1959-06-12 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1959.

Wardle Slams Back At

'I LIVE FOR CRICKET WHILE

OTHERS JUST LIVE

FOR A GOOD TIME'

By OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

Outspoken Johnny Wardle last week hit back at Bil! Edrich, Middlesex and England cricketer, who launches a blistering attack on the ex-Yorkshire player in his book "Round the Wicket," published recently.

Edrich

accuses Wardle of "disloyalty," He condemns his clowning on the field, and supports the MCC decision to sack him. He says that Wardle had never been popular with the players.

A series of "-«ndvised" news- paper articles written by Wardle But him "beyond the pâle," says Edrich.

At it was, I was sacked without having a chance to say a word In my defence,

could take that lying down is Last week, Wardle, who wrole, definitely round the bend.

series of articles for tho "By the paible announce-

after Daily Mail

Yorkshire

ment of my sucking I was held sacked him, sald at his Wake-up to scorn and ridlestie, and I. feld home:

became Immediately the victim of vicious rumour. I had to publish my own side of the story In self-defence."

BILL EDRICH

"1 value Peter May's opinion much higher than B Edrich's, Peter May wanted to take me un the tour, despite everything. "He was willing in stand by me when it was on ongapúlde thing to do and might have damaged his own reputation.

No Chance

"I have never been disloyal to anything worth while.

"Possibly was disloyal.

1

Peuple say these things are not dunu fat cricket. In every other wal of Ife they are done, There muld easily have her a a strike if there had been a unior shop.

Edrich, whose

Page.

Edrich What's Best in Kowloon?

SUMMER SOFTBALL LEAGUE Newcomer Ribeiro Pitches No-Hitter For Cheyennes Against The Eagles

By OLLY VAS

In a summer league softball match played off yesterday at King's Park

Yee Jick-fai's Eagles touched rock-bottom form against Robert Reme dios' Cheyennes 'A',, the favourites for the summer title when they conceded defeat to the latter by a score of 11 runs to seven,

out

10

What made the defeat galling The hero of the game, was hils that did not give the put- was the fact that a total stranger undoubtedly lanky Swanson, the | Belders any chance to go for the for five more to pliching, third-baseman sailors' huiler who, despite his ball, accounted " Edrich never had 25 Antonio Ribeiro tossed

the lack of control managed to Navy runs in the bottom of the much excuse for rushing into strikes for the Cheyennes and strike out 11 batters and give bird. The score now was 9-2 the in their favour, for some sloppy print as I had; He was never registered a no-hitter! Anyone who

Ribeiro but three measly hits

fielding on the part of the sailors messed around by Hution as I took over the pitching chères opposition.

had allowed the Snooks to score the was messed around by Burnet.

In the opening inning a "Disloyalty? Would you say from mentor Remedios in

The game was now being a scoring had struck out two players and Navy to muff it was disloyal if you tried to second inning after the latter snappy double-play helped the aru just before this."

from woman sich u

walking tossed some high

when pitches into breat

Carl Daptist's played off at a snail's pace as under a bus? I have had to the air to issue four walks. hard-hit grounder was picked the sweltering heat took its toll do something like thot once or

The Eagles were down

0-2 up

neatly by the Navy short- of both sides.

fourth inning twice with Ronnie Burnet.

stop who relayed the ball to his when the seand frame gpt under way but some loose field second-sacker for the first-out. Navy scored three times

Dick Chaves to The subsequent throw Bist to make it 12-2. ing by the Cheyennes and Remedies indifferent pitching beat Baptista, to complete the got his side's third and last hit of the game in the same inning play. allowed them la fally six runs to lead 6-2. Ribeiro then took over the pltching Job,

book

"As for being unpopular with www.other MCC players, I was with published by Frederick Muller few, becouse 1.speak my mind. price 10s.) un May 37. writes I live for cricket, whlie ethers hat Wardle made an Inter-Kist Ölve for a good time." natiahal issue of the case by rushing into print with the articles attacking his captain, Ron Burnet.

Harm

Disastrous

4

Stinging Double

Wardle says he cannot re- member an incident described Ribeiro drove in two runs in same Bv Edrich when

Middlesex the bottom half of the Edrich admits that he him- played Yorkshire at Sheffield inning with a stinging double to centre-feld and registered his self wrote a newspaper seriesst year. criticising the captaincy of Sir Edrich says that when Bur-side's Afth run himself when he on on Leonard Hutton, But he points

nel put on his two fast bowlers crossed the home plate

Infeld error. out that Sir Leonard had then after lunch, they having previ- Buished with the first-class .ously had Middlesex on the gene and he himself was on run, Wardle walked to the centre or the pitch, stuck his way intu soal-retirement.

is thumb in, It to show it was soft, and then flung.wide his arins und looked beserchingly At the sky.

In

Wardle's case the hann that eraill be done to the team immeasurable, and that was at:led up to distryally.

comes

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Edrich adds: "In addition. uneasy there is always the feeling that Wardle might leap Into print at the drop of a glass of beer ul a late night parly."

from 21 This whose. own party habits have got him into trouble.

Says Wardle: "At the drop 1t a of whose glass of beer? more kely to be Bill Edrich'e lass than mine, for it is doubt Tur if I would be at that late night party..

The whole matter would have been throughly gone into.

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By this action, says Edrich, told the players and the crowd that Burnet was a fool. "The effect of this meve," "was disastrous, anys Edrichy

the team was a I no time rabble in the Beld."

Wardle also says he cant remember an incident, des- cribed by Edrich, when it is alleged he fold a Helder to "Clear off!" buck to als original position, after he had been called in closer by the. captain.

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The Cheyennes gave up only orge more nin to the Eagles and that was in the third inning

Ribeiro retired the opposition in the

four lost

innings. Only 12 batters the minimuin faced him. His team-mates

with

some solkt backed him

-up Ave more hitting to notch runs to give him the honour of second regular being only the inclder in local softball to toss ano-hitter.

In the

the

more

The sailors falled to score in by patiently waiting for the their turn at bat but after re-right ball from Swanson before firing the Snooks in the top of knocking it into the outfield for -rausing double., Chaves the second, giving up a lone run

few In the process, they capitalised scored on a wild pitch a

seconds later. plicher Swanson's single, on

Not sausted, the Navy added Szumal's triple and an outfield error when a lat and slow- another pair of runs in the dropping ball was misfielded to sixth inning to bring to a close

three runs.

a dull game with the sultors Allon's

winners. Apart from score sacrifice hit pushed Smith in tear- from third base for the Navy to Navy hurler Swanson's perform- Increase their lead to 4-1.

ance there was little to enthuse. A pair of doubies, both long in this match,

OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE LOSE TO YALE-HARVARD IN TRACK MEET

London, June 11.

On Wednesday, the softball team from the US Navy station The combined Harvard and Yale track team ship "Floyd's Bay" unleashed" 70° 12-hit barrage on Jojo Marques, who pitches, a Junior league tossed the strikes for Snooks, to register an casy 14-3 victory over the laller.

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scored a narrow win of eight events to seven in its match with Oxford and Cambridge Universities at the White City Stadium,

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was n' new Mec NIGHTCLUB record Oxford and Cambridge sel the old mark of 42.5 seconds In Cambridge, “Massachusetts, in 1849.

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Yale's stor sprinter Steve Snyder, was stricken with glandular fever and taken to hospital, while his team-mate David Bain, favourlle for the 220 dash, pulled a muscle while leading in the event.

With Snyder out, Oxford's Jan Taylor. took the 100 yard dash in 0.8 seconds Lo equal the Mest record set by Har vard's W.A. Schick In London .in 1904.

Harvard stand-in Joet Landuu, and Harvard's Frank Yeomans and Cambridge sprinter David Roberts Anished behind him in that order In-0.9 seconds.

Fine Record

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Five Meet records crashed during the 'competition in bright sunshine with a cool westerly

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Carroll Yale's only Tom hsattered the half-mile record streaking post the tape In 1:51.3 Among tho-records beaten during the meet was that for the mile ran when the English track discovery of the season, Stephen James of Oxford, scored in easy win in 4:04,3 which bettered by 5.6 seconds the record set by Roger Batt- niger in 1940.

After tonight's meeting the scoring in the 60-year old nerics now stands at nine wins for Oxford and Cambridge, eight for Yale and Harvard, with one tied-UPI.

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