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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1949.

HARD-HITTING ARTICLES BY A GREAT CRICKETER

20

Why does Australia, maller population, challenge England at erteket?

to do Climate has something with it. Our boys enjoy so much more of the brighter weather that gaune really requires. Coane

erickst queatly they play more than the youngsters in the Old ("ountry.

BRADMAN SPEAKS OUT

Australia's Secret

by Don Gradman

frems

for pace.

1

Agures. He bowls well be expected of the professional, hotter

every time and worries the bats- with it, who earns his living at the job.

holdly The colourful history of cricket man. He beats the bat, yet rarely with sparkling amateurs. has the luck to get quick wickets. I regard him an a better You may find it difficult to under- But stand that there is no professional bowler in England than In Aus- cricket in Australia, but I am auretralia.

And Dick Pollard bowled re- reasons for our FORASTER- On April 20th, at Hospital,

is one of the Mary

enthusiasm and love of the game, markably well at Manchester and The Queen

The advance of Australia ja Leeds. Capt. William Forrster, aged

Now for So much cricket has been due to inborn Funeral (crema- 75 years. tion service at the Colonial

They have less interference keenness developed along the right.

Encouragement is greater

1 always maintain that, from a Cemetery, Happy Valley, at

from rain and suffer 5 p.m. today (Friday).

disappointments way in Australia than in Britain, both technieni puint of view, an off-spin the

bowler ke Jim Laker has a much ent into a youth's enthusiasm for the boy and the young man.

Promotion is more rapid. Skilt harder job than the leg-spinner. greater opportunities for play under bright, cheerful, sultis youth get early opportunity. He is turning the ball in towards able conditions, ericket gets into Clem fill, Archle Jackson and the batsman's body all the time. Thus the greater disability blood more, I would say, Neil Harvey have provided grand

this year in the than it does in the cooler climate examples of Australian youth in England suffered

bowing was the injury, loss of Test cricket.

form, and subsequent omission of of England,

Wright.

peace talks had

broken

down.

fewer of lines. that

We have in Australia a popula tion of between seven and sight millions, The youth among them

cricket are almost picture. wherens

Britain's 50,000,000 people the proportion earnest young cricketers is by

all in the

of

ino means so high.

Is Every Boy A Potential Star?

Great Players Start Young

ir

the

Age nikes little difference: we think a youngster has ability he receives its chance. His Bnancial or other standing in life

has no bearing whatever selection,

our

I have a high opinion of Wright. He is a first-class slow bowler. In good or bad form, he is the type

run through likely

the wicket wearing.

142

especially when on his

sellom gives rein to hin

uitaék-

Good Morning

Lipstick: Sumething that mere-

Ing shots these days and he, likely adds colour and favour to au Compton, lacks confidence against old pastime.

the fast stuff.

As he was the only time in

Ап

history an Australian toam had English tour gone through undefeated, natprally gavo riso

In a new steamer there are two classes of travel: first class

Lo much discussion as to whether and with children.

it was the greatest

100

of

Australian

timo. 1 fancy the subject will be under discussion 20 years hence.

Until 1948, cricket lovers un- hesitatingly voled the 1921

Aux-

Escap-alogy.

"I have no idea what General MacArthur. has in minit, but I

Trallan team as the best since am in accord with it."Lleuten- 1918 Some rated the 1921 side ant General Walton H. Walker.

though olderi as the best-ever, men who knew something of the pinyers hotly skill of pre-1014

lputed that claim,

Best Team Of My Time

than to

•

There is no truth in the report that India and Pakistan have die- elded to unite under the name Indlastan or Pakindin; that Mao klased Chiang on both checks: or that the Arab League will act in unison from now on.

ranks.

have moru sense alance plaions on men whol born, but without hesitation I rank our 1948) played before I was

reforming instead of team as the best with which 1 have played. Naturally you ask ex-volunteers seem to prefer to

join the reform club. why.

There are amry The rentest of which is the all-round strength of the team compared with Mie enriler rellance individual brillance.

reasons, the

on

ha mare No previous team than five batsmen whone batting логарен

for the

tour Rach

nes.find tis

What I Think Of

Wright

11

ceeded 50. In 1948 we had seven.

We have to go back to 1902 to ind any previous team where tive took more than 50 wickets each at an average of less than 20. To and

**

seven howlers who each got more than 60 wickets-- In 1948-we raust ga as happened back to 1909, the only other casion in history.

HE WOULD OWE.

Leside the broad Yangtse a

bureaucrat sat,

Singing "dollars, gold dollars,

gold dollars!"

For nought makes a mondarin

famous and fat Like dollars, ah! lovely gold

dollars!

silence

But

sad.

otricken came over the wave, And foreigners failed him who

formerly gave............. Till the peasantry danced

the greedy one's grave, Quite happy to sweat for their

dollars....

Oth

THE WAR IS ON

First reports from Nanking reaching Hong Kong last night indicated that the Chin- est Communists have at last broken across the barrier of The River. the Yangtse news came immediately on the heels of an announce- ment that Completely The second, and probably de-

shows that nearly all lly great players started cisive, phase of the civil war

when Test careers

very would seem to have begun.

These figures are very signifi- Whatever may be the out-

MnCabe was taken to England come of the almost certain

in 1830 without having scored a

cant. But what cannot be mensur- ed by figure are such things as first-class match. victory for the Communists,

century

brilliant Belding, splendid He was chosen for He was 19. troubled China is in for an-

peraments teare spirit, the tour beenuse the selectors fifth Test team, howled most im- other period of misery, pil-matters.

ericket in were satisfied he was. these reasotis

a young pressively, and would have been and the ability to rise to the great lage and destruction. It may

with

grent ability

who dificult to handle on that Leeds cat helghts in dificult situations, In the Australia

national game, ma

This is where the 1948 team were 50 wicket. sound like hair-splitting at

be and the urge

given opportunity the world's mast to be

So was tempted to say to my pre-eminent. such a time, but what for in-

best player is not just there every develop.

i think your Undoubtedly there have been selected for the friend q ̧ Leeds; Harvey was stance will happen to rice fourth year because Anglo-Aus-

xtronger than ours inst inur

about two bowling has been underrated on other teams with only Test matches

are being last planting in the fertile areas trallan

You overlook the fact in one two departments, but It is South of the river? Famine played.

continuously first-class centuries behind him, all sides.

and any part i have been able to that England have been playing they had weaknesses we did not Quiente against a bunch of wind- Can you say that of Britain? may well lie in the wake of the "glorious people's armies"

Han every boy in Britalu such their opportunities or facilities to play young.

called n cricket that he can be

Test match player? lential would say "X" In Australia the

"Yes,"

answer

For

there

E

Nent

ΠΑ

now being urged so ruthless ensure that natura to

the

ly on, and promised hends of Chiang and all the game other "war criminals."

can

Rational en- to learn to play the

and weli. Where suitable turf pitches are

available

wickets conerete Although there have been not

are laid down, and boyn several theories, it is some-learn to bat with confidence and what difficult to understand to bowl a length, why Man was willing to enter peace negotiations at

UI all.

course he would have been willing to accept victory without further fight-

reason

10

concrete wickets,

You cannot take

n boy from M bad turf wicket-sometimes a bare piece of publie park, on a earth--and place itim in good club first-class cricket, let alone the

He has learned the game under

Fewer Amateurs Today

Of course, the war and cessation

of couaty matches have had a

netm

1

n

system

And

Bedser, Great Bowler

All of us went to

Ale Wright as the best slow bowler England has had in my me. And at Lord's, in the only Test in which he played last tour, I thought he bowled quite well,

cnme Hollies, who

into the

ar

#

Australian batting side."

phonomenally strong possess,

Taking these things

tem- courage

According to a trade journal, there has been no real change in men's nuits for 20 years. This applies particularly to the pockets.

The first anti-saboteur manoeu

Don vres were conducted by one

into ac-

mills.

to say that Our 1948 team contained some count, I am content of the finest players of any period. only a tremendously strong team especially Let me pay tribute to some of could have beaten us,

I am the English stars who were about at the close of the tour.

a member to have been the

proud Inave

of such a party.

to

when

ong

Trige cricket just vas going out.

(To Be Continued Tomorrow)

Working Conditions

In Mines

ratified

·

Is Russia getting ready to turn of the cold war? Or turn on the heat?

You don't have to worry about how big an atom bomb is, any more than you need worry bow long you will stay dead If one goes off near you.

**New

0

American

in upturn business." A.P.

New word in the dictionary too, looks like.

A correspondent has found a

unnecessary "tweet" suit is

The his arrival. England first cuckoo had already been clocked in.

•

011

"Be patient and stop breathing if you want to be a ride star."

TC-

In Akitrulla facilities play in Test cricket has been due against

Aimilar early promotion.

1 does other hand. receives

On th

ther that

19 1 general tendency in England, when things are going amiss, to bring back players who

stage are obviously past their best an effort to ster "arrived," and to one or two alli

by calling on

their

there. the tie greater experience.

I came into can be Our polley

called the 4 learnt all my cricket on such

I did not see him at I went straight

from reverse, if we are in trouble. we as Jack Hobbs wickets,

his bust. But I saw suffetent to conerete pitches

Inter-state usually follow the principle that Therefore

in the young we have to bring cricket-almost, you might 385, into Test cricket.

fellows. If we lose, we are at least realise what a great batsman he doing something to build for the had been and, in fact, still was,

Now, sitting at home with my Would have bad the same

future. ing, but knowing the KMTchance in Britain? I think not.

hil Our

undoubtedly has playing career behind me. an

ablo to appreciate leaders and their connec- There are few

in better Go back paid.

to 1928-20 artistry. With advancing years I tions, he can hardly have be- far too few.

Australia. would

England prived holding the have come to realise how physical lieved they

agree

Pittsburg, April 20. humbly to his original eight

Ashes and gave us a dreadfuimitations prevent one from doing four things that one knows how to do Incing th the first

Representatives of 10 nations but just cannot accomplish. demands, or the subsequent

began a 10-day conference here matches. 24. It is more likely that he

Hammond Truly today to plan an international Beaten by 675 runs at Brisbane; H 400 runs delicht used the talks as a necessary |game.

of nearly

standardisation of the working Brilliant where the first nings at Sydney, respite for consolidation of

and supply lines, the wrong conditions and has so we lost by 8 wickets; another

Among my regrels in the fact conditions for coal miners. armies

The delegates, including coal double hundred by Walter Ham- while at the same time mak- much to unlearn.

From my own experience I cant mond

pinyed Owners, labour leaders and Gov- in Test cricket, I never

on their ing the familiar Communist say the laying down of concrete mond in the next match. al Mel. that, though 1 met Frank Woolley i

bourne, and defeat by 3 wickets; against him when he was in his crament officials, will make re-

commendations based un the scene to findings to the International La- propaganda move of putting wickets in public parks would be

a century in each innings by Ham- prime. I came the

strides bleasing to

Walter Hammond late.

bour Organisation at Geneva. the onus for continuation of a boon and a

As one of

We're not that anxious. irn, will seek to reverse in a row.

The ILO, In

In turn, niy memories Across the war on the Nationalists. youngsters of Britain and of almond at Adelaide and the fourth

Yet in the fifth Test, at Mel- truly brilliant batsmen. lle have the recommendations

the A large-scale, determined countries with cricket aspirations.

out of the bourne,

Alan Fairfax | had Stars do not grow

we had

tremendous power in his by the 12-member nations in attack on the Yangtse was turf like daisies, They come from Archlo Jackson Tim Wall

an off-drive. There. he was stronger

which coal is mined.

A weary father who won't let and inevitable,

At the conference here, spon his kids ride piggy-back la although constant coaxing and encourage myself all being "blooded."

than any batsman I ever saw.

ILO's Industrial Maurice Talo (medium) and sored by the we won by five wickets. news of actual preparations ment,

fusing to shoulder his responsi- had been scarce. it could be

place Commities, each nallon is repre-bilities, Larwood (fast) Harold

the

great Engilsh sented by two Government off- really taken for granted that suffi-

and а cisly, bowlers 1 encountered.

two coal operators cient junks and improvised

Performances England in

in England on similar number of labour leaders. The countries represented are craft had been accumulated

"John, darling," sald the young 1930, plus McCabe. Thus we had my last trip enabled me to make

letter

did between India, Britain, the United States, wife, "I comparison

appreciate your at least for a spearhead cross harmful effect on English cricket the, with youth in it. And we Denis Compton and some of his South Africa, France. Th Notuar sending me those six lovely roses Ing. Now there seems no There is no doubt, too, that the side. with in

lands, Belgium, Poland, Denmark today. Was there any special. famous predecessors, economie conill-recaptured the Ashes. and deterioration in why Nanking

anti Canada. The conference will reason for sending six of them?" fall tions has taken toll. The amateur, So I thing the introduction of He has wonderful characteris-

discuss protection Shanghai should not

for instance, is not entering the youngsters might have been tried tics. He is a glorious, natural

docs His style within the very near future. ranks in force as he did before to a greater extent by England cricketer. Even if defensive arrange 1914 or even before 1939.

In 1948 as a set policy, in modera- always please the purists, but that

is o Is because he ments were good, and well-

Reolus. As such, And the

generally❘tion, of course. amateur,

docs things that are unex- armed divisions of high speaking, does bring into the

I do not think it was so poor. he bright and enthusiastic regard Alec Bedser as the pected and no one else can copy, morale

available-game a troops

Denis has one weakness he has which does not seem to be outlook-an approach that cannot greatest medium-paced bowler

have ever encountered. He was a not yet been able to overcome- the case the psychological

fine bowler in Australia in 1946-47, his inability to handle the short effect of the Yangtse cross-

' worried him a lot during the ing, the last real barrier to worry, and it is even prob- when compared hire favourably ball from a fast bowler, Obviously

able that another 75-in due

Perhaps I did not meet Maurice last series. the whole of South China,

through at his peak. pass

Anyway, i found This new was more pronounced will be immensely damaging. course-will

Presumably the British au- the screen and into the De-Bedser more difficult, and I be in 1948 than in 1938. Maybe the llevo other members of our lant change is due to the war years

his

Jack consequent

of team share my opinion that he is and thorities are keeping in mind fence Force.

this form of the dangerous potentiallties

the best medium-pace bowlar they practice against have met. if a landslide of events re- sulted in sudden Communist BIF Delegation control of the Yangtse ports, The Hong Kong delegation where British warships-in-to the British Industries cluding those currently in Fair in London are now on the news: London, Amethyst, their way, with every ox- Consort and Black Swan-pectation of increasing still are lying. An already tense further the colony's post- DO YOU situation could become ex: war reputation as a produc- plosive.

er of quality goods. As the war rolls further anticipated that Home buy- South, we in Hong Kong can ers will provide an increas- prepare for a possibly over-ing market for our manufac- whelming influx of refugees, tures as time goes on, and and the near-dead hand of at the BIF will be present the colony's government may representatives of countries at last be forced to take mea- all over the world, almost Aures against uncontrolled certainly in numbers greater Immigration. The minority than ever.

landlords of unscrupulous

Mr. U Tat-chee and the Can you and other profiteers may rub other delegates have a res-oognise where their hands and wonder if ponsible task ahead of them, this ploture We there is any celling at all to but in wishing them good le In Page the sums they can wrest fortune we have no doubt of seven. from the growing public, but their capabilities to impress the rest of us can begin to and succeed.

It is

with Maurice Tate.

bowling.

not

One thing I have never been Hutton is still a great player, able to understand about Bedser: the greatest defensive player of why he has not produced much all modern Englishmen, but he

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