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ENGLAND'S NEED OF

BOWLERS.

THE LESSON OF THE BRISTOL TRIAL.

OPPORTUNITY FOR THE RISING GENERATION

[BY J. & H CATTON.]

The inevitable conclusion arising from the play in the Bristol trial!

THE ST. LECER.

LATEST SCRATCHINGS.

[TRAOKOK REUTER'S`IDANCY.]

Lospos, Sept. stb.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th, 1927.

St. Eeger scratchings are : Facon, at 10 o'clock an Saturday evening; and Chateau Palmer and Phildin's Second, at 2 o'clock to

day.

LATER.

Arran Chief at 1,43 and Damos

match between England's Eleven at 4.45 yesterday afternoon. and the next best team is that if the old country were plunged inte the midst of a Test to-morrow the

sele tors would be sorely troubled to place a competent set of bow Iran the eld "

The rising generation of bowlers should be pleased. There is no lack of opportunity for the ambi. tious youngster who loves the art of bowling.

I put the situation with this qualification,, because it is wasted effort for a player to become a bowler unless mind is as the back of his fingers and heart's in his →work.

There have been cricketers, there are some now, who dislike betting. who detest fielding, and who have a passion for bowling. They are rare speimers, but there is such an amanteur in a county eleven to- day, and could he play in every match he would be a tremendous" maset

England is in dire distress for great bowlers. To enter into de tail, the wicket at Bristol was slow' and easy. It dried evenly and naturally, but a first-class slow to medium eftand howler might have given batean an unpleasant half-hour had he a crafty mind and a cunning finger. But where was he?

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EASMA CLUB DRAW,

The result of the Easma Club

ANCESTORS FOR

AMERICANS.

PROFITABLE BUSINESS FOR CYNICAL PEDANTS.

FAKING, LONG PEDIGREES.

When Poppa and Momma and Sadjo come to London for the sea- son/" they have two ambitions. Sadie must be presented at Court: and the family must return to, Zenith, with complete Bay, family tree linking them up satis- factorily with the noblesse of Old England.

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All of which is quite humans and Draw, held last night at 17, Queen's understandable. And, incidental Road, Central, was

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able livelihood by aupplying Poppa, Momoa, and Sadie with the information and evidence (of sorts) that their hearts pant for. The art, craft, science, or trade of faking false pedigrees thrives upon the innate nobbery of the people of the Great Democracy, Nobody loves a lard so much as your American; who has accumu lated a fortune as realtor or cattle king.

A Growing Trade.

The pedigree-faker. is usually quite an astute and well-informed person. He will trace with meti culous care and scrupulosity the pedigree of anybody who pays him his feca. But he is also human, therefore he will accommodate bis trans-Atlantic clients when

GERMAN-POLISH TREATY.. casion demands and make out a

BRITISH ASSISTANCE.

quite imposing document in return" for a substantial fec.

This trade in proof pedigrees has

considerably grown

.of recent years, chiefly because, armed with the wealth that has flowed into the United States since the War, many more socially-aspiring Americans

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It's an ill-wind thas blowa 'ne-

Frank Woolley was the one re

It is reported that the British presentative of this type of attack. Government proved very active in Where is the successor to Rhodes deed in bringing about the con- That is a question which demands clusion of the commercial treaty ad answer. He is not on the bari-between Germany and Poland with a view to putting in end to the Since

1999 various left-band so-called Customs war which has are making the tour to Yurrup. bowlers have appeared, and some been in progress for over two every year. of them have been hailed as those years.

would fill the places of Rhodes, Blythe, Woolley and Cox But they have disappointed, and to-day we are wondering when the man will appear. Just new hope is centred in William Vecc, the latest discovery of Notts. May he be the artist of the near future. But the lack of left-handers of this type is deplorable.

Clark of Northants.

It will be remembered that last body any luck, and the commend. December in Geneva, as a part of abie ilesire to ascertain one's the settlement of the problem of hitherto obscure ancestry has caus German disarmament, Herr Strese ed many a good American dollar mann promised that the German to flow into the pocket of the learn- Government would make a serious ed and nerdy genealogist. effort to Com to termi with Poland.

According to the officials of the Recently both parties College of Heralds there are but agreed about the conclusion of a few ackle pedigrees that can stand treaty of establishment (a very difficult item), and embodied their up to a close scrutiny, and this Of course, Clark, of Northamp-understanding in an exchange of being the case the genealogist paid to produce a pedigree, provided be ton, is of the left-hand persuasion, notes.

is something of a cynic, need have but the "Peterborough bowler has

no great scruples, in doctoring his very considerable speed. I should

evidence. net call him fast like Walter Wright, of Notta and Kent, but he has race, Clark had the honour of bowling Hobbs It was said that Hobbs stepped too far across to-

As to the commercial treaty it self, I am told that Herr Strese maan will put forward proposals next September in Geneva.

wards the offside and that the ball ONLY WOMEN EMIGRANTS, touched the batsman's clothing. There may have been some contri- ITALY AND U. S. QUOTA LAW. batory circumstance of this kind, but the ball was a splendid delivery and turned appreciably..

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ROME.

Trees Without Boots..

But a pedigree without collateral evidence is but a poor return for hard cash. This is realized by the astute fraternity, who find snob bery a paying proposition-that is, snobbery in others. In Bloomsbury there, are obscure little studios where impecunious young men torn out with astonishing rapidity ancestors of the aspiring strangers returned to Old Country.

A curious consequence of Ameri. Clark appealed to me as a bowler can restriction regarding immigrat who has sathusiasm and an inborntion is that for the next eight aptitude. He is certainly excellent yeara; according to an official com- with the new ball, but generally his munication, the only Italians who will be allowed to emigrate to the length was good and there were no signs of his being erratic, or of United States will be women loss of equanimity when Satcliffe punished his deliveries for two sixes in one over: Clark needs en- couragement. There is the material, for a real bowler in him.

A note issued by the Italian Department states Emigration that it will no longer consider any requests from men for passports to emigrate to the United States. The Folks may look at his analysis number of Italian immigrants per one for 120-and point out that he averaged four runs an over, but when one remembers that The Rest had to face Sutcliffe, brilliant as

the

The traffic in faked portraits of ancestora has increased enormous- ly. It pays better than labouring for some years without recognition with the too-oft deferred hope of an acceptance by the Royal Acade- my. And the pedigree merchant pays hard cash for the portraits mitted under the Quota is now so of his clients ancestors, demand- small that the Department can ing only that the varnish be dry only consider the applications of and the work of art cunningly wives of Italian citizens who have enough faked to simulate the years. ever in a big match, and Hallows, been six years in the United As a matter of fact, given the + States. The American immigre- necessary mendacity and im- dour as he can be, these figures tion laws permit them to join their pudence, the taking of a pedigree must not be taken to indicate such

the that will convince Byrus E. inferiority. No one had a return husbands already there, and

wives of more than 10,000. Italians Browne, of Zenith City, that his Let us hope that the possibilities residing in America tave already ancestors were of the authentic

be con- line of the Pilgrim Fathers, is per of Clark will mature. That he has applied, they alone can

sidered.

The wish being ability is certain. but he wants a

fectly simple. wise tutor who will let develop his Their departure, moreover, must father to the thought, the recipient be strictly regulated, as only 170 at the brand-new pedigree which persons are admitted per month. is to cause intense annoyance and Frank Sitèles, the Lancashire representative, bowled better than It will, therefore, take some years jealousy among his neighbours, for the North at Sheffield. He got before all the present applicants will not look too closely at the in- the wickets of the two public idols will have been able to join their trinsic evidence placed before him as batamen--Sutcliffe and Ham-husbands. The situation seems to by the suave research worker. mond. It may be urged, indeed it be unique in history.

of which he could feel proud.

bent.

was, that Butclaffe wished to get

&

of

Newly-Hallmarked.--

In this way, every season, many

out, and that Hammond was guilty Tate and Larwood were in a class Americans are acquiring evidence.

shocking stroke for a man such growing reputation. Never by themselves, even though the of their lineage and linking up Less, Bibbles bowled with much pitch was not such as they would their families with ancient county exactness. As a rule he can keep have chosen. In this match Lar families of our debt-ridden isle. illustrious batamen quiet, and that wood took his hundredth wicket There is no particular harm done, is not easily done,

when he deceived and bowled Band of course, and nobody is cheated. Of course, his figures do not aug-bam for the second time. Let us The newly-hallmarked aristocrat gest greatness, but how much better hope that the mishap to his knee returns home armed with pedigree would they have been if Sutclife will not prove so serious as re-that will convince his friends and business associates, even if it had been adjudged stumped off his ported. bowling when €3. What the umpire The public as a whole do not ap would move a Herald to discrect says stande, and we all necept the Freciate the risk which bowlers run laughter, while the learned, if un- decision; but there were cricketers after min, and they do not remem.scruplaus, exploiter of his saob playing in this match, and incident has before now proved & about for a new victim.

ber that what ecems a slight ac bery pockets his fee and looks good position to judge, who be- lieved that the Yorkshire stylist was heavy handicap to men of less pace

than Larwood.

A Clans By Themselves.

Everybody is satisfied, and not least Sadie, who will point out to not in his ground when the bail wasThe need of England is for more admiring. Mamies and Betties the flicked off by Ames,

first-class bowlers, because when striking resemblance between the Tate and Lazwood require a rest unearthed portrait of the English It is generally said that Sibbles there are no changes of their ancestor and Poppa's handsome can only make the ball-go away-clae.

and aristocratic-features And that is, towards the slipe. On the The one batsman who enhanced even when Poppa knows it is a other hand, there were batamen who his reputation was Leonard Bates, graft he is prepared to keep quiet, faced his deliveries and stated, de- of Warwickshire. He played well for a proper pedigree means finitely that he could bring the ball and with enterprise, while the prestige, and that is what Momma back on to the stumps and that he wicket-keeping of Livsey was by for is out for and to please Momms was the best bowler for The Rest

the neatest,quickest and rest 18, as every good American knows, that I have scea this season,

his real purpose in life.-Referes. (Continued on nezt Column.)

HONG KONG WOMEN'S GUILD

AND

MINISTERING CHILDREN'S LEAGUE.

Fun

un o the Fair.

TO BE HELD AT

LEE GARDENS

ON OCTOBER 1ST, 1927

1:

from 3 pm to 11pm.

A magnificent array of attractions including

THREE REGIMENTAL BANDS,

Dancing to H. K. & S. Hotels Super-Orchestra,

GRAND FIREWORK DISPLAY,

CABARET SHOWS, CHINESE CONJURING,

DRAGON PROCESSION,

DONKEY RIDES

Teas and all the usual Candy Stalls, etc.

Come, Lasses and Lads!

Charity Begins at the Fair!