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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1936.

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ARTS & CRAFTS

Alternative Oxford Strokes

(By Conrad Skinner)

Oxford training is now in full swing, and Hope, as was antici- pated, is going to receive serious consideration as a likely stroke for the 1936 crew. Winser, who had at one time appeared a close competitor, was rather considerably eclipsed in the Trial Eights Race last November,

It may prove wise not to over-motive for the habit, if indeed, it still estimate that particular failure and obtains, bears no relation to the still to alternate him with Hope to superstitious inhibition that demands a certain extent, as he makes a very the omissions of the last line of a play lively practice stroke; and, even if right through rehearsal until the Hope confirms his right to the ultim-great night itself arrives.

should he go to Winker, ate honour, Two, would still represent an Invalu- able reserve stroke in case of need.

Cambridge

rowed and paddled

down-stream. Lock-to-Lock courne The crew was in some sense a skele ton boat-rice crow, as only Kingsford of the four Blues was rowing. (From how to stern: Williams, Mason, Fox-

A

Outstanding Teams Of

6. Lewis, Kingsford, Cree, The Season. ter, Lack, G. owed off at 33, dropped to a paddle, which was raised to a good burst of rowing in the Long Reach and again at the Anish. Apart from light spells the paddling was at about 23-24 per minute.

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itself. Loung's craft too was a les- One's attention, it is true, was some-timony to the patient practice he has what divided, for the towpath was put in during the last few months horrid mixture of puddles, snow, slush and, in shaded areas, glacial traps; and of the fact that he has learnt but, on the whole, although it con- valuable lessons from his league tained good patches, the outing was a matches. little disappointing

The players show distinct promise The disappointment was the more surprising because it originated in of making a really good combina- a lack of the very steadiness oftion. poise for which this

crew. and

especially Clive Lewis, at stroke, has been outstanding

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TESTING SHUTTLES

Turning to more general matters. prominent was chatting with a player and he expressed surprise that local teams do not trouble to test the shuttlecocks before using them in a match. Elsewhere I knew

Even this crew will be making a mistake unless it gets absolutely grounded into it that steadiness over the stretcher the last bit forward which is fundamental to all the great ponsibilition that are inherent in it. Its adaptability is much beyond this procedure is followed, simply question on its flexibility. Recently suggested to a friend that this crew article it is impossible to guarantee because, as I pointed out in a recent was so adaptable that every man in that all shuttles, after they have been the boat could be set on his wrong

kle and in his wrong position with exposed to varying temperatures and conditions, remain indentically out overwhelming damage to its fast or slow. The way to test this virtue. By a pure coincidence on Wednesday the whole crew's orders probably well known. One simply was reversed, and it went quite well! takes a shuttle, stands on one of the

THE HOUR OF CONTEST

baselines

ines and drives the feather hard ne possible. If it is true in speed it will fall not more than a Another friend, whose expert know-yard either shorter or beyond than ledge of a national sport is a house the opposite baseline. hold word, put an interesting question

I think perhaps as this test is so to ang a week or so ago. He asked whether a crew ever made a habit simple and can be adopted by any- the Badminton Association of rowing in practice with particular body, attention to the time of day when the might recommend to clubs that it be race itself would be rowed. For in-adopted before each game in league stance, if the were appointed matches.There is no doubt that

for just after lunch, a man's physical and occasionally one psychological condition was liable to shuttle which is much faster than it be diferent then from that which should be and this is liable to upset would obtain at, say, ten in the morn-one's game. ing.

race

comes across 21

I recognise that several clubs can-

I replied that no hoed was 'over not afford given to the matter from that angle shuttles during a match, but it la well to dispense with new Ile was interested, and mildly sur- prised, but cited other sports in the to bear in mind that any which are saine sense, CE HOTEo-racing, where found unsuitable for a match can be

used on practice nights. the racer were usually afternoon affairs, whilst practice and trials were habitually conducted in the early: morning In boxing, again, which is an evening affair, training was largely a morning fixture.

PRACTICE IN RUNNING

„FAULT SERVING

Another point which the Associa- tion must emphasise is the necessity for players to observe the service fault rules. I believe the committee

the subject intends to bring

at up The point is capable perlups of in-next Friday's meeting. Up to the simply teresting development in lebate with present too many players, regard both to these and other sports have not been corrected by an umpire. through carelessness or because they I interposed, however, that to myself ve

still more interesting point of com-are serving foot faults by the dozen. parison in sport arose concerning the There are two things to bear in minti when serving. One is that both feet relation between the distances prD- posed for contest and the actually must remain in contact with the performed in practies.

ground until the shuttle is hit: the other that both feet must be clear Although it

may since lave been of the service lines and in the service altered, I know the convention in track-racing used to be never to run court. quite the full course which was en- visaged in the coming contest,

BAD LIGHT IN CRICKET

MAILEY WANTS "RECORDER"

GADGET TO STOP ALL APPEALS

PROTEST AGAINST TEST CHANGE

Notts Wish To Keep Match

AREA BOXING

TOURNAMENTS

FOR APRIL

series of interesting boxing events have been arranged for Apri by the Hongkong Area Sports Board with the various local battalions par-

A protest against a recent sugges tion that a Test match should be taken away from Nottingham or ticipating. Leeds, and played at Lord's, was Friday, April 3, will be the first

RIFLE SHOOTING

Local Club's Evont

At Stonecutters

By courtesy of the Naval authorl- ties, there will be a spoon and prac tice shoot for members of the long- kong Rifle Association at Stonecutters to-morrow morning, commencing at 10 o'clock sharp.

when the Royal Welch A. special Ikunch will leave Queen's made at the annual meeting of the nters meet the East Lancashires | Fier at 9 a.m., calling en route at

Notts County Club yesterday.

Mr. Douglas McCraith, a member in the novices team competition at Kowloon Public Plor, Cosmopolitan Shamshuipo, starting at Br... Dock Pier and Shamshulpe Pler at

On Saturday, April 4, the semi-final the usual times.

of the Natin Committee, sail no pro posal had yet come before the Board' of Control, but there were rumours which had foundation.

of the Inter-unit teams competition

Those wishing to take part in this will be staged at Murray Barracks at shoot should telephone 84121, exten- "The reason for this step in that B

between the Royal Welch a match at Lord's would be likely to Fusiliers and the Royal Ulster Rifles.io 23, not later than 11 o'clock this

in the The following week, on Wedne day, show more profit than one provinces. A more inadequate res: April 8, the Royal Ulster Rifles will son it would be difficult to Imagine," meet the winners of the contest be said Mr. McCraith.

11.117.

morning.

MAILEY, the ARTHUR

former Australian Test bow- ler, who is travelling with the Australian touring team in

The wedding took place at the South Africa as a journalist,

The profit made out of Test tween the Royal Walch Fusillors and Registry this morning of Mr. Patrick the East Lancashires in the novices William Osborne and Mies Edith thinks that appeals against bad

matches during the Australian tour light should be abolished. As of 1034 was £45,412. This figure cum Anal at Murray Barracks at 8 Dorothy Broadbridge. Mr. T. S. Whyte-Smith, Registrar, officiated. A previous an alternative he suggests that would have startled

The final of the inter-unit teams The bridegroom, who is a clerk of the controlling bodies of cricket generation, but is not to lay consider competition will take place at Murray the Hongkong and China Gan Co should agree upon the standed sufficient by some people who are Barracks at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April i fa the son of the late Mr. John Joseph' prepared to break with tradition, and when the East Lanenshires will Osborne; and the bride is the ardisation of light and that a to deprive the followers of cricket in meet the winners of the tournament daughter of the late Mr. Cyrus Alfred

the Midlands, or the North, of batween the Royal- Welcis Fusiliers Broadbridge. recorder mechanical light

chance of seeing a Test match in should be used to decide whe-order to increase them. ther the light is good enough for play.

Mailey's contention is supported by Mr. Frank Grey, who in other days has umpired matches between South Africa and Australia. This gentle. man says that appeals against the light have always been a bugbear and that if a practical light recorder. could be introduced all cricketers and umpires would welcome it. In his view such a mechaniam would reduce the margin of human error.

FOR AND AGAINST

Cyril Vincent, the pld South African bowlor, regards it as a sensiblo Bug gestion, but Icara · that such mechanical devices would make Test business where cricket too grim a winning was everything and the game itself was forgetten.

Mr. Arthur Laver, e Transvaal selector and Teat umpire, feels that a mechanical light recoider would not suffice, and ho opposes the abolition of appeals.

"The light," he says, "often varies of the pitch. It at the two ends might be perfect at one end and a bank of clouds in front of the sun may make it very poor at the other.”

E. P. Napen, an old South African captain, goes the whole hog, He thinks-good easy man that all ap peals should be abolished and that the umpires should decide. Io ndds.

"There are many occasions when a bowler loses on 'Lbw. decision 'through not appealing because he ls out of line of the wicket. A snick might also go to the wicket- keeper without the bowler realising that the batsman has touched the ball."

Nopen also urges that there are be made, and he makes such indiscro- many appeals which ought never. to tion another reason why the umpires

should be left to docida without appeal

-PERCY FENDER'S -VIEW

It is interesting to recall that Percy Fender as long ago as 1930 expressed himself in favour of a light measuring apparatus

"Such a machine," he said, “in used in Australia and it determines the value at which it must stand if play par value of the light that is the

is to take place.

"It is impossible for the crowil of onlookers. to know the real facts in Auch cases, for sometimes the ball can quite well be seen against the screen, but the bowler may be pitch- ing one occasionally above the screen as Grimmett door."

This opinion was expressed after the third Test match at Leeds in 1030 when English batsmen,, including Jack Hobbs, appealed against the

Then there is a tendency by somo | playera ́hore (I know of one in par- A quarter-miler, for instance fleular and he is a fine player) to would stop short by 30 40 yards servo from above the waist. This is in hile practice runs, the aumenta definite fault and is strictly barred apparently being that in the contest he would pull ont of him by rule. Such n service clearly pre-light and had that appeal upheld,

ments the server with an unfair ad-

self that reserve which everybolly vantage, as he or she can drive the can call upon in a crinin, whereas bird" in a sort of semi-are which ach a procedure clearly must not makes it very difficult to return. and could not

not be

habit.

A LAW REPEALED

With the revival of an old contro- versy one may recall here that as the 1 quoted this with such trepidation Not only should the Association result of a recommendation by the as brits an outsider, but added with appeal to players to rectify these Advisory Committee it was not allow assurance that no such practice exist errors, but they should ask umpires able during the seasons of 1931-32 for ed in rowing, whore full courses, un to see that the roles are enforced con-oither side to appeal against the light curtailed, are attempted throughout

in county matches in England. | training.. though, of course, at varying ning them. A player can first be

In the final analysis it is for the bene.A proposal by Notts, however, in effect "that the umpires may decide the winter of 1932 was carried to the: on appeal from either side list there. is not sufficient light for play."

pressure

and thereafter "famited".

It would be interesting to know ft of the player to be corrected as whether my ferences touching track-it is so easy to get into a habit of racing or on any other point are fault serving. It is just as easy to correct; at least, I am sure that the serve correctly.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

"Since the War the Nottingham- shiro club has spent £26,700 upon permanent improvements which are superfluous for County games.":

THIL KEEPS WORLD

BOXING TITLE

CONTEST ENDS IN PANDEMONIUM

and the Royal Ulster Rifles.

Individual contests will be held at

Barracks at Murray

at 8 pm. on Thurs are to be staged, while the following day. April 10, when the semi-anals day, Friday, April 17, the finals of the individual contenta will be held nt Murray Barracks, starting at 8 p.m.

SPORTS CLUB.

NOTICE, TO MEMBERS.

Thil's eleventh successful attempt to Selling Lotteries. will be held at

retain his title.

The crowd of 20,000 rose from their seats um hlased and booed as Thi lay in his corner. Brouillard argued valubly with the referee, M., Nicco, of Switzerland, and protested with all Paris, Jan. 21. those round the The fight for the world's middle-

The referee side.

the judges, weight champonship, as recognised by and it was then announced that the L.B.U. and the National Boxing Brouillard had been disqualified. A Association of America, between heated discussion, which almost ended Marcel

blows, Thit (holder) and Brouillard (the French Canadian). Brouillard's manager and the official ended at the Palais des Sports. here announcer for the possession of the to-night in pandemonlum.

microphone, Brouillard returned sob. Brouillard, who was Q 2-1 bìng to his corner, favourite, was disqualified, at the The crowd continued to boo and beginning of the fourth round for an Brouillard had to make his way alleged low blow. The fight was through rows of hostile spectators to

It was his dressing-room. scheduled for 15 rounds.

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Saturday, 15th February, at 9 pm. Monday,

17th February, at 6.30 p.m. Wednesday,

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