1954-09-04 — Page 17

Here You See

The Difference

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1954.

Why Not Get On Terms With

Here you see the difference between the American and British sized ball— aganist the blade of

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The American ball is on club. difference? Maybe but enough!

ALEC BEDSER

the

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FOR LEN HUTTON-A GESTURE OF ADMIRATION FROM THE WEST INDIES

There was a little ceremony in London during England's last Test He accepted a with Pakistan which touched Len Hutton very much. gold medal subscribed for and given by a group of West Indian students now living in London. It was a gesture of their admiration for Hutton's leadership of the MCC in the last tour of the West Indies-the tour which touched off some controversy,

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Prime mover in this charming gesture was John M. H. Francis, student, and the son of the former West Indian bowler who is still remembered with much respect in England.

receiver!

aut

PL

his so-called narrowly dressing room

Putsy perfected mbstuga distinguished record. "mishelding" to such an extent

1t

and gained England He laughed as he took off his that

Such Middlesex many

valuable pude and sadd: "Oh, no, records are fur real balsten, not, wicket, Clowns like me."

The Bigger Ball?

Ball? BRITISH and Best

Says BERNARD HUNT

The Americans reckon they have the edge on British golf because they are better round the greens. And they say that what gives them some of that extra precision when they are near the cup is the bigger ball they use.

A number of handicap players I know have also come to the conclusion that more matches are won round the green than anywhere else and they have fallen for the bigger ball idea. And, quite frankly, in the hope of an American Journey next summer, I am playing the Yank-sized ball quite a lot myself.

I never like to be dogmatic puts a round, If you give empty your bag of your normal about these things for I believe yourself a chance to get used to style balls and make yourself that a little bit of what you it i think that might be just play half a dozen full rounds

with the bigger one. fancy does your golf more good, | about the measure of it. very often, than what might be "beiter for you".

In other words I think this bigger or smaller ball idea is a matter of individual preference. Generally, however, I am per fectly sure that handicap players would gain far more than they would lose if they got on terms with the bigger ball. It is

casier to play,

I don't suggest that you will necessarily play a better-than- par round the first time you take one out. Like most things that are a little different-you have to get used to it and get confidence It. I estimate that you have to play at least half a dozen rounds with the Ameri- can ball before you can really judge ita advantages fairly.

SITS UP BETTER

time that, you gain if you are!

This

1 certainly fool that every handicap player abould give the bigger

real chance. Too many I have found are prepared to have a few shots with it but if they miss-hit a shot they immediately blame the ball and back they go to the old familiar thing. Best way la to

ball a chance-a

The

If I can save you four to six shots a round, 11 will be worth the discipline. In case there are some people who are away behind the times the American ball is legal for all competitions in this country. The ladies, just on much as the men, could do no harm to experiment with it.

Silent Men

Of The FA

Confess At Last

By DESMOND HACKETT

The Football Association puts itself on the penitents" bench-well, almost-when talking world Soccer affairs in the latest edition of the informative "Football Association Bulletin.”

It is as frank a confession as these silent men of Soccer have made since we crawled back from the World Cup series, but it is also only an echo of what has been said and resaid aa England slumped out of the world master class.

present evident in a large pro- portion of our club games,

Flashback (March 8, 1953): the boys up. Shake Toughen

out em right

of their plush world of football played the Get out those old

The FA says: We may argue that the rest of the world has got things endly out of propor→ tion but if we are to continue with compete

the highly to skilled Hungarians, Brazilians, Uruguayans, and Germans, we must be much more serious In easy way.

training of sweaters. the selection our teams.

First of al-and it isn't easy -you have Kot to get the old English prejudice out of your mind that you lose shormous ball. distance with the bigger It la true that you lose

bit maybe ten yards on a god drive, or 15 yards if you are

wind. Into the

But

down wind; you consistently

get a better strike at the ball; because it sits up better, and it la definitely more easy to control in the pitch shot and in pulting.

The main reason why the Americans prefer the larger circumference is that on 50 many their fairwaya of their courses 1, Hutton highest honours ericket

are of blue buffalo grass. has thick blades and our smaller shoulders! give; he has rubbed

ball nestles much too easily to with the greatest in all lands

(t. The bigger ball six and in all walks of life. But

much better on top. That does here was a spontaneous gestur

Though, of course, was not not affect us here in England, I from

from students, mainly

present at the fourth Test know, but the logic of it is im- Trinidad, with no other motive I do not regard Godfrey as a

AND PRACTICE · "clown" when I bowl between England and Pakistan, portant. than

respect and admiration for

Daily Express FA: In other words the bigger ball know cricketer. I

Hutten geinst him in country matches. I hear from the other players

Recent experiments of Fazal Mahmood's bowling OVCT that he can spiritor

punch an appreciated the

up better in difficult or comment (June 16, 1953); The special training or match prac- pitched ball through the overs on a "sticky" pitch was as good silk

made It sits FA annual meeting

DO Lice semi-difficult lies.

before internationis is as anything they had seen. with all the grace and power of Who can

comment on the South Ameri- valuable. suggest

better, too, on good lies. a Worrell. He has deeply wrong with a Hutton

Apart from the skill of his most of us can hit bali better can tour. Surely this was the cricket when such things boy- made many important runs for

then a poor lime for a frank confession in I still believe profoundly

always attack he bowled unchanged at from a good le nearly England and

one end for 3 hours 25 minutes one-why not take advantage of the presence of Soccer bosses Seventeen days before the first can be the means of bring-when they are needed badly.

it World Cup match FA were told the length of England's inninga it? I am sure, for handicap and managers that

let them ing us all closer together.

All the England players were players, that advantage outcomes to sport we are a back-pick the team now, From Hutton

train together, send them off to to another

agreed Fazal's bowling was some weighs any loss of length.

Switzerland, famous English cricketer-God-

of the best they had ever on- frey Evans, the dynamic little

countered, even bearing in mind man behind the stumps. We in

the state of the wicket. England think there wicketkeeper in the touch him when he is on form and fit; and now he has bealer Bert Oldfeld's record of the most victims in Test matches,

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deeply

behind the gift.

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Godfrey is far from finished yet, and by the time he does concede England's gauntlets imagine he will have a record which will be diMcult to over- take. I owe much to Godfrey's uncanny anticipation and agility. I like my wicketkeeper to stand up to the wicket, and I realise, If the pitch is doing anything."

buting

Fazal is a Police Superinten- dant in the Punjab, vice-captain of the team and brother-in-law to A.H. Kardar, the captain.

to

up As

The theory behind the better

ой "pitching" quality

the American ball is that the club-

and

Flashback,

when

ward nation.

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Flashback (June 9,

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Johnny Wardle, the Yorkshire left-hander, is another whom would call "deceptive" cricket- er. Johnny is the Idol of many

FA: Team selections would crowds, for he does his best to

have to be carried out earlier has been usual. Clube raise a laugh, apart from being

face makes greater contact with The bulletin continues: With-than one of the biggest hitters in the

should be asked to release game. Yet, for all his jesting and

the bigger surface and makes out exception the nations which players for, say, one day a week pranks he is concentrating hard

the ball hold a better line. Also, feature strongly in international l the time. If an opponent

when it drops, the bigger sphere football are devoting much at-(for special training. "sits" more quickly, In effect tention to (1) Training

and

Flashback (July 13, 1954): thinks he is going to win on

I am delighted to hear he has you can pitch more firmly and coaching of their star players Pick the team to play Germany advantage because Johnny is so

resisted in successfully

leaving closer to the pin. light-hearted he is doomed

at club and international level. at Wembley on December i now disappointment. Johnny knows Pakistan cricket for the English

(2) Training assemblies und ... let them work as the rest leagues. exactly what he is doing.

He has received,

TWO PUTTS A ROUND practice games for international of the world work at football with my knowledge, several tempting

teams to build up understand- THE ARCH-JESTER

offers.

At first glance that might noting and esprit de corps. "Patsy" Hendren

seem very important. But it is.

Flashback (December 15, 1953) For the very simple reason that arch-jester of them again here was a shrewd man, lose such a great bowler, and I works. The same principle after the Hungary S-for Shock able to pull the legs of the trust he will remain with them also works when it comes to Day at Wembley: The Foot- to-opposition as well as the crowd, and help to shape the future of puiting. You feel there fa more ball Association must bring up goodwill gether I have not once heard one of his favourite "dodges" the cricket of his country-as I of the ball in contact with the to date the way we prepare for solution.

am sure he will do so.

blade of your pulteras Indeed international matches. Godfrey complain or admit he was to misfield the ball.

there is and the direction seems my mind it is nothing easier to find. To Well, the balsman trying to steal a rụa sóon knew short of a tragedy when keen A

the victim of an young cricketing country loses has often he had been und

best optical illusion when he found its

players. They are been quick to spot a batsman's himself yards from homel badly needed at home, weakness and

make

sugges- tions to me how to bowl him out.

I am asking a lot.

Yet in our many

Tests

has been hurt when tho boli thumps on his body hard

fast. Moreover he has

cricket

brain

and

to

ALMOST LOST TO BOXING

Great as le his genius it is n fact he was nearly lost cricket, A. keen boxer-one can imagine the speed of his foot- work--be met with BOMO BUC- cess in the ring and had to choose between boxing and cricket as a carcer.

Fortunately for cricket tho little m

man from Kent found the call of cricket too strong, No situation is too much for God-

frey, and his unflagging enthusiasm in the feld bas often been a tonle to England -teams, but his modesty always

appeals to me.

I remember when he made 90 before lunch against India at Lord's in 1982. We wore sympathising with him in the

Rare Achievement

Not many players achieve the Board of Directors of the pro- fessional League club for whom they onco played, Howard Spencer and Chris Buckley (Anton Villa); ^ Tommy Glidden and. Billy Basselt (West Brom= Albion) Blan Seymour United), Harold (Everton and: Man- ohneter United), Bob Crompton (Binckburn Rovin), Jucke Somay (lverton), did it, and, time-inčni to the list is, Gordon

Misfeld?

THE

WEEK-END

was all.

the But

Pakistan could afford

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FA: This is thinking out loud, but the general interest in putting England again on the international map is such that wo feel confident that given

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DESMOND

And Q

Jantzen's

NEW. HACKETT'S

1954): DIMENSIONALS (August 20, I hereby pledige peace and towards the FA Pep

The FA: Young players given comment facilities and encouragement goodwill

to For a ten hankicap player the are prepared work much

Plan, American professionals reckon harder to acquire a higher the bigger ball is worth two standard of skill thon fa nt

Ly

Barry Appleby

HOURS LATER ON? WHAT A REVOLTING LOOKING MESS

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