1935-06-06 — Page 9

THE HONGKONG

Ten-shun

Shirley

TEMPLE

Lionel

BARRYMORE

The LITTLE

in

COLONEL

A B. G. De Sylva Production with

Evelyn Venable • John Lodge

and Bill Robinson Directed by David Butler

Based on the story by Annie Fellows Johnston

FROM

TO-MORROW

At 2.30, 5.10, 7.15. G. 9.30 p.m

AT THE

KING'S

SPECIAL MUSICAL PROLOGUE, TO-MORROW NIGHT

AT 9.30 P.M. ONLY

THE GLOUCESTER TRIO

(BY COURTESY OF THE MANAGEMENT OF GLOUCESTER LOUNCE:

Romance with that whimsical

Thin Man" flavour!

TIMES SQUARE QUEEN'S LADY

from

SUNDAY

with

VIRGINIA BRUCE ROBERT TAYLOR HELEN TWELVETREES PINKY TOMLIN

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1935.

EFFECT OF THE NEW CRICKET RULE

Goldwyn-

Mayer

PICTURE

Nothing Revolutionary Has Happened

H

(Continued from Page 8). turity and development of cricket can hardly be doubted.

team is selected: as much depends upon the way the men are led. County captaincy at the present time in andly stereotyped, rule-of- three captaincy, clock-and-score- board captaincy, without imaging- tion,

The county grounds have buzzed with new 1.b.w, discussions and dis- sensions all the week, but actually The Somerset captain the other the matter is still in its infancy, day was so scared of something Umpires have told me that they which did not exist that he feared to declare the innings closed until difßculty nu

deciding 111 whether a breaking or swingingly an hour and three-quarters ball would hit the wicket, but no remained for play, by which time Kames have yet been seen on sticky Surrey had been set 244 to win. pitches with bowling turning toile had done his best to carry the

find

状]

an extreme extent. And batsmen game into a cul-de-sac; and when have not yet had scient time to presented itself, he threw it away unexpecled chance of victory aettle to new conditions. The faw

reads that a player cm only be out by keeping

on his best bowler. Tust, with a tiring action, until

if he stops the ball with some pathat energotie runn had lost his of his person which is between vim, although there had been wicket and wirket." and it

possible that with perseverance plenty of time to rest him, bring the determined pad player will con- Similar instances

him back, and still win the match.

trive to get "Tur nermus

thei

of short

sight wicket to the breaking ball that will assuredly increase and multi- his legs will be outside the off-ply a hundred-fold before the sea- stump. Thos he could evade the

law.

Time must tell. But what- ever effects the new enle may have, į more enterprising batting does not promise to be one of them.

.

AN UNDOUBTED EVIL That the practire of stepping in ¦ front of the wicket to nearly every

son ends.

M. C. C. ATTACKED

ball has grown to be an AT DINNER.

SIR ABE BAILEY CRITICISES

certain, it has killed some of the) Ginest strokes of cricket. But laws, however strict, seldom re- form the habitual criminal. A change from petrification to artis vity in batsmanship, from INTR- gerated caution to reasonable en-

The M.C.C., the governing body terprise, can only come through the proper education

of cricket, was criticised by Sir of young. players. Teach them that it is Abe Bailey, the South African still possible to hit a ball in front mining millionaire, in a speech at of the wicket and that the more ja dinner given to the South strokes they develop the better | African cricketers by the Surrey their batting, and brightness will County Cricket Club. result. Teach them that it is a sin in any circumstance to lift the ball in cricket," said Sir Abe. "It is in the air and that a swinging too professionalised. The old forcing stroke is folly, and they amateur spirit is lacking, and there will become very dull dogs, new is no leadership or policy. Is the rules or no new rules,

M.C.C. or the Board of Control the The next nove is with the dictator? That question is often coaches and with those who ap-asked."

point them.

"There is too much interference

After giving some amusing re- If it is too early yet to make a miniscences of his own perform- definite decision upon the Ib.w. it

ances at the game as a young man is also too early to judge with in South Africa, Sir Abe went on conviction the form of the countles. to say: Lanenshire's failure nt Lord's

"When I saw what I thought was does not necessarily mean that they an unfortunate statement by Mr. are doomed to a season of failure; Jack Hobbs, that the South African neither does the saccess of team should only be allotted three Middlesex set their course straight Test matches, because South Africa for the championship. The South and not won a Test match in Eng- Africans, too, are only at the land. I began to fear there would prenticeship stage of their season, be no more Oxford and Cambridge but there have been plenty of op Boat Races, as Oxford

had not portunities for them to show that won

for many years, and horse there is the right stuT in them, racing would be curtailed because butting, bowling, fielding, wicket-the Aga Khan was unbeatable on keeping. Those who expected to the English racecourse." see them go-in to bat langhing heartily and to try to lift every

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ed. But the South Africans are cricketers, not comédiuns. They play cricket beenuse they like it. not to provide hectic entertainment ¦ tor people who do not understand its first principles. On the occa- sions that I have seer them their best batamen showed many strokes, and most of them met the hall hard, even when defending. Their footwork is worth watching.

They realise that feel can be used to go out to the bowling as well as tok go back to it, a little point often! forgotten by our own batsmen. But the South Africans know has i to put the shutter up when the use of it is good policy.

BEWARE!

The South Africans have not in

the past enjoyed in Test matches

an advantage that has long belong-

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