1927-07-28 — Page 9

THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1927.

SPORTS

HOME TENNIS.

GIRL DEFEATS MUS. MALLORY.

Manchester, July 27. The 18-year-old Helen Jacobs of defeated Mrs. Massachusetts Mallory in the Essex Tournament quarter finala 6-0, 10-8-Reuter.

PENNANT DRIVE.

IMPORTANT "BIG LEAGUE" MATCH.

New York, July 21. The Chicago Cubs continued their march towards the National League pennant to-day by defeat. ing the New York Giants, 8 to 5. The game was played on the local lot.

The only other National League frucas being that between the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Braves, which was lost by the Braves, 8 to 2.

In the American League, the Yankees defeated the St. Louis Browns handily; 6 to 1, the Senators nosed out a victory over the Chicago White Sox, 4 to 3, while the Detroit Bengals man- aged to worm out one run ahead of the Athletics after a prolonged slugfest. The count was 10 to 9. In a doubleheader, the Cleve- land Indians and the Boston Red Sox broke even. The Indians won the first game, 4 to 2, while the Sox took the second, 6 to 5.

LOCAL ATHLETES.

OLYMPIAD COMPETITIONS

PICKED.

Final arrangements have been concluded for the despatch of local athletes for Shanghai to Far Eastern participate in the Olympiad trials which are being held in the northern port.

The local contingent consisting of 46 men elected from among the various organisations in the Colony will, with the exception of the footballers and baseballers, be tried out against the other com- understood that petitors. It is the present South China team of baseball players as well as local Chinese footballers will represent

China,

Mr. Ng Sze-kwong, the local tennis player, has been asked to

PROFESSIONAL GOLF.

MELHORN LEADING IN BIG

'TOURNEY.

IS CRICKET SLOW?

VETERAN SAYS IT IS NOT.

MUST STUDY THE BOWLER.

THE CHINA MAIL.

know I have been playing against Wilfred for many years now. There are, of coureo, others who are near- ly as dangerous and all of them are put on to bowl for some reason, and that reason is never to spoed up scoring!

the

There is a reason for this stato of affairs, and it is to be found in the coaching. I have spent a lot of time in the sells and colleges, and there I have found the game being taught by the masters. They may like cricket, and, to a certain extent, understand the game, but

GORDON BENNETT CUP.

BALLOON Rachs at DETROIT.

Washington, July 27.

It has been officially decided that

But, perhaps, I am straying from

point in question. Fast scor- not from the practical point of view. the Gordon Bennett Balloon Races ing le not big-hitting. As. I have They suffer from the same fault will be held at Detroit on Septem- "Why is cricket slower than it said, It โธ is very nice to see a huge that could be applied if I attempted ber 10.-Reuter.

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ENERVATION

used to be?" This is a question solkit for six and when a bateman puts f to teach a youngster scholastic mat- | often naked of me, perhaps because a good ball over the ropes, it laters shopld lack practical experi- my experience carries me so far excusable to show elation. But, ence. back in cricket, and the question on the other hand, what if the bats Leeds, July 27. Among the qualifiers in the always leaves me, a little amazed, man mis-times the ball and instead

for I am

not 30 ertain of sailing over the boundary it £1,000 Professional golf tourna-i

that it

is slow, says W. G. dropa into the hands of a fielder. ment were:Melborn 72 (140) and

Quaife. Anyway, I always re- Ah, then it is said that it is a bad is a common symptom of these Nabholtz 69 (141), who headed the

another asking

ques-stroke. It is a bad stroke, and a trying, hot days. Loss of appetite, list. Duncan returned a brilliant ply by

combined with sleeplessness, pro- 68 (143), equalling the course re- tion: "Is it slow?" and then my wicket is thrown away.

I am afraid that too many people nounced nervousness, due to the cord. Others were Charles Whit-questioner is not certain. The frat combe 71 (142), Compston 73 (144) not to consider is: how do you go to cricket matches with the sole oppressive heat,

define fast cricket?

Intention of watching batting; they condition of the blood and of the bring about a and Taylor 74 (146). Notable is it big hitting or hitting a hun-forget about the other side of the serves that requires correction." failures were Ray and Havers.dred runs in an hour, or is it get-game, the bowlers and the fielda-

This is the worst time of all the Reuter.

ting the necessary runs to force a men, I say again, and very empha- win? If I could get someone to de- tically, that good length bowling year to experiment with untried fine clearly what is fast cricket, and carefully placed fields will and unknown remedies. A aure could deal with the matter, but slow down scoring and the bats-corrective of the conditions above.

man are not to be blarned. When described will be found in Dr. Pink Pills for Pale the bowling is, good the batsmen Williams' must bat quietly and stay there. No People, an ideal blood alterative one goes to the wicket with the in- and nerve-tonic, based upon the tention of simply atopping there prescription of a qualified and ex- without making any runs, nor perienced medical practitioner. should he be expected to hi every ball hard and to the boundary.

VILLAGE CRICKET.

WHEN OUR VILLAGE TURNS OUT.

Á short time ago I promised that readers of "The Daily Mal" should have an account of our important evening engagement with Compton- in-the-Hollow, provided that my duties

wicket-keeper entailed only minor injuries. It is a great pleasure to be able to relieve the public suspense.

took

Having won the loss we fret kanck, and by consistent bat- ting amassed the satisfactory total

LAWN BOWLS.

or

Will Club Secretaries Bowls Conveners kindly wend in teams for Saturday's League games in time to be published in our issue of Friday?

of 18, six of which were extras. Mindful of the peculiar talent of James, our demon bowler we re- garded the position as a happy one.

When the visitors began their in- nings, James as usual bowled from the pig-sty end, but although he found his particular spot, some- thing went wrong with his break. At the end of the over he was taken of as he had proved rather expen- sive, having temporarily faid out one of our fieldsmen with his third delivery and another with the fifth. Serious Look.

&H

a consequence

Later, when the score stood at eight for one wicket. thing looked | serious, incl

James was given a further trial. Regaining his true form, he quickly finished off the innings for a total of. nineteen, being credited with

of generosity, however, he waived

UNIȚA RODS & UNDERKATA, META

Miss Norma Judd, of Tacoma, college girl and possessor of the coveted Golden Eagle badge, who will represent the West at the International Camp, which will be held this August in Switzerland.

The simple fact that so many matches are finished in the county: championship should be sufficient proof that the game is not slow, and because a batsman is "atient and valy hits the right kind of ball, dots that make him a bad or slow batsman? Certainly not; rather does it make him the other sort, for his is the type who will all the breach when things are going bad-

A Changing Game.

After all, cricket is a changing game, sometimes a few minutes will alter the outlook altogether. Be- fore you can judge whether the game is slow, you must study the type of bowler, his length and accuracy, the keenness of the fold- lng, the position in which the bats- man's team is placed, and, in gen- eral, the position of the game at that moment. If you do this, I am certain that you will often find that the so-called slow game is the only one possible!

Cricketers of to-day are just as capable as those of twenty-five or thirty years ago. They can and do get runs when the time is ripe. for them to do so. If they try to get them at any other time, then they are risking the loss of a wicket. they are letting down their side, an above all, they are playing badly.

Some may say that cricket is slow; I go to the other extreme and say that too often do we find young players making the mistake of try-

two l.b.w.s, two hit wkts, one clean without that solution I must dealing to force the game long before and two otherwise bowled, and a

they have become right for doing Firstly, there are natural hitters. The first thing for a cricketer couple of retired hurts. In a spirit with it from a general standpoint.

to be sure about is his defence. his claim to the last-named victims, who go in and score a big innings What is the use of being able to which includes many fine boundary thump an ordinary ball, or a bad shots, and strokes which carry the A little subdued but by no means ball well over the repes. I have one, if you can't stop the really good one? There is a tendency such exhibi-

too quickly, to attempt to run be-

as in his opinion they were really injured.

not

sending in Parson and tors enjoy

move

known whether he will accept the innings by lord of the Punch tlons-watching it would before they can properly walk, and I, I represent China but it is not yet rattled, we commenced our second.not the slightest doubt the specta-among the younger players

ever, that he will consent to play in the doubles.

The entire expense of the trip to Shanghai is being borne by the Hong Kong Amateur Athletic Federation which is relying on public donations, and it is report- ed thut

satisfactory response has been made to the appeals for funds.'

it very

LOCAL GOLF. The Royal Hong Kong Golf Club's Happy Valley summer meet- ing will be held from July 30 to August 1.

The Happy Valley Championship will take place on Sunday July 31, If the course a unfit, this will be postponed to August 1.

Dick, the

Bowl. The thing for

with

Obvious Parilsan,

which

ball and, according to his custom nerts. Look back at the great hit- player tried to emulate these ex- started moving towards it long, be- fore it had left the bowler's hand. ters yes, and those of to-day, and Meeting his objective about half-it will be seen that they are in a way up the pitch, Dick hit the ball minority, and so they always will such force that it spared near-be, for they are unorthodox.

There are other players who treat ly out of sight, and fell in a dis-

every ball en la merits-the ortho- tant portion of the outfield.

dox players. The loose ball is hit At this point there arose the com- hard and the others played safely. plication that the bowler, who was You cannot expect 'every player bowling over the wicket, had in the to go to the wicket and proceed to act of delivery fallen with the knock the cover off the ball. Yet stumps under him.

there are spectators who do expect The visiting umpire, an obvious this. So often have I heard spec- partisan, declared that the bowler tators shouting remarks held the ball when he knocked down showed that they did not under-

stand the game.. the stumps, and that Dik, being

State of the Wicket. half-way up the pitch at the mo- ment, was clearly out. Our um-

Cricket, after all, is a game of ained that the delivery was a no-not a game of so many runs per William the blacksmith, main- batting, bowling and fielding, it is pire ball, and encouraged our pair to hour. If the latter opinion prevail- continue running.

ed, then we should have to alter Meantime the ball could not be the system of playing and coach-i loented, and all our records in the matter of run-getting had been

ing.

There are many things against broken long before the umpires really fast scoring, or should I say, stopped a heated argument and exceptional scoring, in England. allowed the bolated claim of "lost Rarely do we have faat, hard uall."

wickets-wickets upon which you

Mr. H. E. Standage while play ing round Fanling old course on April 18, 1927, performed the feat of heling out at "The Bog" in one. He has been duly awarded with a bottle of the famous At this stage our committee de can be sure what the bell will do. Johnnie Walker Whisky presented cided that a mistake had been made The continual mixture of aun, rain by Messra, J. Walker & Sons Ltd., in ignoring my suggestion that a and wind makes our wickets tricky. through their local agents, spare ball was desirable-Walter The ball does all sorts of funnyl

·Caldback Macgregor & Co., Ltd. E. Tew, in "Daily Mail."

Left to right: Tommy Armour, Bobby Cruleksbank, Gene Sarazen

and Walter Hagen, golf star who played an exhibition match at the

• Congressional Country Club. Armour and.. Cruickshank defeated Saraxan and Hagen 8 to 5;

tricka. The batsman has to be con- stantly on the look-out for these tricks which are not apparent from the spectators' ring. In Australia) you get bigger totala and greater in- dividual scores and the reason is explained above, their wickets run! truer.

We have a preponderance of slow bowlers in this country and many people who watch the game think that, on this account, we should have big scores. Most people have feard the remark, "Ah, here comes n slow bowler, now we shall have some fun"? That is just about as foolish a remark as it is possible to make.

glow bowlers do not go on to be hit all over the field; they go on to trap the batsman,

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him hit and fall into one of the many traps that are laid for him. alow bowler sets his field with meticulous care, and runs are not easy to get. In my opinion, fant acoring a much esater off the fast| bowlers. Slow bowlers are to be feared.

Rhodes-Slow Bowler. Take, for an example, Wilfred Rhodes, of Yorkshire; bere

you have a man in his fiftieth year, and he is still getting wickets. Watch ing him from the side of the ground it may seem as though the batsman were in for a merry period. there are any people who think this, then I should like them to have a few deliveries to meet from this veteran Yorkshireman, they would quickly chang their minds,,

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