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AND ITS TANTALUS

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In Cricket

PROMISE OF YOUTH

(By "Watchman")

perlence contributed to his undoing." But he is not in the least line that now, and it is probable that Inat year the injury to his leg which kept him out of the Somerset ten for a month unsettled him besides interfering with his footwork,

been

Cricket has always been a game of mysteries and contra. dictions. That is why many people have not only played it and watched it but have studied and delved into it as if it were a deep science or a com-

PROMISE THAT, FADED plex art. It is fathomless, and

In spite of that falling awny, Gim- many who are very old confeas} blett ein be said to have arrived that they are still learning quickly, and some sage has told us something fresh about the noon. Certainly there inve

that those who learn easily forget

Miga Peggy Scriven this year loses game every summer day, many players whose brilliant down the distinction of being "seeded" at Hence the fascination of cric was followed by grey days. Of the Wimbledon. ket.

forty other batsmen who, like Gim blett, scored a century in their open- Several mysteries have been pre-ing first-class match, few achieved sented recently. One of them is the greatness. And do-day a long and time when everything should be ideal men who, after years of county erie. for heavy 'run-making. For weeks ket, are not so good as they were in) men are still busy with that mis- there was little rain, the grounds- their first season. But it is very un- chievous concoction known as mari, Trishism by "progressing backwards." which was designed specially to break He looks good. Even if he only stays the hearts of men who hurl down the a few overs, you feel that he is full ball, and most people are agreed that of fine cricket. The idea that he was English bowling is in a poor way a rustic picked from a village green, just now, yet even this combination, all eye and slog, disappeared when he of circumstances has not prevented scared 53 against Middlesex in his se same sorry collapses.

A probable

number of small stores made at a

little

melancholy list cauid de compiled of PERRY IS

likely that Gimblet will suggest an

FAVOURED

BY DRAW..

(Continued from Page'&c)

cond match a year ago. From the half, Crawford and Quist, holters of explanation is that first he showed that he had method. the title, should oppose Budge, and batsmen have become so accustomed And to-day his judgment in selecting Mako, the sparkling young American The match between A, lyde-Lay wicket upon which the ball does not as his quickness of oye and font. East

to conditions of perfect ease that any the right ball to hit is as impressive couple.

China's Davis Cup players have not. and P. J. Jones is the Singles was come along consistently at half-stump Reason he won a prize.of £100 offered been tan well treated by the draw. replayed on the Hongkong F. Chigh causes them to believe that the by some well-meaning enthusiast for Khe Sinkie for instance has to play green and resulted in a close victory toitum hos

out of their the fastest hundred of the summer G. P. Hughes in the first round, the dropped for the former by 21-18 after a fine world. A ball that keeps

The fact that he has recently made big winner meeting either I. H. Whent The issue was not decided lower is regarded with horror as

scores comparatively slowly when the croft or Martin Lesueur of France until the 28th hend when lyde-Lay shooter, whereas the real shooter conditions were difficult stinws that he who are in the second quarter of the obtained a single.

which their fathers had to stop does method by the balt of lucre. In short,

is not to be beguiled into a slap-dash draw. not leave the ground after pitching he has a head on this shoulders, not even by a fraction of an inch. A ball that rises six inches above the stumps

n turnip. to be a bumper, I supposed therefore a danger to Ilmb, not to mentlan life.

Thatch.

and

The

The Kowloon C.C. player hell slight advantage until the 26th heat

W. C. Choy, former Cambridge Blue, when Jones drew level at 18-18, but

has Del Castilla of the Argentine na Hyde-ny obtained A two and a single on the next two head. A high

team will build up a formidable

his first round opponent. Inth are in Everyone hopes that the All-Indian the top quarter and if either make standard was maintained throughout.

re-sufficient

progress they will putation before the Arst Test match against either Perry or Grant. rua In a very one-alded game, L. C. R.

There seem to be more batsmen arrives on June 27. Apart from any winner first meets 1. de Bocman, Souza and R. F. Luz defeated T. Grimes and W.

Weir in the hit about the body thun was the case question of "gɗte"-and their share the Belgian Davis Cupper or W. Ro-

|when bowlers much faster than any Test match receipte is of simost vital Pairs on the Civil Servien C.C. green playing ip-quy were common in the importance to the life of Rame nfl bertson, unknown American. by 34 shots to three, the latter pair land, and the only possible reason the countles--it is not desirable that giving up on the ffith head. The

in that many batsanen get themselves England should have an task winners scored on overy head except into positions which are a barefaced That way liea false values.

a single and n two against the invitation to in the fourth and the 16th hends which struck V. M. Merchant in the STROKES THAT BRING FAILURE the second quarter of the draw, the

car at Lord's in the M.C.C. match dic

for

reapretiralloon Dock Recreation

On the Clubs green, R. Duncan and S. Randle, of the Kowloon Bawling Green Club, easily sofeated their club-mates, K. C. Hamilton and J. G. Meyer, by the score of 36 shots to 11. The winners

obtained a six in their totál.

RINK MATCHES

front of it."

disaster. The ball

WHEN BATSMEN GLARE

easy

Itoh, ex-Japanese Davis Cup player and Cambridge Blue has drawn Hug- han of Holland in the first round in

winner meeting either Bawarowski of Austria or Hannes of Norway.

LUM'S TASK

The games with the Indians were the batsun and crouched so low in come in Australin. They were not rise very for above the balls, but hoped to be a test for the Tents to attempting to hook that he got his pected to put English evicket through ex- face in the way. I remember that something of an examination and to Hongkong tennisnthusiasts has Sibu Gordon Lum. so well-known to when Ernest Tyldesley was hit on the prove our resources. chin and knocked out by a very high- Indians have presented a puzzle, Phy- opponent in the third quarter of the But so far the the Czechoslovaksin as his first round. rising ball from J. M. Gregory in sically many of them are built on draw and if he wins will then meet Test match,

A. C. Maclaren said, ideal lines for cricket. They have the either Marlin Legeay or H. F. David, with wholesome frankness, "Serve On the Indian I. C. green, a rink him right. When we tried to hook oneness of limb and the rapidity the intter being one of England's most

of eye prcaliar to the East. It can promising young players. skipped by H. A. Alves comprising ball like that we took jolly good he said of several of them, as was ao Kh L. 3. Silva, L. F. Xavier, F. V. V. care to step across far enough swell said of "Itanj" that they move teamed together for the doubles and Sin-kle and Gärden Lum have Ribeiro and Alves beat a Police rink that if we missed the thing it passed as if they have to bones. And they they meet Godsell, prominent English consisting of C. File, R. 11. F. Marks over our shoulder. We weren't such have all at of dating strokes, county player and Purcell in the first A. E. Carey and W. Mair (skip) by silly fools as to stick our chins in Their trouble, however, often arrives round. After this they must play 24-15.

from a wrongful selection of strokes, either Crawford and Quist or Caska The winners scored on 14 heads

There have been glaring eases of nud Hecht. seven. Malr's against the losers?

When a ball gets up shoulder high brilliant execution spoiled by and ap-

Choy has entered with Ho, a young rink, however, scored a six on the most present-day batsmen show their plication. They have, for example: Chinese player who has been playin seventh, head,

while Alves's four had resentment in no uncertain manner. been seen to altempt a pull at a bali -n-five, a three-and four- Gwos,-

They behave as if they hus-a-deep made for a cut. Inevitably even impressively in major English, toursa- Another rink game was played on grievance against the bowler. Yet stroke of perfect mechanism, rapidments during the spring. They have The Police R.C. green where J. Wat high-rising balls have been a part of and wristy, is bound to lead to hami- H. Wheatcroft and K. C. Gandar son, R. Hall, J. Fraser and W. Mac- cricket throughout its history. No liating failure if applied to an un- fariano (skip) defeated V. Sorby, fuss was made when they were far suitable delivery, N. M. Currie, A. R. Minu and C. G. mare common than they are to-day,], Silva by 25-12. The winners led Batsmen understood that if they plny- nearly all the

and won com- ed cricket at all they must accept thef Way fortably.

powder as well as the jam. I shallį always remember a conversation be. tween S. M. J. Woods and Bobby Abel, each a great player in his own way,! when they met again long after they had dropped out of first-cinss cricket. "Lor" Mr. Woods," said Abel, "it only buzz those fast 'uns of yours past my seems the other day since you used to

INTERPORTS SERIES SUGGESTED DATES NOT QUITE SUITABLE TO SHANGHAI

TOURIST TROPHY

Isle Of Mari Race Postponed

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Dower as first round opponents, Last year Wheatcroft und Gandar Dower caused a big surprise by beating Men. zel and Hecht on the No. 2 court. The winners of this tio play either Delo- ford and Turnbull or Freeman and Hilller.

EXCHANGE RATES

The Shanghai Lawn Bowls Associa

Isle of Man, June 17. 'Paris tion have received a reply to their poor old head till I thought I should scheduled for to-day has been post- Berlin

The Lightweight Tourist Trophy Geneva formal invitation to send up a team. never see my wife and children again."

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for the usual interport series, from "And it only seems the other day, poned until tomorrow pwing to heavy Athens. the Hongkong Association, says the Bobby," said Woods, since you used rain, and bad visibility-Reuter's Milan. N. C. D. News. The Colony in their to score your hundreds off those fast Special.. reply state that they are prepared ones." to send a team to represent them, about the emi of September or the beginning of October. This is hardly #kely to prove acceptable to Shanghal, as at that time of the year, there is not only the question of falling light

There are more signs that, youth is gripping its chance, Unfortunately, young bowlers are still slow forward, but young batsmen of big potentiali- ties are springing up in every county. Gimblett, for one, has shown that he

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