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The Fourth Test

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1955.

SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR

EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THE STATE OF THE WICKET AT HEADINGLEY TODAY

Leeds, July 28.

The fourth Test match was left in an interesting position when stumps were drawn yesterday, with England '78 runs ahead with five wickets in hand.

The scoreboard at the end of the fourth day's play read: England, 1st innings 167.

Australia, 1st innings—260,

England, 2nd innings—177 for five, .

Heavy Rain Disturbs County Cricket Matches

London, July 27.

Heavy rain showers affected all the County Cricket Championship matches todny.

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Everything depends on the state of the wicket today-Inst day of play,

Should the pitch improve over- night, then England might im } Jonst enough to prevent Aistralin Ihaving enough time to score. The

necessary runs for a win,

On the other hand, should the | wicket déteriorate, then -sucćem,

(could be within England's power.

despite their slender lead."

A win for Australia In this

Between showers at Trent Bridge, Bruce Dooland, Nottinghamshire's Australian-born leg-spinner, accom-match would ensure them retaine plished one of the finest bowling performances of the day, claiming is Yorkshire wickets for 69 runs,

in the Ashes, as only one mort Test remains to be played.

The partnership yesterday be- tween Edrich and Compton was halted 75 minutes before lunch through a thunderstorm, but play resumed promptly in the afternoon.

Laretei Yorkshire were all 1207. The most they can hope for out in less than three hours for tomorrow is a first innings lead. 114 und followed on 103 runs in Sussex, lying second In the arrears They rallied their table, took first innings points second knuck, however, atic from Kent but with only two runs Frank Lowron and Harry Halli- | to spare. Kent looked assured of day put on 41 for the opening | the lead when

UNTIL LINDWALL their second partnership without being wicket went down at 221. Then

Despite only 47 runs were needed but the separate.

frequent bowling balls Middlesex, the County lead-emaining eight wickets crashed changes and with many

nastily. lifting

Extrich .and ers, were badly hit by rain. for the addition of 44. Between Only two hours play was, pos- the shower and In uncertain Compton defied the Australian sible iL the match against fight, Sussex lost two second attack until the new ball-and Glamorgan at Cordift where no innings wickets and finished 44 start was possible until early ahead. evening.

During that thire Middlesex s

for 90 ruts and were all out for

..

At

130.

Lindwall-arrived,

CLOSE OF PLAY SCORES In his second over Lindwall

in fratent Edrich

on away swinging half volley and the ball New cricket matches today were: from the edge of the bat to De lost their remaining five wicket for of play scores

Chesterfield: Derbyshire Courcy who made a great catch. Lancashire 114 for two. Edrich batted splendidly for Rain restricted play.

A1 Northampton: Northamp which

four hours in hitting 04, 40 of

came DAY'S tonshire 359 for six declared hits.

from boundary (Greasley not out 93. Broderick 331 Humpshire 110 for two of his best innings, and just PLAY FOR

Compton, too, was playing one (Walker not out 003. Stumps after three hours reached 50 for FINAL TEST? were drawn early owing to rain, the second time in the series.

EXTRA

London, July 28. 'The English Cricket Board of Control may ask the Australian Board for an extension of the play- ing time in the fifth and final Test between Eng Janu and Australia if the fourth Test at Leeds ends In a draw.

Ate Ronald Aird, Score- of the MCC. issued a

tary

statement yesterday

ing:

taken

"Nu action

say. will be

unil the result of

the present match kumwa. In the event of a draw the Board of Control will consider, whether message sluji be sent to the Australian Board sug- gesting our extra day for The fifth Test matela in increase the order to

chures of a déilnite re. hult to the series.**

- five--were-drawn, Australla - would retain the ashes,-- Kruter,

"Affront Against

But Australia pressed home Rain their advantage when Miller had Willie Watson and Reg Simpson caught off successive deliveries, and half the England side was

At Birmingham: Essex 187. AL Warwickshire 10 for one. restricted play.

At Hastings: Sussex 207 and 42 for two

Kent 203 (Hearn 114, Phebey 88, James, right medium, six for 80.) At Worcester: Worcestershire

Arm

out for 171.

At the clove, when England 108 for eight declared and 52 were 177 for live, Compton, who for two. Leicestershire 271 for had batled for nearly four hours declared (Faliner. 05, without giving chance, had Tompkin 55, Smithron 02.) -reached 00, including six fours. Reuter.

-Reuter,

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SPORTS SURVEY

outside-left for Leicester Fosse in a night match with Blackburn Rovers at Burton-on-Trent on November 5, 1908, and he has a gold medal to prove it.

Lord Goddard (Lord Chief Justice of England) presenting Jim Peters, the England Manithon runner, with the Sportsman of the Year Trophy (presented by Sporting Life) at the Metropolitan Police Sports ät Cricklefleid Track, Ilford, Essex.

To Label Drawn Test Matches As Dreary

Is Mere Nonsense

Says DENIS COMPTON

I become just de annoyed as my fellow cricketers when some folk, who rarely see a cricket match, put forward peculiar notions about how the game should be played.

Take this summer's Test series. The cry has already gone up for arrange- ments to be made for a play-to-a-finish at the Oval if the Leeds Test, like the first three, is drawn and the “rußber" is undecided.

Australia holds the mythical Ashes. She is entitled to keep them if she pre- vents England winning them back just as a boxing champion retains his title until such time as he is benten.

to

01

were

If a challenger holds him to a,a nish, it never ended. Some draw the champion usually wished it had never begun. agrees

another bout-in When heavy rain prevented cricket the challenger gets his any more cricket after ten chance in the next series-but the tenth day England not to an extension of the last within sight of victory, but the round 1 one man is knocked captains decided to abandon the match so that the England team 'could catch the night train to Cape Town where they had to board the Athlone Castle..

Oui!

In any case I think it might be better to walt and see what happens at Leeds.

You do not hear people asking

The sailing date could not be for the teams to play IndeЛnitely postponed-not even for a Test for a winning

goal when the Match, scores are level at half-time in The scores were South Africa a Soccer match. Why should 330 and 481, England 310 and ericket be different?

Even if the next two Tests are

will provide

mom

054 for G!

THRILLS LOST

A point that must not be

robs the game

BRITAIN MAY HAVE A NEW WOMEN'S BREAST STROKE SWIMMING CHAMPION

Onllon, July 27.zint

Britain may have a new women's breast stroke uwim- wing champion this season. If rumours that the holder. for the past three years Scots laas Eleanor Gordon; is to take a rest from Chantpionship swimming prove to be true.

Swimming sources here any. that shio has been alivited by her father and conchi Guy Gordon, to take1n-rost-from the championship round, and that she is not expected to: compete in this year's Amateur Swimming "Association - Championships.

Cordón hag every reason to Blames and Peter Entwistleda feel proud of his daughter whose not have the samayapbed: with swimming career he has steured | the orthodox stroke.. fabughout its six-your-duration. There are, in fact very few which included three years në

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Junior Champion before her linking expatirtis or the thred-year tenure Senior orthodox breast stroke in "this" Champion.

country Since 1947; when Eleanor

J

the

took part In or Butterfly" frat burst upon the Olymple Games, was Eritain's swimming scene with

· full only

swimming medalist nine-tenths of British champion- Helsinki, "and is confidently ex- ship swimmers have concentrated-

to retain, the Empire title on it because of its reater

at

at the Empire: Games in Van-speed, and Britain can now lay couver next year,

[claim to having semo "of the After that

world's "butterfly" gurkond

best

father; it is ending to her

#

1

bells and mers.

Championship So great is the mavemout it, in fact, that a special championship may

most likely sucCESSION

to!

towards

"butterfly"

wwuffing from

The Miey Gordon

ob British Cham- be insituted by the ASA next plon opperm

be either Lon-season in its national champlon to... doner Vale

Valerie Harris Jean ships. Most elistricts and countles Wrigley from Lancashire.

are already catbring for both Both

icar in the Olympton, and the national "Body

and both are close on is expected to follow suit Miss Gordon's heels En swim- United Press,

ming ́events, this monson: dvlies

Horris, in her third year, of Championship

swhyrning, holds

one win over Eleanor, the Soccer Players

Obenic trials last year. Jenn

Wrigley is the holder of the Eang- |lish 160 Yards Breast Strouče

While

SAFE THING

the women's title in the forthcoming Briush Nation

Championships look. becoming men's

To Get A Wage Rise

London, July 2T.: Britain's professional poccer:

like players, who every: "Saturday "in моге open, the the winter draw Bates totalling breast stroke event around £1,000,000 are target a following the Separation from rise, it was decided today. "butterfly" stroke, looks like a during the playing scaccio is to

ordinary stroke of the

Their maximum weekly wage

safe thing for electrician Peter be, increased from £14-15 £16 Jervis who won it last year.

Jervis, one of the few top and during the summier rododhe Ine swimmers who have from £10 to £12, stuck to the old style of swim- I'Layers picked for inter«: ming in breast stroke, appears national games will get £50 to to have the field more or less future Instead of 30-an at pres to himself. Exponents of the sent. The Scheuses entitive "butterfly", Auch

Brise from July 1 this year A-Reuter::

THE ABSOLUTE

holo round."

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END CH

By HENRY LONGHURST

Fir

and

I have received simultaneously gifts from both sides of the Atlantic): the one symbolic, by, a coincidence, certainly of the beginnings of golf, the other, as many may feel, of the absolute end. The latter is in the form of a newspaper cutting, accompanied by the laconic observation "progress!" By "All Rounder”

"Golf mobiles," it reads, re-side the Pebble Ridge in a pony that it was only in 1688 that place caddies en some courses, and trap on Equipped with gasoline or bal Horace and his brother astride a golf clube seen in. Amerien

one occasion Horace took across the very first Football by Flares....All this talk about

tery-driven motors, the motorised reluctant donkey-chuck down had dimeulty with thesteld the football by floodlight

carts transport up to four players their coats and get on as if it were something drawn, I have little doubt they

with

presupotentially the Latest course came. The holes were excised specially new does not in the least impress Jack excitement for spectatoes on and forgotten is that a timeless Test between shots.

get them is Cleveland's West, landlord of the New Inn, Enderby, as players than two of the rect main charms. That is the need six. They will be rented to assuming them not to have been for the members of the Mentow

put come holes with u of one of 1to Manakiki Club, which bought wet pocket knives, and the Arst Implements"? :DIGA The first three. Tests

No wonder, for Jack played at famous timeless" Tests in cricket for both sides to study both the golfers at five dollars for an 18-destroyed by sheep In the night brook-Club-their polite Verdist -

couple, having

found then ing kalfe, he gave m exilation ended in

Leicester. draws. If all

history.

-scoreboard-and-the-clock.-- I played in the first, against

-struck up a seagull's feather be being that it "daked" though Australia at

If, for instance, the second the Oval in 1938, Test at Lord's had been played to

side them for the bonefit of those it might be OUT OF THE BLUE

a good rame for behind. and, pleased as we were to win, a finish the last day's play would

Sundays" few of the England players not have been anywhere near as

The other gift, a pearl of great As the North: enjoyed the experience. as a thrilling as it was:

Devon Club price, comes out of the blue began to wax fat, the members Tom Morris's shop in St Andrews-

They sent back for balls fo‹Öld Illumination came from paruffin) and in the recent Midlands area

game of cricket,

The tension was aroused by from the widow brithe late and spread themselves on medal days where only recently; raided ilares suspended from high finals he recorded the highest

England

Ereat Horace Hutchinsen and to the expense of getting the by a nine-year-old female part- and the heroic batting

of Willle poles.

Jack cannot recall the speed over the quarter-mile track

batted for 15 hours and a quarter Watson und Trevor Bailey, de-consists of his own presentation coastguards to drag out a bath nir, I defeated his great Emund- result, or the special reason for yet known in those parts.

before declaring at 003 for seven tying both the Australian at-copy to her of his book "Fiflying hut to serve as clubhouse, doughter and great-great granda the game, but the fact that it Furious pedalling brought him wickets.

tock and the hands of the clock. Years of Golf." It ought to

ผมม be The rest of England, meanwhile, daughter in a putting tourmonde. Melbourne, July 27.

was Guy Fawkes' Night suggests

"home" In 49.8 secs,,

compulsory reading for

the gazed with awe or ridicule on a Time marches o The Victorian Soccer Counell that it was a contribution to the average

of 18.07m.p.h. and handicapped

If Australia had not been A time-limit match also brings sent generation of

golfers

man carry golf clubs, "Believing Golf mobilen gained an honour for his plans a protest campaign against local ireworks display.

Injuries to out the best in captaincy, parti-brought up to take for granted it as a rule, if they had heard of the Victorian Football League |

the 44th Bedfordshire (linwick). Fingicton and Bradman, our cularly in judging the right the factory-mádej.

horsebacke" following the League's refusal Thanks largely to the energetic At the Wembley, finais monic or captain Wally Hammond, would moment for a declaration either clube with their ridiculous at all to be a game played on to allow the touring Hongkong secretary of the Welsh Archery have cost more than £5, and all elded on a merciful release for a helpful pitch or striking the pools.

work of Mr John Walters, the "aoup-box.cs" on view will

have continued the innings until to give the bowlers sufficient bats, the cabin-trunk-bagy, and

club we passed 1.000 but, instead, he time to dismiss the opposition on the country Ascociation for

They will Champion, sport names like "Jet 220" "Tip Australian bowlers. yours Welsh open

the leg-weary and finger-bleeding balance to tempt the batting side "Glad

to go for a win. FLAN is enjoying a sweeping Anni

Ant" and in Wales. From a

"Smidger's Bandwagon." couple

BO BORING Church tonight protested against of pro

pre-war clubs the total is

Bells For A Derby this affrant against a British now past thirty, 20 being in South Winner Nowadays when the Naturally, the

Australians artificial watering of racecourses folded up in Dominion by the League." They Wales.

their batting, of this splendid is a recognised procedure, there England actually won in four been the is no risk of races not taking days but the timeless Test op-

A British Dominion"

Eastern soccer team to use the Melbourne Cricket Ground matches on August

and 22 August 20

Delegates to the Council meet-

inf

No Sport For A Weakling...

and for the last are home made.

has

at an

won the loss

by

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swimming

How different, too, would the golfers of Oxford and Cambridge, with their motor cars and ten How fascinating it is to wander days of practice at Rye, have back in the mind to the dim found the first University match

Wimbledon Ai take one risk too many and be it really be only eighty-odd yours

girly: dawn beaten.

ago To

tire days when old start from Montelle General

St.

In trying for this they may ngis of golf, as we know it can at Pan Oktar a fone purNCY ||

NOT PROVED

from

to"

Androws ströđe" with the vetrate

drive from

to Waterloom

then

To what?

Deep Water Bay! Championshipsj On Sept. 13

Entry Hists sulll-wshortly í bo then posted on the Royal Hongkong.

to] Golf Club Hound Notes/Boards.

{"missionary" work done by the place because of drought or of proach in our innings déstroyed) days are not enough for Test and observed that Providence some funcheon the well seem pionship and Cup.

The Championship: Will? Ka

im trophy@cheing

shoes) giving in respoét : of vmarrying a September duten end to the devil with Hoylake's DANGEROUS IMPLEMENTAULTEDg the lowest serptett:your CV

Foundation suggested letters to members of Parliament and the Governor progres

To my mind, the case that Ave crust the Barrows at Northam on Scottish Iron But, for the reeipt of endles for the General. Sir William Slim.

tear The Hongkong

is still Association under the Central fixture being put out of existence. most of the competitive spirit in cricket is not proved. Nowadays had clearly designed it for

and then |Deop"], Water.. Beg 1 1958. Clikumi. pcheduled to play matches In Council

of Physical Recreation. But worse than this threatened the match.

batsmen and bowlers are much golf course, and the little vaxtyound of golf Victoria but they will have to

miles have been Newmarket, the "headquarters" Hundreds of

more on an equal footing than haired boy, J. H. Taylor, used to worth gothamuh so much for a qucation today whether it was this ancient of racing, in 1803,

In 1803. A horse named be played at alternative grounds covered to bring

of the crowd they were, because of

come up to with less grande de comme sport to the people at various Murconi; trained by Jack Jarviss were bored with li til. So were feet, pitchco, and, given sullable wise. Her the the so Mr 30 hoths on Sunday, dation-Renter.

outdoor events.

teandfather, was Recently

was said to have we

weather, I am sure many more them on polch for the Walters, novice saved a Newmarket fixture from

An even WOTS game, took five-day Tests will be finished greatest amateur in: England

widow... Fred Sapleton of being abandoned that year.

place at Durban in March 1939. than otherwise. Walter Abbott, An unprecedented drought If over there was a farce at

John Ball. Lianelly, and Kenneth Guest, hardened and bared the Heath cricket, this was

Even if they are not I shall not Llanelly, demonstrated a York

ork that racing folk were bemoaninte

With Englandi leiding 1-0 in change my opinion. Some of round of two dozen

the rubber (the first, second, and the most mémorable matches in Walters delighted 'the' crowd ja

owd a training community, for no with consistent bull's eye ac- locally trained herec appeared to fifth Test was to be played to drawn. curacy Shooting was at 50 yards' stand a remote chance of winning range. With 6ft., classical bows that

PORTRAIT

"After such a shining example yesterday, 300 "can't let "a little rain

stop us.""

Phonon

chest

EO

awarded to

Deep Water Bay Cup!(forw merly the Happy Wallery Catam The place and not even been "In the United States today five pionship Cup, will be competed christened Westward Holin million people play golf and for on tho

data, whe

out to the present third tee be- a year in doing 19. 4. Incredible 18:

holes on

arrows, that Nowmarket was finished, as 1-fourth games were drawn), the which I bave played have been those days. They used to drive] spend seventy-fivé, million dollars al competitions plaves,

oma big the condity Derby, under such f

Jarvis's

being employed, robor dry- equivalent

valent of each properes his grandfather, thought otherwise and this wizard of the stables quietly went on training; the of speeds are likely to Marconi colt de best ho cotiá for be attained at Wembley in the the Derby classic... To the ass

& Wetzelby Speed Arne

Scouts national "sonp-box cycle tonishment of all save the few derby in September. Near in the know Marconi won favourite to

To wih

s 14-your- Everyone

In Newmarket was

pended

old Tony Kennedy, from the Bed-walling for a result upon which fordshire village: of Wedwell, their livelihood probably ?do= near Coventry, in his "La Fleebe d'Or" with an ominous 13 painted When Marconi's triumph was un the bonnet.

known the bella from the church

ull

elim Provincini

So far Tony has swept aside just across the rood from-Jarvis's opposition In Park Lodge stable rang out a rounds,

He has triumphant peal, the first me spent months of hard work after that courch bells have been used school Hours buliding His to celebrate a racéhoito victory. "ratlier" from pieces of cycles, Jarvie now uisce une or Misacional f sand, ultima sodda must-doda, žigoves mounted on shY. INCREA

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