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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY

19, 1935.

MORE RECENT HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET

SUCCESS OF LAST TEAM

IN ENGLAND

SELECTORS' LONG-SIGHTED VIEW RECEIVES ITS REWARD

A SIDE OF YOUNG PLAYERS CHOSEN FOR THE TOUR

CHAPTER IX

(By R. Abbit}

DRESS REHEARSAL The success which came to the South Africans against Captain Stanyforth's team-for Huecen it must be counted to lose the first two Tests and then to draw the Rubber-must have been maxt encouraging to these most In And those in terested in the game, authority-1 confess 1 an in the dark on to the name of the governing exly in South Africa-took a very long. sighted and statesman-like view.

They decided that the team to visit England in 1920 should be in some In fact ways an experimental one. they took exactly the course that the English Selection Committee should have adopted in this present year of

For some reason grace.

table) while Vincent's cost Ave runs

more.

The fast bowler, A. L. Ochse, was not fast enough and he had little fin- ger spin and came off the pitch no faster than he went on to it Mac- Millan, A. L. Bell and D). I. B. Morkel took got most of the rest of the wickels, though Bruce Mitchell's googlien 52 wickets, but at a cost of over 35 runs apiece.

Their batting was not too bail fur, if they had no outstanding player, eight men averaged over 30, and 20 centuries were hit for them in first class cricket by ten batamen. In 34 Brut class matches they, won nine, lost seven and drew eighteen.

THE TESTS

The Text Matches are, of course, G. Deane the summit of the tear. The matches was made Captain in preference to ngalast the counties are very enjoy- 1.W. Taylor, sibly to allow the able, and also sometimes profitable devote his full energies to for the counties---but the real stuff in Intter to run-getting. It. 1. Catterall and A. L. the series of needle games against Ochte were the only players to have country's full strength. any claims to long experience. In-game was played at Birmingham, ami

ed, including Taylor and Uçane, the South who mustered 74-years between them. Siedle, Dalton, and Mach

THE NEW MEN

The first

out

Hell

sund MacMiling, rither the team average was only 26, while of intent or because of injuries or It was, illness England had eight of her without them I was 245. indeed, a team of youth, when one grent Australian team out, Sutcliffe, considers that in these days a team Hnmmand, Hendren, Leviand. Tate. J. C. White and Duckworth Everage of 30 is considered young!

The three new-comers

were E Not less then six of the present side Killick, Duleepsinhji and P. G. H. Fen- der. But in spite of this galaxy of them the South ngninst wen in the 1929 team and I will talent enumerate then, giving their ages in Africans ed England by five runs on brackets after each naine. C. I. Vin the first innings, and when Sutcliffe cent (27), 1. J. Siedle (26), 11. B. and Hammond each made a century Cameron (24). A. J. Bell (21), and England put up 308 for four Dalton (2) and Bruce Mitchell (20).

for the loss of With the exception of C.L. Vincent,eclared, South Africn drew the game

by inking 171

all of these men were members of the Catterall's wicket only. The pitch

Air South African eleven to win was dead and of easy pace. Test Match in England.

tenm

would

As il. G. Deane said in a speech made shortly after their arrival in England, they were a team chiefly

In the second Test at Headquarters,

toll

Both left

It was not to be expected--nor illness and injury had taken heavy

of the tourists' side. it expected that this meet with any great measure of handers, Quinn und Vincent, were out success in the Test Matches. Nur did of action cruel bit of luck-white it do so. But it managed to draw

Taylor, was the Vice-Captain, abrent. On the English side Duleep three of them and lost only two.

and Fender stood down for O'Connor and Robins, but both failed with thei bat, though Robins Justified himself as a bowler. It was a game of ups and made up of young and inew England again won players and they had gone to to learn. But they soon showed that and Morkel shot out Killick, Inn- there was one department of the game mond and O'Connor for 18 runs, and in which they required no teaching 20 runs later should have had Sut They were a most brilliant fielding eliffe in the slips. Profiting by this side, and, in B. Cameron, South the Yorkshire man got a century, and Africa produced her third really grent Hendren, Leyland, and Larwood all wicket-keeper.

scored very usefully.

Neems now

the

toss

An Interacting pose of

Frank Shields, new M. G. M. player, and formerly, before his entrance into the picture field, was known as one of the outstanding tennis stars in the world.

RAW RUBBER

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HENRY COTTON'S 68

AT MUIRFIELD

MacDonald Smith Only One Stroke Behind

(By Vngraut)

Muirfield, June 26. Henry Cotton leads in the first round of the British He finished Open Golf Championship played here to-day. one stroke ahead of Macdonald Smith (U.S.A.). But for a tragedy at the last hole he would have set such a pace that few could have hoped to catch him.

ENGLAND WINS ELCHO SHIELD

Bisley Rifle Shooting Contest

London, July 12.

SCHOOL SWIMMING

Green House Win In

D. B. S. Meet

Green House carried off the honours by a single point over Blue, House in the Diocesan Boys' School awimming sports held last week. In the international rifle shoot. J. Halse, with 18 points, was the ing match for the Elcho Shield at individual champion of the meeting, Bisley today, England won with a while J. Dudley was second with 14. total of 1,753 points. Scotland was.

Full results follow: second with 1,744 points and Ire- Jand third with 1,635.--Renter.

100 Yards Senior-1, J. Dudley; 2, A. J. Bolse; 3, A. Dalziel.

50 Yards Junior.-1, Raymond

from there back again, and then Chang: 2, Sin Cho-yuen; 3. A. Lew

Cue.

gol out into a bunker on the right, yet back again into "the other. He broke the rally with a terrife ex-; 50 Yanh: Black Senior.-1.-A. J. topleslon shot and holed from three feet, fuine;, E. Cheung; 3, J. Dudley.

with the same hard-used niblick, for six.

He came to the eighteenth needing | get a 4 were quickly changed ja four for a 60, and pulled his drive "Oh's" and applause as his delente into a bunker. He took a heavy chip hit the track of the hole, leaped hiblick, and hit the ball clean so that up and sat down on the lip. Then a that was nearly a three at the 9th,

out:

It struck the face of the bunker, a foot below the top, and fell back its next shot finished in a Inker just short of the green, the edge of which he reached with his fourth shot. With admirable ecurage he ran his next up three feet past and hole the return.

HARD WORK AHEAD

Diving Junior-1, A. Lapsley; 2, J. Jarrett; 3, A. Law Gue."

Diving Senior, J. Dudley; 2. A. J. Hulse; 3, Chang Kwong-hai

400 Yards Sentor, A. J. Hulse; 2, J. Dudley; 3, K. Cheung.

Relay Junior-1, Dlue House; 2,. Green Houar

Relay Senior-1, Bluer 2, Green House; 1, Yellow Houde.

Champion.-A. J. Hulso, 16 points. Runner-up.-J. Dudley, 14 points.

HOUSE COMPETITION

Blue Brown Greet løw

➜

Behind Picard came Compston and Busson playing together. Compton PITY THE SPECTATOR

started 8, 9, 1, 2, 4, then missed.n Drencing rain now, but the crowd short putt at the sixth, where Bunson

into we prered pulled his drive a bunker, got ever growing. And as under and sometimes over umbrellas well out, but put his third on the back ene wondered why, if ropemen were of the green to take a five, and he- It was a thrilling finish, for he was to be employed, they did not march came one over d's. Both reached the bunkered at the short sixteenth, and from start to finish adhering to turn in 36, but had troublesome inward recovered grandly to hole from thir-formation, so that one and all could halves of 39, to finish in 75 and leave

two days of sustained) teen feet. At the long seventeenth sea the play. As it is, at present the themselves he pulled his drive into a deep hunker. rope is used before the second shot brilliance and hurd labour.

Brews and Kenyon, playing together, as Varde Seminy The hole is good value for four at only then do the crowd move on and any time and now the only question take up their own ragged V till A encountered very different fortunes. York Junior uppermost in every mind was whether moves forward a font, oscuring the Kenyan made the game look cany, to Yank Back fienfor.. he could get. five. He forced nut view of B, who moves forward. toe, whilst Brews was frequently troubled Divine Junior a grand-rienvery, then, unshaken, so that by the tint poor X and Y by his shots. Kenyon's few Lapsen Blving Resor

grace occurred at the sixth, 400 Yards Senior clipped home an iron shot twelve feet have been firmly restrained by the from short of the pin. The applause died stewards, the players are fout behind where he took three putts, and the teay Junker seventeenth where was not home toy Bir as he surveyed the line, the luil-was- the human-wall

his second and did not get his struck and, with its last half-tura,

Cotton was short to the int chip dead. He was left with a seven- dropped into the hole. His figures:

played a lovely pitch near dead, and foot putt on the eighteenth to bole for followed this by slipping by from 6. Brewe was out in 39 and home yards at the 11th. How very near ro

Five cases of Typhoid and one case 1, 4, 3, 3, 4, 1, 3, 4, 6-36. Total 68. many of those long pults went? The 40, and it is with lively regret that

one can only regard his chances of of Meningitia were reported to the

of local Health authorities on Wednes time may easily conie when they may

day, Macdonald-Smith's figures were go down, every one of them, for finishing amongst the leaders as 3. 4, 4, 6. b. 3, 4, 430, and 5, 3, 33 whole round! At the 12th he hit one the very slenderest. 4, 4, 3, 6, 33. Then come a grand from 12 fit straight into the hole for army of British hopes, Kenyon, Pag-three, AL the short 13th a 18-footer He ham and Mr. Erie MeRuvic, the lead just slipped by the left lip for 2. ing amateur. A great performance laid one stone dead from 17 yards at 10-yards putt was in This, all on the 70 mark, with C. A. the 14th, and Whitcombe, Lacey, Mahon, Branch all near as a toucher at the 15th. 71. Then the only other AmericanS.xty-six "Sixty-six!" went hope, Henry Picard, with 72 in com- siendly movement round the drenched: pany with Allies, E. Green, Hodson, crowd. Then came the exciting finish | R. A. Whi.combe and Bert Gadd and have alrendy described.. Mr. Robert Sweeny.

were:

4, 4, 9, R. 4, 4, 3, 4, 43:1.

the

Macdonald Smith started without

Of these both Gadd and I. A. Whit any particular promise of threatening combe especially went very near finer the leader. It was raining still, but figures for Gadd was out in 32, whilst there was no breath of wind. He R. A. Whitcombe was badly punished pulled his drive at the first into a Mesra, Benjamin and

for being just too strong with his bunker, got out on to the edge of the ceived the following Straits currency second to the sixth and took three n

can in taking three to get down. Ho quotations (buyers) from Singanore putts on the eighth and ninth green green, and was strangely un-Ameri- to-day for raw rubber:

to be out in 37. He slipped a shot holed a good long putt at the next to with a pitch from a difficult lie at the straighten matters out. 19% cts, off 4 ct. Spot

eleventh, but came home in 35. Aug/Sept Oct/Dee Jan/Mar

Market-Quiet.

19% ela. off the ct. 20% ets. of ct. 21 cts, offct.

It is curious that through all the Again the South Africans headed play. This would have knocked the morate of most teams end-ways but the South Africans gallantly carried on. vicissitudes of her cricket fortunes the English score, this time by 20.

The game was played at Leads, and there had always been someone to In the second innings Leyland and Tate

the selectors had not been too happy hold the fort behind the sticks. To both got hundreds, and a declaration

They about their former teams. realer at 321 for eight set South Africa the great Halliwell, the

Robins started a bit of a rat dropped Killick, O'Connor and Rubins. Sherwell succeeded, and now came to win.

After his bowling. It seems rather Cameron who lacked little, if any, of but at about half past five with five wickets down, Cameron was struck on

hard luck on him, and he has never his predecessors' skill.

hend

of Larwood's fast by one

had such a prolonged trial as a bowler Among the new young mun (new the

of his peculiarities to England, that in) came D. P. B. deliveries and dropped completely un-

H. Morkel. He

have conscious. I have met lots of people deserved. Woolles, E. it. Thowley and forsaken South Africa and settled in who saw that match and I am sure

Freeman came in and it must be ad mitted that all did England as one of Sir Julian Cahn's that nine persons out of ten on

very well. Woolley made 83 and 95 not out, as well as He is one of the most ground were certain he young prolific scorers in that alleged "Club pan, the game was abandoned

"Club. The light was bad and shortly before

taking three for 15. Bowley, as Sut- but actually first class team that

eliffe's opening partner made 31 and ROPA

46 while "Tich" Freeman took in all round slaughtering all the clubs with to the pleasure of everyone. It speaks

ten wickets for 207. a hundred miles of Nottingham- much for the hardncas of South whire, and he still bowls a bit In this African heads that Cameron was back tour he was distinctly a useful all-in the side by the Fourth Test rounder, as he managed to get runs, Match. and, in bowling, to make the bal

men.

the

wak dend.

CASUALTIES AND DEFEAT

He missed the green to the left at His brother, Charles, uneventfully reaches the turn in 35 and started the short fourth, but pitched up and home 4, 4, 4, 2, but cut his second to got his three, but at the long fifth, though he hit two long shots, his ap the 14th and minned a holeable putt prouch finished twelve feet from the or two coming in Mr. Lawson Little hole, and, despite his wonderfully could make nothing of the wet greens rhythmic striking of his putts, he going out and pulled himself into 39. He improved coming and with 36 is never looked like holing.

Again, at the seventh, he took three still standing.

to get down from the edge, and, reaching the turn in 36, still gave no hint of a threat to Cation.

MIST AND RAIN

that one.

Cotton started at 10.24 in mist filled

FINE HOMEWARD HALF with a sprinkle of rain. By the time.

When he started home with a 5, he he reached the turn the sprinkle had

finish Not mist was washed away, let us hope among the 70 somethings. become a steady downpour and the seemed, in fact, certain to

not to return.

bit

of it, however. He left himself He started with two 4's then holed feet from the hole at the 11th, holed Two from Reven yards at the 3rd for a 3. 12-foot pult at the next for 3, and He got his 3 at the short 4th and, got his three at the short 13th. with the breeze against him, was not fours followed, though in each case he home at the long 5th. However, he actually hit the bole for three. The round of ap-short 10th was an obvious three from pitched up and drew plause by holing from twelve feet. the moment his tee shot hit the green; The despicable conditions did little then came a five at the 17th-three

who

from the edge of the green, with a to deter the enthusiasts

were-foot putt off the line,So he came to hurrying to support him from quarters. There were sultably attired the 18th with its perpetual gallery: modern Eves trousered in a fashion ever ready with applause. to astonish the late Mrs. Bloomer of

He hit a lovely second pin-high to velocipede fame and with umbrellas to the right, walked up, blew yet again dazzle the eye in the thickest mist.

ly into the hole for three. Auto- Colton's second to the 6th was ns per on his hands, and struck the tall firm- feetly struck an iron as we shall see graphs and swing for the photo.

the week-dead on the pin fromgrapher, no semblance of a

aamile, juxt the click till it ran just too far to the latent humour, flickering for a finish in short rough. But he pitched

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South Afrien started by making 236, thanks chiefly to R. H. Catterall and C. Vincent, who actually got 60. England made 328. But then come off the pitch faster than most. So far the South Africans had

THE MAKE-UP OF THE SIDE really done very well. If they wer wickets fell fast in the second innings кемен жеге of South Africa, until down for 116, and they were only 24 As has been said, the fielding of the in danger of defeat at the end of the sido Was excellent, but even this sup-second Test, well, so was England in

runs ahead! But then Owen-Smith port could not make the bowling any. the second knock there, when five wic-

came in to play magnificent cricket, thing but mediocre. There was plenty ket had gone cheap, before Leyland

He put on 51 runs with Quinn, the and Tate got going. Defeat came, of it! As Harry Graham sang

then he and Bell made 103 for the "Olt how much taste our Fathers but not before they had shaken up

last wicket. in five minutes over the England in the last innings. And D had,

han hour! His share was 129. He their list of Injuries And nearly all of it was bad!" serious was

Hover

approached his 1929 form as that

they had to get permission to in- N. A. Quinn and C. I. Vincent were clude 3. P. Duminy, who had played

a bat since.

back and got his 4. At the short 7th moment in the mask of solemnity as both steady left-hand-slow-medium

England got the runs for five wie.his putt for 2 slipped by from te he said: "Gee, that's just normal." A

age and three rounds to go. bowlers, and on matting they were in South Africa in 1927-8 and happen | kets but there were some dangerang VAT A little bit too much draw very live menaco, but forty-five years]

saw his tee shot finish in the rough right across the dog-leg 8th, but ho Joe, Kirkwood was ever in the wet played a powerful second, which pastoral. He hooked himself out of finished in the short rough to the the championship. 42, and he played right of the tricky green of ridges.n grim game of battledore at the short Murmured doubts as to his ability to 13th. From a bunker on the left he

Der

vory dangerous. But on grass, and ulta.be in England on a business tour. in the excellent weather, they could Siedle, Quinn and Vincent were for- not get the ball to alt up a bit as it tunately available, but Van did on mailing. They had 65 and Merwe kept in place of Cameron 68 wickets aplece in first class games whose head was not merded yet but Quinn's wickets cost nearly 24 and Taylor, Ochse, Christy, Mac- runs apiece (and he was top of the willan and Dalton were all unable to

times, for five had been down for 110 and it was only an unbroken stand of 76 by Woolley and Tate which made

South Africa was de things unfe feated but not disgraced.

(To Be Continued)

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