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| CRICKET

HOW THE GAME CAN

BE HELPED

Should Reforms Be

Introduced?

Wet or Ane, county cricket has to struggle to keep the wolf from the door, writes & Home`correspon- dent. Rarely indeed, can the clubs balance their budgets. Even the

TRIBUTE TO

SCOTTISH GOLF

Yale Team To Visit North Country

University golfers In Scotland have never played the part ini in- ternational affairs taken by Oxford and, Cambridge. writes a Home correspondent. That make the decision of the Yale University golf team to vialt Scotland and play matches against the four. Universities the more surpris- the less welcome. Another suggestion is that the tag. but none

Pernapa, however, Scottish golf country championship would be

courses and not Scottish golfers are

MORE REPRESENTATIVE

MATCHES

big ones live not on the receipts given a liveller interest by borrow-the attraction. although "the from matches, but from the sub-ing the system of promotion and Americans may be Judging Scot- scriptions of their members. Every relegation from the Football Lea-land's players from the perfor Winter one or another is in diffl-gue. That is to say the club which mance of Jack 'Lean in the culties. Now it is the turn of finished in the bottom place would American Amateur Championship Leicestershire to declare "We shall

lose ir place and senior status.

last year. However the decision have to close down unless....** It

was reached, it will provide a most Such an arrangement would un-interesting addition to the season's

doubtedly sound the death knell nxture list, and may even stimu

really means nothing more than a signal for a special effort to be made to clear off the arrears. At 外 the same time it is re-affirmed ¦ happy position.

that there is nothing wrong with cricket. Interest in the game 15

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as keen as ever, as the match at- tendances would reveal, if it were not true that most people have ta work, and cannot afford to sit lazily in the sunshine as spectators.

of the one which fell into this un-late Oxford and Cambridge to start matches with our own Univer- sitten

The best of all the proposals is that put forward by Mr. P. F. War-

ner

EVERY FIELD IN

BRITAIN.

Placed On The Map!

that more representative matches should be played. The argument against them is that, if players are taken from their clube to make up the teams, the cham- plonship would be depreciated. I do not think this follows, and the

Two-thirds of Britian had, at the extra Axtures. if they were ar- ranged on a pooling system, would end of last month, been mapped be a means of creating a fund by the Land Utilisation Survey so which might help substantially to as to show every field, states, the relieve the distress. Meanwhile, "Morning Post."

Dr. L. Dudley Stamp. Director ol the clubs are looking forward to a' share of the profits of the present the Survey. announced this in a In the case of lecture to the Auctioneers' .... and Australian tour. Leicestershire it is even suggested Estate Agents Institute. that these should be anticipated. and given as an immediate grant by the MG.C.

ARE REFORMS REQUIRED? But it is just as regularly in- sisted that cricket ought to be brightened, or that reforms should be introduced, to give it a more popular appeal. The captain of Worcestershire now suggests that the red leather ball should be abandoned and a white one sub- stituted. He evidently forgets that a white ball was tried many years ago, and found entirely unsuitable. Now, as then, the argument in fts favour is that it would be seen better by those sitting remote from Essex have adopted a scheme to the wicket. As a matter of fact it help themselves. They belleve that would be "lost" against the back- the cricket public would be just as ground of a white sky. It would ready to pay two shillings as one After scrutiny and test, these. also be necessary to change the at- shilling to see a day's play, and field sheets were reduced to a tire of the player. He could not they are to increase their admis- | scale of one inch to the mile, and continue to wear white flannels.sion charge to this extent. It is each of these smaller maps was Dark green would be more suitable. an interesting experiment, which equal to 90 or 100 field sheets. And a white ball would quickly get will be closely watched by the dirty on a wet day.

other clubs.

Regular Army Recruiting. Spurt

Recruiting for the Army impro- the announcement of a complete

ved during January, states the new recruiting policy. "Daily Telegraph.". It is the frat

Pay Increases Urged

time for many months that a been change for the better has

Capt. Macnamara suggested that observed. There was an increase reservists returning from foreign

of 13 per cent, compared with the | service should be assured of ful same season last year in the num- pay for six weeks after demobilisa- ber of men enllated.

The Territorial Force” far „ur- passed this with an increase of 150 per cent. upon the recruiting of January, 1938.

These satisfactory figures were announced by Sir Victor War- render. the Financial Secretary to the War Omce, at the close ut the debate on the Reserve Forces Bill, the purpose of which is to Increase the strength of the" "A",] Reserve,

Men in this branch are paid 6d, a day more than those in the Ge neral Reserve and are lable to be called back to the colours when the War Office consider, their ser- vices required, as in the recent emergency in Palestine.

All "A" Men Called Up The Secretary for War, Mr. Duft Cooper, told the House that when the "A" reservists were called up to in Palestine, the whole of the Infantry were required. If any other emergency had arisen in an other part of the world, we should have had no "A" reserve of infan- try to send.

serve

The whole of the branch now numbered under 3,000, though the

authorised strength was 6,000/

Mr. Duft Cooper was able to give

the House a reassuring report of the return to civil life of the re- servists sent to Palestine, More of

tion.

Mr. Sanders and other Socialist members urged an increase of pay and its exclusion from the "Means Test."

Sir Victor Warrender, replying for the Government, explained that the terms of service and re- eruitment were being extended be- cause many men

would like to remain in the "A" reserve more than two years and many in the General Reserve would like to en- ter the "A" branch.

They had an agreement with the Unemployment Assistance Board that an employed reservist's pay should not be reckoned as part of the family income.

The bill was then given a séc. ond reading without opposition.

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Later on an account of progress made in the establishment of new industries by the Special Areas Re- construction Association was given by Col. Colville, Financial Secret- airy to the Treasury.

Grants to the amount of £243,- 450 for 42 cases had been appro ved. These loans provided for brick manufacture, coal mining, toy making, pressed steel, tiles, iron foundries, box making and glass making.

purposes.

Lansdown's House Rent After this Bocialist back ben. them had employment to-day than chers spent a great deal of time when they were called up, and in efforts to extract from the Trea- sury Bench a statement of the still more were being absorbed.

Mr. Shinwell,

rent paid for premises in Lans the Socialist.

downe House, which had been spokesman, labouring with ·BOMO obvious difficulty to find grounds taken over for Government office for criticising the bill, complained that the War Offlée needed re- Mr. Hudson, speaking for the Of form. The "A" Reserve extra pay ace of Works, informed them that of sixpence a day was not a pro- it was the established custom not per indemnity and, moreover, it to disclose figures of this kind and was taken into account by the added the assurance that the rent Unemployment Assistance Board was reasonable. in assessing allowances,

The Socialists prolonged the Earl Winterton argued that li debate in various keys without was the appalling stats of Army contriving to give it any import- recruitment which made it neces- ance, and after Mr. Priit had given sary to call up reserves for Pales- some perfunctory support to the ting. That had damaged our "bres-rank and file from their⠀⠀⠀ front tige: in the Near East. He could bench, the estimate on the matter not understand the long delay in was carried by 185 to 117.

The deld work of the survey was recorded on about 20,000 sheets of six-inch maps. On these, every Deld or parcel of land was lettered. and a large nmber of sheets were coloured in additions.

The whole country would be cover- ed by 235 of these one-inch maps. It took an assistant about six or. eight weeks, or even twelve weeks. to complete one.

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