1954-08-28 — Page 17

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1954

SPORTING SAM

By Reg. Wootton.

REFLECTIONS ON THE FINAL TEST AND THOUGHTS ON THE FUTURE

By PETER DITTON

Where Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, India and the West Indies failed, little Pakistan, babes of the Imperial Cricket Conference, have succeeded. First go, they have won a Test match in England and, more important still, drawn a four-match series.

It

It is true that the weather played a considerable part in the matches. ruined the first game at Lord's and almost certainly saved Pakistan from defeat at Manchester. But that is merely part and parcel of an English summer and in no way detracts from the merit of their performance.

ahead

Don't Get The BRITISH

Breeze Up!

Says BERNARD HUNT

Don't get the wind-up when it's windy. That is what my father used to Relax rather than stlifen up. Don't let a breeze alter your style. If you do, it will beat you and ruin your golf.

say.

I am well aware that all that is much easier said than accepted and put Into practice. Very few of us can really ignore the problems which blow Into our game when half a gale suddenly hits us. But the old advice-not to get the wind up and not to stiffen up-is thoroughly sound. I have always found that knowledge gets rid of panic quicker than anything else, so let's discuss this wind problem more closely.

in

The

Pitching with the wind be hind is always tricky-especially if the ground la hard. There is no trick shot to help you here, You merely have to use common senso and judgment to pltch shorter than usual and Judgo your run up to the pin.

When I am hitting inte wind | portant thing to remember is to I only alter one thing in my restrain your desire to alam awing and that only a frac really hard and knock the ball Ulon. All I do is keep my hands out of sight. That would amount attle more in front of the to the old "press" again. Get club-head at the addreng and it into your mind that you throughout the chot. The main don't need extra power. point is that the alteration is wind is dead behind you to very minute. And it is designed supply it. If you put the ball in the air the wind will do the lower than to keep the ball usual in flight. If the wind in rest. of near gale force I might also Some people and they can got shorten my swing a little and extru height by hitting from a widen

tions my starke slightly in higher toe, I never think that a order to try to maintain balance good idea. I always find more easity.

The best way to losce power.

you fool it would help to keop got a better pick-up and still balance; hit firmly and freely retain the punch you want, Is through to the hole; nover try to play the bail a little further | to steer. | from your front foot than usual. The accent, as with all modifiça- tions In golf, is on the word

DON'T KIT HARDER

Otherwise I just go through not to and hit the ball in the ordinary Like England since the war, to England lies eight years mind England's desire

The strong tendency of lose any of the early Tests, but way. Pakistan owed a great deal to a

and while a number pair of key pinyers, with other the

be now the Ashes have been re- always to try to hit in hardere". team present

will

negative policy than usual, because you know members of the team playing challenging for places there gained such a

you

will lose length into A a minimu secondary, but nonetheless imm-, must be

of eight would not be justifiable.

head-wind, At all costa you portant, roles.

vocancies upon which young-

must curb that feeling. You lers now learning to handle a

simply must not press From bat and balt CAN concentrate then endeavours.

EQUAL OF ANY

a medium-paced new-ball bow-

In Fazal Mahmood they have

It is unfortunate, of course. ler who, of his type, is the equally the profits from the

In the will 3:04

tour

tho tec астер! a little less

length. Through the green take

Four bowlers plus Bailey and

Evans wicket-keeper

would for sul leave Englund room

Ave only

baismen. specialist But Batley at number six and Evans ut number seven are

"tal looking

then at number 91x and Wardle at number seven.

be of sufficient pro better of any in the world. doll-like 19-year-old Hanif they portions to permit lavish spend-

way of cricket Evans Test schools and the provisions

have an opening batsman

all the subtle Mull} of a veteron.

Without n shadow

adele.

with 10%

In the

of

Of the first Ave, Hulton and

equijazen, But money la not

of doubt, important and providing the Compton are automaile choices any pre

important The

In other

is

question The more credit to him, there. whether such oplinisin cath

words fore, that in the short space of Justified, three months he wus able to England's showing at the Oval bring together the best players to be taken as a basis on which from a party in whose original judge their performance

election he was not concern

nod. Apart from Faza; and Hanif.

who

Australia?

in

To a degree I feel this is the

schsona

a club, or two clubs, more than usual. But don't press. As soon as you try to press you start to sway or lurch or lose tim-

whole ing, and the

thing ip ruined.

the

I Am all against the many fancy ideas that are sometimes the for beating without put forward

May wind. The simpler you

consider- It will make life ably casier for Hutton if goe from or both

reproduce

cab

have already been mention- ed, one also needs to single out case. But I am still banking on best county form in Australie.

Hutton to have the Ashes In the MCC his possession when

OBVIOUS LESSONS

wicketkeeper Imtiaz Ahmed. who caught seven batsmen in the last match

to bring his arrive home next year. total for the series to 11. le was already

Д good wicket- keeper when the tour and has since improved every match.

space

your

Summing up these main points then don't got "windy" in the wind; don't press; don't sway; don't go in for extrema altera

tio to your swing or i

In brief-relax and make use of the wind rather than let it panic you.

Arsenal Go To Russia

-Time The Russians

Came To Highbury

Says HAROLD PALMER

Arsenal face the next serious challenge to English soccer. Arrangements are now nearly complete for them to meet Spartak or Moscow Dynamos at the Moscow Stadium on Tuesday, October 5, and for a return game by floodlight at Highbury on Tuesday, November 2,

the

The other thing you nut

they could walk Into

nest is there as it now mustus should be Edrich. Presum- NOT do, is to try to steer the sent-day

side. They, as

be, the game will continue to log that Simpson, as the only ball to keep it on line. Hit it Hutton and Hedser for England, prendi and grow,

other recognised opening bats-crisply and armly, and mash the were the cornerstones upon which The victory cannot have doneman, geta the number two posi-club-head right through to

to hole. Kardar, himself no mean cricket-uther than encourage Australian tion, this leaves one place

for between May, er, built up his match-winning hopes of regaining the Ashes in be fought

the months ahead. For even Cowdrey and Graveney. It took him some considerable white England were forced to

Cowdrey is us yol time to hit upon the match-t upon a rain-affected wicket

overscus four experience, winning combination. He found, in their first innings they were

has played in the West Indies keep your swing and as many touring captains before bowled out On a perfectly and Graveney has experience whole approach to the problem. him, that pre-conceived notions good pitch 01 the second

there as

as well as india. In the the botter. For instance I never as to the likellest-looking Test

attempt.

West Indies neither he nor May try to "hook" a shot to counter eleven do not always work out

Although in practice,

is fulfilled the high promise they a wind which sweeps from left

Arsenal's opponents are not decided yet. be had shown

during previous to right. Instead, I prefer the

hitting the vast Moscow Stadium, with its 100,000 capacity, is in England. Though much simpler idea of

have straight down the left hand sido since their return they matches.

wind to bring the ball in if it the opposition should they be showing better form. been scoring heavily in county of the fairway and allowing the the home of the Dynamos, apparently Spartak will provide

wants to do so.

whoever face more goals than most in Anyway, wind is blowing When the

Arsenal at Moscow will certainly First Division. I have Bever merely right to left

believed in shooting a line about their reverse the procedure-hit down be the team to visit London.

"There is an air of purpose- Arsenal, but when England were the right hand side of the talr-

fulness about this place today, on top of the world it was the way and again let it drift in

Commented the not-so-weighty Arsenal players who were in to the middle. If there is plenty Tom Whittaker, -(London Express Service.)

after the de- greatest demand for the national I don't mind of fairway

Sir Stanley Rous, side, even closing my stance little parture of to get slight draw to help the the FA Secretary, and the First TABLE TENNIS ball to

"In those days the idea was run with the wind Secretary of the Russian Em-

should have There are obvious lessons to

helping it For the handicap bassy with whom he had been that the players be learned from the defeat in-

TOURNAMENT player that might be a bit risky, finalising the tour arrangements. the ball in training about once week. We look it for granted First and Nicted by Pakistan.

but it does help to give aston-

That "air ta not

to that we were on the right lines. foremost is that there are not

ishing distance if you play it

The Arsenal Highbury.

ma- The Continentals have shown us And then there are the two enough good batsmen in Eng- PLANNED

properly. other heroes of the final victory,

chino may move a little heavily more, but we can get back, we land to justify a "tail" which

up and poss pint-sized off-spinner Zulfiqar commences

because it is so large, but it is can catch them and the equally diminutive From this

alive and well ordered with them. We have been challenged it follows logically Non-Chinese table tennis

human element.

and we accept the challenge." Wazir, Hanif's elder brother. that five bowlers as such alone players are to have a tourna

Zuingar's lack of height will cannot be included against

all to themselves. Many people insist ment

No one works by the clock, It would not surprise me if hla Australia. handicap him in

properly hit ball is not affected always

1s imbued with one of these days Arsenal's No. This is being organised by

by the wind. To a large extent but everyone bowling but he does his best

that is probably true. The the spirit of unselfish endeavour 8 played an attacking game. It to make amends by tossing the Hutton has been given seven the Missions to Seamen at

for the sake of the club.

would not indicate any depar- ball well up and loses little in specfallet bowlurs for the tour, Gloucester Road and entries trouble is that none of us can

ture from the defensive centre- hit the ball properly addition

all-rounder 10

Incen way of

so doing. in of accuracy

That spirit starts in the office half. It would simply Wazir, a slightly partly figure,

time. There is laways a degree and extends to the most funior the adoption of the Continental therefore, close on September 30.

somewhere. error The organisers feel that there why when you are playing many combinations upon which

of the young hopes who gure habit of having a player with be can work, and the eventual

the trinis on Arsenal's new No. 3 on his back doing that. wicket compositioned

pitch to the green, of the attack will should be considerable interest Why

into such a tournament as

training ground at Southgate. thewind, It is so often better per-in by the

at Chinese-run com- play a "pushed" type of seven

AS ADEQUATE formances of the various In- standard

high for

the iron rather than your usual high dividuals on Australian wickets. petitions

Arsenal may be eriticised for would, I think, be average non-Chinese player. mistake to revert to the tactics The Secretary of the Missions Dumber eight or nine. The pushed seven keeps the ball employed In England last year to Seamen is also making avail- lower in fight, and the push,

a badminton court for

with your bands alightly lead when only three specialist able

helps it to In Pakistan the impetus bowlers

in Servicemen who wish to use it. ing the clubhead, employed

This will be available only in hold lino. which the win will give to the addition to Bailey.

The

combination

When you are playing with cause of crickot should be almost

WEB cx-daylight hours every day of the The next visit iremely effective, Immeasurable.

bearing in week.

the wird behind you, the im

the

in

storted with

number Blx.

Bailey. There are,

has a ne defence, with bat held remarkably upright, and as he showed In the last stand with Mahmood, his lack be of inches are no handicap when it comes to punching the ball

on the off-side.

DIMEASURABLE

THE

WEEK-END

It

were

GAMBOLS

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WILL YOU TAKE COFFEE

HAD GOME MYSELF A SHORT | SIRF.

·ER. WHÁT · HAPPEN!

TO THE OTHER WAIT?

HULLO, DEAR, YOU'RE UP EARLY

-DID YOU FORGET ITS SUNDITY

HET BEEN TAKEN ILL, ER, SOMETHING HE ATE UPSET. IMM

that a

all the

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Typical of the Arsenal spirit Peter Goring's reaction the development of the stopper when Mr Whittaker told him centre-half, but Mr Whittaker's that he would be tried as tho By his successor to Joe Mercer at left- defence is as adequate

half. team's is on the field..

"Don't forget," he says "that! over the years we have scored

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Goring is sparing in his speech and at first his comment was merely "If you say so, He was not very enthusiastic, but willing to do his best. Now Mr Whittaker believes that he in really getting to like the idea and in last week's trial his forra impressed everybody.

Arsenal made only one close season capture They paid about 210,000 to Brentford for their promising young *.forward, Jimmy Bloomfeld,

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There may soon bo marè spectacular moves by Arsenal. I asked Mr Whittaker if they would buy and, his honest ad- minsion that they would prised me.

sur-

"I think we must," he said. "We must have some colour." So I pressed him about John Charles, Leeds and Welsh In- ternational. Yes, he had to agree 'he would like to have him - and the necessary Advances have been made,

Charles is a good club man. [He 'wants' stay with Leeds,

who curtainly do not want. well maghira; That makes Mir Whitakers all the more “osper, "We must beye men who haya #good, alub, volritis, ind with

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