1960-04-29 — Page 9

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1960,

THE STORY OF SPORT

An Englishman could be jailed for playing cricket in those days

By REX LAWRENCE

During the reign of Edward IV. in the second half of

the fifteenth

century, an Englishman could be thrown into prison for two years and heavily fined for playing cricket.

Cricket, however, won its re- prieve when in 1748 the govern-

something about the tangle of

The punishment for anyone; later folder had bres intro- who allowed cricket to be play-duced asending to another jos anch on his properly was ven, ture showing a match between 'inemt of the day decided to dê stiffer three years plus tines. two teams of monks.

The game the king wanted to ta the Hogat Rousehold ancient; largely unobserved laws kill was nat ended cricket then. counts of King Edward is an bonning sports, Learned Judges It was known as "Hand b and entry saying that the Prince of then ruled that cricket was "u in sell. Hand Out". But since it ineluded Wales SO 3* un meneymanly game, not bad bowlers, batsmen and Wehlers it amusing himself by playing but only in the ill-use made ut; here that rustics, not townsmen, decided to form a new club. His mitee and

regarded as one

Some historias sayin by betting more than of present-errag".

that this is the origin of cricket. pounds on it."

day cricket's direct ancestors.

Cricket by name appests | the 1597-98 records of Guildford Corporation. a dispute over Jond one witness went on record as saying that "when he was a scholar in the free school uf Guildford he and severni of his fellows del rum and play there! at cricket and other plays."

The its

Like so many other sporis cricket was persecuted by the English rulers during the Middle Ages because it look the people's minds off more serious pastimes like archery,

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RESPECTABILITY

In

Armed with its certiflente of respectability cricket began to develop into something like the game played today.

Before

Then it

hal bern

Mid-eighteenth century Cricket. Nola bowler's underarm style, wicket with only two stumps and shape of the hats.

devised the game.

The new pitch-style bowling forced a new design in bats to combat it, and they were given wider shoulders.

LOCK AGAIN IN EXCELLENT

BOWLING FORM

London, Apr. 28.

Tony Lock,, England spin bowler, was again in excellent bowling form for Surrey at Fenners, Cambridge today.

With another five wickets for wickets to spare, an innings of 50 running for 102 in the well controlled strokes by match - họ helped to skitle David Allen following his tour well. out Cambridge for 130 in their of West Indies augured recond lunings, which means He scored 63. Peter Walker of that the county need to senre Glamorgan also showed Kome only 33 tomorrow to win,

pleasing alokes while And Lock's action this time 7.-AFF.

gave no concern to umpires A. E. Farg and C. S. Ellot, who nu- balled him yesterday.

Only one university batsman, i Lewis, held up Lock. He stayed three hours for 70 and mude his strokes with commendable Armi- ness,

OUT FOR RUNS

Hampshire are proving trac to their wori ence more in go- ing cut for runs. They hit 249 In two and a half hours at the start of the last day of their friendly affainst Sussex at the game cou Smuthamptni, skipper Ingle- Mackenzie leading with 52 in supporters included Lords tinued in this form until 1802.

Hunde 53 Darnley and Winchilsea, Sir The final major development 37 minutes. Baldry

the re- in 40 minuten and Marshal! no Horace Mann and the Duke of was set in motion by Dorset.

nowned Edgar Wilsher. 11 hap-In an hour, pened when he was to-balled seven times at Kennington Oval Sussex were unable to get any- by umpire John Lillywhite for where near the 255 st them in over the Just under three hours and the bowling with his arm

in shoulder

August, 1862. match was drown, Willsher angrily stormed off the there was almost a rlot among the keen fans watch- ing the match.

*

THE MCC

Eventually wickels were rais |

They set up their headquarters ed to 281⁄2 inches and narrowed

Lord's property and called to nine inches,

themselves the Marylebone the Cricket Club, That was in 1787. pitch and latter half of

Lord died in 1832, but although) the club has moved several times

By the

4

was

and

CONTROVERSY

(which have no profit in them. fairly makeshift affair. The ball eighteenth century cricket

But enforcing such prohibitive was bowl d along rough ground, not only respectable. It was be- and unpopulo Inweg was dan bats looked more like hickey-coming gentlemanly. The game

since it was Arst established on was on its way to being synony- cult, and cricket, Phu golf and sticks and the "wicket" was

mous with

the site of sporlamangfilp

the present Dorsi football, survived the kingly often a hole in the ground.

fairplay.

Square, his name remains linked But the incident brought to s displeatre.

with cricket's headquarters to head a controversy which had And as gentlemen of means this day.

prevalled, in cricket for some and influence took it up so the

Canny us only a Yorkshireman months. And in 1884 a new rule game began to acquire uni-

was passed permitting bowlers. formity. The old rules drawn up jean be, Lord was concerned to deliver with the hand at any an organisation called the about making a profit from his height - provided the ball was

ORIGIN OF NAME Attempt ta inpoint origins ut ericket through name, however, have not been Euccessful, Some authorities be-} lieve stems from "erke", the It was not, however, the Anglo-Saxon word for a stick. gentlemanly game it was later tu Others just as ukdently claim that it is an anglicised version

of the French "eriquet", the tar-

the

get stick in a bowls game.

But if you leave aside name "cricket", the game can be fraced back much further,

A mid-thirteenth century Bus tration shows two inen playing with a bat and ball. A century

Radford equals UK sprint record

Oxford, Apr. 28. Britain's Potor Radford equalled his own United Kingdom 220 yards sprint record in

athletic

an

match between the Amo- teur Athletic Association

und Oxford

here today.

University

Radford clocked 21 secondo, the day's best performance,

Track records were set up by Derek Ibbotson who cover- ed thus two miles in 8 minkitrs 50.0 seconds, by Vie Matthews who swept over the 120 yards hurdles in 14.5 RCCR, By lan Word who pole vaulted 13 feet 4 Ins, and by Radford In the 220 yards.

Frid Alsop equalled the truck record for the hop step and jump with: adiblance of 49 feet 10% Ins,

The AAA won the match by 119 polls to 59. Other good performanors;

One Mile: Alan Gordon 4 min. 6.4 sec., 330 Yards; Malcolm Yurdley 47.8 600; High Jump: Gordon Miller feet 7 ins-AFP.

ccome.

by

Now as the game had a chance to develop openly improvements were made. Stumps were intro- laced. First une. Then two, a apart. Historian John Stow is belitved foot high and two feet to have been referring to cricket! Then bails were added. Finally London Clubs In 1744 were hope- ground, But for all that. cricket when he wrote: "The ball is used the third wicket. by noblemen and gentlemen in tennis courts, aut by propte of the

in the nesner 5001

open a Relds and streets."

lessly tangled as a result of all the sudden changes in the game. The introduction of wickets And the moment was ripe for a in the

century truly eighteenth

authoritative bolly tn played a big part in the evolus codify the game and set it on iion of modern cricket.

Its feel. concentrated attenllun of bowling, And this in turn led la smoother pitches.

not thrown or jerked.

But this was of no avall for

The other friendly. at Bristol, ended with Gloures- tershire scoring the winning run of the last but one hail, Glamorgan left them to score 197 in two hours 25 minuten and victory Comic with four

Two boxers die from injuries

New York, Apr. 28. That is how matters stood for nearly

hundral years. But Two more boxers have died from injuries suffered in vage wording of the law nude! it impossible to enforce and after fights. much controversy surrounding Michael Golabiff, an 18-year- the actions of certain bowlers old reformatory inmate, વાલ્વ the words "or jerked" have been of removed as an experiment for the 1900 season.

thrived on his encouragement. And it was his management that preserved the unity of the club, The MCC had been establish ed on its present site for 12 years when cricket entered another This body sprang from a club important stage of its develop of cricketers who called them- |ment. This came with the intro- selves the While Conduits. When duction of round-arm bowling in incidentally. have internal squabbling split the 1820. It took nearly 20 years for I was also a popular gene always apparently been the saine White Conduits one of its mem- the new style bowling to gain! The most English of all sports with gamblers and that did it no, length, 22 yards or an agricul- bers, a hook-nosed Yorkshire neceptance. Finally, in 1844, the is still developing---London Ex-

Compress Service. good with the authorities. |tural chain." A strong suggestion Jacobite named Thomas Lord, now established MCC

And cricket was used by an- other chronicler to instance the "desolute and disorderly" early like of puritanical Oliver Crom- well.

Pitches.

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U.S. accepts

Australian

The

yachting

challenge

New York, Apr. 28, New York Yacht Club has accepted an Austra- the lion challenge for famod America's cup, it was learned today. The challenge was made by the Royal Yacht Squadron of Sydney.

This will mark the first tune that the historic race bos In- volved

ung nation outside of the United States, Britain and Caraca

The competition again will be a best-of-seven series between 12-metre yachts, the present sen, t heavyweights of the Newport, Rhode Island.

U.S. WON ALL

apparent brain The Tucen will be held nine hemorrhage after collapsing miles off Brenton Reef Light during a semi-anal tournami | ship. bout at Green Bay, Wisconsin. "No dates have been set yet,

In Mexico City preliminary The last challenge was made fighter Carlos Arana Gueeraro | in

when September, 1958, died from injuries suffered in America's Columbia beat Bri- about last Saturday. He was tan's Sceptre in four straight the second Mexican fighter TO taces.

die of injuries within a week,

Another

north Amerlear. Sho the unimposing Hitle fighter also died recently in trophy was first put up in 1851 Wisconsin,AP.

there have been 17 challenges. The U.S.A. won them all,

British yacht offeluis notice of inbont that they planned early challenge but no formal challenge was made--AP.

Soccer in U.S.

New York, Apr. 20, Twenty members of the Munleh Turner and Sport Verein arrived at Idlewild airport to night to play six soccer games In the U.S.-AF.

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Sports Diary

TO-DAY

Toxing

at

1000 Colony championships Southern Playgrama, 4 p.m.

TOMORROW'

Stacking 12th Race Meeting, Happy Valley. 2 p.m.

SUNDAY Boccer

BK Schools Sports Association Inter-School Football (seven-a-zido knock-out competitian) at Happy Valley, 20 mi

CHESS

by LEONARD BARDER

DORVILLE

"L.DORVILLE

PORE GRAPE BRAID

Sonny Liston now No. 1 contender

Providence, R., Apr. 28. Floyd Patterson, who signed a week ago for a return bout with the world heavy- weight champion, Ingemar Johansson, was reduced to the status of number

: two contender today by

the Amorican National Boxing Association.

Sony Liston, who knocked out

floy

Harris in the firat round last Monday moved up to the top position among con- tenders. He has won his lust 22 fght end his record af 20 victories and one los includes 20. knockouta.

"Listen la tho most exciting heavyweight see Rocky Mar- clone," Tony Petronella, N.D.A. Nating Committed Chairman, Aakk--NEUVOT.

THAT WAS A

VERY FRESH REMARK --- STAND IN THE CORNER

BRICK BRADFORD

ARS THERE ANY WIREG IN THIS CHIP THAT WE COULD TBAR OUT AND USE

FOR A LINE 7

HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO STAY HERE?

YES, WE COULD DO THAT, BUT WE'RE SINKING

RAPIDLY!

UNTIL YOUR MANNERS IMPROVE

-ERNIL- BUSHMILL

BRICK HURRIEDLY RIPS OUT THE SPACE-

SHIPS WIRING...

TIE THE ENDS TOGETHER, SADIE!

I AMI BUT

WE MUST WORK FASTER!

PARDON

MY

BACK

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| A FEW MINUTES LATER.....

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