1941-04-24 — Page 15

STAYED FIVE ROUNDS AGAINST LOUIS

Clarence Burman, the redhaired

went into the | fifth round against Joe Louis in

H. S. ("Hammy") Love, veteran wicketkeeper, first-class batsman, and Irish-American, sportsman, has announced his retirement at the end of the season. His has

Wan wickshire cricket club pro- been a long and distin- diy reports a profit on last season guished career, extending working of £21 98, 8d. It wanted over 30 years. some doing making a profit at all, sering what they had to contend with. There were bomb craters dotted about, including one a few yards from the pavilion which

several ineendiaries on the Tom itself.

Evidence is the first intra-state game of the sea- son played here in a setting now perhaps more Eng- lish than the bomb-torn playing fields of the Old Country. Half-a-century-old deciduous trees that wiped out the practice shed, and

might have been plucked from the very heart of rural England shaded the raised turf-covered banks upon which spectators sprawled in village-green fashion to watch the two-day match fought out on the richly verdant oval.

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Love represented. New South Wales and Vic ena in Sheffield Shield games, but, with the ex- Ception of one test match at Bris-

bane, higher honours eluded hum

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an obstacle in tus cricketing path.

Love wil a sound keep and İsign is that members have rolled batsman in Shield games, having

batting average 441 sub- sap with £1,166 to date

completed innings. eupons.

New York recently thus upsetting most of the odds laid against him. The beating boys did not wager on the result, but on the distance of the so-called battle, and few cre- dited Clarence with the ability to

survive three rounds.

Tommy Farr, who beat Bur- man easily in London, has since received yet another cable from Milk Jacobs, but, even if he wants- ed to make the trip (and he can. not make up his mind), there is exit the problem of securing an permit.

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Pothy Pearce, the wot let's puodessaan- al sculling champion,

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CRICKET PLANS AT HOME

Cricket scoma far

distant, but

already some of the counties are

making their plans, and it is good

to hear that Notts,

Leicestershire, Surrey

have plumped

Derbyshire,

and Essex

for continuance

throughout 1941, writes a London

Correspondent.

London

Counties X1, "

War

creation, will also be operating with their all-star band of cricket-

Dur- Sandham, ers, such as ston, Sims, Wellard and Jim Smith, that mighty hitter of sixes,

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Notts will have Joe Hardstaff turning out for them on occasions, though he is now a sergeant

Harris an anti-aircraft battery

are also in and Butler, of Notts, A.A. units, but it is true of every¦

Service club that

claims hav marle in-roads into their elevens, and sume of the team-picking 1- going to be a hit makeshift

As an instance of the sort of thing that is liable to happen, switch for a moment to billiards. When Sidney Smith was called up for the Royal Armoured Corps The he was due to play a match. promoter hastily thought of substitute, and picked Walter Donaldson. But when he phoned the Scottish stylist it was only to learn that he, too, had enlisted.

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Unfortunately, Yorkshire can- not see their way to play cricket.

last summer They stood down But, as Sir Stanley Jackson, the president, pointed out in Leeds an January 29, every Yorkshire player under 40 is serving in the Forces,

For all that, Yorkshire, with the ald of juniors and veterans, took part in minor matches for the Red Cross Fund, and raised £2,260.

A news item revealed by Sir Stanley was that John Tunnicliffe, the great Yorkshire opening bats- man of u past age (he is now 75), was recently buried for 3 hours under a bombed building.

Rescuers got Tunnicliffe out, shaken but unharmed.

JOE LOUIS MATCHED WITH BUDDY BAER Joe Louis, world's heavyweight champion, has been matched with Buddy Baer, Maxie's little bro- ther, for a title bout, it was un- nounced here yesterday, May 23 was set tentatively for the fight.

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