans ccored their two gonis within few
tho of minutes
idck-off, N. S. Chung notching the first goal in the third minute of the game and the outside-left, K C. Chung the second within two minutes.
Newport: AL
Match drawn Glamorgan 303 and 105 for six de- clared (Parkhouse 67) Lancashire 208 and 200 for eight (Washbrook The Chinese forward line, despite Auch stars as Leo Tak-keo and Tang C3, Cranston 52).
At Kettering: Match drawn. Yee-kit, found the Korean defenco Somerset.
308 and 221 for seven a hard to crack but it must be ad- declared (Gimblett 107, Garlick six mitted that this was robust rather for 76) Nothamptonshire 201 and on the penalty side and two were 133 for three (Brookes not out 75). awarded against the Koreans with- At Worthing: Match drawn. Hamp-in a few minutes of the Chinese shire 248 and 210 (Bailey 07). attack gearing up. Sussex 200 and 182 for six.-Reuter.
when, with a single added, Allen "SEE TEE” LOOKS AT THE THIRD TEST
mado a half-hearted stroke to cover,
where Harvey coolly took the catch.
Allen hit a dozen fours in an hour and three quarters.
Gloucesters reversea continued. Monks at 80 gave Harvey another catch, this time at long on-and- when Wilson missed a leg break, halt the side, were out for 93.
Then the rout really started and the last five wickets foll for 40.
THE SCOREBOARD
Scores: Australlans 1st innings 774 for 7 declared.
Gloucestershire-ist innings 279 2nd lanings:
Armelt, b. Ring
Allen r. Harvey, b. Johnson Bambi, 6. Ring
Crop, c. Saggers, & Johnson Manks, Harvey, b. Johnson
Wilds b. Ring ........ Halo, c. Ning, b. Jolinson Croüleld, c. Morris, b. Ring Scott, st. Saggers, b. Ring Goddard, not out
Cook, st, Saggers, b. Johnson
Extras
Lindwall
Loxton
McCool
Ring
Morris
Johnson
Insett
Total Bowling Analysis:
THE SELECTORS HAD TO WEIGH
THEIR RESPONSIBILITY
Two down, with three to play! In choosing England's team to meet Australia in the third test match, which begins at Manchester tomorrow, Messrs A. J. Holmes, J. C. Clay and R. W. V. Robins, in company with Norman Yardley, have had many things to considler and weigh in the balanco.
To retain any hope of winning the Asher, England must beat Australia test. Foremost In this Manchester
minds in the selectors'
will have been the fallure of England's best 34 batsmen to
off "Australia's inclusion in the bowling, and the 32 eleven of batsmen and bowlers who may be, hblo to exploit the Manchester wicket.
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The defence did not impress as much as the attack but it will be speed mainly that will count at London and the Chinese Olymple team did not seem to have as much of it in their games here.
LAWN BOWLERS TO SHARE OLYMPIC CAVALCADE
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By SIDNEY SKILTON
London.
Not to be outshone in the great cavalcade of sport in. Britain this summer the lawn bowlers are puiting on a double act and presenting teams from South Africa and the United States of America..
Never before in the long history of bowls have two International teams tourod in England at the same time. Representative matches between the four home countries. and the visitors will provide events well worthy of inclu- slon in the grand gala programme which contains Olympic competitions at 17 different sports and world champion- ships and international tournaments at many others. The South Africans have an 11-weeks tour, involving 65 engage ments, while the Americans will be here för oight weeks and play 42 matches up and down the country.
Responsible for the itineraries of, ject. It is a contest, "a" duct calling both tours ja Mr. n. Stewart for courage, skill, strategy and self- Brown, a London bowls enthusiast control. It is a test of temper, a who representa tho Americani trial of honour, a revealer of charac- Lawn Bowling Association on the ter. It affords the chance to play International Bowling Board. Mr. the man and to act the
gentleman. Drown was a member of the Brit-It is a cure for care, un antidote to It includes companionship ish team which toured in Callfor-worry. nin and Florida last year and won with friends, social intercourse and
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opportunities for courtesy, kindliness International
and generosity to an opponent. It provides not only physical health but moral forco,"
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Trophy.
The Americans are in quest of that prize this summer and tho probable date when it will be up for compeiition is August 7, at Bed- Lord, Mr Brown has shown mo the schedules of both teams and I can sco that the tourists aro in
for an incresting but strenuous time, |-
Both parties have two every three days with sightseeing and
matches travelling, receptions
new popularity. for the old game, famous in history through the episode of Sir Francis Drake
American Bowls
arranged for the tried. Edinburgh T
Glasgow, Belfast, York, Newcastle, Stratford-on-Avon, Nottingham
Team In England
and Weston-super-Mare are centres Southampton, July 6-The Ameri-
ન can bowls team arrived at Southamp
ton today in the Queen Elizabeth to play 44 matches in Britain during the next eight weeks.
town to be visited and cach planning to outdo the other in the warmth of welcome.
Their first match is with Hert- fordshire on July 8. A match against sor Castle, a residence of the King. the Royal Household Club at Wind-
the
NOT GUIDED BY SPACE The enormous popularity of bowls in England would be missed entire ly by visitors if they were guided by the amount of space given to its August 29 is considered
highlight of the tour.Associated activities in the daily newspapers. Press. Admittedly these are sparse at the. present time but oven in days bo for paper rationing the amount of bowls space was negligible. The and the Spanish Armada, is now reason was, and still is, that bowls Auch thrives on a ploying and not paying public and the popular daily news papers are therefore not usually in-
Stars of the team was the centre-terested.
N. S. Chung, and the forward, centre-half K. W. Kim.
The Korean team leave for Britain by air today and, on yesterday's display, should give Mexico quite game of it in the first round even if they lose,
that there is school of thought which belleves it can bo developed Into spectator sport. Subscribers to it visualises the day when 20,000 spectators will be com- fortably seated in B grandstand But the playing pubile. is enor- watching bowlers contest the Inal mous, no the fact that no fower of a national or International than 41,077 competitors entered for championship. the 1947 national championships will testify. Add to this num
Mr Walter Guiver, honorary secre- ber the vast concourse not of tory of the English Bowling Associa- championship standard and the many tlon, is of the opinion that given thousands who prefer the crown
cultable facilities for coping, with the game, plus crowds even today he could draw green variety adherents in Scotland, Ireland and "gate" of five thousand to the He and his Wales, and we have a moderately international occasions.
committee have been working on
tack as the first half'wore on and,
with the blueprints ready it Ja after two brilliant efforts by Lea
merely a question of building ma- Tak-keo that just failed, Tam
terial. it would be even more if
Until then his plans must Woon-cheung, of Kit Chee, whipped a spinning ball into the net.
London, July 6-A new direct ladles were also included. They are remain in the safe. Meanwhile the energies of the English bowlers are The Koreans' third goal came rood from Wembley Park station taking to the game in ever-increasing given over to entertaining the just before half-time as N.S. Chung, to Ute Empire Stadium, opened fo- ntimbers, and they have their own Americans and South Americans. centre-forward, netted on a rising Minister of Transport, was named
day by Me Alfred Barnca, the national association and conduct From the Christian Science Monitor, kick. He also netted the last two the "Olympic Way to commemorate goals of the game in the early stages the holding of the Olymple Games
there, beginning July 29.
The Chinese had more of the nt-OLYMPIC WAY" estimated grand aggregate of about these lines for quite a while and
of the second half..
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a million and a half bowlers in Great Britain.
the
The entries last time totalled 8,683, their own national championships.
AVERAGE AGE OF 40
aro men
Franch Success
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London, July 8-Maurice Sandey- ron of France retained his European' Byweight title by fighting a draw with Dickle O'Sullivan in
bout
The road, which in effect forms
The notion that bowls is played the Staulum's "front door", took only by old-age pensioners or retired The Koreans Impressed by their year to construct and, together with shopkeepers and is not attractive to greater stamina and fitness and the other transport improvements young men is quite pace that was kept up throughout in and around Wembley Park si The majority of those in top-grade round
a wrong one. Hassell scored 137 at Notta, His the game, allowing,,of course, of tion and the Stadium, including a championship play today
threo fresh blood coming in every Arst 80 came in a little over
few pedestrian subway, cost £200,00.
ePress. around 40 hours and his century in five hours, minutes.
40 years of age. And these At Lords, when Australia was "backs
Lord Burghley, Chairman of the who maintain that bowls is a pastime They never appeared to be going
Örganising Committee, and not a sport might be inclined to to the wall on the first day he made all-out and played well as a team. Olympic thanking
and the Wembley civil
change their minds if they got a most valuable 47: it occupied three
atadium authorities and the Minis- around with the bowlers and read hours but during that time other
ter of Transport on behalf of sports- the definition of bowls as displayed were
notice boards, ` It men throughout the world, express-on many club
batsmen being given scop0 CHESS for scoring.
The selection of two Gloucester- ship baisinen Emmett and Crapp, is bold step. Crapp (a left hand
Emmeit
It la this
laiter point which has swayed the
the selectors in keeping the Lancashire batsman, Wdehbrook, in bat) has show that he can deal with the England team and including Australian bowling, while Pollard, Lancashire's fast medium may prove as solid an opening bat bowler, in the chosen twelve,
One thing is as over. Hutton was. The twelve are:-Washbrook, Em-certain. 132 melt,
Edrich, Compton,
The keen eyes of Bradman Cropp,
and his green-capped men were watch- Yardley (captain), Dollery, Evans, Bedser, Young, Laker and Pollard. ing both these men in their recent innings against the Australians. The FIRST LINE BATSMEN
Australians have a way of noting Although there may be universal weaknesses and points of strength in surprise at the dropping of Leonard their opponents. Hutton, most of it is occasioned by first the fact that he is the only ilno batsmen of the two testo lose his place, There would have
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ENGLAND'S UPHILL STRUGGLE
Carvalho Leads Once More
Following up a win in his postponed game with A. Biriu koff, played over the week-end, D. E. de Carvalho recaptured the lead in the Colony Reserves Tournament and maintained his
ed the
15-
tonight. Associated
Indian Player Wins
Dublin, July 8-Sumant Misra, India's No. 1 lawn tennis star, today entered the third round of the men's study angles in the Irish open champion- may ships here. He beat the Irishman,
reads: hope that the ceremony would prove the forerunner of a "Bowls Is a science, the greater understanding among the of a lifetime," in which you nations of the world which, was exhaust yourself but not your sub- R. McCabe, 0-2, 4-6, 8-6-Reuter. hoped, the great Olymple sporting festival would bring about-Reuter.
ARGENTINIANS ARRIVE
London,
6.- July
Argentina's Olympic shooting and yachting team arrived in London by air tonight from Buenos Aires.—United Press
unbeaten record by a decisive LEAGUE TENNIS
win last night at the Peninsula
A lot of people will be puzzled by Hotel over R. W. Carter.
omission of Wright. I was.
been less surprise had the selecthe
KCC surprised yesterday
tora "rested" Hutton, Washbrook There were times at Lords when L Karpovich, who had a brief evening with a 6-31% score backs" In recent county matches. and Edrich, despite their "come Wright was a little expensive, but spell at the top of the table, also
Two down, with threco to play sive to leave him out. The non his game yesterday against v.1.against the Ladies' Recreation
it may prove that it is more
calls for urgent measures; and the of Pollard, fast medium bowler serves Champion. plain fact is that the balamen of who knows the Manchester wicket the old guard have falled. Perhaps like the brick of his hand, is a wise
N. Dounaeft, the Club Premier Re Club in the Mixed Doubles Divi- sion of the Lawn Tennis The former Colony champion had League. it is Hutton's difficulties with fast, choice. He will bear the brunt of Dounnelf in a Queen's Gambit De- the worse of the game against bumping bowling which have de- the pace bowling with Edrich. London, July 6-Britain's ruling cided the selectors.
clined and was a pawn down when England's famous "welfth man," golf body, the Royal and Ancient Club Their persistence
Dounneft badly has often
miscalculated of St. Andrews, sald today that there may well prove of decisive is so little money available in hand portance. They probably take the matches. Not a ball was bowled at
im- played havoc with that Britain may not be able to send view that a batsman of his class Manchester in the 1938 fixture.
and
with Washbrook the Clerk of the Weatherster test sacrifice that cost him the game..
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Arthur Gomes and J. V. Thusz
The strong LRC pair of R.-Segalen and Miss Dawn Kent again lost a set when it went down 3-0 to Miss P. Word and Kenneth Lo of KCC.
The scores were:、
Mrs H. La and. E. C. A played the first draw of the tourna
Fincher a team to play the United States for the Walker cup next year..
to the time of writing a thirteenth ment in a Petroff's Defence that (KCC) lost to Miss D. Kent and It. The R. and A sald the amateur off on his own county ground: player had not been named. If Gomes could have won with more Segolen 2-6; beat Mrs Standaloft and
Washbrook's this, coupled with
last minute inclusion Is decided upon
J. Macklo 6-4; beat Mr and Mrs championship fund aunounted to magnificent cover fielding, has mo
bo- and it has to be covered
Getz 0-4. cost of sending a likely kept him in the side. It is fore today's county matches start- £1,000. The Walker
team to Iker cup States was estimated at £0,000.
Before making an appeal for funds, the R and A is to seeić the views of golf culba on a proposal that each club contributo annually a sum equal to the annual subscription of one
·member,-Associated, Press,
care.
In the remaining game, Jacob
HOW THEY STAND
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the United said of him that he is worth 40 or Wright may yet be chosen, or young Ramler beat A. Archangelsky.
50 runs in terms of "certain" boun-Hilton of Lanès, who took Bradman's daries he so often cuts off at cover. wicket twice on a sticky Manchester
and
AUSTRALIA'S HASSETT
wicket six weeks ago.
For England this third test match
P W D L Pts likely to be a dour, uphill struggle. D. E. de Carvalho 7700 7 In the chosen twelve there are A compromise in Manchester's sum-L. Karpovich
R + 017 a fire mixture of batting potential mer weather will favour England A. Biriukoff
6 0.3 0 varied bowling. Emmett, only her batsmen will play to Karel Weiss
0:40 494 Washbrook, Edrich, Compton, Crapp form. Yardley and Dollery are all good batsmen with whom might be coupled both wicket-keeper Evans and Laker.
TWELFTH MAN
French Cycling Win Copenhagen, July 6The French team at Bridox and Verdeun today
London, July 8-J. H. Warblo of Much, however, may depend on Yorkshire has been chosen as won the International amateur, tan-
Prix cycling-ovent the ability of one or more English 12th man for England in the third 'dem "! Crand
to emulate the classic, Test - beginning - on "Thursday In bero. Denmark was second, Britain batsmen third and. Switzerland fourth-patience of Australia's great Has- Manchester. No other players will
be picked.Reuter. Router.
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Miss Kotowall and C. Kotewall (KCC) lost to Miss Kent and Segálen 1-0; lost to Mts Standaloft and Mackie, 3-6; drew with Mr and Mrs Getz 0-8...
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