THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1953.
WORCESTER ARE READY FOR THE AUSTRALIANS Attack To Be Chosen From Five Fast Bowlers
By DENNIS HART
There will be standing room only in Worcester on April 29. On that day the City promises to become the centre of national interest.
All over England men will greet each other excitedly with "See what's happened at Worcester?" Newspaper boys will shout “Worcester Intest,” and people will buy papers to find out just what is happening at Worcestor,
They will turn Immediately elvidual honours belong to tha
to the sports page. event that will make Worces- ter hot news is cricket.
of
Pace bowling was Worcester's For the tourist.
weaknesg for many years. In In addition to Bradman's per the early 30's, with Perks and uri Fred Roof, they had perhaps formances there was the Kame
Hinnt bowling of Fleetwood their best-ever attack. Since Smith in the 1038
thon, however, the onus has game. In Worcestershire's first innings he practically dismissed the Coun-rected more and more on Perks, ty shuple handed, taking eight wickets for 98 runs.
But not any game of cricket. For this will be the openly: match of the first class season and more than that, the open- of the Australian Lug match tour.
TRADITIONAL
is traditional thai the It Australians begin their tour with a game against Worcester. They have been doing it since 1930, and Worcester goes of its way to welcome them. Normally, this
City.
away in the heart
The County ground. looked by the Cathedral,
inade
HOUR AFTER HOUR
of
FIVE FAST BOWLERS
This season, however, things
SPORTING SAM
By Reg. Wootton
✰✰✰ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★★
THE "BERLIN STORY" (FICTION) - 1953
By ANTONY TERRY
Berlin.
killed.
In trying to escape from the One of the German film extras "Go in British Reds with her she is shot and advised her:
Berliners call It" or American military car-then typical Berlin story" hence its the Communists cannot touch temporary name although pro- you. But don't risk it other. ducer Carol Reed says the final | wise." version of the movie will have a
different title,
caravan
bed, and
sparc
of
will be different. In fact Two thousand breathless This game is also remember Major Dayly told ine that the West Berliners last week ed for the bowling of Aus difficulty will be in
deeling watched SA pretty girl tralia's McCormick. He was who to leave out. "We have unable to get his run-up right now got four fast bowlers on swinging screaming from
Despite stern warnings by and won no-bulled nineteen the professional staff," he said, builder's hoist, pursued by
she tuld Carol Reed
me she tunes in the first three avers and schoolmaster G. T. WI-
a man in t Bavarian hat
British cameramen working on means to try. was on assists us during the holi- and fur collared overcont. Another interesting point
the film in Berlin call Mason. their
"It's my first chance to sre Australla out that
the days. highcal-ever total against
"In addition to Perks, there
The crowd gasped as he "the acting machine". He works | under, over or even through the
A 2001 15 so a timetable.
he Worcester-
Tamots and sinister Iron Curtain tucket county, 541, after
are Jolin Whitehend, who join- clutched vainly at the rising | 2 6 1 J. Lyttelton, ed us fram
is told John hoist which was currying Carol Reed that he has a few
by production director and I don't mean to miss it." Yorkshire, Eng-hire skipper C. of
Carol Reed leaned across to Flavell, and Ken Lobban. 0 land, allows nothing to disturb had put them in!
the girl away from him- minutes to pare between shots, the German interpreter and gave Jamalcan who played as on the peaceful tempo of its life.
Instructions for the "crowd" amateur last year.
the Mason goes straight off to rest in We expect and then slumped to But the Australian visit is dit-
a luxurious walnut panelled hundreds of Berlin extras who ferent.
But, spare a thought for fast great things from Ken, He is ground.
toitl complete powerfully built, and over- | bowler Rég Perks. our after
really
spend their film time walking to The man was £1,000 a day writing table, bathroom and hour he tollet whilst nost
fast. He may not De
and fro across streets trying to well movie actor James Mason and the
cocktail cabinet.
look like Soviet Zone Inhabitants. with the river running by, cheers were for the fan with versed in the finer points of the frightened girl Clair Bloom, star
Mason spends his
Then for game, but he can certainly send of Charlie Chaplin's "Limelight."
be turned to irt
Claire one of the prettiest the the bat. Reg has played
rending Hamlet
"I've and Bloom.
been across to For the 10 world. Its beauty is enhanced Worcester siner 1930, and taken that ball down."
past
days they have moments
chaking with Among the many distinguish- mur more wickets for the
the bodyguard,
his 15. personal East Berlin-several years ago. county by the extra tents and
for put up
other
Army It's an exciting, weird place the than
ex-British ed spectators who will watch been stumbling through bowler. quees which are
of bombed rubble of
and bilized the Australian match, with
He has played in the last the Australian gume will be Mr Berlin pursued by German Bim Sergeant James Moneghan who start of the Communist world, a their gay Angs Outtering in
Eighty-year-old | pen three Australian -natches,
and Fred
extras disguised as Communist accompanied him from Holly-waste of suspicion and slogans, the Spring breeze.
often, through Inck of support, Mr Hunt is the father of Wor-People's Police' and armed with wood.
of Stalin pictures and police in- He is the
see that one-man cestershire cricket,
Manoghan's job is he waged a virtual
rifles.
formers. I wouldn't advise you real
nothing happens to Mason while to risk it-you never know how The Olm is a war against them. In 1938 he club's original professional. He Aus- joined them in 1939. when bowled 34 overs in the
feel about this After all, we have been trallan innings, and had 147 counties had only one profes- version of the "Third Man." The he is near the tricky Iron Curtain the Reds will
the "Berlin Story" and frontier where the Reds might film. title is the whe sional. he The runs knocked off him, but
take counter action to a fim plastering Stalin's photo all over which never gave up, and put all he groundsman. Indeed the ground Carol Reed is making it
gets its local colour by the British and U.S. sectors to hed into every ball, and finally on which the game is played is very edge of the Iron Curtain.
The theme which runs through hanging photos of Stalin all over make local colour and you know captured four wickets.
his. He designed it, and help-"Berlin. Story" is a little boy on the British and U.S. sectors. A how tourly the Communists senior professional. But at an He has now been following bicycle which Lakes the place deliberate insult by Communist are."
sandards. zither melody Curtain movie.
And In the crowded streets from the time the first ball is
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bowled until slumps are drawn on the last day, the match
interest,
the centre
af
Б
any
Hunt.
ed to it.
bowlers the fortunes
Reg, at 42, is the club's
East age when most
also acted
of the club
03
for
new Berlin
on
the
of Reed's "Third Man" haunting first Iron of
news flashes round to quickly, that within ten minutes of an event, such on a wicket falling, everybody knows about it.
"Yes, Worcester 15 really
But West Berlin's good natured cricket-conscious. almost
ROUND THE CLOCK cockney-Ilke people have taken cricket-mad you might say have found an easier way of over 50 years. With one ex-
Of duty Mason lives in a a salte the movie stars and especially explained Club Secretary Major making a living he still main- ception he has seen them beat
In his fur collar and hat within Berlin's fashionable "Am Zoo" Carol Reed to their hearts. James Brian Bayly as he put down tains his old zip and fire and every side they have met, in- the phone for the umpteenth for the first few overs is prob- cluding the counties and all its green band, handsome sun-hotel in the British Sector's smar: Muson is to them "Field Marshal street, the Kur-Rommel" but most of them time after answering a ticket ably the fastest man the the touring teams. The excep- tanned Mason finds it hard to shopping
i22
poor job of enquiry, "Our folk may no country. He is looking forward tion? Yes. it's Australia. But look the part he plays that of a furstendamm. His working day think he made a
Prussian oficer. possess the cricket knowledge to renewing his rivalry,
with on April 20, Mr Hunt will be German "spiv" working for the is all round the clock-for Carol imitating
re-Communists in
too gentlemanly" "they of say the Yorkshire crowds, the Australians and is keeping there hoping to see the
Is but they make up for it in ent by running Worcester's in incried.-London Express Ser- until he falls for an English girl film unils, one working by day
and one by night, and he expects Mason
None (Claire, Bloom).
an American. his actors-even James Maton know that he is British, to keep the same strict schedule Carol Reed in his fur lined as he does.
dume coal and boots
Berliners ing English Lord cham are impressed by the way he has
fime for everyone who wants a word with him despite the fact that he works a 20-hour day, directing both the day, and night "whifis"
thusiasm.
And they are enthusiastic not only in watching the game, but In helping the County. They were une of the first clubs to form a Supporters' Association. This association has proved cx- eeedingly valuable. During the winter they
their run
own
football pool. This is bringing in £500 per week, and all of it
is placed at the disposal of the
club
"SUPPORTERS' MONEY Alany of the spectators who will attend the Australian game will watch from stands bought by this money.
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Major Bayly himself is less enthusiastic. At work he shows all the zest he displayed during the war when fighting in Burma with Colonel Win- qute's Chindita, He arrives at his office by nine o'clock In the morning, and never leaves Lelore ten night.
door ericket school.
vice.
East Germany Reed is directing two separate. For them, too, James
HAROLD MAYES Talking Sport
Quiet, reserved, Muson is well
liked by the camera crews who stand for hours in biting winds to film him. Off duty he is terse, but willing to talk:
INSURANCE PLAN TO SHAKE
THE PLAYERS'
UNION
London.
The question of insurance for Soccer players has been under active consideration by a number of people outside the game since that unfortunate accident to big Derek Dooley.
Outside the game? Yes, because there are people in the insurance business who feel that a good deal more adequate safeguards can be offered for professional footballers.
the
to
at
area.
"I don't want to say anything -I've been accused so often of being anti-British that no denials
can make will probably change |
All 1 the publle's opinion of me.
want to do is work hard at
"wears a red coat with a blue silk
busy
camera.
making Alms for
LED COAT, BLUE SCARF In most of the film which takes place in Berlin Claire Bloom Berlin Story and show that 1 scarf tied around her head and can turn out as good a picture furlined
fasten zip
boots. Five Fingers.
Doubling for her in some scenes Communist tough guy Mason in identical scart, coat and boots #pretty Berlin-born photo with vividly in his spiv's overcoat contrasts
gentle
nervous model, 20-year old Lilo Walters. Claire Bloom who arrived in Mason has double, too-he Berlin by air from London this wears an identical Bavarian hat
with fur collar. cont week to play the lead opposite with a green band and on over- Both She is the sister of a British German doubles are used for Spalding
but Holland, Army officer stationed in Berlin shots where Mason
and Claire "There is so much lo be
One man who has already peared in a plastic ball. "If
Michigan, Ave hours from the and married to a German giri Bloom do not have to show thele done."
he explained. given years of intensive study man had been heading it "Soparately, the beginning of to the problem is on the point that time, I dread think Windy City, the centre of the (Hildegard Knel) who falls to faces to the
of would bulb-growing district
the avoid getting all mixed up with the season and the Australian of putting up a scheme to the what the consequences
After Anishing "Berlin Story" the
underworld of the actor, prek to America where he sinister
producer Mason is anxious States. enough clubs, through match are more than
Football have been," he said.
Rous has
to get hundle.
If, as is expected, he skims Iron Curtain city. for one man to
Now Sir Stanley To-League, by which, I understand.
Her brother's wife is mixed up is Cream Walcott's real gether they are nearly impos-individual
players making been telling the London Society | Mr sible."
weekly payments will be offer of Referees about u plastic ball name once again, who is next in it too-hence the complica- television.
which is for the high jump? Well, it's tions over the "spiv" played by But neither the Major nored more attractive terms than-white or yellow
and Mason who has to choose bo- anyone else in Worcestershire are at present available to them being widely used in Germany beginning to look more
more as if it will be Ezzard tween the German girl and the would have the match changed | through Players' Union chan- and Switzerland.
Negro English Miss." And, by all accounts, he was Charles, the Cincinnst! season. They nels.
HER AMBITION MORE FOR LESS
most enthusiastic about it. The Walcott dethroned.
Charles meela Rex Layne on Claire Bloom's personal off Broadly, the idea is that this casing is all in one piece, How different from 25 years man feels he can offer a £500 is grooved to simulate panci- Apri! 1 in San Francisco, and screen ambition while in Berlin ("wild horses ago. Then, Worcestershire cric-Insurance at a "bob" # week ling and the curface is rough is hoping that no referee will unlike Mason
that goal- make an April fool of him as wouldn't drag me into the Soviet ket and its support had reach-
per head, against
£300 enough to ensure the
he Sector")-is lo pay a secret visit Jack Dempsey did when ed such a low ebb that the forthcoming through the keepers can get a grip on it.
vote in favour of Austrálians decided to cancel Players' Union.
COULO MEAN LAW CHANGE cast his
into the Russian half of the city. thought Of the 23. a week union On the point of economy Layac-everyone else
In their Last members pay, something ilke and footballs are costly these Charles won This ntung the county to ac- 15. id. goes in Insurance pre- day's t apparently gives meeting.
If Charles wins, he looks set Ilon und they. campaigned miums, leaving them a very double servico,
"The Referees naturally wanted to for a June date with strongly. The Australlutis, were small margin with which, to not easily persuaded, but finai- conduct the rest of the
ad- know it it was regarded as Rock," to try once more to be ly consented to play the match ministrative duties.
Hangerous. They were told that the first heavyweight king to
had win back the crown. as a sort of preliminary proc- Which means what? That the it was claimed that one
by a six-ton W PLAN ONLY LORD'S tice came to the tour proper. union, already considering for been run over
WORRY The Arst of these "pre saking London for the pro-lorry and had still retained its
In- seems Murmurings from West zhape and size, which liminary canters" was in 1930 vinces to try to prevent a re-
dies have reached Lord's con- Playing in that game, his first petition of the financial losses fair enough.
there are FIFA cerning an Indian I gather can have
At a meeting of the Hongkong | Duckworth Chinese
Association Footba}} from
further folk who think that as a result ment that George
to later in the are proud of their position as No. 1 host to the tourists.
which the fixture, ranged for mid-season.
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"This business of movies for TV is
is a vast industry in the States" he
he explained. "In Britain the film firma re- fuse to allow any but very old films to be televised. In the U.S. they make hundreds of new films
for viewers
every especially year."
Mason who applied for Ameri- can nationality two years ago hos kept to his
. original decision he despite annoyance to those calls "my friends in Britain."
"I mean to stay in America for the rest of my life” he explained, "This means that unless 3 am
in
naturalised I shall always stay what am now-ma foreigner in the, restrictions the U.S-with on one's freedom of personal ex- right of free pression and the criticism which this Involves.
"I am a person who likes to alr in England, was a slip of a line of the last two years
views-and I reckon my
the Cootamundra. He
Was its equanimity
Americans would be perfectly 21 years old and desired to shattered if the outsido agency of the discovery of this type, of with be taking a third Common-held yesterday with Mr C. S.ight in objecting to me telling la cak
the hearts of many gets a sympathetic hearing.
ball. the leather one we know wealth side to India next win Wong in the Chair, the follow-
In-
toff steam if I remain a Britisher bowlers as well as shock the There are, after all, plenty is cutmoded and outdated. In ter. Why? Because West
the dies are scared that their ing were selected to represent their country. The British world with hla
the Combined Chinese performances of players who think in terms fact, it is
XI with the bat.
of the union on a purely pro- bounds of possibility
American shot match of the the are due out there at the sume against Combined Serviers in the would object just as much if He was of course
off his mouth Victory about them. Donald, czutionary basis agnicet injury, shall see the removal
second
I made a lot of how Sir Donat,
Bradman, and those chops would be unword "leather" from the laws time.
Shield Soccer Competition Since there's been no Worcester supporters in paril-likely to say "No" to something before very long
the Navy ground,
criticisms about Hollywood when Caustway Diso Sir Stanley
old theproach at all
I first got to the U.S. Today I cular have good reason to re more attractive, whatever
referees that the Don." In his source.
international from Delhi, and since West In- Bay, on March 22, commencing will be more careful--I think Imember "The
mellower I've really become first match he scored 230 in 4%
body had been considering.adies have the financial remedy 4 pm.
Loung Ting-long
(Chineso further change in the off-side their own bands, I feel that
"In the same way I would no And having acquired the Trust the Germans to turn Law If he was seeking their all Lord's has to worry about A.A.), Hau Yung-sang (Sing the last few years.
5.3. Nien (Kwong Couble contury habit, ho .re out something in the way of reaction, he got it quickly is finding bowlers who can get Tao),
Britain since I do not kappens in peated the dose on the next manufactured goods which can enough, They were pretty un- Worrell, Weekes, and Walcott Wah). Tang Sum (KMB), Nganger criticise anything which
(KMB), Chau that there out for less than 500 between Kee-cheung
Uve there two tours. But on his fourth, steal world markets This time animous in saying
there any more and never Man-chl, (Kit Chee), Ho Ying- al-them!
there, end last, visit fa 1048, he fail-it's football-plastic ones. had been enough changes
which
fun (Eastern), Szeto One approach 77
Man mean to return cd. Ho was
The Football Association saw ready, and their advice was
It will take a further month's back in the
has (KMB). Chan Kar-sau (Eost-hard work to finish the Berlin been made to, the former Lan- pavilion after scoring 1031
At not so long ago to, issuo a "leave woll alone."
wicket- ern). Leo. Tal-foi (Captain) shots of the Mason-Claire Bloom directive against the use of TULIP-TIME FOR MARCIANO cashire and England ANXIOUSLY AWAITED ( plastic footballs, not only be It's a bit dimeult to imagine keeper, who's already made his (KMB), Hou Ching-to. (East-
and then the Small wonder then Worcester cause the laws say that the World, Heavyweight Champion mark as a manager, is to take ern), In anxiously awaiting the arouter casing chall be of leather, Heeky Marelano, of the crash- charge of the Paldstan sido of bang right hand up-toeing which will be in England In rival of Ion Craig, who har but because a number? | been heralded in Australia as people, notably rulerces. wore through the tulips, but into the sum of the border the new Bradman,. He certain disturbed about the possibility chocen Holland for, his training The north of the ly has a reputation to live up of accidents in the event of spot for the April 10 relum in folk have realised what a sorry here plastic casings apliiting. Chicago against the old man of mess the Indians made During the Bradmans era, Only the other, week are, the mountains, Jersey, Joe Wal- last your through lack of the Australia,won all four matches | force was telling me: about '. a' cottage
right, sort of experience to against the County by an in-game of: which he had charge No, not the other side of the guide them, and they don't to nime. Naturally, moup of the luin which a four-lucht gaah,ap | North Sea, or the Boston tend to be caught outs
hours.
to.
the camera crews
Reserver-Yu Yiu-tok (Sing pick up their equipment and re-. Tao), Tes Kam-hung, Luk Tat-turn to Britain for the studio
abots.
One of these is when bay (Kit Chee), So Shau-ming (Chinese AA), Lee Chun-fat Bloom and Mason are hiding. In
KMB). King Lok-sang 4.
a room terrifled while Communist Kwong Wahl and Lo Kwok- police and an East German crime boss who is after Mason waren, tai (Eastern).
| Team-, manager, me: Yutho building.
Me
But you'll see all that. In dua Shu-chuen, Couch Mr Cheung Lok,
course,
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HONG KONG CRICKET CLUB
COLONY LAWN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
The Finals will be played, weather permitting, on the following daya:—
SINGLES -
FINAL
DOUBLES FINAL
Thursday, 12th March
Friday, 18th March
Play will commence at 4.30 p.m. sharp each day.
A charge of $2.00 will be made for admission.
Prizes will be presented on Friday, 18th March 1958, at the conclusion of the Doubles Final.
Proceeds will be distributed between varioua Charities.
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