THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST | 23, 1034.
HATS OFF TO AUSTRALIA: THE BETTER TEAM WON
MAGNIFICENT LEADERSHIP OF WOODFULL
Dramatic
Batting
Collapses: Bowlers Supreme On On An
Easy Pitch
THE best team
LET us first pay
his
won.
WOODFULL.
match. True Ponsford and Brad- man did practically all the run- ketting, but four bowlers shared · the trundlink honours. Ebeling. in his first Test in England, per-
formed splendidly: Grimmett and
O'Reilly supported their work in the previous matches with a truly brilliant attack, and McCabe made
this, possible the final collapse of Eng- tribute to Woodfull and land by taking the frat two
mighty men before wickets for five runs,
studying the whys
and
Work Of The Teams Compared:
Australians
Superior Fighting Spirit
form: the comparatively poor
PONSFORD,
CURIOUS ERROR.
By curious coincidence, both Renter and British Wire- ies have sent through incor- rect Individual scores in Eng- land's final innings. Although the mistake cannot accurately te placed, it is presumed that Allen, who is credited by these news services with scuring one run, nctually scored more. The individual
· scores as received here total only 124, whereủa England's Innings realised 145.
Lott And
53 runs for the last wicket by Stoefen Still
aound batting.
batting of Sutcliffe and the un. WHAT of England's juninga? Winning
happy performances of Mitchell, Walters was beaten all enda Hopwood and Woolley. They up by a brilliant McCabe delivery: were expected to do so much, Woolley, attempting a big hit be- And they did so little.
fore he had time to get his eye was out to a falsely timed strike: is Sutcliffe was most deliberately
GAINST this, consolation
wherefores of this ifth and N the field. Bradman, Ponsford found in the magnificent bat- trapped by Grimmett; Hammond
Chipperfield, Oldfield and ting of Leyland; the consistency was caught by O'Reilly In an last Test match, so full of McCabe set a standard which of Walters and the generally good amazing fashion. Nothing wrong strange contrasts and excit- made the work of the Englishmen form of Ames is pleasant to about the pitch with the fall of
look very third rate, as Indeed it recall that Bowes and Clark "made these batamee. ing interludes.
press
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Www.
A
good"
ne Test bowlers, and that. In Kenneth Farnes England has a a fine trundler of the future,
ות
THE Australians regained the REGARDING the series
"Ashes" because they play. whole and from a purely ed consistently good cricket. impersonal viewpoint, one cannot efforts of Verity have Batting, bowling and fielding help acknowledging that Australia never fell below the accepted throughout had two tricks to
of Test standards
grade England's one in practically ever cricket. When ono player phase of the game.. There was n wasn't "coming off to
ex- stability in batting, lion-hearted- it colloquially, his ness in bowling and polish in colleague was. This does not fleiding which the English teams suggest inconsistency, but ex- could never quite equal. cellent team work. WOODFULL'S
captaincy To Auggeat, as did one London
paper. that England was above reproach, and merely fielding "courtesy" teams, the response given by his men was both untrue and unfair. It magnificent. A very big con- is much better to face up to the
W
GRIMMETT.
was
real facts. Larwood and Voce kicked themselves out of the Tests. Possibly the selectora might have made better use of the rest of the talent available in the country, but that is purely matter of opinion and is impos- sible to demonstrate that any other combination would have fared better than did those who operated at Nottingham. Lord's, Manchester, Leeds and The Oval.
the
BECAUSE England. lost
series. It is very easy to be lured into carping criticism yet this would not only be useless. but would possibly mean
very
warped "annlysis,
WYATT'S captaincy for instance
was distinctly good, his "only
two mistakes during the whole
AND
AND while Hammond was in he showed absolute disdain for anything and everything, He came out of that unnatural shell which he had built for him- self during the Test matches. probably forgot that it was n Test, and in succession scored 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 4.
LATEST U.S. TENNIS RESULTS
German Town, Aug. 22. Gene Mako and Donald Budge, conquerors of Perry and Wilde, made their own exit from the United States national' doubles tennis championship here to day, when they were beaten by Gregory Mangin and Berkeley Bell after a fierce five-set match, the scores rending 4-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1. -
happily found their place in the annnla of Internation- dividual achievements
when cricket, and
in-
The young Pacific Coast cham- of the
plans put up a great show, and teams are compared Wo
after winning the first two sots And that the are about equal,
looked safe for entry into the much as anything that gave Aus- A fident yelle for obstruction by Mangin, whose experience of first and that it was sheer "guts", as ND this in spite of two con- fourth AND
round.
and But Bell tralia their worthily won "Ashes". O'Reilly. But O'Reilly got him in class tennis is by no means the end. Hammond drove hard negligible, rose to the occasion con and true straight down the wicket, and turned the tables. fifth The ball was going away from
word or two about the cluding stages of the
Tent.
"OREILLY:"
series being committed on that YESTERDAY'S play
"
WBO
*
O'Reilly to his left, but he leapt
George Lott and Lester Stoefen and brought off a spectacular continued a leisurely path of vic- catch.
tory, three sets suflicing for their | defent of Carl Fischer and William LL the time Grimmelt was Lingelbach. A bowling with the cunning
Those erstwhilo Davis Cup which invarinbly means the down-players, Wilmer Allison and Van fall of batsmen; Sutcliffe was his Ryn also experienced no difficulty For two overs he in making the fourth round, three gradually drew the Yorkshireman sets of 26 games being all that was out of his crease, til at inat he needed to efface Wilmer Hynes pitched one, just long enough to be and Jenry Prusoff. played at, but short enough to cause the spinning ball to whizz off the edge of the bat into McCabe'a
nextest_victim.
hands.
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INDENIABLY it was it red-
letter day for bowlers.
ONE
-
NE of the saddest figures in the game wns Woolley. Brought In the last minute with the sole intention of strengthening the bat- ting, he failed in both Innings, and was then forced to take over wicket in- keeping from Ames, from which fateful Saturday Just. Other tensely dramatic, with attack position he conceded 50 extras! tributing factor was the Aus- than this he set a fine example is right on top from the first over. tralians will to win. This
was the field, handled his none Loo In fuct so unusual are the figures always more apparent than in mobile attack judiciously, and re- -18 wickets fell for 286 runs the Englishmen, who, especially mained a courageous optimist to that one naturally assumes that in batting become tentative and the end.
the wicket went to pieces. shy, repressing their natural
was in game for a strange phenomenon ENGLAND'S "shme" THIS was not, No: It was partial to WELL played Australia! known as orthodox restraint..
failure of individuals from
spin, admittedly, but it did whom so much was espected. not play tricks such as did the Hammond's inability to repro pitch at Lord's in the second Test,
too good for the batsmen.
THE full power of the Austra
lians was revealed in this Inst
duce anything like his current Truthfully the bowling was a little
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AND surely Bowes found a
moral in his success. Forced to reduce his pace be cause of an injured finger, the Yorkshireman concentrated on an Immaculate length. Result: 5 wickets for 55 runs in 11 overy.
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AND Clark? Well he put tempta
tion behind him. bowled orthodox off-theory and to nad besi hold took 5 for 98.
EDELING.
AND the happiest figure was Bill Woodfull, who had the "Ashes" given him for a present to celebrate his 37th anniversary.
YANKEES GIVE AND TAKE
SHARE DOUBLE HEADER
NEW BASEBALL RESULTS
New York, Aug. 22.
The first of the quarter final matches was started, when Frank Shields and Sydney Wood opposed V. G. Kirby and R- Menzo).
Owing to darkness the game] had to be stopped with the pairs
set each,
The Americans won the first set at 6-3, but Menzel and Kirby re- tallated by taking the second at 13-11.
RESULTS.
Scores of the leading matches, ns cabled by Router, were:-
Lott and Stoefen (U.S.) beat Flacher and Lingelback (U.S.) G-2, 0-4, 0-4.
Allison and Van Ryn (US) beat Hines and Prusoff (U.S.) 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.
Bell and Mangin (U.S.) beat Mako and Budge (U.S.) 4-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.
Motherwell Defeat Celtic 1-0
LEAGUE SOCCER IN SCOTLAND
London, Aug. 22,
A programme of nine matches
No baanball games were schedul- was played to-day in the first ed in the National League to-day, division of the Scottish Foot- but in the American programme, ball League, and home teama the Yankees shared a double had the better of the arguments. hender with - Cleveland Indians, while Detroit fell victims Washington Senators.
to
Airdrie were the only visitors
to collect the full complement of Dun- points, but Queen's Park, fermline and St. Mirren wore
The scores as cabled by Reuter, teams on foreign enclosures whe
bagged a point.
follow.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
報日僑華
Subsc
The Wah Kiu Yat Po staff who won the recent Hongkong-Canton- Macao journaliste aquatic championship held under the sponsorship of the Chung Shing Banerolant Society. This team won all of the events, and in the picture they are soon with their troplles.
THE HUMAN STORY OF BRADMAN'S
INNINGS AT LEEDS
Carries Wife's Telegram In Pocket All Day
“GO TO IT DON;" MESSAGE
Yesterday morning at breakfast her reply came. It was a simply worded cable. What it said is private, but it meant for Don in effect this:"
Harrogate, July 20. inquiry, to be reassured that he This is the human story be- was fit and woll, that she must not hind Don Bradman's great believe the reports, and that if return to form at Leeds yeater she waited till the Tost match at day as the world's wonder|Leeds he would "show them." batsman,
Ilo had an instinct that he would It was revealed to me as I sat then justify bis and her faith in with him last night round the himself, and prove how untrue festive table at the Prince of were the sneers about him. Wales's Hotel here, together with his comrade in record breaking, V. H: Ponsford; the two Board of Control representatives, Mr. Har old Bushby and Mr. William Bull, and other members of the team.
Don, looking more excited than
That telegram Don: had In his 1 have ever seen him, was handling a pile of telegrams. One was pocket all day. What greater in crumpled and hardly readable.. ducement could any man have to It had been in his pocket on determine him to win through. the field, all those hours when That was how Bradman said he he and Ponsford were pulling felt about it. the team round. It was from Don's wife.
I have already told the boy and girl romance of the bush which ended in wedding bells two years ago.
It is no secret that Bradman was not happy over the grandmotherly rule which made him leave his wife in Australia..
"Go to it, Don. I belleve in you."
This message from his wife add- ed that she would be listening to the wireless broncast all day.
So minute by minute she heard the happy story of her husband's success___‚and well-being.nu. vindication 12,000 miles away. Bradman now hopes that he has
heard the last of these Inginaa tions about his health,"
This was accentuated by the People are anyng that he has untrue and alarming reports con- set his heart on beating his former linually published here about his record score of 834 at Leeds In health. Although they stung him, 1930, and that when he goes out to he was more upset on account of bat to-morrow that is his aim. I hla wife, for the reports were have his word that this is not so, enabled to Australia and gave her and it is confirmed by what took unnecessary distress.
place in the Australian dressing- room fast night.
Worry of this sort has no doubt nd something to do with his de- luyed return to form, for Brad- man is by no means an insensitive human being.
.
DON'S TOAST.
When Don was almost carried in by two stalwart policemen who had A few days ago the rumours enved him from the friendly crush about his health were revived, and of the crowd; the whole Australian the report was published and, of team gathored round him with a course, cabled to Australia, sug-bottle and a tonsi "To Don." gesting that Bradman would have He would not have it."I
to visit a London heart specialist.listening to one toast, and that is He could do nothing. He cabled thfa To a victory. We are not his wife, in response to her anxious (Continued on Page 9.)
SPORTS ADVTS.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB,
Race Fixtures For 1935..
Saturday, Monday,
16th February
R. H.
Detroit
6
8
scored,
The Rangers, at home to Hearts on by the odd goal in three, and Motherwell, entertaining Celtic, Ewon a great match by the only
0 goal
Washington...
7.
13
2
Reuter cabled the following
(Cronin homered)
results:
Aberdeen
1 Queen O'South 0
St. Louis...
Monday,
0
Albion
0 Queen's Park 0
Ayr
.3 Partick
2
L
7
0
Saturday,
Dundee
1 Dunfermline
Falkirk
2 Airdrie,
4
10
rubai
(Dietrich pitched) · Philadelphia A.
AND In case there still (Ferrell hit two home Auto one should. Boll
of
14
Chicago Boston
3
There were ten inning
New York.... Cleveland ̧.
shocking stroke-all across the ball, New York-
4
(e) that Walters mado a glorious Cleveland,
14
catch to dismiss Kippax, and; (d) (Tosky, Halo and that Ebeling and O'Reilly added homored).
that wicket let us explain (n) that Bradmna played inalde perfect length ball on the leg (Gomez pitched) slump..(b), that Woodfull made a
Ulbernians ◊ St. Mirren
Motherwell 1 Celile
St. Johnstone2 Klmarnock
'London, Aug, 224
Colombo resumed training today. After a proliminary bout of trofting/ the horse was given thres canters of
Burnett about four furlonga each, and appear- ed to move soundly-Reuter,
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Saturday, Saturday,
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2nd March Saturday,
23rd March Saturday,
6th April Saturday, 20th April 22nd April (Easter Monday)
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Double Tenth)
Saturday,
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· 12th October 19th October
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Saturday,
Annual Race Mooting
1st Extra Race Meeting 2nd Extra Race Meeting 3rd Extra Race Meeting
4th Extra Race Meeting
5th Extra Race Meeting. 6th Extra Race Meeting 7th Extra Race Meeting
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Rangers
2 Hearts
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