1928-09-08 — Page 13

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1928.

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LOCALS LOSE.

POOR BOWLS DISPLAY AT

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SHANGHAI.

35 SHOTS TO 8.

Shanghai, Yesterday.

Harry Makepeace, old footballers always declare, was one of the most difficult half-backs, to pass in the game, a masterly combination of „tenacity and tactics. His batting is like that, too,

"Fanny" Walden was as good. at thesa "double flrats" than any other | coverpoint as he used to be on the county.

touchline for Tottenham Hotspur. ADMIRABLE FOOTWORK. When Jack Hobba hit the ball into Harold Hardinge, still one of the Walden's sphere of influence he gen- best No. Ones in the game, la play-erally shouted "No.") - ing a most vital part in the match- winning of Kent by helping Ash- down to hit that first hundred at a The Hong Kong Interport bowl-three-day match pace. ers, after their fine victory in the His footwork is admirable, and "big" match, gave a most disap-young cricketers who live in the pointing display to-day against the shire dotted with these pretty Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club, losing cricket grounds where Hardinge by 27 shots. There is really no playa most often should study this

offer for the visitors' part of his game. excuse to poor showing, except that they were absolutely outbowled.

Teams were:-- S.L.B.C.

Marshall

Frost'

Munro

Hong Kong. Brown Chapman Mair Richards (S) 35 Laing (8)

-Our own correspondent.

CRICKET-SOCCER.

ATHLETES WHO PLAY BOTH.

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[By "Andy" Sandham.} "A man who possesses the build, brains and character necessary to ›make a big name for himself in that exacting hurly-burly, first-class football, will do well at anything anywhere."

A friend of mine paid the above tribute to the great players of the national winter pastime the other day. He was prompted to his justified burst of enthusiasm by the fact that Pat Hendren and Andy Ducat were at that time at the top of the batting averages.

His claim is perhaps a little too aweeping, but there is no doubt that an athlete who omorgos from the tremendously keen competition that now exists in League football with high honour must have in his make- -up most of the qualities essential to lifting the honours in the other "games."

CAN BE RELIED UPON.

I notice that the cricketers who are also footballers are always to be relied upon in an uphill fight. Some very fine players who shine when a team la winning go all to pieces If the other side get on top.

Now, I have never found a foot- baller show the white feather even though he was wearing white flan- nels. By the way, an American at the Oval described a cricketer's trousers ns. "Ice-cream pants," but that is an interruption.

Take Andy Ducat, for Instance. When everyone in the Surrey bat- ting order is making runs he is apt. to be content with something modest. But if the pitch is diff- cult and the procession of persons in chocolate caps back to the. pavilion is brisk Ducat is the man to set his teeth and hit the aggres- sive hostile bowlers off their length. His best innings have been of the back-to-the-wall type,

"His style as a batsman is all his own. Actually his bat is seldom straight when on the defensive, This causes

some of the critics much sorrow, but the fact does not seem to help the bowlers to any per ceptible degree. He is a powerful hitter, with one remarkable, shot peculiar to himself. It is made with flick of the wrists to a ball on the leg stump and most times it's “a sixer" over the craning heads of the spectators on the square-leg bound-

ary.

CRICKET & FOOTBALL "CAPS

Andy Ducat ie one of the foot ballers, who have played for Eng- land at cricket and others are Jack Sharp, R. H. Spooner, A. N. Hornby, Harry Makepeace (Lanca- shire), H. T. W. Hardinge (Kent), C. B. Fry (Sussex), A. E. Stoddart (Middlesex), L. H. Gay (Somerset) William Gann (Notte), and R. E.

His beat stroke is the square cut, which propels the ball like a bullet past point. There have been few out-felda to equal Hardinge. His body balance, acquired in those Newcastle United-Arsenal forward lines, enables him to pick up the ball when travelling at full speed, and he has a perfect return.

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Take Pat Hendront Football en- thusiasts know of his polished play 100/6 on the tip of the forward line in -8/1 Brentford colours. Not even the 23/1 oldest decrier of our present-day 100/8 cricket will dare to claim that there. was ever a more versatile fieldsman than Palsy. He is a supreme in- stance of cheery, alert agility that is characteristic of these lucky fel- lows who play both the greatest of the games equally well.

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R. W. V.. Robing, of Cambridge University, another Corinthian, is one more living, breathing proof of

being fine fielders. what I have said about footballers will be staged this evening. An

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about football. Jack Hobbs, on the other hand, was a most promising

R. G. Gregory, the greatly-im-ween the Club and a team drawn outside right, and played for good amateur teams, but his health would

proved young Surrey player, who from the Chinese Clubs. Following not permit him to pursue the game derland and Arsenal footballer, I claims he would not have had the

Charles Buchan, the great Sun- has acquired the hundred habit, some of the entries: professionally, though from the re-have heard described as "the Hobbs stamina for three-day cricket but gularity with which he goes to at of Soccer, a compliment to two for his athletic training at full back tractive matches I do think he would supreme artists. He might also for Fulham and in other teams.

have made a great name in county, Tom Barling, no doubt, owes the Harry Smith, of Gloucestershire, cricket, too, had not "the turn of muscles that enable him to hit the who has been keeping wicket for the potter's wheel," led him alseball such resounding blows to his England, played for Bolton Wander where.

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FOX'S FIELDING." Curiously enough his chief rival for the difficult task behind the wickets Leslie Ames, of Kent, is also a league footballer. He plays Forster (Worcestershire).

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