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is not fashionable, and who has never | been picked for any of the big matches, but he is another Wilfred Flowers. my judgment, and Flowers was good enough for the old country when it was very hard to get into the eleven. was the bowler of the year în 1929, with 10 wickets for a shade under: 14 runs each. Arthur Gilligan took a wickety, Kilure 139, Fender 178, Macaulay 168,
These figures, and Staples 92 wickris. represent success, and ought to insure the serious consideration of the claims of these fire. Not one of the five had a
SANDAKAN Let batting average under 21. Fender scor!
ng 1497 runs. Kilner, 1904, Gilligan 183. Tate his, and Staples dogan
The year of 1024 will probably be memorable in the annals of cricket. England will have the chance to restore her prestige with the coming of the South Africans, who open their tour at Leicester on the third day of May, just) as the Australians did in 1921, and with the impending vist so the land of the golden fleece. Win England's players be ible to repolish their reputation us hope for the best. In the meantime this game is full of life overseas, in the Carrie Cup tournament has been played ly had completed innings. in South Africa, the Shefeld Shield com Statisties strongly support the inclusion test is in progress on the other side of of these five players, one of whom would the world, where New South Wales is provide an excellent captain, about to send a team to New Zealand and Victoria is considering the possibility of a trip to Caylon and Southern India, There is activity everywhere--even England-for preparations, for next set son, and especially for the visit of South Africans, are more advanced than asual Buthe hunt for first-class bowlers never, flags,
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There seems to be a current of thought in the most influential circles in favour of appointing Arthur Gilligan captain of England. No one need suppose that this gentleman povets such no onerous office, but he is a clever captain and SHANGHAI apart from his undoubted abilities as a versatile player, he has the courtesy and the chivalry of a true sportsman,
Mr. MANILA "Not Out in 7he Refeber. of Gilligan possesses the respect of the sydney declares that New South Wales | players and the confidence of the public. would be all the better if another bowler No doubt the status of other gentlemen of the best parts he brought to light. In will he discussed, but there are many the State of Victoria I find." J.W." tuj points of view to be considered, and the BORNEO The Australoser lamenting that our balance descends in favour of the cap bowling is anything but" of the world rain of Sussex, who, no douls, will have variety, though passable in character, the support of Hobbs, A. P. F. Chapman, decent ungth, and keen as a general A.. W. Carr, Frank Woolley, G. E, C. rule. Ta writer ao regrets the Wood, and Sutcliffe, whes Fogland's TIENTSIN Jaborious character of modern batsunan eleven is cansen for the first Test at
Since 1921 BANGKOK ship and the lack of sparkling strokes, Birmingham on June 14th. Yed the great inter-State match between, English bowling is developed, and re- Victoria and New South Wales resultedives the hope of this enuntry's loyalists. on New Year's Day, after playing for-thletic Neurs. nearly six days, in the success of Victorin by runx The margin is small when. it is remembered that the aggregate for the four innings was 1,331, and that New South Wales needed 420 in the last in nings in order to win. Such figures, the result of labour" spread over five days and a half, suggest that the bowling was accurate without being inspired and that the batting was solid and stodgy and not! in the style of Bruce and Graham. Trumper and Macartney. Victoris have also gained a fine victory over South Australia, who had a enbs.antial lead or the first innings. In South Africa there has never been a successor to Kotze, and the great" googly jugglers, and to those who have the sinister hand highly developed. The Star, a newspaper pub-1 lished in Johannesburg, declares that E. P. Nuper and J. M. Blankenborg stand out a first chosen as bowlers, but the commentator adds that the eulties ap- pear to be the fast howler, and the slow left-hand. How far all these moans ar justified cannot be said thousands of
niles away from the were of action.
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How do we that is to say England- sinud in relation to bowling? What, hope, is there for an prevement upon the spies of defents in 1 and -1921. both Members British Chamber of Commerce abread and at home The vital, poidt,(Saanghai). Mr. T. W. BOWERN, Fellow of upon which the whole argument will the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, Insor- turn, is England's attack, Memory is porated by Royal Charter, London, proverbally short and treacherous. The men who bowled for England in the five Tests of 2 in this country consisted of Parkin, F. Woolley, Durston, Rica mond, Henrue, Howell, Parker, Rhodes and Hitch among professionals, and S.
P. W. H. T Douglas, V W. C. Jupp, G. H. Fender, Nigel Haig, and J. (2 White among amateurs. The fact that there were fourteen bowlers emphasises the plaus of respectable mediocrity which characterised England's cricket. ther any one of these cricketers will play in the Test matches of this year it is impossible to say. The interval is loug, and the mersure of ability which these players possessed three years ago capot now be taken for granted. In the first place the average will be just under
Their years during the ensuing season. range from 30, au nge Which Durston tams in July, to 46, for the evergreen Rhodes will not be "47 until October. Therefore, it is fair to say that not one of these fourteen will be under 30 when the crisis of the summer hoped for has arrived. Percy Fender, in his book Defending the Ashes," paints out that the English Eide which visited Australin Ja 1920-21 averaged 35 years, 7 months, and 20 days on the day they made 447 in the third Test match at Adelaide, and that this was, the record for the oldest side who ver scored 400 in ena of these games, the oldest steven prior to ant bing MacLaren's deven at the Oval in August, 1903, and that their yer.
age was 2 years, 2 months and 12 days.
Into the alenting it is not neervary to plunge, but England wants young bowl- ers at least, for bowling. need the
strength of youth, the power of recovery for a second or even third spell, and above all this country cannot afford to play men who are tot quick when fold-
g.
YOUNGER ENGLISH BOWLERS. Taking last season's cries as some, guide for this year, England must rely primarily for bowling on Maurice Tate, Arthur Gilligan, uncaulay, with a Kiler Percy Fender and George, saving clause on behalf of Staples, of Nous Some are rather older than the ideal, but Tate will be 20, Gilligan 30, Kilner 33, Fender 31. Mäenulay, 27, and Staples 20. They represent different types of bowling-Tite (right-hood medium, with some deliveries exceedingly fast), Gilligan (right-hand fast). Kilner left-hand slow, with peculiar flights), Fender (right-hand medium of subtle variety), incaulay (right-hand "mediua. with life from the pitch, and most dif ficult on his day), and Staples (right-hand medium fast from the pitch, easy action, very accurate, and enough break to beat the best bats). I can never forget the howling of Staples against Yorkshire at Leeds last year. Any one of these five men can hit a century, and every one of the can find with articipation,-ncea- racy and space. The only one of these who played in England during 1091 is Fender, and he was a finer cricketer than ever. Naturally there will be diversity of opinion, especially about Staples, who
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