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WEST INDIAN CRICKETERS

THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1957.

These members of the West Indies cricket team which is to tour Britain this summer are pictured on their arrival in Southampton aboard the as Golfto. They are, from left (top row): Clyde Walcott; Tom Dewdney; team cap- tain John Goddard; Wesley Hall; Garfield Sobers; Denis Atkinson; Everton Woekes; Alfred Valentine."

Bottom row, from left; Rohan Kanhai; Roy Gilchrist; Nyron Asgalari; Collie Smith; Bruce Pairaudeau; Gerry Alexander; and Andy Ganteaume, -- Express Photo.

EVERTON WEEKES SAYS

Lancashire League Cricket Does Not Spoil Test Match Technique

By ARCHIE QUICK

The West Indian cricketers are in London, revelling in the April sunshine and hoping it will stay that way all summer. One of the newcomers, fast bowler Roy Gilchrist, had the surprise of his life for he was under the impression that there were po sunny days in England this time of the year—if at all!'

Captain John Goddard told me that his team are essentially hard ground and "hot day" cricketers, but they were not to be ruled out if there was another wet Bummer. "Bowlers like Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine," he said, "can operate on damaged wickets as well as Lock, Laker and Wardle." They certainly have had plenty of experience in the Midlands und Lancashire in League cricket,

THE GAME NEEDS CHARACTERS

THIS CALYPSO BOY PUTS FUN INTO CRICKET -NOT MATHEMATICS

By GEORGE - WHITING

FIRST GO

London.

Cricket this English summer, it seems, is to be brightened up by the calculus and calypsos. The men of the counties, having bored the customers and all but played themselves out of business, are to be rescued by mathematics,

Meanwhile, the Test match scene awaits the West Indians, legitimate successors to those simple fellows who led us such a song and dance here in 1950.

In the humble opinion of departed at 458. Plainly the limb-jerking exercises akin to this cricket-loving department, man for a cricket crisis,

an athlete Rexing his muscles at we are going to get more fun

pistol-point, or a boxer jiggling from the enlypso boys than Test matches? Smith, against around in his corner. from all the Bude-rule and these same Australians, hit two stop-watch wallahs

fours to reach a century at his The game needs characters, first attempt, and if any school- Showmanship? Could be, But not equations, which a one bay can dream up more there is a wise and level hend reason why those of us who dramatic introduction than that on

Collie Smith's wicke pay cash for our cricket are I shall be pleased to hear about shoulders. Otherwise, George snacking long-dry-lipa at the it.

Hendley, Jamaica's coach, would advent of O'Neil Gordon Smith However, cricket being cricket never have wasted time on him. known to one and all as and Collie Smith being mortal Sherlock, who, as the soft- Nor would Father Hugh Collie, and reputedly the most it has also to be recorded that dynamic, most impetuous, most his second Test

spoken founder appearance Government-sponsored

of enterprising, and most versatile brought our hero two ignoble

"boys performer in the party of 17 noughts. And if that were not took the orphan Smith in hand not town" for the under-privileged, West Indlans touring England disaster enough, the selectore this summer,

the

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dropped him like a hot brick at the impressionable age of Lord Cobham, talking on TV for Test No. 3-after he had ten.

other night, called, Collle collected $17 runts In five Smith "mercurial," That's fine. Innings

Australian attack.

off the

For there

Smiths, are two One is the firecracker we shall folds soon see setting cricket

He also described him as a man who could get two centuries in one match, and two ducks in

In a week or two, we should alight. The other is the grato- the next.

be seeing whether Collle Smithful young man who Oweg That's

job, fine, too. Precision jobs can adjust his belligerent ways education, аго All very well—especially to the trickier wickets of Old Pretty nearly everything else to NOW they have introduced England. Maybe he will not be Father Sherlock. vulgar fractions into the first permitted to take much liberties

the box-office,

TOO BAD

games,

and

Collio does not forget. Within first

century for

innings' lead—but this old game, with a rising ball as he does

Dan hour or two of his of ours will not come to much | back home-but who cares? For harm

Jamaica and that at the

beyond the boundary line hundred in his nest Test, he was hands of us "mercurial" types. Nor will there will assuredly come the

incomparable joy of watching a reading the lesson at the boys'

town Hour of Worship. young cricketer whose aim in life is to Have A Qo.

Calypso Collie, you are very welcome, Make yourself at So....let us keep an аррте- They tell me that Smith, as

home. clative eye on that dusky, broad-soon as he has played, bowled,

-(London Express Service). shouldered young man in

fielded a ball, bursta

(COPYRIGHT) maroon cap prowling restlessly

the covers like a looking for breakfast.

panther Colle Smith, no less, and the cager- ness of his limbs as he moves

in

towards the ball would assuredly bring approval from Hobbs himself, or from Collie's own

immortal cover-point compatriot

Learte Constantine.

Bowling? Give him a ball' with the shine off and he will Everton Weekes, who had | Casuals and England foot- year or so ago genial com- | spin

off-breaks pin you sharpish Buch Q phenomenal batting ball at right back.

panion. The last years of his that could collect ample average for Bacup in the They are a gay set of fellows, fe, I am sorry to say, were dividends from the early-season Lancashire League last summer, fund of their enlypsos, and clouded with extreme Ill-greenery of English pitches, Bald that Saturday afternoun | they bring the

Give him a sparkle health and embitterment, same

bat, and he'll cricket did

Test into their cricket, n not spali

we well It all started when he be-handle it with the same killing Match technique.

remember when Weekes, Wor-camo unit to stand at the instinct 5 Everton Weekes, "You have to get runs quick- | reli and Walcoll, ulded. by crease.

For a summer or two Underpitched? Overpitched? Too ly, it is true" he said, and Valentine and Ramadhin, beat he had continued to offelate bad.

The explosive Mr Smith will that might lead to a disastrous England by three

that style in Tesis, but there are one,

his do his best

to smite the ball Some

faraway with into

places-without Teflect Lunenshire League so that your

pausing to

upon the awful consequences of missing defence does not deteriorate.

it not

half

grand bowlers

In the

of

cl069 years,

to while in such great pain matches

he was incilned to show projudkes - especially Australians,

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However, our Mr Smith does not think in terms of sixes only when he is near his "lon." He thinks in terms of sixes all tho auto-time.

or

Into

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New York.

The next six-day bike races in the US. will be one- day races, promoters have agreed after financial failures in races at Louisville and Chicago.

“We will use a portable wooden track such as they do in Europe, assemble it in a few hours at a cost of $600, and hold one-day races, moving from city to city," said Harry Sperber, press agent, promoter and linguist, perhaps the only man in America who is truly interested in six-day races.

The

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"It cost us $10,000 in lumber and labour alone to build the track in Chicago, sald Parys, European-style track 18 be assembled in portable, can three hours by three or four workers, and the cost is $600.**

Six-day rates in the US. scem inevitably to carry over into the courts. That

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Frank Chester is dead at the

Not that he ever Fave a dis-

altogether. that simply "In fact, I do expect comparatively early age of 81, honest decision;

Old man Wisden may bring gave Ra stronger opposition in the Tests He was to the cricket umpiring when he

Australian in a verdiet of suicide on all what Joe Davis is to "Out" he showed that he was who than I had in Lancashire, and world

come unstuck trying to the back reach their century with six it will certainly

pertec- not unpleased to see be on better snooker an unrivalled

tlonist, abnost wickets, Some of those In

infallible. of him! His hand-raising for-but Collle Smith, riging 23,

He

dismissal Wps more a has not yet got round to worry- Lancashire, where you are ex-"atood in 48 Test Matches, and the

Sperber spoke as ho and publicly," Sperber said. *I that

that pected to get fifty quick runs,

is a record

will gesture of satisfaction. So muching oyermuch about Wisden.

Louis Parys, wealthy Brussels, enough people know about the WHY CHINESE You will get the answer are not up to standard-al-never be beaten. He was a first so that Lindsay Hassett refused

In the last trial match before Belgium, Industrialist who was race, we

crowds. will get the though most of them are."

county umpire for 28 to have Frank as umpire in the the West Indies party was financial backer for the recent Cleveland showed that. AL

another Final Test at the Oval in 1933. picked for England, Colile went six-day races in and that is

Cleveland, Louisville and Chicago I didn't Examination studies will pre-ngure thut will never be vent brilliant Frank Worrell equailed,

He was diplomatically. re-to the wicket after tea with a Loulaville and Chicago, survey-have the time or the means to Job right."-United from playing in some of the For you see Chester became red, and that was when the score of 78. At the end of one ed the wreckage of the Chicago do carlier county games,

balls but as an umpire when he was only 25 ron enteres his soul, The MCC more over he was 102, the six venture.

having been sent Mr Goddard said, Weekes, years old in 1022

announced that he was to have

mado They restricted a'journeying for 6, 2, 0, 4, 0, 0. Q Testimonial but Clyde

cost Walcott together with suffered the amputatlan of

Cleveland, but Louisville Worrell-are among

In his second century for them $10,000 to $15,000, and the best urm in World War I and be subscriptions to one chilling per dozen batsmen in the cause umpires are not appoint-person. Admins of the great- Jamalea against the Duke of they lost another $25,000 in

there Norfolk's

ho XI,

drove Chicago, world, and the West Indians ed so young these days, Only est umpire of them all,

one-time fore, were officially only able to Australia's

Test have others to back them up. after they have finished an

contribute

Instead

of bowler, active career, And Frank's pro-

George Tribe, high, Everyone seems plased that mising career on the field was

wide, and handsomely out of #uineas, Walcott has been appointed

the ground off muccessive bails Chester thought he had been to progress from 95 to 107. vice-captain. It effectively discut short at Salonika. Ho won his county the poses of any chance

for deprieved of thousands of pounds colour bar raising its

Worcestershire when only. 10, as he may well have been- ugty head. Aitkinson, Alexander and and once in a great innings of and never hesitated to say so Patraudeau will be white men 178 not out against Essex ho There was some suggestion that

England I should write the hit fast bowler and willingly serving under

1. Pay Parades. but there was 60 burly and genial Clyde-one or captain J.WILT. Douglas for biography,

Fay Parades will first

be held a below (payment will not One much vituperation in his views ull-four sixes in one over. greatest

year later, with the

*** be made unless CAB. Identity from Bushey Heath of Austrails and the ruling body Australians rampaging through happened in 1948, when it st

seemed the bikers might be Card in produced): the I abandoned

Idea. the islands, Smith and. of course, where his big delight was his that

,,(a) Personnel of the undermen- comeback in and kitchen garden, Nevertheless, I mourn the pass- wicketkeeper. pal, Allie Binns, is a Cambridge double "Blue" at flowers

Two rival Pro CAS, Paymaster, at the Kowloon Moned units will report to the tools some of t

the aniles from cricket and soccer, and has was a personal friend of mine ing of a great sportsman and a

moters brought European stars Training Centre between 1800 and the faces of Messrs. Lindwall, played both for the Corinthian- for about 35 years, and untii a 'master of his trado.

Miller and Johnston with a to the US. for races in various 1900 hours on the dates stated:-

6.0.57. (Monday), Shamshulpo sixth-wicket stand of 277 cities and seemed to be doing zone.

well enough untit one group 0.5.47. (Wednesday), . Yaumati Jamaica's best-ever against an

Zone, Hung Hom Zone. Australian aide. Collle arrived hit Washington.

„19587. (Friday), Mong Kok Zone, at 89 for four, hit 100, and

The Taco WOD a Anancial Kowloon City Zone.

131.57, (Monday), Timahal failure, a group of European Zone. Rescue Servico (Kowloon) stars withdrow, charging they Despatch Service (Arro 4). were not being paid daily as per tioned units will

(b) Personnel of the undermen- report to the agreement, and then sued the CAS. Prymarier at the CIA, J. promoter.

Headquarters between 1730 and 1000 bours on the dates slated?— NO BETTER LUOK

15587, (Wednesday), Eastern Zona (30001-33000)

17.0.57 4Friday), Sperber ran a race in New

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V. Kitches York Anny (Club); RAF V Eastern (CH): NATY success, and a 1952 race in San (Hongkong), Despatch Service (Area 20,557 (Monday), Rescue Servios KMB (Navy) Police v South China Francisco had no better luck Headquarters). (39); matches at 6 pm,

WILD 220.17. (Wednesday), Western and Division: Ting Wall Y CMD The recent trio of races (UV) o pm: Tramways v RAF Sai the Arst in America since then, Zone Wan (Un) Pe

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them. $8,000. He settled out of Meeting HKFA Council Meeting at 8poria court for $4,500. Hoad, B. Detball,

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