1957-12-20 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1957.

WICKET-KEEPING HISTORY

DAVIS CUP

-U.S. Team A Very Real Threat, Says Hopman

Melbourne, Doc. In. Harry Hopman, manager of the Australian Davis Cup team, sald today be considered Bili Talbert's United States tearn "a very real threat" In nexi wock's Challenge Round.

"Wo realise the Americans have lost Herbie Flam. Bhut even if they lost Flam and Vie Seixas, I'd sull say we have something to beat," Hopman sall while watching his players in a spirited practice session.

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But he

Mulloy Off Form

Have You Ever Heard Of South Australia

Edward Pooley?

By CHARLES

STEPHEN

London.

Dismissed For 193 By NSW

Adelaide, Dec. 19. Alan Wyatt, 22-year-old New South Wales fast bowler, claimed

Sheffield Shield Champloon 10

How many people, I wonder, have ever heard of Edward Pooley,ave wickets for 36 in helping the

a 19th century Englishman who used to work in a soap merchant's office.

Probably very fow. And yet he was one of the most courageous sportsmen of his time—a man whose name deserves to be coupled with such bold men as Ben Hogan, Pietri Dorando and Jim Peters.

dismiss South Australia for 190

today.

At the end of the first day's

New South Wales had replied with 90 for two.

play in the Shield match here,

Lindsay, captain of South Aus- tralia, made 43, including two sixes and five fours.

Bruce Dooland, the Australian Tesi player playing for South, Australia, took one wicket for 42

Pooley had to suffer severe punishment in the name of sport. Jem Mace, the bare knuckle prize-fighter, once said that he would rather stand up against any man in England for an hour than do Pooley's job for runs in 11 overs later-Cidna five minutes.

break in

So the driver bought some This in a book which will bolts, stole the legs from an hotel calertain all men who have table, drilled holes through them, ever served behind the stumps and produced a stiffening gadgei and which will be n vital text-which could be bolted to either book for every student of cricket side of the frame fracture

hold the ends together. lilstury.

to

What was

this job which deplorable gap has been mast, car's frame came apart. If some- cald. "Who knows what he can do? I haven't seen Ron Holm-frightened so tough à character | adequately filled by the publica-thing was not done quickly the

Pooley was flon of "The Vallan: Stumper" car would certainly berg very much.

as blg Jem Mace?

by G. D. Martineau (Stanley half. Also tooks ko excellent a wicket-keeper. material. These are the sort of) He stood fearlessly behind the Paul, London, 15s.) boys who win tennis matches." stumps in the days when over-

arin bowling had Just been in

aird truifuced

wickets when would make the occasional ball

He stood with During

United States head high, the Loday. workoul

Selxas

out pads or gloves. and Carinar 44-year-old

Mulloy paired in a doubles practice against Holmberg and Talbert, Mulloy, who played poorly in the doubles match against the the Belgians last week's Inter-zone final, again was off- form. He had to struggle to hold his service.

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When Mace remarked about the dangers of wicket-keeping, Foley had just had three teela This knocked out in a match was a comparatively minor in jury.

Broken Fingers During

cricket career "I ndmil I've got quite

Pooley had every anger and baib.thumb bambinations in

bralten until his few doubles my hat." Talbert suld after the bands breake mere lumps of

** also admit I'm deformily teriously considering Mackay for a berth in both singles and doubles.

drill.

"But my players will be an- nounced when the draw is

made nude on Christmas Day -not before. ' ell the boys before hand.

"Mackay is a National In- whe Ter-Collegiate Champion hus a real tennis future, But Tony Trabert und 1 notized Barry three years o aid we've watched him ever since...

Ashley Cooper, Mal Ander- son, Neale Fraser and Mervyn Rose of

tea: the Australian appeared to be in top form as they practised at South Yarra, about three miles from the where the Kooyong Courts, Yanks worked.--United Press.

Martinent takes us back to the dawn of cricket when there were no regular keepers. the position being taken in turn by the bowlers,

Edge also possessed that tre- 13 mendous will-to-win which the hallmark of all great cham- plons. When his car had pune- teres he would prise tyre covers of the rims with his bare hands, trundling the cor forward to do

For many years the slumper was not expected to take also in the absence of a jack.. awkward delivery And any- thing on the leg would be left to long-stop.

An Agony

After a series of punctures all But don't imagine it was easy stopping underarm "lobs." Eveningers would be torn, bleed- In the early days the vallant and covered with dirt. Even hatt their hands to hold the wheel was an agony. A member of the first Eng-Stumper

cut by severely

The atom-Yet he would drive en, grimly. Butl tear to visit Australia,

Davis describes these scenes only 5ft Gins and bowling of such men as Alfred Was

vividly and has a rich supply of hed 10 store Myru, The Hon of Ko

Martineau Iraces the develop anecdotes about these pioneers. As a schoolboy he saw most of bad tremendous guts

ment of wicket-keeping up to

and for cock-sparrow humour.

Naturally, he was not over the present time and liberally the "glants" in action

with many years he was motor-racing sprinkles each

himself. fond of pace bowling.

Before entertaining anecdoles nbout every match he would inspect the stars behind the stumps. the wicket and report back: "First-rate wicket-slow bowling is sure to come off today."

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Although no sport has pro- duced so much literature as the noble game of cricket, precious

le has been written about Edward Pooley and those other gallant wickel-keepers of old. As in a cricket match, most at- tention has been focused on the bowlers and batsmen.

Only now, after more than two centuries of cricket, husa book been written about the history of wicket-keeping. The

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No Fair. Method But he does not choose the wicket-keeper of all greatest tine.

Since methods changed radically with the laws of the game, this could not be fairly done,

Herbert Strudwick holds the for dismissals (3,493) record and Les Ames holds the record But the for stumpings (413). author quotes that great umpire, the lute Frank Chester, as say-

Oldfield of ing that William Australia was the best of them all

Martinenu has no hesitation in the best choosing Ames as wicketkeeping - batsınazi

and Belty Snowball as the greatest woman stumper,

Alfred Lyttelton, who WAS burn 100 years ago, stands out as the greatest wicket-keeper- all-rounder. In the Oval Test against Australia in 1884, the tourists amassed the hoge total of 551, Lyttelton removed his puts to bowl and look four wickets for 10 runs!

W G. Grace said jokingly: "Get back to your pads, young man-your lobs are worse than I thought.

Great Drivers

From courugo behind the cricket stumps to courage be- From hind the driving wheel.

the question of the greatest stumper to the question of the greatest British driver.

"Sammy Davis, the doyen of British motoring journalists has produced another excellent book for motor-racing enthusisis. His subject and one on which no nan could write with more authority is "Great British Drivers" (Hamish Hamilton, London, 12s 6d).

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Davis, personal many of the greatest figuros in British motoring history, picks dozen drivers as being "great" --Charles Jarrott, Selwyn Edge, Kenelm and Sir Algernon Guin ness. Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrove, Woolf Barnato, Sir Henry Birkin, Brian Lewis, John Cobb, Richard Scamun, Reg Parnell and Stirling Mos, Younger motoring fans may feel that the present age with such notable drivers as Mike Hawthorn and Peter Collins

It

has been meanly treated. And certainly Uus book leaves me with the suspleion that the au- thor has a special affection for the pioneers of British racing.

This is understandable. was such inen as Jatroll and Edge who gave The sport thal air of romance "without which It could not have made so great an appent to popular imagina-

tion.

In those far-off days no car- racing was permitted in Britain. English enthusiasts had to go abroad to gain experience, racing ugainst the

foreign expert

a very

Lough drivers. I was school, indeed.

In 1901 Charles Jarrott drove a Panhard in the 887-mile raco from Paris to Berlin. In the dust and heat of ong day he and his mechanie hud to repair eight punctures.

There were many more pune- tures, yet Jarrott would not withdraw trum, the race. Но was determined to finish the course. And he did.

No driver has shown a greater determination to triumpła over disaster. The following year Jarrott was racing from Paris to [Vienna when one sido at ble

The greatest British driver? Davis cannot say. As he points oul, greatness in racing cannot be measured by success alone. And the art of racing in yinlage times and racing today is vastly | different.

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