1959-06-02 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1959.

Even Ranji, Hammond Would SUNDAY PLAY CAN SAVE ENGLISH

Have Been Bogged Down Today, Says Tony Locke

By ARCHIE QUICK

London.

Tony Lock is a lion-hearted cricketer and a deep student of the game, and he will not have it that the giants of the past were any better than the men of today.

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Two great players of yesteryear whom the Surrey spinner admires are "Ranji" und Walter Ham- mond, but he is emphatic that they would not! be so successful today. Dissecting the legendary Indian batsman, Tony Kays of hu famous leg glance: "It was his pet stroke, Every bowler know about it; but nothing was done, Today every Lock offer further In-swing bowler in the world why players like "Nanji" and would call up three or four Hammond would have been short leg felders and encourage | bogged down today. Wet sum- "Rani" to try his luck. mers, pitches aiding spin bow-

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mond had carried on he would tho able to count have beợn number of balls he received an his off-stump in on innings on the fingers of one hand.

reasons

fancy after losing his wicket lers and the science with which cheaply two or three times he captains have perfected - held would have cut it out,"

placings would have stunted

Off-Stroke Player

the old timera play, he says, "for today we know all the favourite shola of opposing batsmen, and can set and bowl La u held to counter those strokes."

Of Walter Hammond, Lock anys: "He was an off-stroke player, who got most of his runs through the covers

and past mid-off. When he retired after the 1947 Australian tour, leg theory, BB means of

In the past, ho points out, closing up a game, was just

there was no such thing as coming into its own. If Ham-setting a defensive floid." The

Sports Diary

TODAY

Soccer

International Charity Cup: Great Britain China, Club ground, 8.30

p.tns.

V

Tenn).

LIC Men's "B" Division: Recrela (1), che v HKCCSA (1). Recreio (2) HRCCSA (2), BCAA VRAF, Recrelo 31 v KTGCA (2), KIGCA (1) v KITC

Ladies: "B" Division: LRC (2) V CNC, Beerelo v LRC (3),

Fencing

YARELY Fencing Championships Finals and presentation, EYMCA, 4 puh.

TO-MORROW

- $1MOLI

Open Bingles Championships: Matches at C, HKFC, HKPSA. KBGC, PRC, KDC and KCC.

Tennis

Men's "C" Division: CNC (2) V USHC, CCC (1) v NCAA (2), KTOCA PORC, PRC CRC (1) HỌC » MeG, LICY CCG (21.

Mied "A" Division: CRC V KCc,

SCAA V LAC,

No Defensive Field

field was set for every type of bowler with little variation, but Lock goes on to say that the trend has started to swing away from the bowler,

AYALA DROPS BOMBSHELL

ON TENNIS WORLD

The Ayalas, Luis and Maria

Says Five Months Pregnant Wife

Will Play At Wimbledon

That is true. The month of Chile's fiery tennis champion Lula Ayala

May has been sunny; county clubs have laid down faster the size of the wickets; and on-side Bold has been restrict- ed. Thus foreshadow bigger

senson, scores this

and more cover drives. This, will mean more declarations, and captaina will have

lcorn anew the

the art of declaring

дри propriate time.

I should spy that there have. been more County scores, uf. over 300, more aggregates of over 400 a day and more de clarations this Moy than for the past five years and the in- creased scuring rate is also horne out by the fact that two or three players are rocing towards 1,000 runs before the end of May-a fest not necom- plished these past 21 years.

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YES, BUT THESE ARE SPECIAL-**

dropped a bombshell in Paris yester- day with the announcement that lis wife (once Maria Tort, and ranked No. 2 in Chile) is expecting a baby in October and that this month, when she will be five months pregnant, she will be playing with him in the mixed doubles at Wimbledon.

Rather Guilty

Last week, with fellow-countrywoman Alicia Heegeweldt, she was beaten 3-6 1-6. by Britain's Christine Truman and Shirley Brasher.

The British phir said afterwards that after a couple of drop shota when they had Maria racing to the net,

AND NOT HAVING ANYCHOICE IN THE MATTER THE PASSENGERS FILE ON BOARD THE QUE

MAYBE WE ARE HEADING INTO ONE CONTINUOUS DUST

STORM

HURRY PLEASE

VALONG Wen

they felt rather guilty and agreed not to play the shots any more for fear of making her run too much.

'Enjoyed It'

COUNTY CRICKET If The Country Wants It

By J. L. MANNING

London. They locked us in at Lord's the other night after we had talked long and frankly about the crisis of "cricket- Gubby Allen and 1.

G. O. Allen, who came as a boy from Australia half a century ago and is now loaded with more jobs in cricket than any other man in the game's history, had to show me how to climb into the back way of the Tavern to escape from the place he loves.

But he had done more. He had explained to me in four hours of non- stop conversation just how cricket is run, what he thinks is the trouble with it, and why being unfair to MCC is a deeply rooted bad joke which cricket can no longer afford.

then

must the

Join us, then, in a small room publicity is thrust upon them, I were asked their views on, Sun- on the roof at Lord's as the sun | behave like prima donnas. It day cricket and they Were setą. Gubby Allen is a 67-year-¦ is, after all, an-honour to pley unanimous that it was un- old bachelor, a player in for your county and country." acceploble at the present time. score of Terts, England captain,

to the sub. "It is not only cricket's pro- This brought us selector, busily engaged com-Ject of the Press. Allen wasn't blem. First the country

want Sunday sport, mittee man, successful stocks going to miss the opportunity. } broker, hii grey hair trimly "If the newspapers present Law must be changed. If that kept and a sharp face tanned trend of dealing with cricket were done by public demand. It and lined to reveal his life under continuer

cricket help county". It will do much to would many auns.

kill the game," he said. "Cricket enormously and I believe the $130 I feel he may well chide me.

standard of play would needs all the publicity cen But he docan't. He is patient, get, of course. But it needs good dramatically. definite, logical, and dignified reporting and not so much diri. "But if it were possible the And by his kindness you are The emphasis is wrong and un- there, ite will let you fudge this wholesome in a few papers. case, 100,

It's Cheap

sort of basis could be that countles play only weekend "I know that some crickelet matches until the start of the and ex-ricketers ara pertlaily holiday Benson, then two

to blame, but we are working matches a week until mid- What are cricket's needs, ]

on this problem and are more September. This would blo asked Leadership? Showman- than hopeful we shall succood. every county to play about 26

Sportsman.The rest will then be up to the ship? Dictatorship?

matches a season. The reduc ship? It was a glibly put ques- |Press."

lion in the number of matches tien. Allen measured his run.

"Let's deal with dictatorship. That was how Allen spoke, would be more than compensated

of by the Sunday gates, We are often accused e, it at He had put the salvation

of cricket Armly in the hands of Lord'a. We are also secused

Press.

and the

MCC.

"The weekend, matches would

Maria, however, said "I enjoyed it and being Victorian and Colonel MCC, the counties, the can take place on Saturdays, Sun-

felt fine." And Lula said: "Doubles | Blimpish. These cheap phrases tains, the players,

He did not deny there days, and Mondays, but play on until at Lord's. Sunday would not elari are good for Maria." And In London, re thrown at us unceasingly,

"But M.C.C. can hardly be a had been mistakes

to avoid inter- Colonel Macaulay, Wimbledon dictatorship if,

as is the case, "Everyone makes mistakes, but pan. so as secretary, said: "Didn't even know cricket is largely run by the Ad- we have all got to work this ference with church attendance.

Com-out together." Ayala was married. But if she visory County Cricket

Amateurism - "It's 1. interrupted, mittee, who advise on all mat- chooses to play tennis that's her tere concerning county cricket, who mess about with the laws.

doing "Virtually 110 mid-weekt affair."

and by the Board of ControlIt's largely, your club's

Except a few games are cricket, who have absolute power over that all these experiments

and univer- Flashback-in 1956,

being tried without, as far as I with touring sides Test matches in this country.

the alties, would give players "Next, just look at this list of can see, much succésa,

they nerd. Two much arc on M.C.C. "I don't agree with you at all rest men who

Allen cricket is played, at any rate cricket sub-committee! They that R MCC. alone,' make recommendations to the replied. The counties were by lending players. There

more Tests and tours. main committee on all aspects of party to al the experimental many

the These exhaust

stard and the game.

rules Introduced recently.

the stars surely set the slan- dards. Some must have become machines and cannot always

lvo of their best."

America's Mrs Beverley Fleitz reached the Wimble. don quarter-finala, then scratched when she discovered she was going to have a baby the following January.

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"Eight England Test capisins and five active county captains are on that list. There are also Trevor Bailey and, David, Shep- pard, and with men like them, of the recent changes have been 1 switched the themo to Peter May and Colin Cowdrey, voted for by me with tears in

amateurism. "Allen spid at once how can it be said that this is my eyes. But I tell critics that that it was a very complicated a die-hard committee out of I stand by them because at the problem and admitted that he touch with modern crickel? time there seemed no alternative. nimself had never been able is ridiculous.

If the game were played more fully to make up his mind on "Par from being reaction-aggressively on good, fast it. Amateurs have done much aries I sometimes and them wickets, this messing about with for cricket over the years," bit 'bolshy,' but their loyalty is the game', like imitation. of said, "and one doesn't want unquestioned,"

legside netds, would not have rush into any system which been necessary.”

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Findly, Allen turned to the might be no better. I could see Allen was warm- | future, with this warning: “TE "Don't overlook the fact that ing to his main point. He was present situation is that many to some extent it is bound up

illusion destroying an

that counties kerp solvent through with weekend county cricket. MC.C. were self-appointed football pools. It's a dangerous ever it came, many players who dictators.

and precarious existence.

cannot now, do 60 might "Could it be," he asked, "that

to' "It money from pools should genuinely want because there is NO dictatorship divert them from the urgent | amateurs, by MCC, cricket faces some of necessity of drawing the public As we parted I thought of Its greatest problems?

through the gates, they may how 41 years ago my father "If MCC, had been able to find they have lost their sup-had Interviewed Lord Hawke. "The give orders to the counties about port and it will be difficult to And Lord Glawke said: the type of pitches they wanted, win it back."

plodding self-made batsman is there would" not now be so "What can be done to help like some self-made men: thes many alow turning wickels on counties in addition to the can be terrible bores.” which It is difficult to play points you have medo?" I

Cricket doesn't want bores.

have so entertain asked. "In county cricket on Allen and his men

Sunday the only solution loft?"

of accumulation

the years This may seem technical, but Allen

had his answer: "A | working against them. We want It's fundamental. The policy of few years ago the counties them to make up for lost timo, somo.counties, in my opinion, is proving destructive of our bat mahship. Didn't everyone see the first signs of the damage in Australia Jest winter?

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strokes freely and spectators.

"At the same time one must be fair to the counties. The last two summers have been so wet that preparing wickets has not) been too easy. However, I can't help thinking some Counties have not doné quite as much as they might have done.

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With a little bit of dictator- ship I also think we could have. speeded up the game. Some bowlers take far too long their business. I have examined the figures from every angle. The drop in the rate at which overs are bowled is alarming. Compared with pre-wer the public is being de- njod 45 minutes to an hour's cricket in EVERY DAY'S PLAY. It is one of the things which really irritate spectators.

'Very Dull'

"County

representatives go away from meetings at Lord's intending, I am sure, to carry out agreed measures. But

too often Bitte improvement is seen. Perhaper somo of them

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