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Even

I hit Grepory for sim successive sizza 'bur of the ground and the game had to be held up while members of the MCC went out to buy a new supply of balls..

We were

HOPE OF

HIS SIDE

because nervous

it was svary school-

bay's greatest moment.........

but did it really happen?

That is for YOU to decide.

us four runs nearer to victory. absolutely Victory already was assured.

It

was still assured when Monty took a slash, sicked it towards the slips, and the sips, igotting both hands to it, put i on the floor. It was still assured when, just as 1 W03 in the of a second Fun, the

"took the balls

first making sure that the ball was in his hands. It that we were dismissed for 7 and second

small was still assured when, with Summerfelds

two boys have time to get rid of their nine by won

runs to get, I looked to- the little pavilion and wickels. We thought a; the time nerves while they are fleiding wards that this second lawings buskreis anyway, there was no possi- saw four members at our side,

bility of rain.

But that sort of no longer able to bear suspense

SLUTTY was rather unsporting and just thing would not do for Summer in isolation,

across to won the tos. huddle with the rest of the team. the kind of thing you would fields. If they

with the wicket marled and expect from Summerfelds.

Now, in 1921, we were due to play them once again and this time I was in the First Eleven, We were to go to their lovely, our bowling.

on the pitch,. which actually had marl in it, be condescended to and, in all probability, get whacked.

The

baked to plumbness, they must I remember wondering why be orthodox and bat. They made they should be alarmed. about 120 runs, which is pretty thing was settled. And so, by od in schoolboy cricket even and by, it was. The cores were on phab pitch. Even against level, Monty, hit a nice single, and I said to our master, who

Gloomy speech

umpiring at the batting end, members of the MCC went but ground, play

"Have we won?" He nodded to buy a new supply of balls.

and grinned, so I went down the pitch and was bowled. "You are Subsequently, I hit Macdonald

* a silly ass," said Monty. Perhaps for five successive sixes, and would have hit him for a sixth

About the next thing I re- he was thinking of that disas if he hadn't burst into tears I began to feel nervous about

member is that our captain trous second innings in the

I was but that did not prevent me, in spite of

two years pre-

and refused to bowl any more. the match a week beforehand seemed to be feeling cold. In Third Even

More likely he just

the

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would

by J. P. W. Mallalieu

Robbed.....

had

Ah that glorious summer!

the sun which still viously. HE summer of 1921

not, however, the

to dream the drowsy dusk under the wash.. poured warmth over the Beld he wanted to go on batting on that young enough then in England who dreams and believe that they

on a hard wooden sun-baked pitch. WAS the most only people

bench with his arms folded revelled in that summer. War were true. I believed this par- stand, from winning the match was sitting glorious I remember. wick Armstrong's Australian ticular dream so firmly that by a variety of spectacular feats

across, and held tightly to his when the team were over with prob- even today, I am had suprised which

not have been body, as if at any moment ha morning skies" were red, ably the two best fast bowlers when I can find no reference to remarkable in the pages of The would break uncontrollably into we knew that the day would who ever played together in it in Wisden.

Captain, but which would have shivers. "We're not going to get There was Gregory

those runs," he said.

So there it was. Between us However, that term I soon had been astounding it they really...

we had done what every school- be fine, that no cloud would one team.

tall, with his long. lean and

The matters than had been performed by me.

score was 72 for seven. boy sometimes dreams of doing come between us and the bounding," terrifying run, and more important

Apart from putting en pair of and what every writer of school- sun from the time we get Macdonald, with his shorter run Gregory and Macdonald to worry

Our most serious school Sometimes, although I was the pads, I took little notice of this boy stories sometimes makes his 2nd S

Gregory about. smoother action

I was put on to gloomy speech. up until bedtime,

rivals were was the panther, all teeth and

neighbouring wicketkeeper,

It was so lovely heroes do. But there was Monty claws and fiery eyes. Macdonald Summerfields. They were a bowl and skittled the last six to sit in the sun. Then, suddenly, complaining that because

it was 76 for nine and I was chucked my wicket away he had I do not remember that

Both were serpent. Was the

last man in.

been robbed of batting joys on the nights were ever un- venomously deadly to English Their bowling came pleasantly, hot; but they batsmen.

So there I was, slap in the that June afternoon, and there,

suddenly, was middle of every schoolboy's terrible fear about the score. gripped by a were certainly warm enough through the air at the speed of sound if not of light, hit the

dream. Forty-four runs wanted to allow us to sleep without hard, baki pitch and skimmed

wasn't worried that he might to win the match against have miscounted and that we bedclothes. Some of us in upwards again, with speed re-

deadly rival of a school whom had lost after all.

As I have my dormitory even slept on doubled, in a shower of sparks.

we had not beaten for at least told you, I had known with ab- Hobbs was ill with appendicitis,

five years and probably longer: salute certainty, almost from the bare boards under the

and our remaining batsmen were

Here

was the moment I had the moment I went in, that we long washstands, imagining par

imagined behind the towels would win. My fear was that at Nottingham ignominiously, behind the hanging towels paralysed. We lost the first Test

when I would seize a bat and, the silly scorer would not realise that we were in tents in and Gregory and Macdonald at

after a silent grip on my shoulder that as soon as Monty hit that from my captain, I would stride winning single some fanciful country far once became what Bonaparte

wickets had been w a charm to rather starchy

the game was and that the storebook frighten children into being with pebbles in their mouths, nothing. Sometimes, although I put to win the match. What in wine

began should good.

lockes down their noses and sub- went in last, I won the fact happened was that I

to stride towards the wicket

read:

A sequently want to Eton Worse, with a shattering century. But without a bat at all. The in- M. Hatt not out 30 ever since I had gone to school. it never occurred to me to coming batsman refused to lend P. Mallaku not out 14 Summerfelds, consistently each imagine that I was winning the me his because 1 bat left- beaten each of the match by stumping ten men in handed, so I just had to go back

we sent against succession, AT the practical for my own.

away.

But it was hot during the day, so that we were allowed to bathe in the river three, four, even ten times during daylight hours and a few of us even went bath- ing secretively during the night. I suppose we did some work, but

a I remember about that was classes out of doors in the shade of the trees around the playing fields. Mostly that term seemed to be swimming, cricket and glorious sunshine."

once

||

School rivals

year, had four eleven them.

The fart Matca victory manda 1. P. W, Mallabies's mind bock to what her crickət mütch, in another Just Match v401, when, he was at his preparatory school before going to Cheltenham, Later, at Oxford, he was awarded his ruggar Blue, and became president of the Union, in the war he served in the Navy wad wrote A Very Ordinary Seoman, thout his experiences as the Arctic run to Russió. A well- known journalist and writer on all kinds of sport, he has bean Socialist MP slace 1945, representing Huddersfield East.

Recrection? Watching Huddersfield Town.

lot who talked Summerfields

But they could not trighten

True, One year, our Third me. I remember how late one

made 13 and got night, lying in the towel-shaded Eleven had privacy under the washstands, I Summerfelds Third Eleven out

for-

too

knowledge of my own wicket- keeping deficiencies was strong for romanticism.

When the day camé. Suumer-

hit Gregory for six successive for 12; but the Summerfelds fields won the toss and batted sixes out of the ground and the master suggested that there was first. Personally, if I had won In the toss I would have batted game had to be held up while time for a second innings.

MISS BLOOM

STAYS PALE

UNDER THE SPANISH SUN

La Pedriza, near Madrid..

STOOD high in the by THOMAS

Guadarrama Sierras on

a rock (it might have been hewn by Henry Moore). sipping an iced vermouth and soda

and watched Alexander the Great charg ing into battle.

WISEMAN

The Grecian'wars are taking

place by kind permission of the Spanish army, who are providing men and horses, and the battles I struck a match on a are being reproduced by Prince plaster Grecian god Peter of Greece, who, the other Achilles' heel to be precise arranging the

day,

**busy was said to be

battle and as the swords clanged Cherones," as if it were a case of and the cymbals clashed it doing the choreography. my Spanish cigarette."

I must admit it was a good battle.

Miss Bloom did not seem too inspired by this news

be terrible if it were done by

ugly man,

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I

You are the small, still voice of Alexander's conscience," said,

"Really," said Miss Bloom, "that's the first I've heard of it What gives you that idea?"

"Your producer.”

A four

Well, after a ball or two, I hit a single, and then Afonty Hatt, who was a fine fast bowler but a bit erraite with a bat, hit

ately confirmed. The scorebook But my fears were immedi-

read:

M. Hatt not out 30 P. Mallalieu bowled

Johnstone 14. And so it still stands today. I have scorer. He was of course telling never forgiven that

a lie.

My dream had come true, but a two and a Summerfields toy it had also been shattered. at the other ext said

that I did Summerfields

something

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not hear and the WORLD COPYRIGHT "RESERVED

boy who

DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

| fielding mid-on shouted back to him: "We've not won yet.". And at that instant I knew that Sum- merfields were not going to win. kaew it as certainly as if I had seen it in the scorebook two days later....

Quite soon I hit a beautiful

the

left-hander's four I remember remember the ball

YES

NO

Put your tiek in the space above and keep this panel until tomorrow, when the BESWET, wil be given, together witt another series by

but they are four, marvellous, the way they move, through the covers. like dancers: Of course it is that shot, sad about the balls, but I was speeding over the grass, drop-in

so fascinated I didn't think ping over a slope and curving about them."

who

back into the air as it hit a

stone wall at the bottom of the Robert Roster

once slope, 1 rished it then because made a fim called "The Brave It is the sweetest shot in cricket.

"Oh, well, in that case I'm the small, still voice of Alex- Bull" is not going to the bull I remember it now because I've fights.. "I WOTTY too much never done such a shot again. ander's consdence."

about the bull-fighters," he I did not bother that it brought I said: “One thing puzzles me

them No, I've never about you and Alexander the said, "now that I know, Do you have love scenes worried about the bulls."

personally.

But Rassen has other worries, st? had always thought too. He is a brilliant director Alexander wasn't interested in and writer who has made (lms girls"

like "Body and Soul" and "All What makes you think he the King's Men," but this pre- was? This is a film. Don't tell sent vesture is an enormous me you believe everything in a undertaking Alm."

If this should appear un duly blase of me, let me Even Claire Bloom, as pale assure you that I was in no and fragile as a plecs of Wedg. immediate danger. Neither, wood china, turned up although for that matter, was Alex- she was not playing one of the she had any ideas about how will be a two-hour

generals ander the Great,

For in this battle, the opposing inctions had taken the

very sensible precautions of having their swords blunted and their speare fitted with rubber heads

"Costs

thousands run into I asked Miss Bloom whether

every day," said Rossen, "It 20-minute she was going to play Alexan elm. It would have cost fwice der's

love, composite

Miss as much to make it in England. Bloom said it was a secret, Of course I would have liked to

"I know Robert Rossen is directing Part One of make it in the actual locales in

but they Greece, the film during the day and enough technicians there.” "She mustn't catch the sun,"

writing Part Two, in the morn- said director-producer-writer ings Could it be that you are

"This is a to Part Two and still

THE STILL VOICE

and Alexander the Great had Robert Ressen.

->

said

I want her look- written? a stunt man to "double for him, colour Alm. During intervals in the bloody ing pale for her role." fray, the generals of both sides adjourned for liquid refresh- ments to the same improvised

bar.

ALL MOD. CON.

As you may have surmised, a firm is in the process of being made.

It is called Alexander the Great It will cost two million dollars. It will have a cast of thousands. And horses. And camels,

What was Miss Bloom's role?

don't have

THE REALIST

Ji

Miss Bloom said: "I'm not ...

He interrupted to issue, direc- saying anything."

tions to his players: "Come on, Anyway, 1 sympathised with For three weeks she has been her on having to cool her heels you're supposed to hit her. Hit staying in an £8-a-night suite and Madrid for all this time her."

at Madrid's futuristic Castellana- without being called upon ta "But we're only rehearsing," Hilton hotel, which looks as act. Knowing what a dedicated complained the actress, who though

It was designed for actress she was, she must simply had to be hit. "Can't we save space travellers, if you know be bursting to act. But I was that for the take?" what I mean, She has done one wrong. day's work so far.

Miss Bloom

with smiled infinite gentleness, twisted the strands of her hair nervously around her fingers.

MAN WITH WORRIES

"Not at all,” saià Mim Bloom.

It seemed they couldn't. Rosterz

painstaking worker, a stickler for realism.

He has built roads to take his it to certain locations, he has

"I'm having a wonderful time, levelled the top of a hill with It's lovely being paid and not dynamite so he could build on

"A couple of weeks ago," she having to work. In

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longer it; he has taken Alexander the

And elephants.. And said "I was Barsine. Now I take myself so seriously I Great up mountains and down Richard Burton

believe I am Roxane. Or it is used to have a miserable time into rivers. possible that I am Statkra- the date is 338 BC, there was some

mention of

all modern conveniences are at Statira. Do you know who I am

Though hand: a good cuisine on the playing?" battlefeld, a fleet of fast cars to

I was too serious. No

Now I

much more fun."

She has even licked over the traces to the extent of going to

And in the wake of

Alexander

coming other Hollywood

to make films here Matador

take the protagonists from the I said: "The latest news la be revolted by something s0

abull-fight” I′ expected her to BON

Now that Italy has become so

front to their luxury hotels after that you are Barsine, Roxane allen to

Vic

no, Miss Bloom covered that the sun also shines high up ighting is done, And and Statira. A compostle of all Old Vic the old school and the expensive, Hollywood has dis

But whatever your wis called

in Spain, gend three, name, you are the great love of "The : ¦ usitadors," she sighed, "WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERYED Alexander Are Great,"

they are so beautiful. It would

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