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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1954.

SPORTING SAM

By Reg. Wootton

TALK ABOUT A FUSS, NOW THE VIRUS HAS CAUGHT ON IN AUSTRALIA

Says ARCHIE

QUICK

Talk about a fuss, what is cricket coming to? There was a fuss over the question of Len Hutton or David Sheppard for the captaincy in Australia. It was really a storm in a teacup engendered by the more sensational of the national newspapers. In fact, Sheppard was merely a stand-in for a couple of Tests because Hutton was injured. It simple as that once Len had declared his willingness and physical fitness to make the trip.

was

дя

successor.

Hassett Now the virus has caught on in Australia. Lovable Lindsay

over blowing up come to the end of his career, and what a to-do there is

Arthur Morris or Keith Miller are the popular selections, but a man, Ian Johnson, is quietly being Introduced into the scheme of things.

has his third

It all arises over the Inter- State Jealousies which exist between New South Wales and Victoria. The former naturally want either

Miller or Morris; Victoria

can tell you in cold fact almost of people, and Rovers' training any tuning or distance for years was also watched by big crowds, past, and its significance.

Moreover, Bristol, in conjunctiva with the local County Football

Guy Butler is a camera fond,

What Abrahams takes down in numerals he records on film and

ALEC BEDSER'S Column

The Canadians' Tour-

A

Reminder That Cricket Is Played In America

In England for a short but intense tour are the Canadians-a reminder that cricket is played on the North American continent. Included in their programme is as novel a fixture Lord's has seen for many years an unofficial Test with Pakistan, who were admitted to the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1952.

Several of the Canadians are West Indians, including that entertaining stroke-maker, Ken Trestrall, who was a member of John Goddard's triumphant party of 1950.

This Kels me wondering Moreover, he plans to go to j As all threo have reached the whether the combined efforts Sydney next year to watch one top—Australian-bound party- of West Indians and English- of the Tests in Australia.

It seems to do something for fast men, now settled in Canada,

bowlers! will now the seeds of cricket This globe-trotting enthusiast enthusiasm which will was once a fast bowler of a side Ken Archer, the Australian eventually lead to yet another from Philadelphia, and he has Test player and Queensland country within the Interna-never lost his love for the game, captain now assisting Accring

He has now written a cricket | ton in the Lancíahiro League, few days with me at my the MCC book, which is in the hands of spent

A London sent a side to Canada, and Yankee Colisher, called "A Woking homo.

on Cricket," and ho intends to put all the Ho predicts some new names remember R. W. V. Robins, the former England and Middlesex profits towards a tund for re- in the Australian team in the captain and now A selector, tired English professional forthcoming series, and thinka telling me

tional circle.

few year ago

A

YANKEE ENTHUSIAST

cricketers

1

have

the

how Impressed ho

Len Maddocks, of Victoria, and was with the interest in cricket

Wally Grout, of Queensland, will there, I say the more cricket- There is no such und in

the merrier, operation at present, but is the wicketkeeping position.

be challenging Gil Langley for playing countries and good luck, to Canada.

the intention of this live-whe Yankee to launch one! I think

always had it is nothing short of amazing | highest opinion of Langley, who And while I was writing the that such an idea should spring is one of those keepers who are

from America. It's just like an so efficient al their

job that above paragraphs I received Englishman living in London they never compel attention. It letter from Mr A. W. Sayenstarting a fund in America for is not always a sign of com- junior,

keenest

pentence to see a wicketkeeper followers of cricket i have met, retired baseball playeral

making

dives, spectacular He lives in Princeton,

Others CITA attract the ball Jersey, and makes a habit of

to their gloves' without moving. leaving America to watch Test

Their secret, of course, La matches.

anticipation.

one

He was

ut

the

New

Mr Sayen Junior (though he's 71) does not think English pro fessionals are over-paid, and he devotes one chapter to compar. ing the salaries of cricketers and prezent during the baseball players. While soIN C Association, improved the shin-memorable struggle at Lord's in cricketers, like myself, are for-

Aus-

tunate enough to receive a fal may plump for John

ing hour by coaching youngsters 1953 when England hold on who

was omitted from the those valuable documentaries go

And Manager tralia to a draw when everything beneût. It is In the evenings.

true some leave last tour of England the same the length and breadth of the Bert Tann, always with an eye seemed lost; and he turned up the game without any substan- way as Miller was left out of | land pointing out what is wrong to

chance when

Jannica, in it at Kingston,

the tial savings. the last party to tour Bouth und what is right in any given comes to cultivating local talent, last series between the West In- Abrien. The Irony of it is that

would be looking vut to sign dies and England. Miller is Melbourne-barn!

son,

race.

the main

Probably be was the greatest anyone promising enough,

Miller is the NSW captain, stylist of them all completely Comparatively, Bristol Rovers Morris the vice-captain. Hasser: in rhythm and the poetry of have Just atvu! the most stood down from the Victoria motion. Quite twenty years ago successful pt-war record of skipper's Job

favour in Johnson before he retired.

of I was shown Aim showing his any

A

olub-tremeadus ground

It complete clrcular run of 300 improvements, Second Division

International Floodlit Soccer For Wembley?

have always been told that Americans are go-getters. Now I am beginning to believe in the truth of the saying!

HOW THE NEWS CAME

I have been checking up with my colleagues, chosen for the Austrailan tour, on how they heard the exciting news. Most I had beard it on the radio. actually just got off the train Sir Arthur Elvin, chief of the from Manchester, where I had world

famous Wembley been playing in the third Test Stadium, hopes to have floodlit against Pakistan, and switched international football there this on my car radio minute before winter.

my name was announced,

all amounts to a lot of Jockey-yards in thirty avonds. It had football for

the first me and ing. Hassett's move may be been slowed down for study an established place in the straw in the wind that would

purposes, and the grace of it exalted company, no men trang- point to Johnson being

could not have been equalled by ferrod away, no big fees paki. pointed, but I would say that

#yucht or a deer. Butler, by The whole structure of this the odds are still in favour of the way, still holds the officlul success has been built on team Miller. They can hardly

world record for this distance. spirit from players Imbued with point his Stato vice-captain

a civic pride. above him.

Not all of the plancers,

Brighton are getting workouta course, were Varsity Blues. Al- bert Hill, for instance.

One bank of lights has He was from Manager Bill Lane which

Installed in tho rendy been a typical Cockney who won two should qualify them for stage

tested. and Juggler. stadium and has been Olymple Gold Medals, but by jobs as mobile

the fundatima of They walk about on their knees Officials are delighted with re- and large, the present day athleticism

on their hands sults. in for

suppleness, this country were established by

balance, and run up and.

per-

Miller is a flamboyanl Bonality. Con cricket afford to 1more such colourful people, even if the England team dves not include another such per sonage in Frod Trueman?

their

England.

you

of

al-

by for the Light and Dark Blues who down the concrete terraces for flourished in the

inte twenties additional poise, mostly running and carly "thetics.

backwards.

Whatever

their

John Landy To

Compete In British Games

John Landy, Australia'a

Mile four-minute

rummer,

will compete in the British Games at the White City today.

This will be his first British appearance since setting up his woria Mile record of 3 min. 53 secs. in Finland on June 21.

But Roger Bannister, the only other four-minute Miler in the Denis Compton was given the world, will not be there.

Roger, who kated against news by a waiter, and Godfrey

the "Milc attendant Landy in Evans by a

in tne

Empire Games when he scopped for petrol. Century"

last Saturday: Keith Andrew's Imunediate at Vancouver But the complete installation thought was about his wedding, wants to be at his best for the of lights is expensive. Fitung for he had arranged it at a date

after the

salts team

out the whole stadium will cost more than £18,000.

Sir

September 15,

gorage

was a

of the

European Championships

on

Berne later LIS

(ad August ligures ho cannot run inrec fast wuce within ́a month,

-(London Express Service).

To meet the expenses,

As Keith was always a fair Arthur is demanding from the

bet for the position of deputy Football Association

I 10 Evans, wicket-keeper guaranteed minimum of three

reckon ho

modest man ganes a year for three years.

he remembered he I

reached. Then agreement

match also received notice November week

is

To

not to plan for this emergency, Wales Plans For

had of two Army training ---- also after the team was due to leave.

The 1958

Keith, who like his colleague Empire Games

Frank Tyson has had only one

full season's first-class cricket,

of

Mr Ted Prater, secretary of Games

The game is poorer without the them, and goodness knows game is not in a strong enough position of popularity to pick

HUNGARY-CONSCIOUS

Given a ball auch, a dozen or sand choose. When you think of

Bu of them will mili around the great Test captains of the

the furthcoming each other like a swarm of bees past from both countries

(or ball controi in cannot help feeling that Miller fotbali season holds in store in this

the matter of changed tactics, dribbling. Then they have to is just the man to join them.

the clubs have certainly gone keep the ball bouncing on their As for Trueman, the Austro- | Hu

Hungary conscious In

heads, knees and insteps. What lians were not at all squeamish training. There is hardly an I did not ace in a prolonged Wembley's first floodlit about the hostility and vigorous outfit in the country that has training spell was anyone shoot- will be late in appealing of their fast bowlers not introduced some novel note

Ing a gon!!

(London Express Service). in the days when Warwick into its pre-season preparation. Armstrong coptained Jack Whether any of the new methods Another leam with a mission Gregory and Edgar McDonald will boar trull is a different of ambition Bre Chelsea.

all-out attack on thing altogether.

Manager Ted Dako predicts the club's

most successful season Certainly, Ask "Patsy"

They Hendren and

in the encourage-ever-and it could be. men of team spirit, to be rated have only to carry on where the rest of that era's batsmen.

the highest of the necessities | they left off fast May to be Black and blue all down their

towards sucEESS there is much among tho Championship

• laft rides was their lot. Hend- ren even went to the extent of to commend the ideas of Bristol challengers.

Rovers, who went for a week appearing in

Lord's Q

Test

under canvas

And, equally ambitious, is the in Somersetshire,

Sammy McCarthy, smiling boy

TREE-FELLERS ALL with padded armour "I should and Brighton and Hove Albion, determined young men who has of British boxing, will meet have worn a boxer's training who sent their players for Just signed amateur forms for Enrico Micali of Italy in London headgear too," ho

said work's holiday at

the hos

It will be Ostend.

This Much them, Seamus O'Connell.

Tyson, perhaps the on August 24.

The

drome has good facilities. ** since.

the irksomeness of early Carlisle-born player set his goal 22-year-old Stepney boy's first bowler in the world, is also for accommodation and training,

since beating Amateur International fight

Ronnie univerzity

A with training must have been obviated at m

BA including a swimming pool and in these unusual surroundings. "cap" and an Amateur Cup Final Clayton for the British feather-degree case of brawn allied indoor gymnasium.

Last winter he felled and enjoyable than modal

A cinder track will shortly be So much more

proceeded to win weight title. The contest will be to brain. both last season with over 10 rounds at Dst. 21b. Irees to improve his strength, laid. Actual track and feld lapping round and round the them

Auckland. Now this Mical represented Italy 08 a and it is a curious coincidenco events will take place at Cardif same old familiar football pitch. Bishop

talented Inside-forward wants a bantamweight In the 1932 that Alan Moss and Peter Anns Park, the famous Rugby Brighton's anties on the full "cap," and has left relegat Olymple Games-(London Ex-Loader ndertook the same works stadium(London Express Sor-

prese Service).

in previous years.

vice). memories of those equally great Belgian sands attructed hundredsed Middlesbrough for Chelsea.

THE TRAIL-BLAZERS The success of Britain's middle and long distance runners with their 1-2-3 victories In the Kapire mund Commonwealth

Games at Vancouver have stirred

athletes who, under inferior Sechnical and track conditions, blazed the trails Immediately

World War 1.

Most of them come from Oxford and Cambridge Universi ties and ran in the colours of the famous Achilles Club. What a orvalcade they form-H. M. Abrahams, G. M. Butler, D.G.A. Lowe, E.D. Mountain, V. E. Morgan, H. B. Stallard, Lord Burghley, C. A. J. Emery, K. 8. Duncan.

Lord President

Athletic priately Burding

Burghley is now of the Amateur Association, Bur- crippled by giving echibitions to long acter he had actively retired Bendy Duncan is now Hon.

Secretary of the British Amateur Board, and Harold Abrahama 13 the Amateur Athletio Association's Hoo.

perhaps

Behind the scenes, the two men of the representa- they bunch I have named who Eave done mort to bring British

tation to their prosent high

arw Abrahama and Butler and in sharply contrasting

brahams: 'bas the statistical then analyson racer like a vsemi accountant looks at a columns of Agu wa Hin is aimkoni

to the sport,

THE

WEEK END

GAMBOLS

"The beans are coming,

through

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LOOK GEORGE, THE BEANS ARE COMING' UP

McCarthy Fight Italian

wit have to do quite a lot tho Welsh Empira replanning. They are the first Federation, has announced that Northamptonshire professionals ever to be selected for an MCC new swimming pool is to be bullt at Cardiff for the 1958 tour of Australia, though, of Empire and Commonwealth course, F.R. Brown, captain of Games, the 1950-51 team, played for the samo county.

man

by Barry Appleby

YESTERDAY

WANT

IVE WATERED THEM EVERY Y

AND GIVEN THEM COME: | BOX OF SEAN PLANTS, TILISER

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fastest

It is also planned to use the nearby St. Athan aerodrome as an "Empire Vlilage" to house visiting athletes,

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