1939-03-15 — Page 25

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 15, 1939

West Indies Cricket Team For England

R. S. GRANT CAPTAINS PARTY OF 15

THE West Indian Cricket Board of Control have selected 15 cric-

Port O'Spain, Trinidad. keters to tour England in the summer under the captaincy of Rolph S. Grant: Grant, who is 30, is a Cambridge double Blue, like his brother, G. C. Grant, who also captained the West Indies. The team is:-

R.S. Grant (Trinidad) (Capt.).j

I. Barrow (Jamaica),

ARMSTRONG'S £1000

PENALTY CLAUSE IN

CONTRACT

Light Blues Beat Oxford

The contract which Henry Arm At Hockey

strong, the American, has signed. to defend hia World Welter- Weight Championship against either Ernie Roderick or Jako Kilrain, which has been received in London, includes £1000 pon- alty for Armstrong's non-appoar

ance.

The fight will take place at the White City Stadium, London, late in May or early in June,

H. P. Bayley (British Guiana), F.A. Refuse To Pardon

J. H. Cameron (Jamaica),

C. B. Clarke (Barbados),

L. Constantine (Trinidad),

G. Gomez (Trinidad),..

G. Hendley (Jamaica),

T. Johnson (Trinidad),

E. A. Martindale (Barbados),

J. E. D. Sealey (Barbados), J. Stollmeyer (Trinidad), V. Stollmeyer (Trinidad), K. H. Weekes (Jamaica), and E. A. V. Williams (Barbados). The team is expected to leave the West Indies towards the end of next month.

Kenneth Weekes, one of the new- comers, played against the combined Oxford and Cambridge side which visited Jamaica last year. He scored 12 and 106 in the first match and 58 in the second. -

BETTER BALANCED Thirty-nine years ago the first West Indies team toured England, and it has been told how, when G. L. Jessop once got properly to work against them, they went into par-

Men They've Banned

For 20 Years

(By AIR MAIL) After a fast and keenly contested game, Cambridge beat Oxford, in the forty-fifth inter-University match at Beckenham yesterday by three goals to two. The ground was in excellent condition, permitting both teama. to play at great speel About 8,000- tators watched the many exciting "Bрec- periods in the match.

Cambridge opened by forcing the at- tack, and within three minutes, Borrett took a pass from Oliver, and scored eally, The Oxford backs, Choales and Cornish, were at fault in their cover- ing-off tactics. The Cambridge for- wards' passing was the quicker and more accurate, and after another spell of oven play, Cambridge hit their pec- Fond goal by Wakeling, again the result of some skilful passing by Oliver, the Cambridge captain. Oxford were, how- Merz, the Oxford goalkeeper, had par- over, always trying hard, and after ried a strong, shot from Borrett, a leng

the pace was greater than ever, corner to Oxford saw Graham neatly

length, Eager raced down the field at This success roused Oxford, and

high speed and from the edge of the the net, though it seemed to he: sus- circle placed the ball magnificently in piciously like offside. Half-time ar- rived with the score: Oxford 2.

Cambridge 2,

OOTBALL Association have refused to lift the life ban from foot- ball imposed twenty years ago on two club directors. Life ban followed the discovery in 1919 that Leeds City Football Club had score. been paying players £1 a match, contrary to the wartime amateur status ruling. And yesterday: “You'd think that twenty years was a sufficient sentence to impose," said Mr. Joe Connor, who was chair man of the club at the time and has since rigidly kept away from football grounds.

Athletics

oxysms of job that such things could Triangular Contest In

Glasgow On July 1-

be done, even though it was at their own expense,

At

continued. to

Only two of the former Leeds City directors are known to be Although the teams alive, Mr. Connor, who keeps a play at a great speed, and the ball went- Scarborough hotel, and Mr. G. from one end of the field to the other, Wykes, a director who lives

the Cambridge forwards. were showing Leeds,

In more accuracy in their combined pass- Recently Mr. Connor asked the side forwards dallied too much before ing compared with Oxford, whose, in- F. A. to reconsider the matter, urg-parting with the ball. Twice the Cam- ing that he had no desire to re-and twice Merz, the Oxford goalkeep- bridge forwards swept down the field turn to football in an administra-er, was called on to save, tive capacity but wished the stigma to be removed.

A long corner was forced by Cam- and from the short corner which re- bridge which, Morz cleared into touch, pulted Jackson, the Cambridge centre- the ball into the net and won the game. half, who was happily positioned, drove

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Now Mr. S. F. Rous, secretary of Since then they have made other,

the F. A. has replied stating that Mr. Connor's letters have been con- and always welcome, visits, first as eager learners, next as definite chal-Athletic internationaf between Scot- toe, "but I have been instructed to It was intimated that the triangular sidered by the consultative commit- lengers, and now, at last, they come in Glasgow on July 1, at a meeting of

land, England, and Ireland will be held inform you that the committee la un-Cornish (Exeter), J. F. C. Shaw (Bra OXFORD.--II. Merz (Trinity), *E. as "holders," for in the winter of secretaries held in Glasgow last night, able to accede to your request for senose), A. C. B. C. Lloyd (Oriel), D, A. E. Chcales (St. Peter's Hall), V. L. 1934-95 R. E. S. Wyatt's team was to arrange the West of Scotland sports the removal of your suspension and F. G. Walker (St. Peter's Hall); E D. defeated in the majority of decided dates for the ensuing season. Test matches,

that of Mr. G. Wykes;”

R. Eagar (Brasenose), *R. C. Fletcher The late Mr. Herbert Chapman, University). G. L. Graham (Brase who was secretary of, the club and 1080), *A. P. D. Montgomery (Balliol) was among those suspended, was re-

(capt.), and G. E. Fletcher (Now). instated two years later, thanks part- -CAMBRIDGE. ly to Mr. Connor's efforts on his be- (Downing), R. M. Argyle (St. John's), C. L Hawson half. But Mr. Connor and Mr. R. C. Gibb (Peterhouse), P. R. Thomas Wykes are still suspended and are (Selwyn). D. U. Jackson (Peterhouse), grounds as spectators. not permitted oven to visit football | *P. R. Oliver (Trinity Hall) (capt.), G. B. Kenyon (Queen's), *J. D. Gotch SECRET DOCUMENTS (St. Catherine's). *J. D. Wakeling (8t. Secret behind the suspension of Catherine's). N, F. Borrett (Pém- Mr. Connor and his co-directors in broke), and R. H. Gower (Pembroke). 1919 was a bundle of documents re-|

* Old Blues. lating to the affairs of the club which, in that year were locked in the strong rooms of a Leeds firm of solicitors.

this

season.

Another important fixture, Atalanta v. Achilles club, takes the date July, CONSTANTINE'S VALUE 29, which was 'usually allotted to Clyde R. S. Grant, who was at Cambridge F.C., who are not promoting a meeting when the last side visited England in 14; is the Atalanta engagement with Also in Glasgow, on June 1933, should find himself in com- Norwegian Universities. mand of a better balanced team than The main items in the list of dates, the one- led by G. C., his elder including several national events, pre brother, for six years ago too much as follows:- .depended on Headley with the bat

April 8--Scottish "A.A.A. Spring

Championships.. and Martindale with his fast bow- May 20 Universities" ling.

During that tour, it will be re- membered, Constantine's League en- gagement with Nelson prevented him from playing in more than five mat- ches, but the fact that he is now permanently available will make a vast difference, even though at the age of 36 he may feel the change between once-a-week and continuous .cricket...

SOME OLD RIVALS Gertainly Headley; Martindale and

•Constantine form a very nice nucleus for any side, and to their number, as far as touring experience goes, must be added Barrow, and excellent wicket-keeper and a good enough batsman to have made a century against Esgland at Manchester in 1983.

Athletic

Union Championships, in Lon- don.

May 27--Glasgow University

,

Trinity College (Dublin), at Westerlands.;

June 10-Scottish Inter-Universi- ties' Championship, in Edin- June 14 Atalanta. v. Norwegian

burgh.

Universities, in Glasgow, June 23 and 24-Scottish A‚‚Â. Championships, at Hampden. Jaly 1-Triangular (England, Scot- land, Ireland) International, in Glasgow.

:

It was because these docu- ments

were not produced that

the Football Association took

a drastic line.

ASTON VILLA SIGN RUTHERFORD

Aston Villa have secured the

transfer of Joseph Rutherford, the

In seeking reinstatement Mr. Con- Southport goalkeeper, at á fée be- nor, revealed last night he tried to lieved to be in the region prove to the IA that it was be- Rutherford joined Southport from

£1600.

July 7 and 8-A.A.A. Champlon.yond his power to produce the papa Durham colliery team in the 1996-

ships, in London, eska

July-29-Atalanta v. Achilles, infrm of solicitors stating that the League games for the club the last ers. He obtained a letter from the 87 season, and has played in 88

Glasgow.

August 12-Forth Games.

August 25 and 20-Cowal Gather-

ing, at Dunoon.

Grant, of course, is, thoroughly clusion of Hylton, whose speed, along

papers could be opened only at the 63 in succession. joint request of three-people, and as one of them is dead, the permis sion of his executors would have to be obtained.

terrain may wonder at the ex- In any case thero was a further restriction that the papers could with that of Martindale and Con-not be parted with.

tantine, did so much to beat Wyatt's It was to save the players that team.

these documents were locked in the strongroom, and it is a fact that none of the players was suspended.

noquainted with English conditions, and so, too, is J. H. Cameron, who if never quite fulfilling the expecta tions aroused when in 1932 he took The batting looks very strong. all 10 wickets against the Lord's Headley, of course, we know. He Schools, has done much useful ser has already scored six centuries, In- vice for Cambridge and Somerset cluding 270 not out and 223, off with the bat as well as with his English bowling. The left-handed "tweakers."

Weekes makes a regular habit of scoring largely, Almost equally of the newcomers, Williams is a consistent is Bayley. J. E. D. Sealey fast bowler and Clarke sends down played an innings of 91 in the last London, To-day,-Cardiff, leg-breaks and googlies at rather Test series, and much is expected ing at home, yester above the unnat・ pace, English of the stylish Gomez and the youngford University at /batsmen who met him on his own brothern Stollmeyer.

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