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SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1930,

*VILFRED

RHODES. tims. His figures for that season

YORKSHIRE'S FINEST

CRICKETER.

RETIREMENT,

were-

Bowling:--

0.

MI. R.

1061.4 333 2105

W Av. 143 14.72

Batting

Highest

Not

Outs Av.

79 751

G

Ins Scare Runs

#7

a average cost of 15.12 runs per wieket-at the age of 24!

21.22 This is a splendid record for a man who had no coaching and who believed By "Second Slip."1

in studying the good Only a few days ago 1 happened methods of a first-class batsman. to be turning over the leaves of an 1901 all his efforts were reward- well known cricket book and founded when he claimed 251 wickets at myself gazing at the rame of Rhodes. For the nimen I enald not define my, emotions, Wilfred Khades, one of the greatest of ericketers, his recent retirement and I had not given him a line! It is not my intention to give, à biography of the Famous York "shireman, but I should like to give just a few interesting and perhaps instructive phases in his career.

Costly Enthusiasm. Wilfred Rhodes was born in 1877 on October 29. Ile soon became a keen enthusiast of cricket and when a youth in his early teens his enthusiasm was responsible for his dismissal from the engine sheds at Mirfield. This turn of events decided him, and he turned his, hand to perfecting his bowling with an eye to the future adoption of professional cricket. He first bowled a ball with the arm and later dug into the mysteries of spin and fingerwork. In order to be vertain whether the ball was spin ning or not, he used to dip the ball it white chalk which

allowed-

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Fine Test Record.

He has played in 41 Test matches against Australia, and has partici- cipated in record partnerships for the first and, curiously enough, last wickets. With Jack Hobbs he added 323 at Melbourne in 1912, his own share being 179-his one Test century, R. E. Foster and Rhodes were associated in a record partnership at Sydney in the 1903- 4 season, when they put on 130 runs for the last wicket. Rhodes holds the record for the most wickets taken in a Test match. At Melbourne in the 1903-4 season he took 15 wickets for 124 rang.

This wizard of both bat and ball has performed the "double" on six- teen occasions-scoring 1,000 runs and taking 100 wickets in a season. On two occasions he has doubled these figures. His career has not only been marked by his own in- has carned dividual play, but he such distinctions as captain of the players XI, captain of Yorkshire.

and has been'| an emergency. see what

elected on the Selection Committee.

was happening when it was In the air. Continual practike. gave him knowledge of touch and the feel of spin. He gradually became master of the ball of vary. ing light achieving his aim with apparently no change of action.

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Though a straddling stance is not pretty on the green, it solves on vital problem of putting-how to keep the body still.

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greens.

That is the reason for much bad putting, especially on fast Movement of the body may either add distance to the hall or deflect it from the true line.

is soft and green the effect may not holding.

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Doesn't Like Matting! He has toured Australia on four occasions and South Africa twice. The matting wickets of the latter country did not appeal to him, as they, in his own opinion, tended to make cricket too artificial. At the

I often wonder how much better of 52 he toured the Weat Keep the Body Still, ⚫ Should one ask Rhodes how he

The golfer whose two putts these golfers would putt ón all makes a ball swerve, dip, spin. or Indles and met with appreciable

per green is a thoroughly comfor-greens at a times of the year if do things out of the ordinary, he success. At 'Leeds in 1921 he re-

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find himself at all disturbed over method of coming through the ball. But there is one/type of delivery,out against Leicester. which he how without knowing, After a career marked by per- the necessity to get two on a fast I am convinced by experience that

On the determination and green.

contrary, the the highest standard of putting is how he does it. This particular severence, delivery is of the swinger type and patience Wilfred Rhodes can re-delicate touch that is common to all only reached in this way. dips late on the leg stump but turn to his own world confident good putters will be seen at its just as muddenly as a dips it that he has left behind him the best when the most gentle "trickle" breaks back to the off. Hundreds pleasantest of memories and a will be enough to send the ball of batsman have fallen before this career which will live in cricket across the green.

history.-belleve he has had an ball of unknown execution.

appointment offered him at one of the leading Public Schools. Jolly good luck to him.

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"The whole of my putting is done Good golfers hav different when I take back the club," he says. methods of keeping the body still. "I estimate the length required, and Loo Diegel's wide, crouching then. I take back the club-head to stance has been mentioned. An-the point where I estimate it will other good putter, however, adopts have to begin to swing downwards He if the ball is to be sent that length. exactly the opposite style. stands bolt upright, at attention, Strength is determined not by any heels together and body drawn in. hit I put into the stroke, but by an inch or His arms are pressed close to his the distance-within side, and only a hand can be seen two-to which I take back the to move as the club-head comes club." through the ball. The player who. holes some extraordinary putts by

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