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HARD-HITTING ARTICLES BY A GREAT CRICKETER

One of the principal lessons af my cricket career in that concen trition tells.

BRADMAN SPEAKS OUT!

Principal Lesson: Concentration Tells by Don Bradman

The main technical difference |

No other game can take ita

the background the slaw ieg break bowler, who, normally alarkot yesterday, and many

the

The price of....was....in the garded as the background of·

speculators were seen frantically nitack. is becoming conspicuous trying to telephone to Macao, by his absence in English cricket.

where the price of....WAS............ The Dick Tyldesleys-to nama only one of the colourful compatacas.

pany of the past will not re- of slightly less valute to you than uppear this way. Surely, too, English cricket, and world cricket for that matter, needs more men V. Robins, Wc. R. W.

0

So the new ball experiment hug revcated weakness, and i en Very Plad to read that M.C.C. han decided to increase the num ber of overs bowled to 63, and to see how that works.

My own view is that if we have the new. ball coming along). fer about 175 runs we shall be fairly close to the mark.

In Britain the log-break bowler

This interesting information is

it would otherwise have beent, owing to a locul interpretations of the United Nations ideas freedom of the Press.

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of the

They bust got the new railway ready in time for a "Last Train from Narkhig" film to be made One duy.

Chuchuhup has gone to see the ****** G'nio In Fenghua......

'Sounds like somebody's little *** "running dog."

took

•

hottke there was naffistent space to a greater extent over the bail, burgh, is great enthusiast, paid d'In the last series Epflegt milk selling for US$10,000 a quart

stretch, but only for amuserjent, acting a peculiarity in style,

allon of

and recommended

Strange story about make in America.

Think what an maht make rat herds..

BAM

Industry

We

here of our

Jocat

HAD BETTER STICK AROUND (BORRY. STEPHEN F.) "President Syngnati Rhee of

At my father's home at Howral

between my grip and the normal pince in that sphere.

The interest the Royal Family there was a galvanised iron tank

rip was that my left wrist was set on a brick surround. Between farther behind the handle. There-take in cricket is very gratifyhuis being pushed not of the pic- the tante and the door of an out- fore the blade of the bat turued and inspiring. The Duke of Edin-ture, more so thun in Australia.

the field without a regular. to knock a ball about,

when hooking or pulling, and the compliment of attending a

dinner given in our honour by spin bowler in three of the Tests krot it down? In my left hand I held a cricket I 'threw a

Early in my my right stump. With

career, was the Cricket Writers' Club at the and we played a leg-spinner In

start of the last tour in England. only one of the ve matches.

Now Wekets. Everywhere the golf ball at the brick surround, advised to change to a more or-

stump thodox grip, but I never altered That was the night I said: "The Then I would seize the with both hands ant play the ball it. There is the strange parallel, Duke of Edinburgh has an ideal cly to that they are too good, off-spin howlor, that the pendulum has swung ton

It would appear that the Com- to the far in favour of the batsman This newspaper has, in as it rebounded, with the door, therefore, of two youngsters from action for an

wicket.

country cricket (O'Reilly and 1) English Selectors."

while the bowler is receding (on munists regard their little bitish spite of a mounting indigna-blind me as

This did for hours

in games as local boys,

much into the background, with the Nationalists as a private tion, been intentionally re-

No Politics

I must say, however to those fight. ticent for two days on the Although at the time I was cut-sticking to it despite advice to the To And great national figures people who are advocating sporte

signifi- contrary, and finally coming out really interested in the game is ing pitches, that you cannot subject of the shelling of four pletely ignorant of the

In Test cricket.

You cannot de- excellent. When we played Mid- if both ways. British Naval vessels in the cance of what was happening, this practice probably laid the found- over practice Yangtse. Britons all

friend. A. G. Moyes, saya dinsex at Lord's last year Mr.velop a champion Billiards play- afy batting.

in his book. BRADMAN.

Menzies,

of ex-Premier Auser, for instance, if you ask bim the world have, in fact, been By way of a chunge

my

not I would

"He (Bradman)

table that is has always tralia, was in our dressing-room to play on a stirred to the core by the practise fielding, throwing golf contended that there is a weak-within an hour or so of reaching level. events, but vague early re- ball at a rail in a dividing fence,

news in his technique

Nor can you expect to develop As I spent so much time at it this bowler has so far exploited, but ports prevented anything but

encouraged accuracy in

when asked to define it he only Mr. Beasley, often attended our probabl the nest guarded comment,

laughs the question away. Perhaps matches, and Dr. Evatt, although and sympathy for the throwing.

British spectators are constant.

England short while, only in one of these days he with mtwer

Oval, the families of the killed and in-

appreciation

which, for

found time to go to The query to

20 ly expressing thele

years,

Mention

these of the smart fielding and throw bowlers all over the world have

of Jured men.

of mo But the time is becoming ing or Australians. Quick and been trying to find an answer."

figures reminds Here in the answer: My trip public statements that ripe for a thoroughgoing in-vely returns Into the wicket-kee-

its advantage had

playing aldering entering vestigation into the whole

some strokes, but because of the arena. shameful incident, coupled

position of the hands, I always with the placing of respon-

found more difficulty when play sibility for the deaths of 44

ing against a bowler who could make the ball move off the wicket men and the wounding of 80.

toward the lips, and force ne And by this we do not mean

into playing shots between mid-off sulely the commanders of the

and point. presumably Communist shore batteries who launch- ed the attacks.

per's gloves seem to be a natural ahility among Australian cricke ters. Look at the glorious returns of young Nell Harvey, who made his debut in England last year.

In the beginning I used a piece of a branch for a cricket bat.... and then, in my early teens an bad thing happened.

Out First Ball

that no stralia's High Commissioner, great batsmen, giving full ronge

I never had any coaching, but I made a double-hundred for that does put say edaching is u .Bowral against Wingello one bad thing. It must be la sympa- What the British public | Saturday afternoon, and the follo-

thetic

experienced Anturai will want to know is this: was it necessary

for these

well

keen

What

Ahn

to the game's classic shots, if you has them to play on pitches that do not send along the ball at u tform Height and renatably

pore.

Wickets

If you want thistle player like Danis Compton and Chorlie Macartney, you must give them a fair chance.

the

South Korea is negotiating tur an early withdrawn! American occupation

of

Егоаря.

1

Listen, litle brother Syngman, While your Yonks are around You had better have

kling,

man...

your

Yawning-waits the cold, coll

! ground!

Soon you'll have

you,

"

no one to love Though the States were kind.. Soon the Reds will sing above

you, Looting all Sam left behind.

*

*.

quid not..

The most peaceful

to

of all the

is less pronounced than English Rving in Kowloon. “I shall not

We cricket-lovers sppear to imagine: gd back," he said yesterday.

Sare always, inclined compafe the eleven players of a Hold tight. current side with the three or "To let: top floor fat, Happy four best players of a team of Valley, just off." twenty "years"ago.......... Life and

the stars We remember

I am con- the political at inspired the rum ours i do not know, for no such thought has entered my head.

Britain people' Everywhere in are keen to know if my son John

The present position in Bri Is likely to become a cricketer.

fatn, judging by surfest vizļi.

the fair to can only answer that he plays

la that the wickets are

is touring An American No légitimats world in an endeavour to redice most games with all the zest of

both parties. complaint could be made either his weight. He WH visit Italy other Australian boys.

to be continues Whether he

by bawiera or batsmen. On the and try to find out what makes оп cricket is another matter!

whole, wickets were more the Tower of Pisa lean.' If he does, well and good. I shall

favourable to bowlers than they. not persuade him into a cricket

were before the war.

It is omeially stated that there wing Saturday, when the match hands," The youngster's

career. As far as am concerned

*England seems to be very, con was nothing telephony about the was continued, was bowled first gifts should be developed.

he will follow his natural bent.

cerned

standard of whole thing. named

Looking

county cricket. There has been Best Innings ships to be in the Yangtse ball by a young fellow

bathed croweaver the O'Reilly.

of Sydney.

'would not at all at such a pregnant

placidacterioration, but Bhadows of coming events, for On reflection 1 place the in- lordliness of Lord's, and time? The "China Mail" has! he was the William O'Reilly whenings of 251 in my first Test at days at Worcester in England's it is blouse diferents peace negotiators is the one now endeavoured to have that ister bowled gloriously for Lord's in 1980 as the best I have sometimes chilly May, I

select played, I was conscious that an Orel essential the importaes question answered, only to Austrália,

Then to a tria; at Sydney, and every it to go

single ball went where 1 of the player's approach to the be told that Amethyst was:

so to Stbte erickot and the Tests:

until I was game, the mental outlook of the going to Nanking on 'al

With me I took a somewhat caught by just about the gran-man playing crick humane mission" with sup unorthodox grip of the bat. I had deat catch to which 'I have ever

So the

nossage farewell player, to plies for the civil commun-learned my erfeket in the coun- fallen. ity. On April 207 When try playing on concrete wickets, It was made by Percy Chap-friends of the game, in and out forget the "rabbits" who com-up by a woman who wanted to

with coir mats: Off such wickets

pleted the

·étéven....

Insure her house. "Can I do it the Communist ultimatum 'to

fact, he sprang two of flannels, is this: the ball comes up

I ser no real cause for alarm over the phone?" she asked. much higher marvellous catches or me in that

Any individual can spoli any the Nationalists expired and

"I'm afraid not. Perhaps we'd than of turf.

match and some think the second game by misinterpretation of 118 in the state of English county including everyone,

I was always quite short

character. Tactices, though even play. Whether the deterioration better send a man along."

con ruin any will be remedied is another mal- "I've got to it Immerliately, Press, expected a renewed stature and, to be successful under was finer than the first,

That was a memorable match within the law.

I tell you," flare-up of the fighting? these conditions, I was forced to

place is on fire!" Duleepalabji made 173, then the When the Yangtse could con-develop the knack of keeping the many ways. First of all, K. S. pasthe mental outlook is right, |

ball

play will please the publin by An English The fidently be expected to the ground even thoughtghast...score

ing to me fairly u;as comihg

high

not, HOL if players adopt I

County clubs are faced, with acquired an un-player against Australia at Lord's. If it is

Again,

it was England totalled 426. On the methods that are unattractive or

new problems. National Service, tofu, If, say, you placu seven men on just happened second day, batting only from negative, the game will be ruined.

for example, removes a youth' Feel more than a bit uncertain the leg side of the batsman and from his horma! surroundings,

Of the proletarint. of right or wrong,

did the entirely by

for two wickets.

the leg what

comes naturally."

und from his cricket at h vital

This of course bowl six inches outside The runs atll come quickly on Naval authorities not for n}

When 1

I reached big cricket on

stage of his career at his most ment But if the batsman 'says: Impressionable age.

To those calculating ones moment envisage the posti-turf wickets I did not alter this the third day, and I had passed stump, true cricket just

my fifth fifty when I hit a bull

and the Since

-the counties may not, Be: Who derive their, dividends from am going to get runs," bility that the excited Reus natural grip..

J. C

White wide, as I from J. I think the simplest thing thought, of mid-off.

bowler: "I am going to detante" to introduce these your! Mansive sales of planes and would regard the presence of¦ say about my grip is thatțit

wickets," than the dust of wils men into first-class cricket at guns.... Chapman, a left -hander, foraign warships as a directablett me to pull or hook the ballhurled his six-foot-noinething into that is cricket's particular fascing the right time. one can only hope

the

sizzle with shells.and he tlst- ted with landing craft?

That is how orthodox

that

man

In

in

Apart from any question!¡:something tent, I was doingen Australia repliet with 404

provocation? Editorial com- without hitthug tt dan the air.

mentators have pointed out.

that the Navy hati permis-

My Weakness

en-

On the other hand, my grip sion from the Nationalists to

was not so satisfactory for drive cruise up and down the rivering a ball through the covers. This, of course, makes every-1 thing perfect.

Dlo one ve

the air, sideways at that, and

give.

I

the many

ter

Problems

The insurance office was rung

she cried.

#The

Folks are getting wcury at What goes

on behind the cur

J

affords amIKE-

tion will get full play, And that due opportunity for cricket People will believe anything and good cricket-will be af- you tell them, if you whisper it. fordia in the Services,

caught that speeding ball with game will always be all right, its right hand.

LEVELS

In any event, National Service

has

reveal the movements of molequics

LBW Change?

however, are, weissertions would like to may we lessen the desire in a developed a microscopes which

good many cuses for a cricket con eneer," Smutour or professional. other roads open up,

To Be Continued)".

I certainly hit that ball hard, bowling. That is negative batting,

But we hall 720 for six wickets the board before the innings

declared closed by W. M. make for its Improvement. Woodfull. The Lord's score-board'

First,

the question of marks that the Communiststions, or that this was Mao's Ugures did not run to the seventh before-wicket. I feel the time huts

hundred, and thay Bad to come to make a had not been consulted, and way of informing the foreign intprovise.

The batsman shout.

be Aven they were the people with devils that he will brook no

Percy Chapman, who in his gay out irrespective of the position most of the artillery-which interference. Further, he way played. captain's innings of of his paths or feet, provided the when the time came they implies that they had all 121 in his second knock, would not bell would have hit the wickb leave me alone. Requiring 71 to and was pitched in a fine. Ho- used.

«Better leave while the going wiri, we ·lost Bin Ponsford's tween wicket and wicket, at ng Just what was this "mis is good. It takes a die-hard wicket, and my turn came again, the offelde. sion of meroy" that 'had to not to see that óbvious warn-1 bad only just broken my duck At present the batsman' per

has when I est a ball from Maurice Ron to be indirect line, be made at such an explosive" ing.

between wicket and wicket when moment? If it was so esser As we have pointed out Tate with all I had got,

struck by the ball, and pinyera tial, would it not have been before, there was always the A.P.F. Again are still padding up to off-side possible to send as later | possibility that the victorious happened) one or more Sun- Contmunists might permit It flashed away. And in just as If a man could achleve no derland aircraft to fly over foreign business to remain, uick a flash Chapman was tox-benefit from such pad play, he KMT-held territory? One under restrictions, for Just sing it in the air. He had caught would say: "Well, I might as well can certainly expect ques- as long as it suited the now near his toca at backward point use my bat." And bowling out- These two A.P.P. catches were sile the off-stump would be en- tions to be asked in the rulers book, but we have em- just about the best pair In one couraged.

sorry, to notice n marked House about this deplorable phasised that no European match I have seen. This was the matter, and a court of in- should anticipate being able first time we had beaten England tendency in English cricket fur quiry to be convened at the to carry on as before, once under his captaincy. He certainly bowlers to attack the leg-side of the wicket. This can only bring earliest possible moment.

"It was my Kirst

batting. Within

javerginia About Lord's patronage of the public riot only

ends meat on her warships. Exactly going to allow no one to that gets you.

days, but to attract what concrete measures has stand in their way.

They seem to be one of the to make

cricketers revere new fri at Lord's and the great That is why 1 attach

..the dust had settled down. went down fightinket Löri'a¡ | in its train dull; slow,

It has been suggested that It now appears that for the and the match will remain one Britain must take "strong.ac present the battle flushed of my most.

reason,

tion" for this flagrant attack; Phordes from the North are There. 4 Collections. should be done to encourage the

there

anyone in mind? It would are not to be turned backing a", looking on. It is friends and so now playara

suck

and

be most interesting to know from their "glorious pur Australian ground brings home importance to bright play The despatch of a represen-pose" by the presence of for to cricketers, the message of the tomfortable accommodatient

game. ¡Thure is hó doubt at all I am not tired that ecricket, tative to Pálping can hardly sign cruisers, destroyers or in my mind that cricket still the world over does mouth, la be expected to yield striking loops, which they maintain remains supreme as the builder keep aliant that sily, painton results, and it must be men have no right in Chinese or a man's characteri

one sees everywhere among bove The experiment of taking lit tioned that Mao's regime is waters in the Arst place. My experience is that the game not yet officially recognised: "This is not being wise does really help one to get of bel new ball after every 66 posit by any power, A punitive alter the event. “Much of understanding and tolerance (six-bail), which was tried I Invasion North of the Yenged this has been laid before. It human nature, quite and 1918 was a meat. Trudable, onde from the very valued friendships but my experience if that the too cannot avon be contin- brings us back to the fact it forms between different coun- new hall is arriving took f -plated.

that Britdila ili demand to trien.

quently, tá Undoubtedly -helped The type of bowlerivéñó, prezi now why valuable lives

strengthen the

lles between Aus: an old ball gets only.minos. were wasted, and highly im- AIR AMEN ZAMIENd-sturing the sideration and fa used staft: endangered-~| Ariais de the Strat® and it mus, pending" the arrival of here was a much have done jktaime, for New new ball. It is now belas “Butteë wakion that has so far Zealand, adding ARTEM, the West after the adoring of

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