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RUGBY, May 2 ON BEHALF of the Board of

Must bé. Revisad. Trade, it was stated to-day

County batsmen will dislike this

County cricket to-day is, in my that the Government would not be debarred during the continuance of article intensely writes Mr. How- the tariff truce from giving notice ard Marshall in the Daily Tele-opinion, moribund, but it would some encouragement and batamen to terminate any commercial treaty.graph. A pity, but it cannot be quickly revive if bowlers were given helped; the batsman, it seems to

were forced to make proper use of me, has already had his share of consideration. Now it is the bow their bats. ler's "tura and when I speak of bowlers I do not necessarily mean Larwood.

'COVERING-UP ” A SHABBY ADVANTAGE

THE RUBBER INDUSTRY

Far Reaching Changes Ahead

We inust, in short, return to the principle, if not the wording, of the original 1.b.w. law of 1774, which, stated that the striker is out if he puts his leg before the wicket with a desing to stop the ball and actually prevent the ball from hit. ting it."

It will be difficult, though, to write a general cricket article this summer without bringing Larwood into it somewhere. Bodyline bow ling, leg-theory, the whole dreary

There are those who maintain business of the Australian con- troversy is bound to break out that this would put too great again when the M.C.C. team return, strain upon the umpires, but under the existing rule they have to de- BIG MALAYAN EXPERIMENT from tone in ten days' time.

That it is a dreary business Icide whether the ball pitched be- think most of us are agreed, and tween the wickets, and of this re Admittedly the modern batsman that leg theory, carried to extremes,sponsibility they would be relieved, would complain bitterly if any such is likely to be harmful to cricket is generally accepted.

What I cannot understand is the alteration were contemplated. He entirely new technique. and his severely. way most critics, and Australian | would have to adapt himself to an

might safer The average

There would be no han in this. mean fewer trewn matches, and however, for "lower scoring would

come to life again. - the County Championship would

the

Sir George Beharrell, the new President of the Institute of Rubber Industry, speaking at the eleventh anaual meeting, expressed

pinion that recent amalgamation of four important manufacturing critics in particular, have corporations dealing with rubber pronched the controversy.. Intex into an international combine would in time revolutionise the outlook for rubber.

ap-

savnge attacks which have been made upon Jardine, and Larwood are surely as irrevelant as they are The planting as well as manufac illogical what is needed is not turing side of the industry, be said, legislation to restrict leg-theory, but was now thoroughly organised and an inquiry into those principles prepared to take immediate edvan of modern batsmanship which have tage of the first signs of trade reproduced body-line bowling as

natural consequence. vival.

Cause of Dull uricket.

When we consider also the ro in the arts of bowling and stroke

val which would inevitably follow! theplay, we must surely agree that it

is high time the 31.C.C. carried out their forty-year-old threat to dis- untenance and prevent the use of fence by every means in the legs ns a second line of de power.

their

Uses for articles Innumerable manufactured, from rübber and in-

lf, as many of us believe, all is creasing demand for rubber up-

instead of must seek the C130 holstery were signs that manufacot well with cricket to-day, we turers were resolved to make rubber

The cause, as I see it, lies in the one of the biggest Empire indus-bickering childishly over the effects, tries of the future.

1.b.w. rule, which allows the bata man to use his legs as a second line and Verity (4 for 17) dismissing ui defence against balls which pitch them for 30. outside the wicket.. This rule, na Mr. R. H. Lyttelton argued so ably in his book on the subject, is at the root of all our troubles, from dull ericket, and drawn matches to the th ry attack. exaggerated development of leg-

BUKIT TIMAH ROAD Bukit Timah Road, now being re constructed throughout its length to provide a really efficient artery be tween Singapore and Johore, is to be the site of the most important test yet carried out in Singapore with regard to rubber roads.

A stretch two hundred yards in length, at about the 9 mile, is be- ing surfaced with the P.D.C. rub- her road product which has been placed on the market by Messrs. Gammon (Malaya) Limited. This is one of the paints at which the road is under entire reconstruction, and one half of the test surface has been completed within the last week and is in use. The other half will be finished as soon as the P.W.D. contractors have made the foundation of the other half of the anal.

pore,

1

A. B. Sellers relied on his fast--

Another example of the strategio: low attack again, and his declara tion when only 185 ahead was vot tactics of F. E. Greenwood's suc

Ceasor.

Scores as cabled by Rienter: Infortunately, the principle of Leicester: 63 (Macaulay 6 for 25), 39 (Macaulay 8 for 22, even schoolboys

Verity 4 for 47). covering-up find sticking their right legs across as a protection against the break-back of Yorkshire: 250 for 7 dec. halls outside the off-strap. "There is nothing wrong or contrary to the spirit of the game" wrote that dis tinguished bataman, Mr. D. J. Knight, in the Badminton cricket together in front of the wicket and bebind the bat to act as an extra: volume, "in bringing the legs back defence, so long as the ball has pitched off the wicket."

**Shabby."

Bukit Timah Road has been cho

Now there is something radically sen as the site for this important wrong here. Older cricketers had test as being the busiest road on

other views, and that great player, the island. There is a constant William Beldham, who was born in stream of traffic along the road be706, is quoted by the Rev. James tween Singapore and the mainland,

Pycroft as saying: "The law of and much of it is heavy lorry b.w. was not made or wanted till traffic, carrying pineapples and rub- ber and other produce into Singa-Ring, to get his leg in the way and

take advantage of the bowlers." "Shabby-that is the significant word, and to my mind it sums up LAID LIKE CEMENT"

the whole situation. Cricket is a P.D.C. product is manufactured game intended to be fought out with from a mixture of latex of known two weapons, the ball and the bat, and when the batsman introduces an addi- dry rubber content, made chemical- his pade deliberately as ly and filtered, which is laid like tional weapon he is taking a shabby ordinary cement оп a surface advantage of his opponent. previously. waterproofed with

This, at any rate, was still the Paraphix," another patent of the general attiude fifty years ago, and same company.. It is a jointless road surface for which it is claimin 1887, at the first meeting of the County Cricket Council, Lord Har- ed that it is waterproof, will never

ris said that "gentlemen of the wear out, and is, proof against older cricket, school were decidedly skidding.

'Test portions of road have been

of opinion that some alteration was

laid with this product in Singapore required in the law of 1.b.w."

As a result of this meeting a sub- recently, notably in Raffles Place, committee was appointed to inquire where there is a stretch 30 yards into the matter, and they passed a in length and twenty feet wide. resolution to the effect that the That was laid a few months ago

practice of deliberately defending and has been carefully watched un-

the wicket with the person instead der the more or less heavy traffic the bat is contrary to the spirit conditions which obtain at that spot of the game, and inconsistent with throughout the day.

strict fairness, and the M.CC. will Another road of the same kind discountenance, and pervent this was laid at the B.A.F, base at practice by every means in their Seletar, and there have also been power."

portions laid in Trafalgar Street. Unhappily, the M.C.C. failed to Every one of these test roads has translate their strong words into proved satisfactory so far, and the action, and in order to show how earliest of them that in Trafalgar the deliberate use of the legs bas in- Street has been laid for over eigh-creased I take the following table teen months. That at the Air Base from Mr. Lyttelton's "book: was laid in. October last year, and

No. of wickets the one in Raffles Place in Decem-

taken. lbw percen.. ber.

postage 44 1772

1 in 40 slein. 17. 3792 8702431 1 in 14

Year.

The new test portion on the Bukit Timah Road will give a surface of 2,000 square yarks. It is 200 yards dong and ten yards wide, and is jointless throughonit. It is expect ed that it will be completed in about. a month's time.

1870 1800 1810

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

BRIGADE

A CORRECTION

The Commissioner begs to report that $100 announced an having been donated by the Government's Household was in fact the persona contribution of HE the Governor and Lady Peel

"The Commissioner regrets

error.:-

9211 in 8 7010 1993

BALB 0571 f8 1020 The deductions from this table Ano obvious; the whole technique óf batsmanship has changed since sys tematic covering-up was introduced, and the bowler not only has to beat the bat, but the batsman's legs as weller

The results have been disastrous, and are becoming an increasing menace to the existence of first-class cricket. The logical outcome of the bowler's attempts to overcome his difficulties have been the introduc tion of googlies and leg theory, and the consequences of the bateman's une of his pada have been the detes Cable -ered stance, the decline of trokeplay hugeres and drawn matches

HOME CRICKET

YORKSHIRE S.TRIUMPH OPPONENTS DISMISSED TWICE FOR 104 RUNS

YORKSHIRE,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY]

LONDON, May 22.

Comty Cricket Champions, recorded their third. win in three matches when they beat Leicestershire by an inninge and. 16 runs at Bradford yester day.

Dismissed by Macaulay (8 for 23) for the lowest score of the sen son-Leicester collapsed sensation- ally when set 196 to save the innings.defeat, Macaulay (8 for 991- (Continued on previous column).

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