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SECRETS OF CRICKET SUCCESS

VITAL ASPECTS OF GAME STRESSED

WHAT THE STARS HAVE IN COMMON

(By J. C. DAVIES)

Sydney, October 14.

IT has been suggested many times that I should write my impressions of cricket with emphasis on cardinal principles in play and other things that help to make for success by batsmen, bowlers, fieldsmen, and teams. In the series of articles, of which this is the first, these aspects of the game will be featured, and other incidental matters touched upon in the light of experience and history.

THOUGH SO MANY BOOKS ON THE TECHNICAL SIDE OF CRICKET HAVE BEEN WRITTEN, THERE IS MUCH THAT CAN BE BROUGHT TO LIGHT WITH PERSONAL ILLUSTRA TIONS TO LEAVEN THE MORE TECHNICAL ASPECTS IN THESE TALKS, IT WILL BE MY AIM TO ADD TO THE KNOW- LEDGE OF YOUNG READERS, AND, PERCHANCE, STIMU LATE THEM TO DRINK DEEPLY AND WISELY AT THE FOUNTAIN OF THE GAME.

What is Cricket? It is more than the making of runs. More than the bowling of wickets. More than fielding the ball. More than winning a match. Cricket is an institution. The greatest game the English ever invented. Its manly qualities enrich the playing field, cement friendships, provide reminiscences of unend- ing charm and exalt sportsmanship. This is no mere cant. It is truth.

"Cricket" is a universal sym- bol of fair play. They under- stand this angle of the game in French, German, Italian, and in English-speaking countries that are not British.

The youth who has become be-lover one hundred years. It is at pr witched with the glamour of the sent one inch higher and one inch bat and ball is fortunate..

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It brings him into a healthy high and nine inches wide. atmosphere with its physical exercise, inspiring rivalries, and genial comradeship.

More than that, if he has the right mettle, its team-spirit broad- ens him, smooths out his little in- tolerances and makes him a citizen- sportsman, a pleasure to meet and a pleasure to listen to.

You never meet a good cricketer who is a "Wowser.”

ORIGIN SHROUDED IN MYSTERY

OLIVER CROMWELL-

It times of the ancient hooked bat cricket and cricketers did not have the best of reputation: -Three hun- dred and fifty years ago a contem porary writer described Oliver Crom "well as "throwing himself into

dissolute and disorderly, course, as becoming - one famous for football, cricket, cudgelling and wrestlin as acquiring the name of royster

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