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COMPLICATIONS FORESEEN OVER THE NEW L.B. W. RULE

Its History Outlined: Present Experimental Law Not Accepted In Australia

WHEREIN THE BLAME

In these times the course of crick et is not allowed to run smoothly f for long, writes "Watchman" in made necessary by any fundamental The recent changes have not been the "Suulzy Observer." The old fault of cricket as it used to be subject contention, the leg-before-fashioned. The increase in the size wicket rule. has now become prominent again as a cause of dit of the wicket came as a consequence ference of opinion between England ble by the artificial preparation of

of absurdly big scuring made possi and Australia

pitches. The pitches, nor the old size of the stumps, caused the mis chief. And the change in the 1.b.w. rule won support because first-class batamen had got into such shocking bad habita and wandered so far from the path of rectitude that they and their pads in, preference to their batu The players were to blame, not the old rule.

Lord Hawke, full of good inten tions, no doubt but acting uno nially sent a cablegram to the Australian Board of Control, in which he expressed the sincere hope" that the Board world "seriously reconsider their posi- Lion" and allow their team to play under the new 1.b.w. rule during the tour in South Africa. Probably he imagined that the "mere mention of bis name would carry a tremendous influence with the Boaril. But in this rapid age, when the events of one week are almost forgotten be- fore the end of the next, it is pos- sible that some of the members of the Board had never so much as heard Lord Hawke's name, just ma nany of a new generation have very hazy ideas of the qualities even of such giants as "Rahiji nad C. B. Fry. Anyhow, the Board ware not impressed. They decline to go back

It is lamentable that first-class cricket should have got into such a position that the M.C.C. consider themselves obliged to legislate for & very small corner at the expense of the greater world of cricket which supplies the game with its life blood. For every county bats men there are ten thousand club batsmen. There was a time when the laws of the M.C.C. ruled supreme everywhere. Cricket was the Rame its principles at Toowoomba as at Lord's Now the on their decision, And on top of circumstances which get a man out this there comes an announcement at Trent Bridge or Old Trafford from Johannesburg that the Transheed not cut short an innings at Vaal Cricket Union, following the example at the Western Province. have decided to revert to the old rule after using the new last season

The law which governs leg-before wicket has agitated many minds for many year. When a chaize some- what similar to that introduced last yeason was advocated so long ago as 901, & vote taken ät a special meet- ing of the M.C.C, showed that 259

'Were in favour of it against 188, but ax The necessary two-thirds majority was not obtained, no al- teration would be made. The subject, rontinued to be debated until, in 1935, an experimental rule, which applied only to first-class matches, made it possible for, batsmen to be out to breaking or swerving balls that pitched outside the off-stump Opinions varied as to the extent of the benefit brought by the change, but even those who had been its foremost enemies admitted that if it did not work the miracles hoped for by ite friends, it did not harm the gama At least the many calamities predicted by some people --ridiculous decisions. distracted umpires, matches reduced to farce on rain-affected pitches-did not enter. But evidently the governing hody of Australia have no use for it Otherwise they would willingly have tried it, as an experiment in "case it is made a permanent, law.

'TESÏ TROUBLES IN STORE

Now in an ordinary domestic year there is no need to worry ourselves

about the way cricket is played in

Australia or in South Africa or in Any other country. Their batamen could make up the rules as the game goes on, and none of us would shed tears. But, the troubles may poate with future Test matches.

There is a big probability that if the new bw. law finds favour with the counties after another conson of experiment it will be pass

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Sydney or Johannesburg; and the wicket which a player defenili in a Saturday afternoon league match may be of different size to that which is in use on the neighbouring ground,

The fact that an experimental rule adopted in this country has not found favour in Australia makes it evident that since ericker has become an Imperial game, with visits between one country and an uther frequently exchanged, parochial legislation is out of place Before even a temporary change in rule is made, something more than the blessing of the county captain is now desirable. The Im perial Conference

must have a voice. Otherwise only fog and muddle can result, as is the cass to-day.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY

SABOTAGE IN RUGBY FOOTBALL

H.M. SHIPS

Refitting Work On' Royal Oak Delayed

Second Round Of Triangular Tournament

The following will represent the Hong Kong Football Club agains the Army in the second round of the Triangular Tournament on the Club Ground on Saturday, January

London, Dec. 11. The Admiralty stated yesterday that two cases of attempted asbe Lage have occurred this year in Devonport-namely, in the 4th, at 4.00 p.m. H.M. ships in "dockyard hands at marice Oberon and the hathleship weeken Royal Oak,

1936

THIRD TEST

MATCH

Good Start By Australia

Capetown, Jan. 7

scored by Two-centuries were Australian batsmen when they won the tass and elected to bat. arst in the Third Test match which, commenced to-day in overcast and windy weather, There Was crowd of 10,000 people.

L. G. Robertson (Captain); H. R. Inquiries into these cases are | McCHlchrist, J. Hutchison, EL C. now proceeding," it was stated. | Meeke, K. A. Munro;" A HL R Australia bad scored 362 for 8: and it is not in the public interest Butcher. J. L. Bonnar; A. F. Walk- at the close Brown and, Fingle- to make any statement at present '

den, G. 8. Chambers, J. H. Mc-ton were associated in a lively Thr twn. Acts of attempted

which at Fly Elney, J., & Dunnett, W. E. Pears, first wicket partnership sabotage were revesind

E. B. Gammell, E. P. Humphreys, produced 233 runs. MS Gunming,

Brown scored 112 which inchid-

boundaries." ed a six and seven He stayed at the wicket for 202 minutes.

worth during the week-end.

It is understood that the ineident on the Royal Oak délayed the refit- ting work on the battleship and aused damage amounting to several hundred pounds, An official in Festigation has been instituted

CABLE PIERCED

It was reported on Sunday that a thort circuit led to the failure of all the electrical work on the Royal Dak, and that the fault, was bot traced for three days.

It was then, found that a sail, pin. had pierced the cable connecting the electric power station in the, dockyard with the control tower of the battleship.

"The top of the pin, it was stated, uppeared to have been filed off, and the lead covering of the cable seemed to have been re- placed, making detection of the fault very difficult,

The damage to the submarine Oberon was effected several weeks ago while the vessel was undergoing refitting at Devonport Dockyard. A cominutator was reported to have been interfered with.

It was stated in unofficial quar- sere during the week-end that an investigation had followed the

trials on the refitted submarine.

EXTENSIVE REPAIRS

ILMS. Royal Oak (29,105 tons)

was withdrawn from the First Bat the Squadron in March last year, and transferred to dockyard control in the following June for dztensive repairs which up to the end of last. March had cost over £312,000. The vessel was completed in 1918, and by the replacement schedule of the Washington Treaty should, bave been replaced this year,

All new naval construction was déferred for six years under the

Rotary Club Hears London Treaty, and the Royal Oak

Of Sex Control

CLAIM TO GREAT ADVANCES, BUT NOT PERFECTION,

Members

Shanghai, De 28. of the Shanghai Po

tary Club held their usual tin.

re-union yesterday at the Metro- pole Hotel, and listened with t terest to an address on "the biolo gical foundation of sex contral" by Dr. C. C. Chen, Professor of at the University of Biology Bhanghai, who said, the gorgeous colouration of the butterfly, the striking display of the plum-

was consequently respited.

The Oberon, a 1311-toa submarine of the class, was hails at. Chatham, and launched in 1926.

The chief officers at present st tached to the Royal Oak are Lieutenant W L Whitaker and Commander (E) V. E. Kemball

HOCKEY

Gunners Go Down To Club 2nd XI

Playing the 2nd and 3rd Batter- les HK S.RA at King's Park yes- terday, the Hong Kong Hockey Club 2nd. XI won in a very scrappy game of Hockey. by 3. goals to 2.

In spite of being two men short throughout, the Club managed to

d into the rules. Yet it some pos- age of grds uke the pea- hold their own and netted 2 goals

cock, and the stately look of an

special behaviours in the animal kingdom only could be property

interpreted in terms of sex.

It

was equally a mystery, as it was an inspiration.

"In attempting to understand sex, said Dr. Chen, many theur- les have been formulated. Some

in the first half. In the second but the combined Batteries man- aged to net 2 goals.

Shortly before the end, the Club took the lead and held out til the Anal whistle.

sible that even in that avent such stubborn. people as the Australians antlerrd stag. with many ther half play was of an even nature, may still decline to accept the new vonditions on their own grounds. In any event it is now unlikely that they will consent to play under the temporary rule when an England team go to Australia next sutump. "If they did consent their own play. ts, unfamiliar with it, would be pt a big disadvantage when opposed to batsmen who had been given two seasons in which to make themselves are imaginary; some are too fan- tamilar to it, and the Australians are not the people to allow the og position to loud the dies against them. But if the next series of Test matches is played under the old rule the English batsmen who have reshaped the technique of their footwork to meet the new rule will be badly handicapped. There ap- pear to he breakers shond.

19-Year-Old Wins 100-Mile Race

tastic and many are mere super- stitions. Dre.incourt, in 1899, re- corded 252 theories of sex, Since

Ipoh, Dec 23, 1902, Geddes and Thomson have

The first 100-mile bicycle race claimed that this number has at organised in the State was won by least been doubled. It is our com- 19-year-old Ng Choon San, cap- mon knowledge now that our body tain of the Rough Rider Asso- is made up of two kinds of cells, clation of Kuala Lumpur. one known as the body cells, which constitute the bulk of our body, while the other known as the germ or sex cells, occupy only a small area in the body," but bear

The race attracted eleven star-

ters, two of whom were disquali Ged owing to taking a wrong course, one being the winner of a three-mile race organised two

The danger is that if cricket legislation continues on its present course there will gradually be evolved two different games of the Wame name. Already in Australia a great mission, "being responsible years ago. Although the race was

· the over consists of eight balls in

for the propogation of the race. scheduled for 100 miles the com- atead of the old six, and the follow- on rule differs from that which ap-

Passing on to a highly scientide | petitors actually covered. 117 the route being from Batu Gajah to Plies in England. The size of the dissertation, Dr. Ghen finally men- wicket, too, is allowed to be differtioned various experiments and poh via Kampar Road, Tiger Lane. ent to the extent of two inches in concluded by saying Theme- Tanjong Rambutan, Chemor and height and width according to the thods of sex control I have dealt Kuala Kangsar. ungite. of players outside English with may not have reached their The winner took 5 hours 36 min- County cricket, and so far club fizal stage of perfection, yet they utes so complete the journey. Only Binyers have stuck to the old leg are of such a practical nature thas Ave completed the race, one hav- before rule.

No game a Bourish among they may merit our serious con- ing to change his machine st players of all degrees unicas. It is sideration. Sex control has been Chernor owing to a punctured tyre. "dream of the animal breeder One Malay competitor fell off his governed strictly by uniform laws. What we have to fear is time. at from time immemorial, and this machine at Tanjong Rambutan,

reach once made between club and dream may, or may not, ever be and withdrew from the raça. county, between country and coun realized: yet, by the methods of The officials of the meet follow- try, may widen until the cricket phylogy, chemistry, and elected the competitors on motor- the prdinary man or boy plays boficity way has now been open- cycles. T

ones of different nature from the

éd up. How much and how far Othman and Gurmakn: Singh ricket that he watches Such man can conquer nature in the secured second and condition of alaire would assured-

undermine popularity and stifle control development.

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sex still remains to be respectively, Cops were presented

to the winner, second, and third,

The Army, wage represented by L/Corp. Accs R.WF); Bdr. Ives (RA) Lt. Withers (RA),

Rice Evans (RWF) captain, L/Cpl. Jones (RWF); Fus. Floyd (RWF) L. Hamilton (RE), dr. Hall (RA), Lt Hebert (RA), Gnr. Wright (RA), Spг.. Cullinan

(RE), F. Chaney (R.W.F.), Fus. Morgan (R.W.F.), Captain Gillesple (RE), L/Cpl Harrison (RE),

Referee, Col: H. C. Harrison. The Club A" KV wil meet H.M.S, Kent on the same ground at 2.45 pm

The Club side will be P. C. Frost: B. J. Gallagher. Rev. Mackenzie Dow, R. E. Griffiths, L. J. A. Fallden; G. S. Wilson, F. C. B Black; W. R. Andrews, S. H. Gar rod, B. D. G. Barlow, W. Stoker. J. H Hawkett, FJ. McGuran, B Hynes, A. D. Coppin,

Referee, Dr. J. A R. Selby. HE. the Governor, also HE, the General Officer Commanding the troops will attend,

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