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WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1931.

CRICKET GROUNDS

UNIFORM DISTANCES ful hit. never try to hit the

FROM BOUNDARY.

EXTRAORDINARY CONTRASTS Unforgettable Incident In Adelaide Test. HAMMOND'S EXPERIENCE.

By Len Braand.]

Somerset and Ail-England.

In the county erteket line the rate of run-getting is the fenture" on, which we have all got our eyes just now: Many people are ask- ing me whether the new system of counting the championship has made our players more adventur-

Gus.

This is a question to which !

cannot yet give a really definito reply: We must wait a bit, though I would go so far as to say that that our players generally are realising the necessity for getting on with it." In producing the facts and figures regarding the rate of run- important getting however, one point frequently overlooked is that our cricket grounds are of Biffer- ent shapes and alzes..

my early impression is

ball out of the field on this ground again as long as I live," sald "Vic," afterwards.

on

THE CHINA MAIL.

CURE FOR TENNIS RUGBY UNION SHOW ASSOCIATION LAWS MODERN BUNKERING

ELBOW.

Dread Complaint May Last Months.

REST ESSENTIAL.

CHANGED.

BIG PROFITS. £25,000 on International Cotton Allows Strain to

Matches Alone,

Stiffen His Game.

CLUBS BENEFITED.

was made ut the

HOW BUNKERS MAKE that it gives to the player is not

METHODS.

BRITISH CONFUSION. 'Carnoustie's Course the Best-Trapped.

TWO SYSTEMS TESTED.

It

deemed any particular virtue. Moreover, it can never have any standard. The limit of its possi- bilities is governed by conditions of ground and weather, Accuracy of direction is now regarded as the eupreme quality in the golfer, Is always practicable, and it has the same worth in every set of circumstances. Hence the system- of tightening up the, green at the sides so as to reward the player who keeps straight, and leaving the front-door open for any length of shot to enter as it many.

The British Way.

SEQUEL TO TITLE FIGHT. I don't think he kept his word, because the boundary at the Ado- laide Oval was cut down shortly

Discussing tennis elbow in the At the annual meeting of the

An Important change in the afterwards, being roped off to give

Sydney Referee, Harry Hopman. Rugby Union in London it will be, throw-in law the batsmen a chance of carry the Australian Davis Cup player, revealed that the pubtle paid more meeting of the International Foot- Ing" it. That is what we ought to do with some of our county says it is n very frequent and, in-than $25,000 to watch last season's ball Association Board, held at

dread deed.

complaint among international matches with Wales Gleaneagles recently. In future grounds.

tennis players in England and the and Ireland at Twickenham, no free kick will be given for a

[By Harry Vardon.] Boundarles

all cricket

The game with Wales brought in foul throw-in; the opposing side

I think that Carnoustie, the pitches should be marked by Continent, but is less prevalent in

a profit of £12,189, and that with instead will take the throw-in. (ropes. It is not good enough to Australia..

There are two sound reasons for Ireland £11,729. The Twickenham The International Football As scene of the recent Open Golf mark the boundary with a white this. Firstly, in England and on trial match produced more than sociation Board also unanimously Championship, deserves to be rank ed as Britain's best-trapped course line, How is the umpire going the Continent there is no tennis £900, and additional profits were agreed to alter a rule

an Americanism which

For at least two generations the' to decide whether, in making during the severe Winter months,1,964 on season tickets and £541, allow a goalkeeper to carry the to use catch, a fielder "steps over the

ball four steps in place of two, as embraces the whole. range of golf

accepted British way of playing line? He is too far away to bend, naturally, the muscles used for car parking.

Large sums of money are lent at present allowed." for tennis are ofton jarred when

The United States players them any kind of iron shot or mashie able to decide with any degree the tennis yeason commences, at a low pertentage to clubs in the

Mr. Albert James Thornton, the selves, keen advocates of rigorous pitch (at any rate among golfers Secondly, the warmer weather and Union for the purchase of grounds.

on the point. of the front rank) has been to. make the ball drift in from the more consistent sunshine in Aua-and at the present time £13,000 is former Winchester, Oxford, Kent, tests, were at one

this purpose. tralia helps a player to warm his in the hands of certain clubs for and Sussex cricketer, has died in Some people thought it is little too

his 76th year! He first played for severe, at any rate as a place of left and break in, towards the right muscles up much more quickly.

recreation for the average golfer: on alighting!

This system has grown up in Inter started to play for Kent but there could be no doubt about the race since the era of such men té qualities as a championship. Saunders's side that visited sicen.

of certainty,

Umpire Has No Alternative.

In such ensca the umpire has no alternative but to appeal to the

The 1928 Australian Davis Cup fielder as to whether he made the catch over the line. Not for one team had a heap of worry from moment would I suggest that any tennis elbow. I had it from the fielder, when thus appealed to, first tournament we played in, at would give other than a conscien- Monte Carlo.

But the boundary while I tious decision. should be distinguished in such through trying to serve severaly way that the decision can be made when my, muscles were unaccus- tomed to the exercise, after being by the umpire.

idle on the boat for five weeks.

After all, if the fielder is going for a high catch, his eyes are on the ball, and he may stop over the white line and make the catch without realising it.

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was

I think it began playing Lacoste,

After Effects.

At that time we were a team of

For years it has been a 'matter for regret that a hit which would

three, with Jack Hawkes, travelling he a safe boundary on one ground

with us, so I had to cahtinue play- I remember a case at Southamp- almost certain dis- would mean

ing to make doubles practice. I ton a couple of years ago. A

felt the effects of the arm at in- missal on another.

a catch It seems to me that it would be Hampshire fielder made

tervals for five months, and was worth while, from every point of somewhere near the line. The um finally cured by heat treatment, view, to get much nearer uniform-pire at the other end couldn't see baking the arm every day for some who made the time. For a quick cure, rest is es- ity in the distance of the boundary whether the man

catch was over the line

or not.sential, but, of course, when in a from the centre of the pitch.

The Belder, being appealed to, said the catch was made over the curing tennis party, rest is impos- line. But some of the spectators most obviously thought otherwise

An Oval Contrast.

Keat recently played a match at Gravesend, in which the scoring there was comparatively brisk, for the simple reason that the boun- daries are short. They are short

at Taunton, too.

sible.

Another cure which Jim Willard

and I tried successfully on Miss I would also like to mention the E. Ryan some time before Wimble- necessity for uniform wickets don is very easily explained, and that is the actual "pega." Sopte may be of value to tennis play- wickets; are rounded at the top with a comparatively small groove Others in which the bail rests.

By way of contrast consider the Surrey County ground-the Oval When the wickets are pitched some little way, towards the well-known gasometer, the distance to the boundary at the groove. other and is colossal-beyond

iers.

Hold the arm at full stretch. palm of the hand facing down and are made square at the top, and close the fist tight. Then turn the bail rests in a fairly deep the fist upwards, and bend the arm, keeping the muscles taut, are used

Turn the wrist then, 80 the knuckles face the shoulder, and then get someone to jerk the fore arm straight down.

When the latter type

the powers of all but the mighti-the bails may be removed by the est hitters to carry. On one oc-ball licking the witket, and then casion I saw a seven run, and return to their original positions: the ball never reached the boun-

dary.

Actually, I see no reason why we should not struggle after some sort of uniformity in this matter, The arena at Nottingham is a big one, but they get over the difficulty. by roping off the pitch, thus mak- ing the boundary' just right.

My ideal of the "correct". boun. dary is one which will induce the batsman to "have a dip." making him feel that if he carries it he In my will be duly rewarded. playing days I had a lot of sixes hit off me at Taunton, but I also got a lot of wickets there. If the boundary is put too far away from them the batsmen won't have 3 "go."

The boundary, at cricket, should be like the bunker at golf-80 placed that the man striking at the ball will know that if he hits a good one he will carry the hazard. If the bunker was put too far away he would not even run the risk to trying to carry it, because the odds

were against him.

When Trumper Was Surprised.

Dramatic Match Recalled.

The batsman has been bowled," but he can't be given out because. i to all intents and purposes, the bail remains in its original posi tion.

A question has been sent to me on this, head in regard to a very Important match already played this season-the dramatic one be- tween Surrey and Gloucester the Oval.

nt

FRANCE ADOPTS PROFESSIONALISM.

Licences Granted to

· Players Over 18.

NO BRIBERY.

You will remember that it was

Paris, June 13. touch and go to the very last, and

The French Football Federation that, had it not been for a good to-night adopted professional foot- innings by Wally Hammond, Glou-ball officially. Licences., will be cester would have lost instead of granted to players over the age of won the match, writes Len Braund 18. years and renewals of licences in the Sheffield Sports Telegraph. must be endorsed by the Federa- During Hammond's inninge ation. It is forbidden to offer any ball apparently hit the stumpe, special bonuses

or financial in-

but though it is contended that ducements to a player to per- the ball was moved, it fell back suade him to change his club- into its groove. And the batsman, Press Association Foreign Special. very properly, was given. "not out."

If the bail is definitely removalon existed last season, concern- ed from its groove, even though ing the straight ball played by the Any

it does not fall to the ground, batsman on to his legs. then the batsman is out. Another

reaches query

one.

me

Never shall I forget an incident from a county player a leg in a Test match at the Adelaide before

This player hit a -Oval many years ago. I was bowl-straight ball fairly hard, but the ing to "Vic" Trumper, and he hit spin on it made the ball curl back me as well as I have ever been towards the wicket. He stopped it hit in my life.

from going to the wicket with his' foot. The bowler appealed, and the batsman was given "not out."

"That's a six," said Trumper, as he came strolling to my end. Suddenly, however, I saw dear The bowler. contended that the

Johnny Tyldesley racing along the bataman should have been given

doubt on the point has now been removed by a new instruction to first-class umpires, which reads:-

"Umpires are to remember that the word 'snick' means a slight touch by the bat or hand, and that it is a distortion to apply this instruction to cases where the ball is played down and not snicked," Obviously, if this instruction meang anything, it means that the

boundary like a hare, and he was out leg-before, as the ball was orf-leg-before wicket rule only comes so far away that he didn't seemginally pitched straight.

much bigger than a hare either.

· Rule Made Clear.

into operation when a ball is nick- ed by the bat, not when played

In due course he held the ball, The umpire was right, and the hard. and Trumper was out to a wonder-bowler wrong. Some misapprehen-

Our Sports Diary.

LOCAL:

WATER POLO-To-day-Divi- sion IV.R.C. v. Royal Navy. 6 p.m.; Division II-V.R.C. "A" v. Kowloon "B" V.R.C. "B" v. Kowloon "A", 6.30 pm

Friday-Division I-Kowloon v. Bordorers, 6 p.m.; Division 11- 12th Heavy Batty, R.A. v. Univer. alty, 20th Heavy Battery, R.A, Y. Borderers, 6.30 p.m.

SWIMMING Saturday-South- China A.A Night Fete (North Foint).

LAWN TENNIS-To-day-"B" Division-Chinese R.C. v. Indian. R.C.; Craigongower C.C. v, Kow- leon CC. Army T.C. v. M.B.K.; South China A.A. v, Hong Kong CC.; Nippon Club v. Civil Ser- vice GC v. Craigengower C.C.; Radio S.G. v. Chinese R.C.; Kow- loon Indians v. Recroló; Kowloon C.C. v. South China A.A.; - Deut- seher Club v. Indian 'R.C.; Mixed Doubles-Chinese R.G. v. Univer- sity.

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Saturday-"B" Division-Recreio Chinese R.C.; Indian R.C. V. Nippon Club; Civil Service C.C. v. Kowloon, C.C.; Hong Kong C.C. v. Craigengower C.C., University v. Army T.C.; "C" Division-Y.M.C.A. v. Civil Service C.C.;. Craigengower C.C. v. Deutscher Club; Indian R.C. v. Chinese R.C.; Recreio v. Kowloon C.C.; Army T.G. v. Hong Kong C.C.

FOOTBALL Friday Hong Kong Football Association Annual

Meeting.

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Sussex in 1880, and

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so us to

four years

Ho was a member of Mr. J. A.

Amèrica in 1885.

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hazards.

as. F. G Tait, John Ball, Robert It was not only the abundance laxwell, J. H. Taylor, and other Often in their of ita bunkers.and out of bounds glants of the past.

At an extraordinary general areas, with that tortuous stream days you would see the ball break Certainly that was meeting of the Indian Hockey known as the Barry Burn winding in several yards towards the pin Federation at Simla on June 6 the its way left, right and across the on pitching.

It was the desired afiliation of the Bengal Hockey course from beginning to end, that my methed.

gave Carnoustie this distinction.action, because the player had aim-

Association was confirmed.

It was decided to proceed with What impressed me was that Car-ed to the left so as to allow for noustie provided an impartial ex-t, and the belief, of these golfers the arrangements for sending a

amination of every method of play-whs, that it permitted: greater con- representative team to Los Angelesing golf-American, British, and trol over the, carry and run of the to participate in the Olympic Games and make a tour to Austra- any other that might be submit-ball than could be obtained in any

Ited. Hin and New Zealand, the entire

In their time there was usually Modern Bunkering. tour to last from March, 1982, to

Not long ago, I heard September, 1982.

other way.

a cele-a bunker or stream or some other

Trouble on the The final selection of players to brated player express the opinion hazard defending the entire front a secondary thought: make the tour will be made after that British golf methods have of the green.

been put to confusion by the flanks was the inter-Provincial games have modern system of bunkering. Let It is reasonable to agree that the. been concluded. The Selection

often Intrude,80 Committee will consist of one re-me explain his line of reasoning. bunkers new presentative from each, Associa Everybody knows that, for some pugnaciously from the sides. es- tion affiliated to the Federation.

years, it has been increasingly the pecially the left, that the player Each Association will be invit-fashion to leave the entrances to is chary of attempting this left-to- unguarded by right shot, which means alming al- a team for the trini putting groens games in Delhi. The eligibility hazards, and to set up all the diff-most at the edge of hatard in rule of the Olympic Games will be culties on the Ranke. Often the order to give room for the break strictly enforced for these trials. green is something like a wedge towards the hole.

Efforts are to be made to get between two straggling lines of the Associations at Bombay and bunkers, with the punishment par- Madras to affliate with the Federaticularly harsh on the left.

At first blush, the scheme seema to have a good deal to recommend it. A pull is held by some famous

ed to send

tion.

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In the second "Test" match

of

He tries to be

safe, which, ao far as the British ed, means the sacrifice of the char- golfer of high ambition is concern- acteristic that once made him dis- tinctive.

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Americans Different.

links architects to be a worse fault The Americans have a different their tour, which was played on than a silce, and long hitting with way of going about the game. the Wanderers ground at Johan- the small modern ball of condena- Their ingrained method is to play.

LAWN BOWLS-Saturdaynesburg on June 13, Motherwelled power in spite of the thrill for a right-to-left swerve

Division 1-Civil Service G.G. v. Kowloon Dock R.C.; Club de Re- creis v. Craigengower C.C.; Kow. loon C.C. v. Police R.C.; Kowloon B.G.C. v. Taikgo R.C.; Division-IL. -Craigengewer, C.G. v. Club de Recrelo; Hong Kong Electric R.C. v. Civil Service G.C.; Yacht Club v. Kowloon C.C.; Talkoo R.C. v. Kowloon B.G.C.

BASEBALL-Sunday-Japan- ose Y. Chinese Athletic.

HOME.

CRICKET-To-day, To-morrow and Friday-

Oxford University v. Cambridge University.

Surrey v. Glamorganshire, Sussex v, Derbyshire. Kent v. Hampshire. Yorkshire v. New Zealand, Lancashire v. Warwickshire. Somersetshire v. Middlesex. Northamptonshire v. Worcester

thire.

Leicestershire v. Natta. Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.

Eton v. Harrow.

Sussex v. Essex, Gloucestershire v. Middlesex. Kent v, Surrey.

Lancashire v. New Zealand. Yorkshire v. Notts. Warwickshire v. Northampton-

shire.

shire,

Glamorganshire Y. Somerset-

Hampshire v. Derbyshire, Worcestershire v. Leicestershire. SHOOTING-To-dayNational Rifle Association Meeting at Bisley.

POLO Saturday Subalterns Gold Cup Final at Ranleigh.

LAWN TENNIS Sunday Davis Cup European Zone Final to be completed."

|F.C., the Scottish team, beat South

| Africa by eight goals to nil. ·Mac-

Fadyen scored six goals.

of the

ball. Some of their early cham- pions who came here played for a

Glasgow Celtic, another Scottish makes who is terribly afraid it's real pull. It worked well at times. But League team, defeated Carsteel, not going in-and it isn't! Cotton Itycertainly gained length. the leaders of the Eastern section had a great chance with opening the perfect pull demands such ex- of the National Soccer League, by rounds of 72 and 75, but allowed tragediarily fine adjustment at seven goals to nil on June 13. the strain of leading to stiffen up the Impact that only a very rare In a football match played be- his game, and his great opportungendas can be sure of controlling It consistently. Consequently the fore the final of the Colonial Ex-ity was leat.

Americans gradually, evolved some- hibition tournament on June 14,

But with the exception of Charles Evans, who was as British

First Vienna beat Wolverhampton Harrow School beat Charter-thing different.··· Wanderers, the English Club, by house in a series of swimming four goals to two. Both teams en-events at Harrow by 21 points to tered the tournament but were 15 on June 13. eliminated in the early rounda.

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In his methods as anybody that ever lived (be it said that he won both the open and amateur cham- plonships of the United States), they never adopted the principle

The Atlanta Journal states that Most golfers of high or low de Bobby Jones has become associat gree have experienced occasions ed with A. G. Spalding and Bros, when, setting their

too manufacturers of sporting goods, of our best players, writes Harry keenly on winning, they became as a member of the board of direc- Vardon in The Sports Dispatch. play their usual game. All tied holder. stiff and unnatural, and could not tors and as a substantial stock-They effected a compromise. They

minds

up" with precautions against mis-

tie.

his

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came to the conclusion that they could obtain length the more easi-

ly with that pull spin, but they reduced the degree of the pall to a modicum.

takes you let the safety-frat iden Offers for a return' fight between take such a firm hold that your Al Brown and Johnny Cuthbert game loses its free character and have been made by two Sheffield

Peruasion. Instead of Fower. becomes frozen and uninspired. syndicates.

The long-established British way Cuthbert, as he left for. Sheffield This appears to have been Henry Cotion's trouble in the later stages said to a reporter: "I would will demands forceful hitting "cutting There are the legs from under the ball," as In the British "Open" at Carnous-ingly fight Brown.

it called and yet Je held consultations with some offers for a return match 1, have heard caddie whenever a putt at Sheffield. If they are good getting the distance. The Ameri had to be played. It seems indeed offers, the match should take place can way calls for no such deter- peculiar that a player of Cotton's very early. I am quite prepared mined smiting. You can see the experience is unable to weigh up to back myself against Brown genesis of the persuasive pull in It will be recalled that Al the way that their leading players the line of a putt without the ad- vice of his caddie.

Brown, the holder of the world's stand for the shot. Their feet are All this weighty deliberation bantamweight title, was die either parallel with the Tine that and incubating merely tends to qualified in the eighth round at they want to take, or the left foot. confuse the player.

Olympia after having Cuthbert is slightly in front of the right. His putting became too tremul-well beaten.

They are going to sweep the club- ous, the sort of putt a player. Another development was, ahead round at the ball in an es

challenge by Teddy Baldock to the sentially smooth way. winner for a match for 2500: They subscribe to enough of the side. Baldock and Cuthbert drew pull to make the hitting easy in- st Olympia four years ago. When stead of acute. Carnoustie tested Brown and Baldock met, also at both systeme, which is just what Olympia, last month Baldock was the modern championship courso beaten in the twelfth round, should do.

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