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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1949.
a strain
HARD-HITTING ARTICLES BY A GREAT CRICKETER
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BRADMAN SPEAKS OUT
The Truth About Australia's Fielding by Don Bradmian
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in actual fact, they were in no danger at all.
I have heard no word of com. plaint about the "bumper" of 1948 from any cricketer, past or present, who understood the game.
King
Myrtle says Mao seems to have put the Nationalists behind the eight ball,
Someone is
ming."
offering for
sale The only complaint came from the "ideal car for summer swin
As Myrtle pointed out, uninitiated. Hence the apology of isn't that duckla? And think of Nottinghamshire County Cricket the amount you rould save in Club after the unseemly barrack-
charges. terry
Uncle Sam will soon be giving the de(naz)ified. Germans an
The English players themselves quite freely admitted that the fast bowlor had a perfect right to bowl
their shattered Teuton morale... A short one here and there if he ukle, teen-weeny U-boat to raise wished, and they knew and rea- cir-
Followers of "Rapier" report pocted my attitude that in no cumstances would I ever allow the that since taking his tips they placing of a
field to take advant-have been finding it a much Hap-
of bowling, other pier Valley. than in the
legitimate
Ibetter reailsation of the demands/concerning Keith Miller's bowling. ago of that winar
you
batsman
Fa
Ing
to
make a hook shot as he is to
•
will hardly Our gold dealers get an ounce of sympathy.
public Bangle and bracelet business is now due for a boom. But those fow Shanghal types ordering a hundreds are not necessarily local bluebeards.
The "formal" peace talks fol- ones by
Nothing like an odd sop to
an Were not oven prenent. This has at the Gval in a way that brougrominence was given to the fact Yangtse bridgeheads really lack
ILo
are Then there
know
askot. contemporary player, appeared in an English newspaper, it was patent for all get here?" the article was chal- to see that lenging, and it was obvious that, my position, I could not reply imediately.
| Refused To Be Drawri
The writer allowed himself
"Just came up the stairs, sir." "You have no right to come up to my roan in an hotel like this.
"No, I know air, but my pal's got
xir. And
on round the corner I saw the grinning face of his confederate.
Just a amall incident, but magni-
But on this occasion it was the organised attack, whereby a fast
in
and
gest such a thing!
The Daring Of
'Suicide' Barnes The man who was always in the greatest danger was the fieldsman himself. Didn't they call Barnes
O.C. Sutelde Squad?"
Unfortunately
in the Manchester
unsettle them and get them out.
Barnes is a very game fieldsman, and the most brillant of my time in that position. Instead of being criticised he should have been up- plauded on all sides for his magni- ficent work.
The Reform Club suggests that they can cope if the Legislative Council retires at a month's no- tice, Haven't they forgotten that the latter are passing an or- dinance whereby they will render themselves liable to a $1,080 ane or six months if they quit their "public duty?" Or perhaps they don't rank as a utility....
Hoover,
use 藉
you Cleaning' houses
Colonies must send to Suyo. Shoeshine boys are being given
interest
on their savings, in order to teach them the advantages of thrift
of instruction, With this sort
be qualified to they should soon take over public utilities.
Looking back on my ex- periences as leader of the Australian cricket team, feel some things can now be made on players and on the cap. I think it desimble to make brief h
A bowler l is just as entitled oc- said that had to be left un-1ain in particular. Then they will comment on the question of the course of events.
little fast bumping ball, be more tolerant if some
The whole qucation goes back casionally to force a man into try- said while I was taking part thing occurs which savours of irri-
tation on the part of the captain. to 1932, Untli then, so far as tempt him to make a cover drive, in the matches.
can recollect, there had been no Thousands Want These days the task of a touring
objection to the fast bowler drop- so long as his tactics are not ex- to the more team's captain is of such magni-
Autographs
ping the ball short, because it had posing the batsman
than accidental risk of physical in- deliberate tude that very few people appreci- ate its responsibility.
Take, for example, the fellow never been done as
Finally, the best answer to any HAPPY PIRATES venture to say that not many who comes to you" when you are net of polley with a supporting Jury. The Gilbertian "Pirates of men in any walk of life go through worried ad hard pressed and say: fold. It had been used only ocene criticism which may have been lowing the "Informai
so heavy or continuouis, "How do you do? Remember me?sionally in an offort to force the voleed of our fast bowlers is that the same people remind me st to hook the ball, and was two English umptres were ef- Leg. Co. rubber-stamping public- Penzance" had nothing on during a period of six months or I met you 14 years ago."
For some minutes he refuses to therefore a legitimate method of ficiating in oveny match, and they ly of a bill already axed in Ex. China the post-war
more, as the captain of a touring
give a cive to his identity. Then trying to get him out. Test side. variety when it comes to a
It was in Angust, 1992, that did not at any time question the Co
of cricket that was being the plebs. Moreover, the task of an Aus- he says he met you at such-and- happy, carefree lack of res-tralian captain in England is more auch a
Pinyod function, at which
Bill Bower bowled to Jack Hobbs
Earl, in the tour considerable What the Red armies feel those ponsibility, with no serious exacting than that of
his head from criticism on threat of retribution. Their English captain in Australia. At happened to me more than once.
Warner.
placed at least are bridges. annoyad If, after that, you F. (now Sir Pelham) Wa depredations are becoming leant, that is my impression.
This a very important land that we usually A growing number of functions say you are afraid you have not
Regarding the hullabaloo made so frequent and blatant that
has to be attended, and more and time to talk to him. The truth is,toark in the bowling of short- one man very close to the batsman newspaper editors might be more importance is placed on his he has received more courtesy than pitched balls, because Hobbs took at short leg.
It was even said that Sid Barnen by Doo Mo Loo, civic-nindled give their forgiven for burying reports remarka. The terrifie publicity he deserved.
exception to it and Sir Folham
names when they can get gun about armed attacks on ships associated with anything the team
autographs. wrote a severe criticism of Bowes' folded with one foot on the pitch, correspondents will
licences
themselves to protect photo bowling tactics. To my knowledge, That was never done, What a re- newspaper in local waters under minute docs, and the need to be as diplo- Books, cards, headlines, with other routine matle as possible in the handling graphs, cricket bats and all kinds this was the first time any real obflection on the integrity and com-
of eli situations affecting captain of things are brought to you for jection to that type of bowling petence of English umpires to mg-afterwards.
Only or players, add enormously to the signature.
touring teams had been voiced, how Yesterday's papers carried burden.
this craze has grown, an account of how a Chinese people who do not appear to be hotel entrances day and night. I
Unfortunately, there are always Some you
to live at youngsters seemn
'Not Bowling', Said Warner sportsman was killed and a
interested in a a cricket tour going could not even leave my hotel to do European woman seriously nothly. They seem to be on the some private shopping without be- injured by gunfire when
look-out something to criticise, ing followed up the street. bandits ambushed the river I will cite only two instances One day in London I answered bowler continually and deliberately vessel Kwong Fook Cheung Just before the first Test match a knock on my bedroom door to find pitched the ball short, coupled with
of the recent sories a critical a boy standing there, in the West River. In this
a strong leg field to take advantage article about me, by a journalist "Will you sign this, please?" be of it. This was the point to which est match Barnes was struck and taken and which badly injured by a hit from Dick case there is the small con-who had been
Follard when he was not flelding head. solation that the ship drove
"First of all, sonny, how did you finn was
brought matters to the really close in. But that, of course, EDITOR'S NOTE. Sir at full speed into a barrier
his report of this Surrey v York-was the risk Sid always took.
In the minds of those who wrote of junks, destroying not only
shire ma
match
in Angust,
adversely about this hostile field- some of them but also a
wrote in the "Morning ping. I feel, was the thought that 40 per cent number of the gunmen. So
"While giving Yorkshire all credit it was a source of difficulty for the for their outcricket, Bowes must English batsmen and was likely to now we may expect an offi-
alter his tactics. Bowes bowled cial message of sympathy,
with five men on the on-side, plus possibly inquiry,
several very short- sent down which would voice a factual
pitched balls which repeatedly verdict of what happened. much licence. The result was that fy it a 100 times in various ways.
bounced head high and It is problematical whether prominent English cricket legisla-ne la torn between the desperate "Now that is not bowling; indeed,
to me, expressed their
need for a little peace and privacy it la not cricket, and if all the even a polite formal protest tors came
fast bowlers were to adopt his will be made to the Chin-disgust and assured me the views and the innermost desire to
O'Reilly was probably the great methods MCC would be compellest exponent of bowling to the printed were absolutely contrary ese government.
these held by English legislators courage the enthusiasm of the com-
generation.
Acheson says the U.S. is open ed to stop in and penalise
short-leg field. What made Bill 80 Our fathers would have and players.
Players do not dislike signing bowler who bowled the boil was good was his wonderful accuracy; to any Soviet avartures, but not On another occasion been appalled by such a mil-
there was autographs, They wish to JD than half way up the pitch....
it reduced to an absolute minimum to some phony symphony on the called everything was
to Bowes, and published what
appeal to
10 passible to quetoust reaction.. Invited to open Letter to Bradman. The
the danger to the fieldsman. to kindle
any. who may have athers,
I did not exactly welcome the re- imagine such situation, article contained certain alleza-oungsters and help
their enthusiasm for the game.
influenced hlin to his present their comment would have tions which I badly wanted to re- But when requests come in not style to get him back to ortho-ferences in England to use of the Want to stress the fact that I have
heavy roller to smo! 1 been that, if it ever happen- fute and which thought deserved
to smash up the wicket never known an occasion when the doxy by the score but by the thousand. reply.
So much has been written about ed, the British lion would not a very harsh
But they went unanswered be- field,
and when, after a hard day in the "It could not have been a very for the opponents' innings. Dur-heavy roller has damaged a wicket.
cricketer in hurrying to get pleasant day's cricket. First weing the wonderful Leeds Test it only have lost his teeth, but
caturo I nuspected that one aim was back to the hotel for a meal before saw obvious protests on the field was said that, because I had done the heavy roller that I must add would be so dead that for
try to draw me the walters go off duty, the
from Hobbs, player
then the crowd this when captaining Australia this, I have spoken to grounds- In all pants of the world and reasons of ordinary sanitation controvelon which would at-is entitled to some sympathy,
shouted for Bowes to be taken against Walter Hammond's team have never know one who thought he should have been buried tract attention and notoriety.
Bebind all this is the fact that
would damage the wicket. off, and
inter Macaulay sent in 1046-7, Norman Yardley dil the These things are only pinpricks cricketers are normal human be some time ago. They would, really. They should not be part ings. Nearly all have a wife and
If it were heavy enough and the down two fast full-pitches to the sante on the last morning at Head- of course, have been wrong, of the captain's job. But they ac family to whom, naturally, they
Surrey captain, Very coolly Mr.gley. Jardine ducked and the Arst Norman put on the heavy roller ground dry enough, theoretically for they could not have fore- company and overload the continu- wish to write, and there is little
is restricted the heaviest roller 'header' went for four byes, the and batted for some five or ten it could do so. But the weight of seen the progressive modious strain of having to be in the enough time for those things.
being taken by the minutes. Why, I do not know. on mest English grounds being wicket-keeper...
That was entirely his busineas, 30 cut and the prepared pitchi fication and basic change of field day after day, five or six days
Why Invitations a week for months on end, thinking
"Moreover, these things lead to My guess was that he thought we is of sufficient hardness do rule out international behaviour, es- about and planning not only the Are Refused repriasis--and when they begin, had plenty of time in which to get damage. That is my experience. pecially by the colonial current day's play but future
goodness
knows where they will the runs, and he wanted to reduce So thoas people who jump to powers. They would, never-matches: of having to attend to In various quarters it seems to:
the margin. Events proved such hain's mind are not always cor- conclusions and read the theless, have had a certain hundreds of little duties behind the be felt that, unless a player has a
Eventually it was outlawed by a view to be correct. MCC" bringing in a law giving
For what it is worth, here is my root. amount of justification for scenes and to occans of correspon-cast-iron engagement of an official character, he has no excuse for re their criticism,
of bowling, and I do not think Cricket Captains Not sockling ways and means of taking In the early stages of the last fusing some other invitation. This mpires power to stop this sort opinion on this matter of the roiler. What shipping companies English tour my mall was so great is far from true.
has been questioned and ordinary passengers that at one period I received more
Villains All players must have a ceriain ay bowler It
amount of time to attend to their under that law since. have a right to know is this: than 800 letters in two days.
The point is that if a bowler was impossible for me, personally. own private affairs and to relax bowle has the Hong Kong govern-to open and read. all this corres-in reasonable peace and quiet.rs to a normal field of, say,] that captains try to smash up the country within the framework of 'ment in recent months-- pondence, let alone answer it. This otherwise their nervous systems, three men on the log side, and wicket for the other team marked by bomb explosions, duty had to be delegated to some-particularly in the caso of loading short with such hold, the bats been given undue armed etc. in monoton-one else.
not stand up to the
tour places on man who is able to hook will gut ous succession-used to the
1 I am not recalling this by way exacting strain a
plenty of rus. of complaint. Such a malf was then.
In 1928-29 In Australin, for in- full normal diplomatic pres- really compliment. But I am The modern Test tour is at- sure on the China govern anxious for the public to have a tanded by fierce limelight-good stance, Larwood iwled short bum- with ment to take measures in its
for the game, generally speaking, Pers time after time--but own waters (a) to extermin-
orthodox field; ho afton got hit thing for but apt to complicate
for four and no one took any ate coastal bandits in their Western democracies, no age the captain and his comrades.
exception to it. Remembering the physical iness hideouts, and (b) to provide of power politics. But if demanded of players anxious to be I do not think any notice would adequate patrolling protec- foreign shipping is allowed at their best In Teals and our have been taken of short-pitched tion for shipping by gunboats to call at Chinese coastal games, and the fact that they not been for the memory of events
other suitable craft? ports, could pressure not be Rometimes suffering from injury On the face of the matter, it brought to bear to protect it or minor illness Baknown to the in the 1992-33 tour
public, I think these comments would seem that no worth | by foreign gunboat patrols? may asalst to remove misunder- The Nottingham while protest whatsoever hias| Territorial rights would not standings. been made.
and
A
In this connection it is
into a
dence.
to
сд-
oblicej",
Now to the field of play.........
sometimes unjustified.
second
end.
a
balls in England in 1948 had ̃it.
Apology
Australia.
Possibly, also, colour was added
be infringed if prior permis- One le apt to come under fire slon were given-and is noteworthy to quote the China in any position to re-in various ways, and criticism is by the fact that last summer Eng- lah bataman wore weak on the .comment of a ship's officer fuse a reasonable request After this year's Test match at hook shot and the crowd often
strong, on the Kwong Fook Cheung: from
friendly Nottingham and that little scenel thought they were in danger when, "There were four Chinese nation? Navy gunboats lying idly at Locally, there is the inevit Pak Kal. They should have able excuse for inaction: been busy patrolling the "You don't understand all West River, particularly the implications and com- after the Mise Orient in-plications."
cident."
The official view may be, although it would not be voiced, that the China gov- ernment is incapable of tak- ing measures against armed terrorists. They could cite
on
DO YOU
KNOW YOUR. HONG
don't. And we 'ure too far away from Whitehall for the Socialists to WOTTY much about us, except when Washington puts the screw, as in the current gold bun. So it is our bet that KONG? yesterday's instance in' Can- until a large Butterfleld and ton, where three cinema- Swire.or Jardine's vessel goers were killed and many with a number of British- injured when an explosion] born notables goes up in Can you re occurred in a theatre. In smoke, the pirates' life will oegnies where this case the police had been continue to be a happy one, warned · and astrict watch Perhaps, if they continue to was said to have been kept. be good and dynamite only All right. To be practical Chinese-owned craft (ignore and constructive, what could the British flag), their lead- be done?This is, for the ors might be given the OBET
this plature wi lakan?” The unit war, ***
Beyon
By radio over 2,000 miles, an
scaman's cise was Modern American found to be influenza. science just left the patient cold.
some old theme.
ren
Cricket captains are not villains
na unfair advantage. They are very human, anxious to do their I would like to scotch the theary best for their team and their
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