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UNCOMFORTABLE TEST IRONY Cynical Comment On Batting Of English Team

Defeatist

Spirit

In Visitors'

Second

Innings

(BY FRANK ROSTRON)

Sydney, Jan. 10. A sadly chastened MCC team agrees, today that there is an uncomfortable irony in the send- ing from England of two bowlers, Tattersall and Statham, to strengthen the team.

Curiously,

John Macadams' Column :

And Why

Sir

Not

Gordon?

We've been thinking a

lot about these New Year Honours and, although it isn't any business of ours, it occurs to us that honours are like money: they are made round to go round.

This not to say that there shouldn't be credit where. credit is due-in the theatre, in the cinema, in Parlia ment, in the trade union assemblies and in the diplomatic cockpits...

London Express Servico).

After yesterday's surprise innings defeat, 17th Jan. Australia's previously sympathetic public, who be honoured for making people ter

But if a man or woman is to world sporting map for a quar-

of a century,

what and 20/21st Jan, supported the popular Freddie Brown's team laugh or making them cry, or would you say of Sydney against its own side until yesterday's febrile bat-them hiver, why, in the nome-except that he deserves the making them think or making Wooderson for his contribution ting alienated its patronage, is saying cynically of all that's wonderful shouldn't best we have!

they be now that what reinforcement is really needed from country for making it cheer?

honoured by a grateful As for

the women athletes, there's a Dame in the making in Lords is an expeditionary force of competent always been a fancy of ours that as good as ours, but we'd start As a matter of fact, it has most of them. Your choice is batsmen.

when we have been brought up off with Kay Menzies, sport's to laugh, ery or tremble at the No. 1 Lady. sound of the voice of a Mr or Mrs. Joo Soak, It does us no good whatever to find ourselves all of Juden going through the self-game emotions at the behest of Sir Joseph (or Dame Josephine)

Soak. However that may be and the great body politle seems to like the business-we can see earthly reason why the body of men and women who do more to raise the enthusiasms of the mass of people in this country shouldn't

get more of the titular kudno out of it We mean, of cours, the sports players,

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what was widely agreed before the team started the tour to be a weak bowling side has bowled

moderately weli. But what was thought to a fair batting side, with cor- be a siderable potentialities of de- velopment.

has á consistent record

of failure in anatches that matter. matter,

thin

It is genuinely distasteful to eriticise the efforts of a side that has suffered more than its fair share from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. So It is not a question of being wise arter the event or for the sake of

soy- In "I told you so" but the side's tentative baiting technique yes- terday on a fairly responsive wicket confirmed the original lowly estimations

which sheltered behind the 'side's bat- ting and bowling feats.

Lancs Bowlers

Flying Out

London, Jan. 0.

The MCC announced to. night that Roy Tattersall and Brian Statham, the two Lancashire bowlers who are to reinforce the touring leam in Australia, will leave London by alr on Friday morning.

оп

They are due in Sydney Tuesday, when tno MCC will be playing in Tasmania. The first came In which the new bowlers may be able to play ts the fixture at Renmark against the South Austra~ Country team

Jatruary Reuter.

24 and 25.

Late

no

DRAW FOR

LADIES GOLF

The following is the draw for the Ladies match to be played at Fanling versus Army Golf

tomorrow:

Mr A.3. Adamson v Maj. Gen. G.C. Evans; Mrs K.S, Robertson v Capt. C.B.J. Vullany: Mrs P.S.

HOBBS OR SUTCLIFFE We, personally, started the

Cassidy Lt Col A.S. Shaw-Ball: hare that Anished its race with e knighthood for Don Bradman. Mrs J. Wal v Capt. J. Budiccomb; Mire A.W. Dawson-Grove v Maj. Ju there any more reason

G.N. Thursby: Mrs R.R. Coombs v why Such a revered figure as Jack Col R. Chandler: Mr C.J. Ketoin

shouldn't Hobbs

been Col J.S. Macfarlane: Mrs W.H. have equally honoured?

Moj. A.W.s. Hooley: Or Herbert Lather

Mrs P.F. Watkinnon v L N.W. Sutcliffe, the, other half of the Friend: MIB W.G. Robertson y

Ma F.A.T. BOKKIS great opening partnership, Birtwhistle LA 1. Lewis: Mra Mrs W.F. who is

scintillating as R.C. Gairdner v Capt. E.J. Orme currently a Yorkshire E

Mr A.S. Shaw-Ball v Capt. 1.C.II. Stafford: Mrs J.S. Macfarlane What has Henry Cotton eve Capt. J.S. Woodward; Mrs H.D. done, except raise the standard nidwell v Lt D.C. Huganin: Mrs of professionel golf in this and C.E. Ifayes v Capt. J.M. Bricknell: overy other country, to

make Mm L. Goldman Brig. G. Tavior. him theligible for the

Players to be at the Ladies' Club highest House, Fanling, between 12 noon honour his country could give and 13.30 p.m. Melbourne, Jan. 9.

him?

These facts were known and accepted. But what we were less prepared for after the rest shown in the field during the to escape from Miller and whole of last month and Iverson for 10 days by crossing

par- ticularly after the enthusiastic the Bass Strait to Tasmania battling in the previous

two where, praise be, they don't play Tests was a return to some of Test matches. the defeatist "throwing in the

of some of the; later batsmen yesterday, re- sembling their slapdash work that carned so much criticism: England's batting was generally criticised by cricket

Sponge" spirit

carlier in the tour.

accounted for the hellere Test

ONLY FOUR

POST-WAR LOWEST

be-

Englishmen

post-war

What did Jimmie Braid ever

THE CHAMPION

LADIES CHAMPIONSHIP pionship is as follows!

The drow for the Ladies' Cham 1st Round. Mrs P.S. Cassidy v Mrs F.D. Hunter: Mrs A.W. D Bon-Grove v Mrs P. Smalley; Mra 3. Alexander V Mrs R.G. Grey:

ir R.9. Robertas v Mrs J. Wal. 1st Round to be played by Tues- day, January 30.

Semi Final to be played by Tu day, February 13.

Final to be played by Tuesday. February 27,

CHAMPIONSHIP

(BRONZE DIVISION)

That, as much as Jack Iver-writers here in their comments to beside casting a mantle of son's uncannily accurate stream on Australia's third Test Gentlemanliness

vlc-

across every al spinners and the

way the tory. Sid Barnes, the former course he played on to stop us baked wicket supplied

Test player, writing in the remembering him as Sir James Melbourne Argus, said: "Be-or even as Lord Walton of procession to and from the witched.

the wate

bothered and

Heath? pavilion of furtive batsmen who wildered were the

Were there ever two members slunk

ubout

like schoolboys when they faced Jack Iverson," of the fighting fraternity who about to be sent to the head- Jack Fingleton, another Test would so grace a knighthood as master for birching

player, commented in the Jack Peterson and Len Harvey That spirit, in curious con- Melbourne Sun News Pictorial-two men as impeccable in trast to the admirable way the that "English batting

had their manners outside the ring 1st Round,Mrs L. Goldman v bowlers had fought through re- slipped to its

lowest an they were inside It?

Mr II.C. Margarett; Mrs J.F. gardless of the crippling odds,lu technique and

Raeburn V Mrs R.G. Gray: Mre spirit."

M.C. Mackie Mm W.G. Robert- made every Englishman blush He added: "It's not bowlers

If you and people to honour,

son; Mrs M.E. Wallem v Mr W,5. and lost us a lot of newfound the Englishmen want. Austrailan friends,

They do you have to ignore such as

Stocks. should

Byes into 2nd Round.Me P.F. be sending for a few Gordon Richards, or how many Walkinton batsmen

v Mrs H.D. Bidwell; who know the prin- times does he have to win the Mr A.S. Adamson v Mr W.P. ciples of batting."

Birtwhistic; Mrs H.C. championship and give vast Mrs A.S.

Gairdner V The Sydney

Neville Cardus, in the same crowds the run-of-all-runs for MCAVOY

Shaw-Ball: Mr D.G. Daily Mirror gossip columnist, W. A. O'Carroll,

Mrs C.J. Ketola; Mrs remarked: paper,

"Another their

heir money to qualify?

G. Stewart v Mrs 7.S. Macfarlane: consolingly says "Sydney Cricket Subber lost by England from And, If you have to go

back i

Mrs W.II. Latimer v Mra C.E. Club members agree that Eng- behind the crease or scarcely little way in Soccer, could, you

Hayes. land has the best batsman in out

the

of it. Nothing

1st Round to be played by Tucs venture, miss Willle Maley or, if you day, January 23. world, Len Hutton, the best nothing win." 19th Feb.bowl

come forward, how much better bowler in the world, Alec Bedser, O'Reilly, summing

A former Test 4th Mar and the best wicket keeper in Melbourne Age, wrote: "Eng- Morton?

bowler, Bill could you do than Stanley Mat-

up in the thews, or, back agalo, Alanday, February 20, the world. Godfrey, Evans."

agree and would add that land was beaten in Brisbane by

By any present-day standards day March 0. fighting Freddie Brown rain, in Melbourne by the nar- of handing out probably the biggest-hearted rowest of margins and

honours, in these men would measure up to captain in

the world and

But these four,

who are our only figures to emerge with- out damaged reputations, could not and cannot carry seven un- reliable team fellows.

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CAPTAIN'S CUP

no Sydney because they were any theatre-arts-politics class. chump As a tactielan either. handicapped by the loss of two So would Joe Davis, whe put E. Arthy Mr WT. Lynn Ro-

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Over Colours

Field

Superstition Over

In Soccer

By VERNON MORGAN

And now to the next two Tests, in the first and third weeks of February, at Adelaide and Melbourne, respectively. Without marked weather vantages there is little chance of a win even if Tattersall and Statham prove immediate suc- cesses. But there is no reason, any more than

Most sportsmen are superstitious to some degree, and was in this match, should be beaten by an innings, Soccer teams believe that playing in their "lucky" shirts If the newcomers adapt them- help them to win. Or rather that if they do not play in

good

there

why Wo

now

London, Jan. 9.

lat Round to be played by Tues- day, January 23,

2nd Round to be played by Tues- day, February 0.

Semi Final to be played by Tues day, February 20,

Final to be played by Tuesday, March

Firat named in each pair is the challenger.

Champion Cyclist

Rewarded When seeing England beaten by the United States at

selves to Australian conditions their "lucky" shirts they will lose. with moderate success it would be as good

a thing to give Bello Horizonte in Brazil in the "Upset of the Century," them their Test chance that the rubber has been deit crossed my mind at the time that England were "tempt- cided, because It is plain that ing fate" by wearing their second colours of blue shirts England must look for a dras- and white shorts instead of their customary white, shirts tically changed Test team next and blue shorts. season against the South Afri-

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The World champion cyclist, Jack Hoobly, will receivo his win in the world road to gift of A£100 in recognition of

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League clubs, particularly in colours and he has spent 11 Cup ties, do everything in their years in devising shirts for all power to have their own team the English League clubs so that company since his return from Hoobin has not muced in open Famous England stand-bys turn out in their first instead of they will never clash,

overseas, but is in fairly good! 170 Jake Washbrook are beginning second colours because presum- He has not devised them hap-form. One of his first oppon-

to show that their Test heyday ably the first colours are the

hazardly but has tried to make enta at the track will be the Is past, and Denis Compton, or luckier though there may, of each club's shirt at the district Danish Champion, Preben Lund- the first time in his glittering course, be exceptions.

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Derby Would we were welcoming last season have blue as their first colour have something as potential Test "residents," and

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New York, Jan. 0. What we need more than colours in Cup tics both must

Rex Layne, 22-year-old Utah m.v. "IGADI” anything else in England if we change. If they have the same an emblem quitable to the club, notice by defeating Jersey Joo DIRECT SAILING for SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES The Shirts would each have heavyweight boxer who gained cannot and a near-genius ke second colours then the teama Blat Ja Miller to replace Compton, is must toss and the unlucky dub This artist says he has em

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candidate from half a dozen rod, thats second colour. batsmen I would gladly ace in

the England side

And now tomorrow we plan

would only work if all bume da's learn for las 1951 World ARTISTS PERAM exceed to the idees. It would ten-hockey championships, s A sportsman Arletta Bristol outside for the whole idea to Parida Bebrod werd DA 3-0.

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