1938-03-22 — Page 21

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 22, 1938.

THE AUSTRALIANS CRICKET TOUR

AUSTRALIAN

WRITER REVIEWS CITIES AND GROUNDS

Does Not Think Much

Of Lord's Pitch

LACE, CIGARETTES AND LARWOOD!

(By GEOFFREY TEBBUTT)

CV. GRE

NOT

CONSIDERING OFFER"

London, February 19-C" V. Grimmett, the former test repre- sentative, said yesterday that he was not considering any offer from a Lancashire league cricket club.

"All I know about, these re- ports," said Grinamett, "is that. some time ago I received a message from the agent of a Lancashire league club asking me whether I would be interested in an offer from England. I told him that I would not be interested. Later, I received a cablegram from England suggesting that I might consider an, offers but I did not take any action at that time, and at the mo- ment I have no intention of doing

so.

CRICKET LOSS TO AUSTRALIA

V. E. JACKSON FOR ENGLAND

SIR JULIEN CAHN'S TEAM

Sydney, Australia, Australia has lost the services of another of its promising young all-round cricketers. Victor E. Jackson followed the example of

40532010682265AKNUT EX XУ6633251FX5RLEISTENTETXEETAJ. G. Lush in signing a contract to play with Sir Julien Cahn's (The writer toured England with the 1930 and 1984 Australian of the cricketers who are entitled to

private, team for three years. teams).

first-class expenses (as against the

Jackson was approached by Sir Sydney, February 19. professionals third-class) and the

Julien's international agent, Mr. A. G. Fairfax, after R. G. Gre IN Melbourne next Friday there will assemble, un-use of their initials.

To Manchester, noted for having

gory (Victoria) had declined the der the leadership of a stockbroker the school- the most Australian-like ground in offer, and yesterday final ar- Manchester people are rangements were made for Jack- master, the journalist, the taxi-driver, the sports England.

both hospitable and quickwitted son's departure. ground curator, the jeweller, the commercial tra- The second Test, at Lord's and Jackson will leave Sydney by veller, the carrier, the three clerks, and the five then up to Derbyshire, a county of the Moreton Bay on March 5 salesmen who, for the next eight months, will be squat miners with bow-legs, for the with Lush.

match at Chesterfield, its ground in ·Sir Julien Cahn has a collection of public figures as the representatives in England of a handsome park overlooked by the Australian cricket. With the exception of Sun-grossly warped steeple of a church,

and tours during the English winter. Proposed tours by the team în the next 'days and 12 other days of rest, they will be playing

East Africa, cricket in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, Sheffield, its foundries flourishing three years are to New Zealand, British and probably Canada. with the armament boom, is a bad Some of the prominent players in the continuously from April 30 to September 17.

dream of smoke and clangour and team are C. S. Dempster and B. C. Drowsing in cathedralled Worcester, celebrated for sauce, industrial horrors. The city is ring-Blant (New Zealand), D. P. Morkel and R. Crisp (South Africa), and L ́A. gloves, pottery, and the defeat of Charles II, by Cromwell in 1651, ed by lovely moors, to which is citi. Peebles and R. W. V. Robins (Eng has become standardised as the stage where the curtain lifts upon zens flee at week-ends. Yorkshire land). Two New South Wales colts, the Australian tour. Upon what happens there on April 30, May 2 is met there, and Yorkshiremen, H. Mudge and J. E. Walsh, joined the and 3-though the Australians have made a habit of finishing this players and spectators, are full of team last year. match in two days the more excitable critics will go through their character and broad wit. favourite mental exercise of jumping to conclusion about what is going to happen in the Test matches.

CITY OF FOUNDRIES

international players in his team, which plays in England in the summer

JACKSON'S CAREER Victor Jackson, who is 21 years of

Manchester again, this time for age, is a right-hand forcing batsinan the third Test; to Birmingham, and a right-hand medium-pace bowler. It is a pity that there is cricket on all three day at Oxford; with which has a pleasant cricket ground He first came into prominence late in 1934 during a colt's tour of northern its poems in stone, its lawns that have been rolled for centuries, its at Edgbaston gloriously ancient inns its exudation of accumulated wisdom. In A fine city, it has enthusiasm for New South Wales and Queensland. The following season he represented New. the match against the University on the Christ Church ground there both the drama and politics, and South Wales in a second elevens match will be players in magnificent caps, including those of the Harlequins. gave England Joseph Chamberlain against Victoria, scoring 94 and 104, and his son, the present Prime and taking three wickets. It was not until last season that Jackson gained A little way across country to place where boots and hats are made; Minister.

his State blazer, and he played in one industrial Leicester, cold and and back to Kennington Oval A Back to Nottingham, and then the match against England, scoring 42 and bleak. Warwick Armstrong, certain liveliness sometimes is to be fourth Test, at Leeds, where the 10, and all Sheffield Shield matches, for even with his ample natural pro-noted among the hoarse South Lon-crowds are large, vigorous, and in-a total aggregate of 351 He was also third in the bowling averages for the tection, wrapped strips of brown don crowds. With enormous gas- telligent, though the ground is un-State... paper around his body below his holders beside it, the Oval is unpre-lovely and the outfield undulating. Jackson began this season by taking several sweaters to keep warm possessing. For strictly cricketing Quarters for Leeds are at Har all ten wickets in an innings in a grade the match, following this with 146. He there in 1921. The aftermatch purposes, it is a better ground than rogate, where invalids "take

was picked for the Richardson-Grim- of the 1934 match was an in-Lord's though it, too, has only one waters," and around whose pleasant mett testimonial match, and although crease in the Australians' in-sightboard.

streets one may be wheeled in chairs he did not perform well with the bat, he impressed the selectors with his fine fluenza sick list.

There is nothing stately about the at so much an hour.

bowling, taking two wickets for 31 off Oval: it is the sporting outlet for

AMONG TOMBSTONES 17 overs. This, with a 63 against New choker-wearing -- little Cockneys, After Cambridge, where, on the whose hero is. 'Obbs, who sometimes

Taunton, in green and peaceful Zealand, put him in the running for the Australian team, but he developed leg broad piece of parkland beside the are capable of a demonstration

Somerset, is pleasant after the grim trouble, and was forced to withdraw hotel at which the Australians stay, remind Australians of home.

North; it is always an amiable kind from Sheffield Shield matches. On his Jack Hobbs first played cricket,

of a match there. Enterprising return to interstate fixtures he scored Down to. busy, ship-proud

63 against. South Australia, and follow- comes the first match appearance "in Southampton, for the match against

batsmen hope to put a "sixer" over ed with 18 and 11 not out in the final town"-against the MC.C.,

the pavilion and among the tom-Shield match of the season against at Hampshire, then a second appear. Lord's. To be able fully to

Then to Swansea, Victoria apance at Lord's to meet Middlesex. stones behind it.

STYLISH BAT - preciate Lord's, one needs a proper The Australians will go on June 1 where they make a gallant effort to

Jackson is a stylish and powerful stately city which stage-manage the game.

batsman, possessing a great drive. This Mecca of the game and the benefits from some of the millions Matches at Glasgow and Dundee. When in form he is a daring player, seat of the lawmakers whose writ left by successive Wills. In Glouces. The south-bound to industrial Sim-and is not afraid to loft the ball into runs throughout cricketing civilisa-tershire, no conversation is complete the Oval, down to lovely old Can-ing the bowling he generally relies on derland in Durham, a return visit to the outfield off any type of bowling. He is a versatile bowler. When open- tion is technically below the star-without reference to W. G. Grace. dard of any Australian Test ground. Then to Southend, in the Thames terbury, where there are genuine swing, which he does as well as any in e beer, a Australia. He is one of the few who The wicket slopes downhill and to Estuary, which is supposed to have unmistakable hop in the

can swing considerably either way. the side, there is only one sight-bracing air, and whose pier and match against the Army, at Alder- when the ball has lost its shine he re- board; "not infrequently batsmen mudflats are stock music-hall jokes, shot, a day's rest, and then the last sorts to spin. Although he does not

HISTORIC LORD'S

respect for ancient monuments. to Bristol, a

tol

Test

On

goes the

turn the ball much, he varies his pace judiciously, and occasionally brings in- inexorable pro-

to action a disconcerting ball which watch-weary players drops suddenly...

means the best in England, the odd-are the best-known products of Not- they sing it as no reflection if The English atmosphere should help

have to appeal for the closing of doors and windows in the pavilion, FIRST TEST AT NOTTINGHAM so that they can get a sight of the To Nottingham for the first Test gramm bowler's arm; the outfield is by no Lace and cigarettes and Larwood by now

left out of the team, go his swing, and the wickets should assist this spia His great knowledge of shaped boundary is roped off and tingham, whose natives know their down to seaside Brighton, to enter back-play will be a decided advantage tain the holiday crowd, up to Lan-to his batting Jackson is an excellent spectators sometimes get inside the cricket. ropes, the score-boards are obsolete. Nottingham has a town clock cashire's Blackpool to meet an Eng-field with a powerful and accurate Yet Lord's is a magnificent survi-dreaded by residents in the hotel op land XI (which may mean something throw. His interstate career at base

ball has helped in this. In the big pavilion is a valu-posite In 1934, earnest represen- very like a Test match).

now call Eire, to meet the Gentle- able collection of cricketing relics. tations by the Australian manager NO RISES ADVISED

of Eire in a fidure revived stopped during some of the Back to South Coast Folkestone's men mal hours of sleep a feat which pretty, panoramic ground for an- from pre-war days.

how much more important other England XI, up to the East fast, in the other Ireland, for players are than ordinary Coast cliffs of Scarborough, where

Mr. H D G Leveson Gower

val

Lord's is a slice of England. Pro gress there is made under protest. It has fashion, decorum, an air

its own. An illuminating day cTest be spent there without looking at the tray cricket

Up

CHEERLESS PLACE

Gentlemen of England,

cheerless MC.C selectors will produce eleven

XL means that no risk-can

To

the return of