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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

CHAPTER IX

FOR THE TOUR

(By R. Abbit).

table) while Vincent's cost Bve runs!

more.

Their batting was not too bad for,

The fast bowler, A. L. Ochse, was DRESS REHEARSAL The success which came to the South not fast enough and he had little n- Africans against Captain Stansforth's ger spla and came off the pitch no team-for success it must be counted faster than he went on to it. Mac- to lose the first two Tests and then Millan, A. L. Bell and D. P. B. Morkel to draw the Rubber must have been got most of the rest of the wickets, most encouraging to those meat in thongh Bruce Mitchell's googlien took And those in, 52 wickets, but at a cost of over 35 terested in the game. muthority-I confess i am in the dark runs apiece. as to the name of the governing body in South Africa-took a very long-if they had no outstanding player, eight men averaged over 30, and 20 view. sighted and statesman-like

They decided that the team to visit centuries were hit for them in first England in 1929 should be in some class cricket by ten batsmen. In 34 In fact Arst class matches they won nine, lost ways an experimental one.

seven and drew eighteen. they took exactly the course that the English Selection Committee should

The Test Matchen are, of course, have adopted in this present year of Krice. For some reason H. G. Deane the summit of the tour. The matches Was made Captain in preference to against the counties are very enjoy. II.W. Taylor, possibly to allow the able, and also sometimes profitable latter to devote his full energies to for the counties--but the real stuit is The first! run-getting. R. H. Catterall and A. L. the series of needle games against a

to have country's full strength. Ochse were the only

In-game was pinyed at Birmingham, and out Bell. Deane, the South Africans left

any claims

to

deed, including

THE TESTS

who mustered 74 years between them, Siedle, Dalton, and MacMillan, either- of her the team average was only 20, while of intent or because of injuries or without them it was 24. It was, illness. England had eight Indeed, a team of youth, when one great Australian team out, Sutcliffe, considers that in these days a team lammend, Hendren; Leyland, Tate, J. C. White and Duckworth, T. Average of 30 is considered young!

1The 91

were E. three new-comers THE NEW MEN No less than six of the present sitte Killick, Duleepsinhji and P. G. H. Fen- der. But in spite of this galaxy of them the South were in the 1929 team and I will talent against

Africans led England by five runs on enumerate them, giving, their ages in brackets after each name. C. L. Vin the first innings, and when Sutcliffe and Hammond each made a century cent (27), 1. J. Siedle (20), li. B.

308 for four Cameron (24), A. 1. Bell (231, FL and England put up 308 Dalton (21) and Bruce Mitchell (2) declared, South Africa drew the game

anking 171 for With the exception of C.L. Vincent, all of these men were members of the Catterall's wicket only. The pitch Brat South African eleven to win a was drad and of easy pace. Test Match in England.

In the second Test at Headquarters,

i

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of

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EDITOR'S APPEAL

England, they were a team chiefly baix, hut both falled with the appeal has been filed in Nanking

It in

who

Hendren, Lelly,

the

against the sentence of fourteen- months imprisonment imposed by the Chinese High Court here against Tu Chung-yunn, the Editor and Publisher of the New Life Weekly for publication of an article

to derogatory considered Japanese Emperor.-Reuter.

fay This would have knocked the morale of most teams end-ways but the South Africans gallantly carried on.

The game was played at Leeds, and the selectors had not been too happy They About their former teams. dropped Killick, O'Conner and Robins. After his bowling, it seems rather hard luck on him, and he has never

It was not to be expected-uar winess and injury had taken heavy

NEW LIFE WEEKLY CASE this team would toll of the tourists side. Both left- it expected that

AT NANKING meet with any great measure handers, Quinn and Vincent, were out success in the Test Matches. Nor did of action cruel bit of luck-w

Taylor, was also

Shanghai, July 18. it do so. But it managed to draw the Vice-Captain,

the defence The attorney for On the English side Duleep absent. three of them and lost only two.

notice of has announced that n In zaid As . G.

Apeech and Fender stood down for O'Connor- -made shortly after their arrival in and

Robins justified himself as made up of young and inexperienced a bowler. It was a game of ups and

and they had gone to England players

and Morkel shot out Killick, Ham- to learn. But they soon showed that downs. England again won the toss there was one department of the game mond and O'Connor for 18 runs, and in which they required no teaching, runs later should have had Sut. They were a moat brilliant fielding eliffe in the lips. Profiting by this side, and, in II.B. Cameron, South the Yorkshire ninn got a century, and and Larwood all Africa produced her third really great wicket-keeper.

scored very

Again the South Africans headed is curious that through all the vicissitudes of her cricket fortunes the English score, this time by 20. there had always been someone to in the second innings Leyland and Tate hold the fort behind the sticks. To both got hundreds, and a declaration the greater at 321 for eight set South Africa 293 the. great Halliwell,

bit of a rot! Sherwell succeeded, and now came to win. Robins starte

five with

Ave Cameron ors' skill,

lacked little, if any, of but at about half pan was Mruck on

wickets down, Cameron wan hia

Among the new young men (new the head by one of Larwood's fast to England, that is) esme D. P. D. deliveries and dropped completely un- Morkel. He Acema

deserved. forsaken South Africa and settled in who saw that match and I

Freeman came in and it must be England as one of Sir Julian Cahn's that nine persons out of ten on the dead.

mitter that all did very well. Woolley young men. He is one of the most ground were certain he

"The light was bad and shortly before made 83 and 06 not out, as well as prolific scorers in that alleged "Club,'

taking three for 36. Bowley, as Sut- but actually first class team that goes 5.45 p.m. the game was abandoned—

It speaks cliffe's opening partner made 31 and round slaughtering all the clubs with- to the pleasure of everyone.

46 while "Tich" Freeman took in all ཝ in hundred miles of Nottingham- much for the hardness of South

ten wickets for 207. hit. In this African heads that Cameron was back shire, and he still bowls

South Afrien started by making tour he was distinctly a useful all-in the side by the Fourth Test

26, thanks chiefly to R. H., Catterall rounder, as he managed to get runs, Match-

and C. I. Vincent, who actually got and, in bowling, to, make the ball

60. Eugland inade 328. But then wickets fell fast in the recond innings of South Africa, until seven wom down for 116, and they were only 24 runs ahend! But then Owen-Smith came in to play magnificent cricket. He put on 61 runs with Quinn, and then he and Bell made 103 for the last wicket in five minutes over the-

Ile has hour! His share was 129, never approached his 1929 form A a bat since.

had,

naw

"

had such a

a bowler

trini as a

to have conscious. I have met lots of people of his Dentics perhaps has

Was

am

CASUALTIES And Defeat

Bure

come off the pitch faster than most.] So far the South Africans had THE MAKE-UP OF THE SIDE i really done very well. If they were As has been said, the fielding of the ] in danger of defeat at the end of the England in aide was excellent, but even this sup second Test, well, so was port could not make the bowling any- the second knock there, when five wic thing but mediocre. There was plenty kets had gone cheap, before Leyland and Tate got going. Defeat came. of it! As Harry Graham sang

"OH how much taste our Fathers but not before they had shaken up England in the last innings. And so serlous was

their list at injuries And nearly all of it was bud!" that they had to get permission to in- N. A. Quinn and C. L. Vincent were lule d. P. Daming, who had played both steady loft-hand-slow-medium

happen bowlers, and on matting they were in South Africa in 1927-8 and

But on

on grass, and ed to be in England on a business tour, very dangerous. in the excellent weather, they could Siedle, Quinn and Vincent were for

Der Valt tunately available, but not get the ball to sit up a bit as it did on matting. They had 66 and Merwe "kent" in place of Cameron- 68 wicketa apiece in first class games whose head was not mended yet-

Mac- but Quinn's wickets cost nearly 24 and Taylor, Ochse, Christy, runs apices (and he was top of the millan and Dalton were all unable to

Woolley, E II. Bowley and

England got the runs for five wic kets but there were some dangerous tinien, for five had been down for 110 and it was only an-unbroken stand of 76 by Woolley and Tate which made things safe. South Africa was de- feated but not disgraced.

(To Be Continued)

HENRY COTTON'S 68

AT MUIRFIELD

MacDonald Smith Only One Stroke Behind

(By Vagrant)

Muirfield, June 26. * Henry Cotton leads in the first round of the British Open Golf Championship played here to-day. He finished 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.

He came to the eighteenth needing | get a 4 were

ENGLAND WINS ELCHO SHIELD

Bisley Rifle Shooting Contest

London, July 12.

SCHOOL SWIMMING

Green House Win In

D. B. S. Meet

o!! the

House carried Green honours by a single point over Blue House in the Diocesan Boys' School swimming sports held Innt week. In the international rifle shoot. J. Hulse, with 10 points, was the Ing match for the Elche Shield at individual champion of the meeting, Bisley to-day, England won with a while J. Dudley was second with 14. total of 1,753 points, Scotland was

Full results follow: 100 Yards Senior.-1, J. Dudley; second with 1,744 points and Ire-

2, A. J. Hulse; 3, A. Dalziel, land third with 1,635.-Reuter,

30 Yards Junior.-1, Raymond

got out into a bunker on the right Chang: 2, Sin Cho-yuen: 3, A. Lew and from there back again, and then Gue. yet back again into the other. He broke the rally with a terrifle ex- quickly changed toplosion shot and holed from three feet, Hulse; 2, E. Cheung; 3, 3. Dudley.

a four for a 06, and pulled his drive"Qb's" and applause as his delicate with the name hard-used niblick, for into a banker. He took a heavy chip hil the back of the hole, leapol six, niblick, and hit the ball clean so that up and sat down on the lip. Then a that was nearly a three at the 5th, 33 nutt

it struck the face of the bunker, font below the top, and fell back. fis next shot finished in a bunker Just short of the green, the edge of which He reached with his fourth shot. With admirable courage he mn: his next up three feet past and holed the return,

•

50 Yards Buck Senior-1. A. J.

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

Diving Senior.1, 3. Dudley; 2, A. J. Hulse; 8, Chang Kwang-hain. 400 Yards Senior.-A. J. Hulse; 2, J, Dudley: 3, E. Cheung,

Relay Junior.-1, Blue House; 2, Green House,

Relay Senior-1, Blue; 2, Green House; 3, Yellow House,

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

HOUSE COMPETITION

HARD WORK AHEAD Behind Picard came Compton and PITY THE SPECTATOR Burson playing together. Compton started 0.4, 2, 4, then missed a Drenching rain now, but the crowd shore putt at the sixth, where Busson And as we peered pulled his drive into a bunker, gol the back ever growing. under and sometimes over umbrellas well out, but put his third one wondered why, If ropenien ware of the green to take a five, and be It was a thrilling finish, for he was to be employed, they did not march came me over 4's. Both reached the bunkered at the short sixteenth, and from start to finish adhering to turn in 38, but had troublesome inward recovered grandly to hole from thir- formation, so that one and all could halves of 39, to finish in 25 and leave teen feet. At the long seventeenth see the play, As it is, at present the themselves two days of sustained

second shot

hot brilliance and hard labour. is used before the he pulled his drive into a deep bunker.

Inpe

Brews and Kenyon, playing together, 100 Yarch Senior 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

made the game look easy, 10 Yards Back Senter

V

uppermost in every mind was whether moves forward a foot, obscuring theird very different fortunes. to Yard Junior

Tek

Bhae Brown Green Bow

he could get a five. He forced out view of B, who moves forward, too, whilst Brews was frequently troubled Divine Junker a grand recovery, then, unshaken, that by the time poor X and Y by his shots. Kenyon's few lapses Blving Senkur clipped home an iron shot twelve feet have been firmly restrained by the from grace occurred at the sixth, 30 Yards Bentor short of the pin. The applause died stewards, the players are lost behind where he took three putts, and the Relay Junior seventeenth, where he was not home Helay Renior she surveyed the line. The ball was the human wall. struck and, with its last half-turn,

Cotten was short to the uth, but with his second anx did-not-get-lis dropped into the hole. His figures

played a lovely pitch nearly dead, and chip dead. He was left with a seven- followed this ify slipping by from 7 foot putt on the eighteenth to hole for Brewn was out in 39 and home at the 11th. How very near zo yards at 1, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 6--35. Total 68. mnay of those long pulis went? Then 40, and it is with lively regret that Macdonald-Smith's figures were 5, time may easily come when they may no can only regard his chances of of Meningitis worn reported to the 3, 4, 3, 6, 6, 8, 4, 4, 36, and 5, 3, 3, 3, go down, every one of them, for a finishing amongst the lenders ns of local Health authorities on Wedn

whole round! At the 12th he hit one the very slenderest. 4, 4, 3, 6, 8-33. Then come a grand from 12 feet straight into the hole for

were:

4, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4-33.

array of British hopes, Kenyon, Padgrom

three. At the short 13th a 13-footer

ham and Mr. Eric MeRuvie, the

lead-

from

17 yards at In amateur. A great performance just slipped by the left lip for 2. this. on the 70 mark, with C. A. Inid one stone dead Whitcombe, Laces, Mahon, Branch all the 14th, and a 10-yards' putt was in *** near as a toucher at the 15th. 71. Then the only other American hape, Henry Picard, with 12 in com- "Sixty-six" "Sixty-six!" went the pany with Allies. E. Green, Hodson, steady movement round the drenched crowd. Then came the exciting finish R. A. Whitcombe and Bert Gadd and I have already described. Mr. Robert Sweeny.

Macdonald Smith started without Of there both Gudd and R. A. Whit- any particular promise of threatening combe expecially went very near finer

figures for Gadd was out-in 32, whilst the fender. It was raining atill, but R. A. Whitcombe was badly punished there was no breath of wind.He for being Jast ton strong with his pulled his drive at the first into a second to the sixth and took three bunker, got out on to the edge of the putts on the eighth and ninth greens green, and was strangely un-Ameri to be out in 37. Ho slipped a shot with a pitch from a diftult lie at the eleventh, hat came hume in 35.

Hla brother, Charles, uneventfully reached the turn in 36 and started home 4, 4, 4, 2, but cut his second to the 14th and missed a holeable putt or two coming in. Mr. Lawson Little could make nothing of the wet green going out and putted himself into 39. ile improved coming and with 36 is

still standing.

MIST AND RAIN

Collon' started at 10.24 in mist filled with a sprinkle of rain. By the time he reached the turn the sprinklo had become a steady downpour and the mist was washed away, let us hope

not to return.

in taking three to get down. He holed a good long putt at the next to straighten matters out.

He missed the green to the left at the short fourth, but pitched up and got his three, but at the long fifth, bough he hit two long shots, his ap- proach finished twelve feet from the hole, and, despite his wonderfully rhythmle striking of his putts, he never looked like holing that one. Again, at the seventh, he took three to get down from the edge, and, reaching the turn in 36, still gave no hint of a threat to Cotton.

FINE HOMEWARD HALF When he started home with a 5, ha

fact, seemed, in

certain to Anish among the 70 somethings. Not a bit of 1, however. He left himself He started with two 4's then hoied feet from the hole at the 11th, holed from seven 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. Twe with the breeze against him, was not fours followed, though in each cuse he home at the long 5th. However, he actually hit the hole for three. The pitched up and drew a round of ap-short 16th was an obvious three from platise by holing from twelve feet. the moment his tee shot hit the green; conditions did little then came a five at the 17th-three to deter the

all 4-foot putt off the line. So he came to hurrying to

the 18th with its perpetua! gallery attires were suitably quarters. The port him from modern Eves trousered in a fashion ever ready with applause. to astonish the late Mrs. Bloomer of

Ho hit a lovely second pin-high to velocipede fame and with umbrellas to duzzle the eye in the thickest mist the right, walked up. blew yet again per on his hands, and struck the ball firm- Colton's second to the 8th was as per- fectly

The despicaburiants who were from the edge of the green, with af

A

struck an iron as we shall seely into the hole for three. Auto- all the week-dead on the pin from graphs and swing for the photo- the click till it ran just too far to grapher, no semblance of a smile, just finish in short rough. But he pitched the latent humour flekering for a back and got his, 4.

At the short 7th moment in the mask of solemnity as hla putt for 2 slipped by from ton he said: "Gee, that's just normal." yards. A little bit too much draw very live menace, but forty-five years

of age and three rounds to go. his tee shot finish in the rough he right across the dog-leg 8th,

but 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.grim game of battledare at the short Murmured doubts as to his ability to 13th. From a bunker on the left be

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