Hutton And Ames Back Again OPEN RINKS Arthur Fagg And TITLE GOES Leyland Among
TO RECREIO
C. G. SILVA'S FOUR TOO GOOD
BUT A. E. CAREY'S RINK HAD BIG LEAD
14 For Oval Test
Batting Considerably Strengthened
"REVIEWER'S"
SPORTS COMMENTARY
Jesse Owens In Reduced Circumstances
in-
London, To-day. Club de Recreio added to their England have been considerably strengthened for the Fifth list of successes when C. G. Silva's Test Match against Australia, which commences next Saturday at rink, comprising A. E. Noronha, the Oval, the outstanding features being the return of Leonard
Jesse Owens, the negro sprinter who C. A. Lopes and J. E. Noronha, Hutton, England's opening bat, and of Leslie Ames, first-piad, is now in such reduced circum- won four events at the Berlin Olym- won the Colony Open Rinks Lawn choice wicket-keeper, the inclusion of Arthur Fagg, the sensational stances that he has been glad to ac- Bowls Championship by defeating Kent batsman, who recently establish a world's record by scoring cept a position A. E. Carey's Police four, compris- a double century in successive innings, and of Maurice Leyland, the structor
as playground at the small salary of ing W. McLeod, W. Cameron, E. G. England and Yorkshire batsman.
£4 108 a week. Post, by 26 shots to 13, on the
England's team for
Owens has a wife and two children K.B.G.C. green yesterday.
to support, and prior to obtaining his present situation he had toured with a dance orchestra, and been matched midget cars in various fantastic but against greyhounds, horses; and
unremunerative ventures,
The Police quartette commenced in a confident manner and on the fifth head were leading their Re- creio rivals by 10 shots to nil, but by the 10th head Silva's four had considerably reduced their arrears, A four on the 11th head and a five on the 13th provided the turning point in the game, and thereafter the Recreio rink looked back,
The match was umpired by Dr. J. T. Smalley, Vice-President of the Association and a large gather- ing of spectators were present.
Detailed scores were.
W. McLeod
W. Cameron
E. G. Post
A. E. Carey
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A. E. Noronha
C. A. Lopes
-Heads Points Total Points Total
the Fifth
Test match, to be held at the Oval next Saturday, will be selected from the following 14 players:
W. R. Hammond (Gloucester),
(Captain).
K. Farnes (Essex).
M. Leyland (Yorkshire). H: Verity (Yorkshire). D. V. P. Wright (Kent). D. Compton (Middlesex). W. J. Edrich (Middlesex). E. Paynter (Lancashire). W. E. Bowes (Yorkshire). J. Hardstaff (Notts). L. Hutton (Yorkshire). L. E. G. Ames (Kent). A. Fagg (Kent)..
T. W. Goddard (Gloucester). Edrich, despite his failures in all the Test matches, has not been dropped, while Leyland's inclusion comes as a surprise, as he has done
little of note this season, having reached the century mark on only four occasions, these being:
100 v. Oxford U 114 . Essex
J. E. Noronha
C. G. Silva
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A REVELATION IN WHITE WINES
CHATEAU CARBONNIEUX
VINTAGE 1927
CHATEAU BOTTLED GRAVE,
THE IMMEDIATE CHOICE OF A CONNOISSEUR
127 v. Glamorgan
135 v. Lancashire while his only bowling feats were 5 for 15 against Middlesex and 5 for 77 against Leicestershire, C. J. Barnett (Gloucester),
F. W. Price (Middlesex) who kept wicket in the Fourth Test, and N. W. D. Yardley, 12th man in the Fourth Test, have been dropped..
M.C.C. Team To Tour S. Africa
London, To-day.
The M.C.C. team to tour South
"A hero to-day and a nobody to- would be more correct to say a hero morrow, except that in my case it yesterday and a nobody to-day," said Owens, "but I am not complaining. I can just manage to keep my wife and two children, which is the important thing."
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Australians In Train Comedy
the
A misunderstanding marked journey of the Australian cricketers from Swansea to Dundee on August 5. At Gleneagles Station, Fleetwood- Smith, Brown, and White left the train to stretch their legs on the plat- form. Meanwhile the portion of the train for Dundee was shunted to
the
Africa under the captaincy of W. another platform. The three cricketers R. Hammond, England's Test skip-mistakenly entered the part of per in all
the five Test matches train that was still standing in it's against Australia, is as follows:-
former position, and the result was K. Farnes (Essex),
that when the team reached Dundee N. W. D. Yardley (Cambridge had happened to their colleagues.
there was some conjecture as to what University and Yorkshire), P. A. Gibb (Cambridge Univer-
sity and Yorkshire),
B. H. Valentine (Kent), Ames (Kent),
Edrich (Middlesex),
Hutton (Yorkshire),
Paynter (Lancashire), Fagg (Kent), Wright (Kent), Goddard (Gloucester), Verity (Yorkshire), Wilkinson (Lancashire), and Perks (Worcestershire).
The following is the itinerary for the tour:-
November 8, 9-v. Western Province Country District at the Strand.
November 12, 14-v. Western Pro- vince at Capetown.
November 19, 21, 22-v. Griqualand West at Kimberley.
November 26, 28, 29-v. Orange Free State, Bloemfontein.
December 5, 5, 6-Natal at Dur-
ban.
Southern
December 10, 12, 18-v. North East- ern Transvaal at Pretoria.
December 16, 17, 19-V. Transvaal at Johannesburg. December 24 26, 27, 28-First Test match, at Johannesburg.
December 31, January 2, 3, 4-Se- cond Test match, at Capetown.
January 7, 9, 10-v. Eastern Pro- vince at Port Elizabeth.
January 18, 14, 16-y. Border East London.
January 20, 21, 23, 24-Third Test match, at Durban.
combined
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For nearly an hour and a half after the arrival of the main party the whereabouts of the missing trio re- mained a mystery. Actually, as result of their error, they had had to travel to Crieff, where they got a connection to Dundee, reaching the city by 10 p.m.
Another missing member of the party at Dundee was. Don Bradman. but any doubts that had arisen in the minds of local cricket fans over his non-arrival were set at rest by tho intimation that he was staving the night at Perth with an old friend, Mr. A. K. Bell, Kincarrathie House.
Autograph hunter's besieged the ties, the gift of a Scottish admirer. cricketers, who were wearing tartan
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Bradman As A Tennis
Star?
in
little like the comedian who longs to Though he suggests he may be a
his book, "My Cricketing Life," he play Hamlet, Bradman, confesses
not have improved at lawn tennis as sometimes wonders whether he he did at cricket.
could
to reach the finals on the centre court "I consider it more of a distinction at Wimbledon than Test match," he writes, · ·
to play in
man recalls that when he was in Fiji Among many odd encounters, Brad- he had a visit from the local fast bow- atler, a giant named Thakabou, accom-
panied by a native policeman:-
"When I told them was Bradman: they started to feel my arms shoulders, and to laugh.
and The size of me appeared to amuse them, and al- nt though they made, no attempt to hide. their mirth I felt it prudent, in view the disparity in our respective statures, to join heartily in their They made no secret of the February 25, 27, 28-v. Natal at Pie-abilty as a cricketer in me; and if the fact that they very much doubted any termaritzburg.
January 27, 28, 31-v. team at Johannesburg.
February 4, 6, 7-v. Rhodesia Bulawayo.
February 10, 11, 13-v. Rhodesia at of
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February 18, 20, 21, 22–Fourth Test hilarity. match, at Johannesburg.
March 3, 4, 6, 7-Fifth Test match, at Durban.
March 11, 18, 14-v. Western Pro- vince at. Capetown.
The party arrives back in England on March 31, 1989.
correct, maybe it was just as well we stories I hear of Mr. Thakabou word - did not play at Suva"
Incidentally Bradman explains that family. His father is tall, and his he is the only small member of his brother Victor stands over 6 ft.
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