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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1951..

SPORTING SAM

SOUTH CHINA'S PROTEST UPHELD BY COMMITTEE OF ARBITRATION

By "GRANDSTAND”

The protest lodged by South China against an irregularity in the re-schedule of a postponed game against the US Navy in the Summer League was recalled during the week when a Committee of Arbitration met to discuss the matter.

misunderstanding in the The protest was upheld as it was found that 'a arrangements had occurred which resulted in South China having to field a scratch team and being nosed out in the last inning of the game.

After careful consideration, it was found by the Committee that the manage- ment of the Summer League had assumed that the nominated dute for the re-play. confirmation and when South was acceptable to both parties without obtaining a China were finally notified that they must play off the game, time was insufficient for them to field a full team. South China properly agreed to play under protest when it was evident that the other side Intended to claim the points by forfeiture.

Hal Winglee and Don Robbins too far down the scale to affect (absent).

The adjusted league table i unchanged.

The regular xtures shows that the Overseas are still at the head of the lhat with South completed by the end

while the week, and a schedule of China close behind,

clue to bad! position of the US Navy, who are games proponed

wenther, is being arranged.

Beh pardes have need to, nbide by the ruling of the Com- which fal, and a date is being ranged for the 10-play. The Committee Abition consisted of Messrs. Alung, Frank Ewins,

of

STARTING BLOCKS ARE NECESSARY -PSYCHOLOGICALLY

1

the

championship,

remains

will be of the the 12

OVERSEAS ON TOP

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·By Reg. Wootton

FOOTBALL IN CALCUTTA

MAY BE BANNED

It Takes 1,200 Police To Control The Crowd At A League Semi-final

By RUSSEL SPURR

Calcutta.

Calcutta's rowdy football season — which should be in full swing The Overséns Chinese laid - has come to an abrupt halt. League matches have been suspended. claim to the top of the standings The Government have stepped in to stop the growing violence and gam- when they dished out a brilliant performance against the Caro-bling at recent games. All grounds are closed under police guard while

hers to earn a 4-2 triumph be- an expert committee consider the future of football in Bengal.

fore an unnally large crowd of

ummer tans.

+

Deth sides connectel' for single in the opening frame buti were unable to nudge the poten-

There has been talk about banning the use of start-o run across the plate with ing blocks in all races in the AAA championships except airtight fielding smothering the the 100 yards, and making them fixed-though adjust-tempt. A double-play in the second turing, when P. C. Wong linod to Tony Kwak who caught able-even for that event,

K. Chan off first bare, staffed effort while the South China

un of the game in their half Overseas chalked up the first of the iming when Harry Loule and Paul Thu hi rately In Luccession:

know all the arguments i This must not happen. about the time sprinters take setting blocks to their satisfaction and the little advantage they really gain by their use.

Against that consider the psychological effect of taking their toys away from them,

Experiments in America are said to hreve led to the conclu sian thut starting blocks are Well, worth 03 of a second. that might be enough to affect watch by a tenth of a second clif- all the make and thus ference between new meerd and the equaling of an old

one.

AKO.

The Chief Minister of the State, Dr .B. C. Roy, who knows little about foot- ball but a lot about public order, is weighing up whether or not to ban the game.

Bitter rivalries between players, teams and their supporters-especially when Muslims and Hindus are matched-contain the seeds of serious communal trouble. Knife and bottle battles between the two communities have only just been averted at several recent League semi-finals. And in this explosive city they might easily lead to renewed Hindu-Muslim riots.

surrounded by a Police precautions have fately itch is now scen reinforced to a fantastic parbed-wire fence eight feet degree. The big Calcutia stadiums high. Steel-helmeted constables

N.W.D. Yardley's Cricket Bureau

BOWLERS,

BE

TEMPTING

The Caroliners jumped back were thought too during in the scantiness of their track wear, into the lead in the third stanza He recalls record attempts en P. C. Lee's timely single and track at wes not urlll the fourth frame made on a revolving the Londen Pavilion close on 50 hat the Overseas teak the lead Topliss, once more when Sit Kwok-kit George years walker in those days, was sia het out a liner to left field crack

way for two own best that paved the his trying to beat

runs. times for the quarter-mile.

Hurlor Tony Kwok started to Spicer, invited to compete turned out In

after waver

the on

mound

So much is heard these days about the varying types Certainly there is not much against him,

inside with

of good ler chucking five innings

of bowling spin, swing or swerve, and seam--and so blocks for quarter, shorts

and Was relieved by measurement of five inches, but ball of the stars 111051

Chung-shan many cricketers seem bewildered about them, that I accustomed to the management "heatedly" told sip artist

who shut out South China propose to give brief explanations.

of the game. unless lie wore for

Overseas public

registered the clincher "university costume."

when an outfield in the sixth crror allowed Yam Kee-lun to romp

all the hassocks around for another tally.

need for milers, but

have become

using them and it would put him that he could not appear in the rest

them at disadvantage-if only in mental outlook-when meet- ing foreign runners still using blocks.

NO CHECK

Iden of fixing the blocks be- fore heals of the 100 yards, so that each man would only have i to adjust the foot pods to suit him 12 not so bad, but even likes a then the ign different type of block should

he considered,

who

It is all very well to try and ---int:rry --a-programnic-ulong, but. British athletes is in a very healthy state and nothing must |

be done that

would give its

progress the slightest check.

MEN'S

*SCANTIES*

So he had to borrow shorts that reached to the knees.

-HAROLD PALMER London Express SerVICE.)

Veterans Surprised

Yorkshire

Lau

had their sweet revenge

The Pandas, who were hunuliated last werk in the ex- hibition game at Caroline Hill, when they trounced the USS Albuer

US 13-0,

Navy's queque

farded with this pennant hopes ices, which makes a total four solback's in the season.

LEAGUE SUMMER

Yorkshire cricket! veterans of the immediate Pandas

Overseas

I have been reminded by Pop past emphatically taught US Navy

of the

Spicer, trainer-coach

that there Wigmore Harriers, was a time when even the men

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Medium pace bowlers are the best exponents of swing or swerve. Their object is to make the ball devinte from its obvious course during flight.

when

Various condtions assist this! ball moves, you may bowl him type of bowling. It is very much or have him caught in the slips, affected by wind, and is most the more the ball swing the the batsman farther up, to tire

should it be pitched.

The half volley, swinging iste, is the best ball. It usually tempts the batsman

Ing

wird pronounced blows towards the bowler across plich, and from the line of the plikie the ball

hat side from wh

to drive, has a tendency to swing. And the heavier the atmosphere the with the result that the ball hits greater the 'swing.

the edge, and not the middle, is of two of the bat. Swing bowling

and yper-away" or "out," "in." Which way the ball swings is governed by body action.

HAND DOES IT

The Inswinger

should bowl

the

tine ine touchline at four-fool intervals, often to the annoyance of players and linesmen.

A complete control room with coloured wall charts o! the stands and pitch, has been bet up in

changing

quarters. From here high-ranking officers manoeuvre a force seldon: numbering less than 1,200 men, Tear gas squads are stationed

ench goal-mouth

and tur- anned mounted police are de ployed outside, ready to clear the pitch if infuriated spectators storm

That has the wire. happened twice in the past six weeks.

fat

SEATS AS MISSILES Efforts to seat off supporters

in seperate parts of the grounds

have falled because each faction

claimed it was being given too

able: there are always three brep few seats. That is understand- times more people trying to get Into a

big Calcutta match than there are seats available. It has also proved useless behind erecting canvas screens each goal to stop the shower of nail-filed bottles meant to nobble the "enemy" goal-keeper, because a large section of the crowd was denied sering the of the vital moments most match.

Nor has anyone yet devised ways of making the stadium seats immovable, able to resist the excited fans who insist on tipping them up and bombard-

at or just outside the off stump Balls pitched middle and leg, and with swinging outside his legs, present little danger to the

they are welling the rival team, the police, or unless batsman

each other. pitched up.

Scam bowling is really the of swing, and is counterpart used by similar types of bowlers.

The right arm bowler with left arm, left shoulder and left foot leg and arm Doining to fine

HEFS. BEATEN UP lop. coming straight over the

A full-scale magistrates' court. .000

should produce away" swing to

sits

big match. throughout n or two in a The fira!

of meeting

the right-handed batsman. The

The court doles out minor sen who point dis arm. two-day match at Heading- Council of the Hongkong Soft- howler

the bottle-throwers tences to ball Association has been fixed shoulder and leg towards the of

The rip is the same, and the

and form-smashers, though men for Thursday, July 28, at 5.15 lips and shows a large propor- FROM BANDY lay recently on behalf

the National Playing Fieldp.m. at Shell House.

object is to keep the scum uenught with knives are held on ich of his chest to the batsman

the right during flight so that the attempted wounding charger Among the important subjects will normally bowl Association.

mecting mswinger. The Old Guard Included 31. for discussion at this

Leyland, will be the appointment of the Maurice year-old

with the various sub-committees and the thickening in girth

for the impending years; 53-year-old stumper programme Arthur Wood, who once square regular season which is expected cut Constantine for six on this to start carlier this year.

Mit- some ground; chell, taker of astonishing catches, Wilf Barber, Arthur Booth and Cyril Turner, all of whom эге now 49;. F

coun-

for

Scandinavian tries always go in sport in a serious way. That's why

Finnish bandy players-87,000 of them in 550 clubs- have given up their favourite game and switched to field hoc- key this season.

Although hockey is about as popular in Fin- land as lacrosse is in England, bandy players think the rules of the game are near enough to those of bandy for a switch to be made in time to pick up some Olympic gold medals. But I think India and Pakistan will have something about that. JACK.

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Arthur

Arthur Peall says:

Smailes, E. P. Robinson and TRY THIS FIVE-CUSHION the former captain and Test selector Brian Sollers.

The Past made 244 and 63 WIL Barber for 2 wickets, hitting a delightful 110 full vf his old glorious offside strokes, while Mitchell made 44 and Turner 62.

The Present XI, who without Yorkshire's Teat

were trio

of Hutton, Watson and Wordle, failed before spinners Booth and Robinson, and could only Arst reply with 124 in their Innlags.

They had made

03

for b

when

wickets in the second

The Umpires were that

stumps were drawn.

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son. Edgar Oldroyd, so

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and

one-time

sheet

fast;

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Yorkshire's dependable

bowler Abe Waddington.

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LANGUAGE THE

MOTHER

TONGUE?!

CANNON OFF RED

Many people think that the

the action makes ball

This is not so.

The

of

and have to go through the more ball pitches on it. Being slightly and hat

the ball recesses of justice. raised, it will make

referees com- wretched move a trifle on pitching.

intimidation. Some The Ideal for this is a green

plain wicket," firm, yet slightly damp say they have been followed on the surface. The dampness home and beaten up in spite of allows the seam to grip, eaus-special police guards. Plans for asking several British referees ing more movement.

to come out have therefore been Their presence might shelved. bring an anti-British blas to the. already tense atmosphere.

body swing.. body determines the direction of the awing, but is the hand action that actually produces swing.

How? Hok the seam of the and bnil between the first recond fingers, with the seam pointing towards the batsman's wicket. On delivery the wrist must be kept rigid, so that the ball is pushed off the two con- trolling Angers, If the wrist Is used or dropped in delivery the ball is pullett down and

The googly and chinaman are ewing is unlikely.

off-breaks--the will normally both

googly A new ball

an off-break delivered swing more than an old one, so being

Never impart side" to four cue

aldahler boll 1 a

shut will do.

My appifes both tu*** billarda and snooker. Yet I do not suggest that * side" must be

eluminated. proper 1100 Important.

With B crisp pub-delivery on Amateur can give eupush Jeri-tand *uide to white to bring us this

five-maalikun, Can-

non

red.

Lieut. Culunei

o Henderson cira wa my alcon- tion to the need for swinging the cite parallel to the direction white will travel, when de" wanted--NOT crow the

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THE THREE SPINS

of three Spin bowling is

or the ball types-leg-break, breaking away from the right hand batsman from leg to his or tite ball off, off-break, breaking in to the right-hand batsman; and top spin, in which towards the the ball spins batsman,

fast or medium bowlers with what appears to be a leg- generally open. One of the break action, the chinaman

but far too many bowlers comes the leg-break elther

cannot awing, or bowl stumps.

main objects of using the new left-hander's off-break. A left-

of

course,

be- ball is to attack the batsman, hander's googly,

their control

The policy to all pin bowl- wide of the ing should be to tempt the pitch batman to drive-le, When the ball is swinging, the ball well up to the batsman, the away swing bowler should As a general maxim, I would bowl at the middle and

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