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BRITISH LAWN BOWLS “AUSSIE” TOUR

WILL NOT START FAVOURITES

DRIVING METHODS

(By "BOOMERANG”)

Sydney, May 13. A team of British bowlers, presumably from England, Scot- land, Ireland, Wales, and Canada, will embark in November for an extended tour of Australasia.

Of course, the magnet is the combined A.B.C. carnival

and bowls section of the Empire Games. But this does not mean that the British team will be seen in action only in Sydney. All the States and New Zealand will be visited.

It

The team will travel by the Arawa, and arrive at Wellington, New Zealand, on December 4. is stated that "another team" will leave for Australia, but I think the International Bowling Board will not have that. This team was.... to travel under the auspices of ***The Travel Agency," and was evidently of a different character from the more coddled bunch hall-marked by the I.B.B,

"HOLD HARD"

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 6, 1937.

BRITISH SOCCER XI

AUSTRALIA

MOST AMBITIOUS TOUR

EVER ATTEMPTED

RECORD GATES EXPECTED

(By A. J. Boyd)

Sydney, June 13.

EIGHTEEN men comprise the team of English amateur Soccer players now in Australia. I

FOOTBALL OFFICIAL SENTENCED

A League Robbed

London, June 10. Sentence of two months' hard

labour was passed at Clerkenwell yesterday on Ernest John Murphy,

43, a clerk, of Petherton-road, High-

know how many are single, but in their insur- bury, said to be founder, secretary

policies the only risk not safeguarded against is marriage.

and treasurer of the Holborn and

District Football League.

Murphy pleaded guilty to charges

A PICTURE OF THE TEAM JUST TO HAND SHOWS THEM of stealing as bailee a typewriter TO BE A HEFTY, POLITE-FACED BUNCH OF PLAYERS. THE and sums amounting to £42.153 101, NAMES OF THE TEAMS FROM WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN RE- belonging to the league. CRUITED RECALL SUCH FAMOUS FIGURES AS G. O. SMITH, Det. Sprosen said that R. E. FOSTER, C. B. FRY, AND OTHER AMATEURS WHO WON had used money belonging to the THEIR WAY INTO INTERNATIONAL BATTLES AT THE EX-club for his own purposes. PENSE OF HIGHLY PAID PROFESSIONALS.

The tour is the most ambitious ever attempted by an amateur team, and the response to the Football Association considering the time to be taken up by the men has been excellent. The only money grant is one of £50, barely enough to buy appropriate cloth- ing for such a long tour.

Murphy

WIMBLEDON SEEN 50

YEARS AGO

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cause, having paid his half-crown, Mr. Tom Thorne, chairman of DISTINGUISHED GUESTS

he could not penetrate the crowd Co- The chairman of the Football Millwall Football Club, is

Court- the touring team.

Mr. W. Pickford, surrounding the Centre Association. manager of At the farewell luncheon in Lon-presided at the luncheon, and in though why he should have selected don, Mr. Wreford-Brown revealed cluded in a distinguished gathering me for his opprobrious epithets L the fact that many people not were the High Commissioner for could not, and cannot, imagine.

I have received, in the referee's- connected with football had ask-New Zealand (Mr. J. Jordan) and

on the the High Commissioner for Aus-office, a telephone message that ed to be allowed to go

tralia (Mr. S. M. Bruce),

"Miss Gibbs of Romford is joining the queue this morning. Her Carlaw Park, Auckland, has been come

lent by the Rugby League, and re-mother has auspicions about the ports state that everything has been meat in her sandwiches, and will done to boost their tour through the you ask her to be careful!" I am Dominion.

glad to say that out of some seven There isn't the slightest doubt or eight thousand people in the that their visit will prove a success, various queues, Miss Gibbs and it is to be hoped that the foot discovered and duly warned!

tour.

Applications had, in fact, from a bishop, a doctor, a dentist, The only and a lady masseuse. lady with the p: ty is Mrs. Wreford-

Arthur Stollery, trainer to

That we welcome the news of the coming of the British players, goes without saying. When the last team Brown. got back to Old England they had some real bed-time stories to relate. Dulwich Hamlet F. C., Amateur Cup We did not take the team very winners, accompanies the players. seriously, competitively, and pro-

bably Mr. Ivo Thomas, the team's play are as wide as the Poles. official recorder, who wrote a book on the tour, did not include some of the most tasty morsels.

At St. Kilda, Victoria, in the Tests, word was sent to more than one or two of the skips to "hold hard, there, don't crucify them,” as cricket scores began to mount on the boards. Pascoe had 34-4, and

there were others.

CHAMPION IN COUNTY They play into the heads rather than the fine, delicate draw that we know, and 95 per cent. of them are either "palmers," "claw grippers," and "sitters," of some kind.

All their writers and authorities are against the method of gripping over the top of the bowl with the thumb, and most can be regarded as

"dumpers" rather than bowlers, when it comes to grassing,

DIFFICULT TEST When it comes to the hard A. B. C. and Empire Games, our dis- The biggest Test Australia had tinguished visitors will know they in England was when they played have been in something.

Many On our Kent, the champion county. greens, if they be fast, overseas internationals were requisitioned players will have no triumphal tour. for the special occasion, but the Why have British players a set on Australians won. Ours was just driving? Why have they little pro-a "catch-as-catch-can" team, made spect of competitive success in this up of wealthy men, able to stand country? Because the conditions of the strain of a £1500 trip.

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ball they play in New Zealand will |help bridge the gap that has taken place in the playing standards of New Zealand and Australia.

Was

NO “OPEN” TOURNEY: Wimbledon as it was and is, his-- tory and the daily Press record; what of Wimbledon's future? Will the day come when amateurs and About the time the previous Eng professionals are alike eligible for lish team was here Zealand were its championships? I think not. If too good for Australia, but with the "Open" championships come, as passing of George Campbell and

they may, it will, I feel sure, not company Dominion teams "took a be on the lawns of the All England Let us hope they come Club that they will be staged, and back to the surface.

In Sydney the playing standard as long as lawn tennis lasts, to win has never been so high, and the place in the world, will still remain at Wimbledon, more than any other Englishmen are likely to strike stiff opposition before the Tests are through.

dive."

the highest ambition any lawn tên- its nis player can possess, achievement a triumph other success can ever • ́equal.

"BARRACKERS” DAY Sydney Cricket Ground will bulge with barrackers the day they make they will attract are in for a treat.- their bow, and I am a bad judge if

Many professionals, transferred they do not shake the Rugby records. for five-figure sums in England, Thousands of Soccer fans in all have nothing on the amateurs parts of New South Wales, who do have mentioned above or Bobby- not follow the game regularly, will McColl, for instance, to name a be on deck that day. Over 40,000 Scotsman.

turned up at the first game the Eng- As a small läd I used to play for lishmen played in Sydney 12 years the school in the morning and pay ago, and that match had to be sd, to watch Dulwich Hamlet in the staged at the Show Ground with afternoon.

the major match of the League sea- A neighboring team came over son being played on the Cricket one day and brought an inside for- Ground at the same time,

ward named Fitchie.

A Queensland correspondent ask: "Who will win the Tests? They will be betting like the Watsons here."

THE TESTS

Honestly, I can't tell him, but he can be assured that the Tests, will not be a walk-over for either side.

He proved a riot. Not long terwards he was playing for Scot- land as an amateur against · Eng-- land, and was adjudged the best. player on the field.

ANOT

NOT “PIE”

So those who run away with the ides that these tourists will be “pie” I shall be surprised if the English- because they are not professionals, men do not start favourites. -I think may be in for a full-sized shock. they will win. They should be in I anticipate the best football we¬ great-form by the time they reach have ever seen in Australia, Sydney; they will understand each greatest displays of enthusiasm the other, and if they reproduce the round-ball game has known football I have seen amateur teams and a big boost for it. play in England, the huge crowds

What more could one

the

here,