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But He Altered

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Cricket

By DEREK JOHN

The capacity crowd watching, the match between the All-England XI and Surrey-at the Oval one scorching day in. August, 1862, was restless with excitement.

Already, England, batting first, had put up the staggering score

of 503-a record at the time..

Three of England's batsmen between them had accounted for

more than 300.

And then Surrey went in to bat. The county side's position

seemed hopeless.

on

In the country

A contemporary chronicler described Wilsher's bowling as "brilliant in' the extreme."

England's captain put. Edgar | best batsmen Wilther

το bowl Art.| baffled. Willsher, tall and slim, was the demon bowler of his day. He had the previous year delivered 100 successive balls for only one run during a game between Er- land's XI and the Broughton Club.

feft

Wilsher' long delivered the arst two overs without incident, and without conceding a single run,

Violated Law

But when he sent down tho first ball of his third over, in

As a batsman, Willsher was a forceful, steady bitter,

Willsher appeared with Kent for over 25 years.

Even after his retirement from the active list, he could not keep away from the game.

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number of those who had

hig witnessed

brilliant per- formances in the cricket fold anal who respected his sterling quallules....

Many years after his death, a story circulated in cricket eireles that the 1802 meldent at The Oval had brey deliberately planned by Willsher and Lily- white to force the authorlties lo take action,

Close Friends

For a while he managed the Princess Ground, London, and

It was well-known that both Inter became an umpire of Orst-men had been close friends-for- class matches.

Willsher died

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October

805, aged 36. 'He is buried at Lewisham

a loud voice that was heard all | 7,,, over the stadium, the umpire, Mr John Llywhite, shouted: Cemetery. "No ball!

His Epitaph

Willsher thought it was a joke. But, in fact, he had violated a On his tumbstone are inscribe. fundamental law of the goraned the following words: which, in those days of round- art bowling, clearly stated that no bowler should deliver the ball from above shoulder height. He walked back from the crease, smling condescendingly at the umpire,

He went his second balt straight down the middle. But his traile faded when the umpire shouted even more loudly: "No ball"

It was the same next time-- and the next. In all, he was no-balled seven times,

After that Wilsher lost his. femper, Angrily, he Aung the ball away from him.

stormed off the fold.

Then he

All the other professionals in the England side followed.

"An angry mob of spectators staged a noisy demonstration,

The rest of the players, silent) and surprised, remained on the ground until stumps were drawn- In the evening.

It Was This incident that

changed Law X of the Rules of Cricket the law which forbagy

bowlers to Ht their bowling uchh above shoulder height during their delivery..

Rule Pointless

Willsher, in common with many bowlers of his day, had considered the rule pointless.

After long discussion, the ruling authorities of cricket, an nounced on June 10, 1804, that all restrictions as to height of hond In delivery" were Lbolished,

Willsher, born at Rovenden, Kent, on November 22, 1823, started his cricket career at the age of nine.

He was the son of a former youngest of 14 children.

At the age of 13, Willsher, already showing promise as a all-round cricketer, was invited to play for the Gouldhurst Boys XI

Later, the Bearoled Cricket Club selected him to play ro- gularly for its team, and he held bis place until 3050,

He made his first-class debut with the Kent counly side in the 1850 season.

"Suered to the memory of Edger Willsher, cricketer, who played for his native county, Kent, for over a quarter of a century.... This stone wps erected to his memory by a great

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years.

It was also opnimon knowledge that Lilywhite had often told Willsher in public that if he over empired a match in which Will- sher was playing, he would no- ball him every time.

The kuown.

truth will never he

But Wilsher's nome must go down in cricket history pa the man who Changed Law X-and gave the me a "new look in bowling.

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AT THE SEVENTH

NO-BALL, WILLSHER Aμg/ ALL THE ENGLAND ZY PROFESSIONALS ****

WALKED OFF IN PROTEST.

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Ted Fenton Was "Terrified" When He First Joined West Ham

BOY TO BOSS-IN

FAMILY TEAM

passage

A PALE, dark-haired boy, big for his age, walked along a at the Boleyn Football Ground, Upton Park. Nervously he paused at the door of the manager's office and knocked." “Come in,” boomed a voice. The boy went in......

Inside, a man with a moustache like an angry bath brush looked up and rumbled: "Well, boy, how do you like it here?"

Without waiting for a reply, the

boots

of such herpes h

old-time

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love watching my young the moun with the moustache Hammer

Tedlads. They are the West Ham his name was Syd King-handed lufton, Jim Rufell, and Vic stars of ionUTTOW," the boy his first week's wages member how awestruck

The Fenton, Formula?

15 shillings!

That was in 1930-when Tod I was every time I helped them Fenton was 10. I was also with their boots."

just two seasons before Wesk Another of young Foxton's Ham United were relegated to chones before he graduated to the Second Division-a disaster the team BR D tough-tackling the edgling Fenton was never half-back was to polish the to forget.

nameplates on the coats of the directory box.

Today, 28 years and one, world war istar, that, anxious stound staff boy in himself the Bols and conadest charge of the happiest family team in foot- bail.

at a four-gum salary-Eŋ · note

A long way

...

manager whose name and fas may soon be up in the fabulous Busby-Culli-Drake cinas paused.

roomcent.

for

"URGENOX - that's

the

keynote at West Ham." he said. "Speed of thought and move- men. Intelligent bulding up. Bweeping, 40-yard moves out of defendo-Uke in chess, I play chow.

"By formula--the West Ham formula-is based on the old- of Alers like Ruffell, Cliff Bastir, time Dying winger-on the styla

Joe Bulme, Eric Brook, and

"It's almost a dead art in

On the move Now he too has his own name on a seat a fact which, although he is $4,,gives hun 26 great a thrill as that epic day last season when West Ham won promption to the First Division,

But Edward Fenton does not Sammy Crookes, Today the row kid who used live in the past-even if he has modern football, but I think to sweep out the Arst-team || tearned from B. dressing rooms and polish the Provided you can nail him we're bringing it alive again ut Malcolm krasses until they shone lion and this First Division "new West Ham through Life Guardaman's breastplates, is boy is reelloealy, an the move, Musgrove and Mike Gries." sweeping along on a wave of | 14 hourę a day from § 5m, to starting success succur which | 11 pm-he will talk football as

No 'bashers' touched its peak recently when his young "Hammers" play it. West Ham, the Second Division I managed to nail him when Ai centre-forward. Fenton champions, toppled mighty he gave me a lift from Fulham goes back to old-fashioned foot- His fast and ripping round-Wolves, champdors of the First to Chalepa after he had watched balling leaders like Dixie Deau simed bowling mado him a Division.

one of his youth sidos-West and Vic Walson for his 1953 favourite with cricket fans' all "You," says Fenton, we've Han Jun Live tpama-play inspiration, Watson and Dean over England, and it was not come a long way--West Ham Fulhama in the Metropolitan held the line together. So does Vie Keeble with West Ham to- long before he was invited to and I.

Longue "In those old days' I was a

catch play for his country.

*I shall caly

the day,

"I won't inve halt of the. Chelsea-

bashers," Today, Wilsher's style would very obedient boy unlike | second

and cilod probably strike no fear into bata-some of the modern youngsters Spum game," he told me, "but declares Fenton, men. But in his day, his bowl--and did all kinds of jobs for my youngsters might get jealous Elidegut, the great Hungarian, ing, delivered after a short inst my fifteen bob,

if they thought I was Interested as the most perfect post-war walk to the crease, with a twist "One was to work a special only on the big stuff-which I'm celtro-forward product, from the leg to the off, had the machine which made studs for not.

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In training. Fenton shows the' samo reslices improvisation and zoal, "After the Wolves match I WAL out ncort morning, slipped, and training with the team,"

Part of { ́ ́e olustle and ever- changingcoton Formula is his weekly "Potted Bporta” training" tournament, which is planned to Impecave kodividumi Kkille and ball control.

Wory Ham stars practiso "shipping over an Bft. ber Into A aquero bebind; Uribbling round posts"in a certain tima' (the old Stal, Matthews, trick); |ànd) driving" raking · cron-defi through a specially marted LacunEN, HAYOTDANN

¿To silomilala kalkiakiya thero La on indiviual pointa table,... Npt. dew, perhaps, but all part of “tis

SOCCER'S

By ALAN HOBY progressive West Ham, design year

after they took the Second Division- úlet in Will Fenton and Mis formula-lead London's bid this season to break the Wolves and Manchester United monoply of the First Division ebampion-

I knew the answer I would be a rich man, But ono thing I do know

Apart from two years กะ Colchester as player-manager Tod Fenton has been with West Hom 118 a player, assistant

· manager, and now manager, all his football fe. The continued Buccess of West Ham la -03 necessary and urgent to him as Will West Hallo team breathing and eating. with ning £30 players-ernulate The ex-ground statt boy who the foal of Toltenham Holapur } was' "terrified" of his first boss In 1951 and win the First has one objectivo-to get to the Division

better Fenton alco believes creating fan atmosphere. When play

the flags in

cockney cauldron of Uplon Park, a lone trumpeter on the lerraces blasts out the "Post-horn Gallop." ship?

The trumpeter

This trumpet tooting is no teeldent, The "Post-hom Gallop is the West Ham theme song—a long-catablished rallying call-and you have only to stand on the teaning terraces of the "chicken run, Opposite the main stand, to feel Pho electric effect,

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