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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1956.

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BOOKS

BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS

'W.G.' WAS BOWLED FOR SINGLE FIGURES ... IN NEW YORK

By J. P. W. Mallalieu, MP

HE first time I saw

Don Bradman bat พยส In Hyde Park. Even more oddly, this Hyde Park was in Chicago.

I knew, even then, that cricket was still played on the Eastern seaboard. In- deed. I had myself played five years previously against the Haverford College team which came from Philadel- phia to tour English public schools.

But it was news to me that anyone played cricket solely

1 Last letter of Greek alphabet in the Middle West, that

(5),

2 Stigmas (5).

3 Lakes (5).

most aggressively American section of the whole United

to see

the second run away with him, it does seem as though now there are signs of real revival.

Test match at Sydney.

Now this American, Henry Sayer, has written a

This is partly due to increased

arrivals of University students.

4 Current month (abbrev ) (4). States. Yet here, in 1982, book which takes away from cricketing countries such

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witness

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28 Permit (5).

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10 Yields (5).

18 Disturber of the peace (0).

10 Frees from dirt (G).

22 Part of a flower (5).

23 Brooks (0).

24 Arab vessels (8).

23 Mimicked (4).

VESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acrous, 1 Appear, 3 Damps. Venom. Aurces. 10 Nurie, 11 Rival 12 Eels, 12 Terse, 18 Delete. 18 Needed. 20 20 Scers, 22 Wisc. 23 Rinne, 25 Drear, 20 Easter, 27 Never. 28 Heeds. Shared Down: Amateurs, 7 Park Lone, 3 Aver. 4 Rended, & Donated, Errand, zi Berle, 24 Earn.

A

Screased staffs of

United.

was an Australian touring some of the surprise; for it as the West Indies, Australia in and New Zealand. It is partly cricket side

eleven shows that playing an

due to the has

history British

and drawn from some half dozen America clubs in Illinois.

which is long and by no Nations delegations. meals over.

But even more it is due to the Mr Sayer tells of Abraham fact that baseball is now only of I was even more surprised Lincoln watching a match in

interest as a professional game. of W. G. Grace twice

Few spectators nowadays bother when 21 years later, an 1840,

to walch amateur Üniversity American, announcing that being bowled in Now York for

of Australion games and no one plays baseball, he had once played "on" a single figures,

in except In

13 B professional, after Gentlemen of England team, touring teams being beaten leaving school or university.

Philadelphia, of Test matches flew from the United States between the United States and J. Barton King. C. B. Fry calls "the best

solely to see the second Test Canada and of G.," whom which men can play as opposed

the American.

swerver

match at Lord's und, a year later, despite aerious

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Indeed, until the

ver saw in my life."

Civil War

Ainulet, Pests, 1 Register, 15 Endeared. 18 Desires, 17 Lessees, operation, flew to Australia

Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN... by Walter

Col UP

Violin

Recital

ALBERT HALL

TONIGHT

7. PM

ALBERT HALL

CARLORT

This Jack A 1cam gamd

to watch after they have begun to earn their living, has revived enough interest in cricket for cricket was the summer game the University of Pennsylvania

о

in the United States and though, to re-establish it as an officlai thereafter, baseball, giving more Immediate and more spectacular game, for numerous clubs to diversion and needing much less point full-time couches and for

some schools to

adopt it under preparation of pitches, pushed it the Influence of English masters into the background in the post visiting the United States under war years, it did not swomp it. the teacher exchange plan.

All this is satisfactory. And

have of yet I doubts. It le not entere.

Latterly one has heard cricket In America mainly in ly that I should be shocked to terms of Sir C. Aubrey Smith's hear an American wicket-keeper famous team in Hollywood-and at Lord's shouting what he did that was mainly composed of recently shout in Baltimore such Englishmen

Ronald "Gee, buddy, grease that old pill Coiman and Boris Kartoff.

In here."

But

bas

right

Far worse is the fear that

cricket, of a sort, persisted from Coast to Coast Americans, with their thorough and though Mr Sayer; who is attention to detail with quickly to I second-class nearly as carnest about cricket reduce us

remove the Billy Graham is about re- cricketing power, ligion, may be letting his wishes MCC headquarters to Washing-

ton and then change the game:

• A Yankee Looks at Cricket, by I know beyond recognition. Henry Bayer: Putnam, 10, 64.

By NANCY SPAIN

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

Came The Yawn

THE SOPHISTICATED OR BORED-TO-DEATH YAWN- TURNED ON WHILE THE REST OF THE PARTY ARE SPLITTING THEIR SIDES.

BY HARRY

WEINERT

"--~ AND NO

STARCHY FOODS /

AS A GENERAL RULE,

A YAWN SHOULD BE HIDDEN, BUT THAT

ISN'T ALWAYS NECESSARY.

ONE DOESN'T MAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING TO YAWN ABOUT

-ITS CONTAGIOUS.

IF YOU MUST YAWN,

DON'T WASTE IT,. SAVE IT UNTU-

SOMEONE TELLS YOU THE

PLOT OF AN OLD TV MOVIE YOU'VE SEEN FIVE OR SIX

TIMES.

COIR, 1984 BY GENERAL FEATURES

CORP. THEWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

THANKS TO POLITICE THIS IS GOING TO

GOOD YAWNING YEAR.

FOR MY SAKE

GET A NEW HATA

JUST PRESS

THE BUTTON AND THE

ELECTRONIC MAID

WILL DO ALL YOUR

HOUSE WORK

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What's The Difference?

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HAVE been making a collce- Ition of millionaires thla

year.

news.

Milliomires are always So I am very glad to add a muli-millionaire in fiction, CASH MCCALL (Hammond and Hammond, 168.); the hero of in 440-page novel by Cameron Hawley,

Fifty year-old Cameron Hawley Is an American business man who writes TV plays, magazine stories, and Mim scripts on the side. Tho firat novel he wrote about big business, "Executive Suite," was a best-seller. (Remember the movie with Barbara Stanwyck in 10547) So he has followed with flash, up, quick as a "Cash McCall."

it

Cash McCall is tall, Hasom, terribly ruthless and full of negligent accomplishments.

buya

Не has made his money a nice, modern way. He struggling little companies that are running ito tax dificulties. And he Bells them again, quickerty quick, to a bigger company that might quite easily like a big los.. Quite often he owns the

LORY

78ger company too

He began his gambling climb to

wealth because he didn't like a sanctimonious speech his Dad made about wallpaper at: a wallpaper convention,

in

And, of

COUTSE, Cash fails love, He loves Lory, a beautiful. book

illustrator, daughter of the president of Suffolk Mouldings (B. M. makes nasty sounding plastic cabinets for TV sota)

I am sorry to my that love warps Cash McCall's business rense, He buys Surfolk Mould Ings for £2,000,000 and resells It for £3,000,000. And so far

t. I can

BIB

make out he solla: 16 to himed. Either was h enemies fry

(Bring "still against him for conspiracy

Cash hardly notices, becaus he is crushing Lory, to

to him.

In

the converted bomber at the ume, where the whispering of her name

was, a.

|roaring, her, as microp

came with pich

ing threat of fear,

honest Inescapable

Which

goon to:

Dell, had written of, Ronistule

couldn't have done much