1939-08-31 — Page 25

THE CHNA MAIL, AUGUST 31, 1939.

LAST TEST: SECOND DAY

Headley's Wicket Lost Trying A Silly Single

G. B. FRY SAYS

Oval, August 21.

ket but not exciting. On the board 70 runs: both batsmen in their thirt

les.

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Then comes Goddard, of Gloucester, in place of Nichols: but it is not God- dard's wicket.

After a long and accurate spell of work Wright gives way to the hard- pounding Nichols.

NO ACCIDENT

Our bowling has been sound and correct, but it is all too much of a uniform pace and a limited method. We have no variationist like Constan-

tine.

At the end of an hour and a half Headley and Stollmeyer have patient- ly given their side a sound foundation for runs. Nearly one hundred up, and

no accident.

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Stollmeyer, junior is doing well, He is a tall youth with willowy move- ments. In style he is of the Hutton type, long reaching, with a wristy finish to his reach. He plays a clever half-cock defensive stroke, stepping The brief aquatic air-raid forward as it were to play back. He last night over Central Lon-has a fine thrusting drive between

mid-on and square-leg. don did not extend to Ken- We view unTM mington Oval. changed conditions all fay-fonso, has unsheathed his peculiar ourable to the batting side.

flannel fills the So when field, we see Perks open the day with a good over to Stoll- Nichols meyer jun., and (from the pavilion end) thumps down such another to Headley.

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Latterly our champion, George Al-

late cut, with which he seems to shave the ball off the bails. He is

Even as it is, with 150 on the board for three wickets, the West Indies, unless they behave frowardly, ought at least to equal our first innings score.

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I have returned from the hospitality of the Surrey club in the vicarage garden across the road, still acutely annoyed at the silly disaster that has removed Headley. We should have seen this afternoon a great innings by a great batsman.

As it is we are now watching two Stollmeyer, senior, the giant killer, fairly good batsmen in Gomez and

sonable ease on the very easy wicket: dealing with our bowling with rea-

The giant killer has made some good strokes off Nichols.

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bowls Gomez, who played forward at the bowler's arm, Eye not on the ball. Four men gone.

With 164 on the board Perks clean

dress with a quick high rotary action; Perks is a bowler of pleasant ad-

ciality seems to be an inward swing lively without being fast. His spe-

in the flight of the ball.

Stollmeyer, senior, the giant killer, is beginning to make nice strokes. He owes his side a lot of runs. Oh! such a lot.

Weekes, the left-hand batsman, too, is settling down. He has a sound de- fence. now past his 50, with 100 up, and isly, just short

Wright is inclined to bowl accurate- of the troublesome becoming nimble-footed for his hook

William length. Old

Clarke, who about the time of the. Battle of Wat- erloo wrote a thesis on the art of bowling, specially warned bowlers against this venial fault.

and his drive.

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We see some more of Perks from Vauxhall, and then two cheers, Hut- ton with his slows from the pavilion end. This is interesting because if Hutton can get a wicket or two he enhances his England value for future.

the

Both our bowlers are using two

Interesting, too, for the same rea- slips and a gully, but Nichols with son, is the appearance of Compton as one man between himself and gully a bowler from the other end.

He on the offside, has a double-barrelled takes a couple of steps and sends down

forward arrangement at

slow left-hand stuff. short leg,

His first over is whereas Perks has a mid-off and a a maiden. square cover, and only one forward

TELLS A TALE short leg.

As usual, the slips are standing too deep, especially Hammond at short slip.

QUITE COMFORTABLE

Thus far Headley is quite methodi- cally comfortable in his cool skill, and Stollmeyer, jun., is elongating himself into studious forward play. Result, 49 on the board in the first 15 minutes.

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That we have come to Hutton and Compton before the interval tells tale in favour of the West Indian bat- ting. But Hutton it is who does the trick. Stollmeyer is tempted into a venturesome and rather casual stroke, and is caught at mid-off.

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Stollmeyer has made 59 runs and made them well. Enter Stollmeyer, senior, to take an immediate bound- ary to square feg.

Our captain rightly decides to give the Kent leg-break bowler a chance But Stollmeyer, senior, makes a ter- at the batsmen before they are fully rible mistake, a ghastly mistake. He set. So Wright relieves Nichols. He plays Hutton in front of forward short is using mid-off, extracover and cov-leg, calls a risky run, Hardstaff is er, with only one slip. I do not think quick on the ball, and George Headley, this nice wicket will let Wright develop scattering his legs for all he is worth, much spin. But his length is good cannot get home. So the wicket of and true.

the hope of his side is sacrified for nothing.

THE

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Perks is trying to annoy Headley with the in-swinging ball pitched on the wicket, and has moved an offside fielder to double-barrelled short leg.

I do not think he will trap the wily George Alfonso, who is playing with his customary alert certainty. None of our bowlers seems able to pull the dusky champion into any sort of ten- tative stroke. He figures to watch every ball on to the turf, off the turf, and on to his bat. His forcing strokes are aimed at the ball itself, and not at where the ball may perhaps be. Hence his certainty.

The latest move by Wright is to set a silly point. Nichols is there, squat ting solidly over his big feet:

One virtue of Wright is that he can stand up to a long spell without losing his

of bowling vivacity. There are now 200 runs on the board, with two steady batsmen well set.

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At 217 runs we have the new ball

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RIDEOUT BEATEN

IN

PARIS

Paris, August 21.-A crowd of more than 12,000 people maw Blaine Rideout, the American miter, beaten into second place In the 1500 metres avent of the Franco.American athletlo maat- Ing here to-day. The race WAB won by Normand in a time of 3 mins. 67 6-10 secs, and so little separated the two that Rideout clocked the same time.

Rochard, tho French tong- distance runner, established a new French record for the two miles when he covered the dis- tance in 9 mine. 183-10 secs. The 1 record was 9 mino. 21 8-1 BCCB.

The 800 metres President of the Republic prize went to Char- les Beetham, United States, in a time of 1 min. 55 secs-Press Association.

SHOCK RESULTS IN HOME FOOTBALL

The following were the results football matches played yesterday.

FIRST DIVISION

of

Arsenal Chelsea

Leeds Derby

Liverpool Preston

Sunderland

1

1

Blackburn Manchester U.

1

2

Portsmouth

0

Chariton

1

4

Middlesbrough

0

Sheffield U.

1

Huddersfield

SECOND DIVISION

Leicester

Birmingham 2 Bradford

0 Luton Manchester C. 1 Bury Southampton 1 Swansea

THIRD DIVISION: (SOUTH) Bournemouth 2 Q.P.A. Brighton Bristol C. Ipswich Reading Swindon

2 Aldersbot

1

Norwich

2 Bristol R.

5

Patace

0

Cardiff

0

Walsall

1 Mansfield

1 Doncaster

3 Hartlopools

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1

NOLDONAR

for Perks and Nichols, but the rosy Torquay novelty does nothing but elicit heav- Watford ier strokes from Weekes and

THIRD DIVISION (NORTH) frequent cuts from Stollmeyer. In

Chester fact, 50 runs in 20 minutes. I

Gateshead am afraid our bowling is not very formid- New Brighton

2 Bradford C. able on a plumb fast wicket.

INTER-LEAGUE MATCH enough artifice.

Irish League 2 Scottish League & At Belfast. The Irish led 1-0 at

Not

So it is that our opponents within an hour and a half after lunch are half time-Reuter. onlý 90-odd runs behind, with six

wickets in hand.

clout the bowling in all directions.

What is more Weekes has begun to

Weekes is a bruiser-like batsman

walking into the position for an out- with a heavy punch, and a knack of

repaid part of his debt with right knock. Stollmeyer, senior has excellent cricket; a neat player not unlike our

Oldfield in style, with a nice off-drive and a deft cut.

some

HUTTO I AGAIN Our captain again tries Hutton. As an hour now, this variation might well Weekes has been on the hit for over

come sooner. A hitter is al-

RUGBY LEAGUE FOOTBALLTM

London, To-day.

Q

1

The following Rugby League matches were played yesterday: Salford Featherstone 10 Warrington

: 15 Oldham St. Helens. Wigan

13 Swinton

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18 Hunslet

-Reuter.

Goddard got the wicket.

Why risk the wicket of George Headley, well set, for the sake of a have silly single? A wicket worth not a ways likely to make a mistake off a silly single, but a couple of hundred bowler who tosses the ball high and good effort. But think what the posi Words fail me.

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Well I saw nothing in their bowling on Saturday nor in ours to-day nor in their batting to-day to corroborate the notion that the West Indies cannot play England on level terms.

We have not a bowler so dangerous on a plumb wicket as Constantine, nor a definite spice of variety equal to Johnson, the left-hander.

But for the grossly fortuitous sacri- face of Headley's wicket our opponents were well in hand for a total of be- The scoring is sedate. We verge | tween 400 and 500. gpon ngon with only 57 runs on the Our bowlers one and all have per- | board.

ready level with our first innings. A The West Indies are in effect al-

slow.

I would have had Hutton or Comp-wasted, so sadly wasted; after he had tion would be had Headley not been ton on for a few overs half an hour done all the spade work. ago. Now we have both of them on together. The modern method, It seems, is at all costs to avoid con- trasts of pace.

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Just as everybody puts on a mac- kintosh Weekes reached his stout- hearted century with 3 boundary through the slips.

Compton is bowling quite worth on the wood, very severe on Perks. Since ton Weekes has been laying while, and is leading Weekes into gay He exercises adventures, but he cannot tempt Stoll-stroke that makes his bat resound a peculiarly heavy meyer senior into indiscretion. The pair of batsmen have pushed up the runs are hooks, straight drives and against the ball. His chief sources of score to 300. Stollmeyer now looks square cuts. In one over he has taken like a century.

20 off Perks. When rain stops play West Indies are within easy hail of With the total at 327, amid thunder 400. So they have justified our high * *

never been on top of the batsmen, they and lightning, Stollmeyer once We are watching a phase of hard have never looked troublesome.

too but unpopular expectations. And often played forward at the bowler's woleby Nichols of Essex, from Vaux-as for their effect on Headley it was arm. He wanted four for his century

(COPYRIGHT) nd, of lively but inconclusive just an invitation to the dance. He in his first Test. He could have play- for 6. (K. H. Waskea o Hammond, b mithing by Wright. Both batsmen was there for the whole day, bar aned back or driven the ball with a full | Nichols 187; J. E. D3 Bealey 17 not:

lly impermeable. "Good eric [utter accident.

swing Nevertheless a fine innings. N. Constantine 1 not.

lucosts

formed up to standard, but they have

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At close of play the sobre was 985