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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1928.

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STILL WINNING.

LOCAL BOWLERS AT SHANGHAI

SPECIAL MATCH.

Shanghal, Yesterday. Messrs. Holland and Grimmitt, of the Hong Kong Interport bowla

team which lifted the "flag" from Shanghai last Thursday, engaged to-day In a special match with Messrs. Harrison, the champion of the Shanghai Bowls Club, and the Shanghai Hall, champion of Golf Club.

GREAT CAPTAINS.

ALL HAVE THEIR OWN MANNERISMS.

[By "Andy" Bandham.] Captaincy is the most difficult of all the cricket arts.

It is so easy to say or do the wrong thing, and so difficult to strike on precisely the right ones.

Bert Strudwick tells me the best

But another South. African cap tain, H. G. Deane, demonstrated in the most dramatic and unforget- tablo-style laet winter that invit- ing the other side to 'bat does pay sometimes. But he had everything to gain and nothing to lose,

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The fact is, of course, that this bold move is a desperate measure, and should only be used in excep. tional situations. But it may be a fatal mistake, not to take the big- gamble when it comes.

A notable instance of a captain being compelled to risk "the big mistake" occurred at the Oval the other day, when Fender asked J. C. White and his plucky Somerset men to bat first.

"Why did he do it?" naked dozens of people, shaking their heads ominously.

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captain he ever played againat was Monty Noble, of Australia.. He showed by every move of his men

As it happened it proved a wise

Wire The Shanghai pair that he knew all about it from move for this simple reason, the were outbowled, lasing by 23 shots wickets to weather, and never, for- Somerset bowlers would have made to seven. Our own correspondent. got anything.

HOME SOCCER.

RESULT OF MONDAY'S MATCHES.

NEWCASTLE LOSE.

London, Yesterday. Division 1. Birmingham 1, Leicester C. 0. Burnley 4, Newcastle U. 3. Cardiff C. 3, West Ham 2. Sheffield U.1, Liverpool 3.

Division III (S). Brentford 2, Swindon T. 0. Fulham 2, Palace 2.

Division III (N). New Brighton 2, Chesterfield 3. Stockport 4, Ashington 0.

-Reuter.

THE ST. LEGER.

PROBABLES, JOCKEYS AND PRICES.

FAIRWAY FAVOURITE.

London, Yesterday. The St. Leger probables are:-

H. Wragg Beary

Bourbon

Buland Cherry King

Constant Son

Cyclonic

Fairway Flamingo

Gang Warily

Lodore .

Luvaneran

Marconigram

Palais Royal II.

Parwiz

Plantago Tourist

more use of the wicket, than our in these tight corners when some-bowlers were able to do. thing drastic has to be done in a hurry, Noble acted on instinct. It is the only way, and he was ab- solutely right every time.

CLEVER SETTING.

The present O. C. of the men from that pleasant region, the West of Not an easy man to catch napping England, is himself an excellent was this serious-faced, deeply tan captain. He distributes his fields. ned son of the great athletic con-men with quite extraordinary skill. tinent, where they play all games There is no tighter mesh drawn so thundering well-not forgetting round a batsman than the one J. C. the grimmest game of all.

White devises for his own bowling. Struddy, one of the shrewdest of

He la exceedingly hard to score observers, though he is so quietly off on account of his accurate humorous and self-effacing that length, and these cleverly arranged lot of people didn't realise how covering fieldsmen, and the im- much he notices, exys the best Eng-patient batsman has to run big land captain he played under was risks and try a pull from the off "Plum" Warner.

stump away out to long-on.

The little man in the harlequin cap had unusual powers of concen- tration of mind.

DIFFICULT DECISIONS. Even when a team is complling a big seare, there is an opportunity for a captain to make a mistake.

Warner takes a profound interest in batsmanship, being such a scien-

"Well there are 300 runs on the the player himself, and when an

able to at score board, and several more opponent comes in he once set about the task of getting wickets to fall, the poor old captain him out by changing the bowling is on velvet this time," says the ex- and altering the field, so as to dis-thusiast, who does not think too five turb the peculiarities of "the cart deeply. But round about

o'clock in the afternoon the ques- before the horse."

tion will arise, is it our policy to WEAKNESSES REMEMBERED.

go on getting runs, or would it be ativisable to get out quickly and have the other side in at the close of a tiring day for half and hour?

When batsmen have no time to

The most astute field-general have been up against is Warwick Armstrong, of Australia. His field set for any kind of bowling against

.' Carslake Evans

| any type of batsman was a master-settle quietly down for run-getting, R. Jones

but must concentrate on sheer de- Weston piece.

fence, they are sometimes got out. Elliott

This explains why the tail of a well- managed team suddenly.fails "to

He always remembered favourite Steve Donoghue strokes and the little weaknesses

Wells that are apt to accompany them."

... II. Beasley

A lot of goodish captains zemem-wag," or a captain declares with a Gordon Richarda ber all about the heavy run-gettors, lend of a handful of runs.

Bouillon but are not interested in tail-end

Betting.

Most of the brotherhood burden-

P. Beasley batsmen. But even if the man oned by that difficult job taking ... Jelliss the other side had only an average wickets-have a favourite end. If

Dines of 15, Armstrong knew all about

Fairway 11-4 (t and o). Cyclonic 9-2 (0), 5-1 (t). Flamingo, 5-1 (tando).. Buland 7-1 (t and o). Palais Royal II. 110-6 (t and o). Gang Warily 110-6 (0). Plantago 18-1 (0).· Parwiz 20-1 (0), Marconigram 20-1 (o). Luyaneran 25-1 (o). Bourbon, Constant Son, Cherry King, Tourist, Lodore, all 100-3 (o).

--Reuter.

him.

English county 'captaincy, as a whole, I think, has improved quite perceptibly during the last few years.

One or two the brighter spirits have set a good example, P. C. H. Fender, the Surrey captain, makes a systematic study of the strokes of every first-class cricketer. He has an uncanny memory for "what He never happened last time." fails to find a batsman's little weak-

nesses.

The man who leads the "chocolate copped crew" is always scheming, though, of course, it does not come RANJI'S PRAYER.

off every time. But I doubt whether Warwick The following prayer, have been written by the John Armstrong themselves could do Sahib of Nawanagar when Prince more with the present Surrey bowl-

ing.

said to

Ranjitsinhji, wES read by the Mayor of Harrogate at speech day

evon Monty Noble or

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But an occasional spell at the other end may do his side and his own bowling average a bit of good.

A LEADER ALL THE TIME. The captain of a team touring abroad has an even more difficult task. He has to be a leader twenty- four hours a day..

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THE DUKE. PRESENTED' AS AN OFFICER

TO'KING.

When the King visited Houns- If he is too easy-going his own

low Barracks recently to inspect. men may get slack, while the enemy

the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince great He was engineer of a are certain to take advantage of him,

If he is fussy or tries to act "machine." and by a dexterous of Wales's Own), the Duke of like the sergeant-major, there is manipulation of the handles kept Gloucester, his third son, was certain to be trouble that will quick it running at top speed without "presented" with the other offi Powers that he, make me to ob-Fender is not afraid to take a ty produce indifferent cricket.

straining or wrenching a joint. But cers of the regiment. The Duke joined with his brother officers serve and keep the rules of the chance and put the other side in.

under an ordinary captain and men in giving three cheers. My jaunts in "furrin parts" have even game. Give me to mind my own This is a risky policy, it is sa sel- been particularly pleacant. I have such a team would have won a lot for the King. business at all times, and to losedom auccessful.

been lucky enough to play under of matches,

The King inspected a parade of no opportunity to hold my tongue. The very "fates" themselves seem Frank T. Mann, of Middlesex, and The question of who is to be the 550 men, drawn up on foot in the Help me not to cry for the moon, to be against the captain who dares A. E. R. Gilligan, of Sussex. officer in command of the English barrack-square, while a large or for spilt milk. Help me neither to sacrifice the privilege of first

I should think the genial giant Expeditionary Force in Australia crowd of wives and children look- knock which the luck of the coin who commands the Lord's man is next winter lajexercising every one ed. After taking the Royal Sal- has given to him. Elevens that the most popular captain in the interested in cricket.

ute the King walked along the have not made a good score the country. He keeps a close grip of I rather think A F. F. Chapman, lines with the Commanding whole season will straight away the game without descending to although he has been a successful Officer, Colonel V. J. Greenwood. make over 400 if some one "puta sharp tactics.

and lucky captain and the latter The Duke, who is captain in the on parade, and them in first." While their bowlers Anyone who had the luck to be is great point in his favour, for regiment, was Help me to win, if win 1 may, but acquire all at once quite unprece one of "Gilligan's men" in that un- some captains ara definitely unlucky when the officers were presented

and this, O Powers, especially- dented deadliness. if I may not win, make me a good

forgettable campaign in Australia,would not-greatly mind If some to the King he stepped forward in loser."

Probably Herby Taylor, the South It will always be one of my cherish one else shouldered, the tremendous his turn and shook hands with his The Mayor said the prayer had African captain, will never forgeted cricket memories, will always responsibility of organising victory been given to him by Sir Archibald how, he conceded to England first swear by, and never at, the fine on and off the field in the defence

Jewels worth $260 were stolen. Boyd-Carpenter, M.P., and he was knock at Birmingham in 1924, and sportsman and dead game fighter of the Ashes of English cricket.so

his team suffered one of the sever: who had hold of the tiller of the gloriously won at the Oval on that from the room of an Ostend hotel est hidings ever administered in in-brave little English cricket ship, August day in 1926-Topical proprietoria wife while she was ternational cricket.

Arthur Gilligan, -

glving instructions to the staff.

praise. Help me to distinguish be-

tween sentiment and sentimental-

ity, clinging to the one and des-

pising the other....Give me al- ways to be a good comrade, ..

told it was the wish of the King it should go into every school in England.

Times."

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