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A NEW SUGGESTION
With the cricket season fast ap- proaching adherents of King Willow are anxiously awaiting news from headquarters about the inquiry Into ways and means of depriving the batsmen of centuries and providing the bowlers with more wickets.
In this blistered Parliament on the hill fealing at lunch time rises in a steady crescendo. Mouths, serried ranks of mouths, snap the und from a frankfurt, and rebut an aggressive argument with the same
The suggestions made, are many But never do the dis- and varied. Most of them, such It is a society of men's men,action. hard-bitten men with jaws of putes lead to anything.so crude as
as narrower bats, more stumps, Ber.mmages, These changes of leg-before rule, etc., leather, men with the stoicism of physical Spartans, men with vermilion faces, stoics who, from their sun-swept would revolutionise the old game. are of a more innocuous men who carry sun worship almost hill, follow the fortunes of a Test Otherg to the point of martyrdom.
Its Match. are rough and ready, class, such as changes in the headquarters is out under the human, patient, good-humoured, bat wickets. Still the cricket parlia
Scrim- ment at Lords refrain from action, canopy of heaven on the green slopa not by any means crude. at the Cricket Ground-on the hill. mages are not ericket, and scrim- unwilling to make experimental There the vermilion-faced stoica mages are not countenancoil in that changes without definite grounds that they will be for the benefit of rip off their coats and collars and vast society.
You may open a debate from any the game the world over. repeat defiantly with the Duke in
oricket angle you choose, and provid- Yot something will have, to be the Forest of Arden:-
Hero feel wo but the penalty ed your historical references are be done. In an article in the "Athletic Ashley-Cooper, of Adam,
yond reproach, you get an excellent News," Mr. F. S. The season's difference.
hearing. It is a friendly, good-cricket's leading historian, sets And the season's difference hearted, honest crowd up there on down figures which are Indisputable makes little difference to them. the hill, but like all crowds, one of in their cry for change, and a At lunch-drastic one at that. Не зауз Watch 25,000 of these stoics friz-mixed temperament.
zle in the fe of a coppery sun hour recently, for example, it was that in 1907 the M.C.C. considered that flares on them hour by hour sharply divided into three distinct that scoring was heavier than was with never a merciful eclipse. schools of cricket thought. There desirable, and in consequence sent circular 'to county Watch the multitude on the moun-were the abject pessimists down in round tain pick their way among their the blackest pit of despair about secretaries recumbunt fellows with the diff- Australia's prospects. They re- effect:- dence of A cat stepping over afused to be consoled. Thair minds puddle. Their faces show white were a wild whirl of precedents for and pink against the brazen flame the certain defeat of a Tost team that percolates the cloud curtain. that scored only 250 runs on the Gaz on the multitude as the day first day. And they recited them wears on. Faces turn ruddy. dolefully, almost aggressively, as They shine. The glitter dims in if intent on flinging a cold flood on a mask of dust picked up by myriad the optimism that bubbled about boots.
them.
For in the ranks of the ver- milion stoics there are those fine, hearty, optimists, whose very pre- sence is a tonic.
to the following
"It is undesirable in the in- terests of cricket, that the wickets should be prepared artificially (ie, in any way other than by water and the roller, except when patching is necessary). Continuing, Mr. Ashley Cooper, points out that for every wicket The ruddiness turns to a
lost that year (1901), 27.27 runs were acored, while last year the dull red glow and then to the vivid
per wicket reached the vermilion, the pigment of this so-
average ety of fireworshippers.
unprecedented number of 30.05. What matter if Runs were obtained so readily in But it is in that magic hour of
records galore were lunch that the society becomes an nine men were out for 250. There 1928 that
Here, for pur- awesome thing.
are few had been famous last wicket stands broken, he says. women in its ranks, It is essentiin Test history that have shed poses of reference, are a few facts ally a male assemblage, Tolustre on its pages.
Cheery souls, which should provide food for
thought:- watch 15,000 men at their food is the type that Dickens drew 80 a sight that sends shudder faithfully, and then in that vast To see 15,000 inclined plane of faces, in that through the spine. mouths munching sandwiches and chattering Parliament on the hill frankfurts makes one blanch. To there was what might be formed a gaze on probably, eight thousand centre party holding the balance botts of beer all poised to mouths between hope and despair. Under at the same moment, glimmering under the sun like heliographs is In picture af terror. But when this great collective munch and this huge collective gulp takes place on a convex hill, the sight to the im- aginative is quite staggering.
+
There
The clock slips rod to half
past one.
Ten thousa..
ags and sult cases are opened with a a erakle of
their crimson masks of sanburn
they sought to look as sage as it was possible to look with such an affliction. They wagged their tongues, and made that cryptic re- mark that in cricket you could
never tell.
Never before had the average innings been so high as 300, or as many as a quarter of a million runs been made in a season.
Over 10,000 runs were scored on seven different grounds.
200 rune or more were made for the first wicket 13 times.
No fewer than 189 men were concerned in producing the re- cord crop of 414 individual hundreds. (Three players made 18 each, and two others 12 apiece). Twenty-two batsmen played an innings of at least 200, and altogether there were 29 such scores.
Suggested Remedy
Mr. Ashley Cooper's suggestion to remedy the alarming supremacy
Sprinkled through this diverse society, too, were the reckless aoula, They cared nothing for possibilities or probabilities, but hankered, hungered, year by year, for some batsman to hit a ball that metallic rattie ke
would break the clock on the mem- distant musketry
thin bers' stand. Scores of mild-manner of bat over ball is to call a meeting murmur, the murm
lighted men on the hill seem to harbour discuss the position, and also to
of the county groundsmén rain on an iran reo1 **eeps across an insatiable hatred of that in- that slope paved with the faces offensive clock.
Why the clock? have in attendance a recognised of the vermilion stoles. It is not Why should they not desire the ball authority on solls as well rain on a roof, but the collective to smash a window, or knock down groundamen of a few clubs whos rustle of the paper wrappings about a unit in the forest of flagpoles,
a host of sandwiches.
A
But
or even one of the umpires.
and nothing else.
They want the clock smashed
wickets have not been doctored,
to
as
it
"Doubtless the pitches on our lending grounds could be got back pretty well to what they were about forty years ago, he argues. If were feared that they might vary much top dressing could be pre- pared under proper supervision and the other for the South, and be supplied for the grounds. Their condition of surface would then be fairly similar.
It is the great hour of the atolcs.not There is a tenser:as about the period before lunch in a Test Match
The ideal dream of a Vermilion that flings a cloak of silence on the Faced Stoic would be a vision of stoics on the hill. want to talk of anything but the his statisties incorrectly, hanging at two depots, one for the North
They do not a cornee of the man who quoted current play, and then only in from a gibbet in front of the riven bated breath. Things often hap-face of that historic clock. pen in a heap before lunch, when the bowlers are fresh and full of zest, and the batsmin are not seeing the ball at its proper size.
Lunch hour snaps the tension.
Batsmen and the hill men breathe again. The floodgates of re- miniscence ane opened, Minds
Gold worth £1,100,000 is being taken to New York from Southamp ton in the White Star liner "Majestic."
begin to. voyage back over vistas of Miss Marie Tempest returned to cricket history. In no other game the London stage recently in a new are fans so saturated in the deeds play, "Her Shop," at the Criterion of former champions. At half Theatre. past one the invisible speaker of this great open air cricket Parlia- ment seems to take his chair. There are no standing orders. It 18 an all-in debate. Speakers, who, as G. K. Chesterton would put it, think backwards, are tolerated. Good-humoured abuse is quite in order. You may quibble and argue in circles. You may vacil- iate and hedge, and abandon your points. Nobody will call you to order. You may ramble at will
into the dim past, back to the romantic nineties, the stolid eighties, or the roaring seventies. Nobody will check you.
But dare to make a slip in oire numeral of a Trumper century, or Look
a Barnes bowling average, those varmilion faces in the collec- tive eye that is dead and listless, bolled by the pitiless sun.
at them without a tremor.
Look
Tako a hold on your nerves. Steel the mind to a blow and tell them that Trumper in 1912 made 108 Instead of 118.
Gusts of excited protest sweep. your hat off. These dead par bolled eyes spring to blazing and baleful life. Vermilion faces pale at such temerity. A hundred of the stoics, altting in their bath of refined fire, will pelt you with corrections. All round you are grizzled men who we broiled by the suns of 1912 and 1908, and: 1893 and many another year. They saw that century, every run of It by gum! And what a century
No, the ratéssential to neceived into the order of the milon Faced stoles is an ROCUZ memory stocked chock fulf
"A return to more natural wickets would have almost every- thing to recommend it. The only persons who might oppose the idea would be the county committers who, on account of the "gate," are anxious for matches to last well | - into the third day if possible.
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"Under present conditions, how-troduction would need much or ever, play on the last day of a game garisation, and might, in some often degenerates into a farce, for coses, provide hardship, but, if a a aide, having secured first innings' side know they had only three or points, and believing a win out-four, or more or less, hours to get right to be out of the question, are as many runs as they could it would content to play out time while many make the batsmen more, daring,
The following unclaimed tele- who are not even recognised would bring more wickets, and last, grams are lying at the office of the change bowlers are in charge of but not least; would mean more Great Northern Telegraph Com- finished games. Cricket would be More Finished Matches what it was in the days of the WIth run-getting ruling lower, great "W. G.," Jessop, Hayward, there would be many more finished etc.-bright, vigorous hard hit- matches, and, on the whole, the ting, daring, intrepid, and matches third day's play would in con- full of thrills and incidents would quence be more attractive than be sten. It might be worked on it generally le. For this reason, this plan. The average innings any fears the various committees last season in County cricket was entertain might well prove to be 300, which total could easily be Illusory."
obtained in four and a half to Ave This suggestion might prove the hours: Making allowance for required solution for county brighter batting, it should be laid cricket, but what of other classes down that each side should bat for of cricket? Practically all clubs four hours, and that, allowance have followed in the footsteps of should be made for rain inter- their bigger brothers and have ruptions. This would give ample had their wickets "doctored" and time to complete a game and made artificially perfect. The would give three full days' play. glut of runs and unfurished games It could be decreased for single is causing concern the world over Innings games and two where cricket is played. Even matches. With this scheme there in Singapore it is noticeable in would be no necessity to alter the the big matches. Then why prevailing rules or to return to shouldn't everybody be considered? artificial wickets, but it would bwWith, all due respect to Mr. reault la what all followers of the Ashley Cooper we favour the time game want brighter, better and limit to his rather selfish "natural more interesting cricketStraits wickets" suggestion. Ia almost all. Times" (Specially Contributed.) competitive games; there is a time limit, and cricket has reached a stage when the Introduction of the watch would be beneficial.It would, of course be extra work for the umpire, but in the end it would bring the badly needed "gyp all our cricket matches.
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