1936-06-19 — Page 8

THE HCNGKONG

TELEGRAPH. · FRIDAY, JUŃE- 19, 1936.

SOME OF CRICKET'S BIGGEST HITS

ALBERT TROTT'S TREMENDOUS

か

DRIVE IN 1899

..

A NOTE ABOUT THE LATEST EPIDEMIC OF

LEG-BEFORE-WICKET

liem

01-

Was

SOMETHING MUST

BE DONE BY

II. K. F. A.

(Continued from Pago 8.)

account.

vital

Now World Record Javelin Throw

Helsingfors, June 18. Matti Jarvinen, the famous Finnish javelin. thrower to day beat his own previous world record javelin' throw

against 76.10. when he registered 77.23 metres. at Los Angeles in 1932 Reuter,

metres

LIGHTWEIGHT T. T. RACE RECORDS GO BY

THE BOARD

a In the was drive which most cricket

a charity football competition depend too small tu The subject of big hitting is always captivating.

well

on the amount of moucy raised, but cricket season of 1899 Albert Trott, an Australian cricketer who ground were

ine, and sume of them Inuy

than that the F.A. relles very largely ot qualified for Middlesex, made at Lord's a number of drives of have travelled even further unusual height and length, some of them aimed at the pavilion, the 180 yards of the measured exam-Lall Wah Cup, Challenge Shield and distances of 152 yurds Governor's Cup receipts to cover is After some discussion as to the particular occasion on which ple. Other

and 138 yards are quoted as having annual deficit on the league working the-biggest-of these drives was made, the place of honour was

It is therefore inadvisable to abuse As already said, if you go to Lord's eventually assigned to a hit made off M. A. Noble in the M.C.C.cen measured at the time. match against the Australians. The reminiscences of onlookers and contemplate the roof of the pre- the F.A. for its parent money- sent pavilion, you cannot imagine making proclivities without altu pay-

to the ing due attention any were agreed except upon one point, which, though small, was

that it is within the power of

But the above necessity, of its financial activities. of some interest. This point was whether Trott's hit actually batman to clear it.

NEED FOR GIVE AND TAKE cleared the pavilion or not. The ball certainly dropped, on the statisties, and calculsions, assuming to be approximately correct, for side of the building, but whether it went clean over or struck

seem to show that the achievement

There is a need for give und take by reducing the something on the topmost ridge was not definitely decided.

Is, theoretically at least, within a Has a hit of this height and dis-hitter's range. And in confirmatioa on both sides. It Warner stated that the ball;

matches to be played on Saturday, ́pitched in a garden beyond, which is tance, apart from Trott's effort, ever of this view we have the practical strength of the first division to either what it would have done if it cleared been made by a man with a cricket precedent of Albert Trott's triumpli, twelve or ten teams with all league

he either obtained or

and all other competitions to be re- the root. Another writer remem-bat? The pavillon rails are about 90 which bered a man, who was in a dressing-yards from the further crease, and within a few inches of obtaining. In

lion, the ridge of the roof some 28 addi-these days when brighter cricket is served for Sunday, it is possible to at the back of the pavilion,

having to play

and four mid- saying that he had seen a ball droptional yards away, while the height called for, it is as well, perhaps, to complete the season's fixtures without past the window as if it had fallen of the ridge itself is 75 feet. Chieu- realise that thin particular teat is still week matches during May, then the F.A. has a right to expect proper from the

clubs. which is what would lations show that, saiming 10 feet worth attempting. tky, wh

the support from

Isle Of Man, June 18 On the LEG BEFORE WICKET have happened it the ball had rolled as the highest point of the ball's' tra-

other hand the F.A. should not expect The Rightweight Tourist Trophy off the roof. Reference in contemn-jectory, the distance from hit to plich

One of the most remarkable fea- too much from the clubs. I imagine race over seven laps covering 261 porary observation was of no nssist of a ball that just dropped clear of

ront would be between 150 and tures of modern first-class cricket is there will be general support for the miles was run to-day in glorious

ก ance in reconciling these discrepanthe

league matches weather. There were 31 starters and The Field' repurt 100 yards. Such a carry, long as it the number of batsmen who are given suggestion of the match, quoted in a letter from is, would still be short of the record. out leg-before wicket. The latest should, as far as possible, continue A. R. Foster, riding a New Imperial, The longest measured hit of a crie-legislation, as everyone knows, has, to be played of Interport trial days. won in the record time average of the editor of that Journal, says that the ball went clean over, but The ket ball is 175 yards. This was a by ruling that the ball need not pitch Undoubtedly there has been a shock-three hours 33 minutes 22 seconds, Times account saya that the

ball drive unde at Oxford in 1850 by straight for-the boiler to obtain ang waste of valuable time in the with an average speed of 74.28 m.ph.

practising. Fellows while

In-past, all first division matches being decision against the batsman, atruck a chimney-pot or some other Walter

standstill for something obstacle on the roof of the pavillon. Fellows was an Old Westminster boy, creased the chance of wickets being brought to "The latter version of the incident is who was in the University cleven in lost in this way, but the new. law is like tiree weeks.

nearly enough to explain the

This in the sort of thing which repeated in the official history of the four seasons from 1854 to tin. no atence of a mode of dismissal, makes congested fixture lists In-averaging 72.49 m.ph.

He did useful service

lee against Cam- }beldge, and in "Scores and Bio-which was once so rare, and has now evitable, and raises a grouse such as common. During the that advanced by Mr. Strange last graphies" is described as "a hard, become so slashing hitter," which he certainly month of May there were, we are Monday when he pointed out that at

Arst-clas matches. must have been, is famous drive told, nearly three hundred cases of is given among the "Cricket Records" leg-before in

room

eles of memory.

Lord's and the M.C.C. (p. 301).

WELL WORTH SEEING Various correspondents mentioned drives that had gone over the old pavilion, a building pulled down in 1889, but these contributions did not touch the single detail which was dispute. Whether any batsman his succeeded in clearing the greater height of the new pavilion remains a doubtful item in the record of hinnan achievement.

rebounds

that we want.

three

Our Daily Golf Hint

Here is the secret of those delicate chips out of bunkers. -the wrists must not move.

C. J. II. Tolley.

in "Wisden's Almanack." The dis-Rough enlculations ascribe about tance was measured by E. Martin, a third of these cases to the operation professional bowler, who was at me of the new law, but this still leaves two hundred offenders who would be time in the Kent eleven.

The next longest drive of which rightly given out, even if the law

had never been altered. the measurement has been noted in

yards made by C. I. An analysis made of the scores of a anc O 100 Those who are familiar with Lord's Thornton. For the necessary com-number of matches in past seasons ground and its surroundings will be bination of height and

up to thirty years ago distance shows that satisfied that Albert Trott's hit. Thornton was just the type of bitter only about 3 per cent, of the wickets: wherever its ultimate Innding was,

Though he had not taken were due to leg-before ucl-381ENNE BARE MACMISUKET must have been a truly remarkable the versatile ability of Jessop, who sions. In the summer of 1935, as fat one stage last season his club had

chance of reasonable stroke. A drive which clears the made runs off every kind of ball, by as it has gone, this figure has risen

finishing pavillon railings is well worth seeing, every kind of stroke, Thurnton as to 25 per cent, if we include, us we

runners-up: but, through no fault of and one that funds in the balconies or producer of what are sometimes must do, the victims of the new lave

their own, they had to play five) from the upper masonry culled balloons has never been equal as well as clits cricket, as it used the strain was so much that, they lost

of the old: This is to say

matches in less than a fortnight and looks gigantic. To carry, or even toled. These were made of good-

that in strike, the topmost ridge of the roof length balls, which he met on the to be played, you would find in every games which otherwise they could

two

completed innings a single cases have expected to win. With those appears a feof vast enough to sing-rise with a full swing of the bat,

in every defeats went all chance of league! ger, the spectators" Imagination. Thanks to good timing the result of leg-before; nowadays

frnings you find two or three cases, honours. That proposition may be stated inj

There is a lot to be said on both two other ways, one from the bats sides, but when all of it is boiled man's point of view, and the other down to fundamentals one has still to from the bowler's. A batsman of

acknowledge that reforms of some 1905 who played fifty innings during description are absolutely essential if the summer might expect to be out the football reason in Hongkong is not two or three times leg-before; a bals-| to become furcical. man of 1935 would expect to be out twelve or thirteen times in his fifty, innings. A bowler of 1905, out every twenty wickets he took, could cannot be merely recidental; it must count upon only one of these as a leg due to something that batsmen before case; nowadays the same bowlers do now, and did not do in bowler would owe five out of every the past.

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(Continued from Page*8.)

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A. S. Watson & Co., Ltd. they are to-day. Some had not come

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Scottish And Irish Golf Championships

ADAMS WINS ON A REPLAY

London, June 18. James Adams, Scottish Interna- tional of Romford to-day won the Scottish open of championship at Ayr after a tie with Tum Collage of Swinton Park, Manchester, both men returning aggregates of 287.

Perey Allis, the British Ryder Cup player was third with a score of 200. In the replay Adams bad a card of 137 including a record round of 68. Collinge was 11 strokes in arrears,

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THE INDIAN CRICKETERS

After ten years, and

with regard to the mall seope of these articles, il would be terious do give any analysis of the play and I propose only to refer to those of the Indian. players who are at the present time representing. All India in Engiam), No less than five of this year's side appeared in various games, I should perhaps mention here that there were two gangs against All India,

In the first the Indian side was composed entirely of native cricketers and had much the best of it as the S1.C.C. in their second innings were only 22 runs on with only five wickets, to go. In the second game in whica Euro-

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Wazir An examination to-day. Ceeli Ewing, selceled for

Ali played in both the All the famous bowlers of the present. classes of cricket.

second-class scores Shaw as he of

this year's Walker Cup contest was shows the We may take Alfred

India games and in two matches for North Indis. In two days ergage- bowled in 1875, when he was the percentage of leg-before cases to be beaten in the fifth round.-Reuter.

ments he pinyed for the Southern most prominent figure

and only about 10 per cent, or less than of a cold and

Punjab, a Hindu-Mahomedan XI and wet summer. He was rather a slow half of the percentage that prevails lowin

first-class scores. Why should

Patiala. Incidentally, his brother bowler, very accurate in length, and; with some spin, as well as variation this be? Why should a man who is We may describe him as promoted to a county eleven be out the Freeman of his day, for Freeman, twice as often leg-before as he was If not the best slow bowler in Eng-when he played for his club? He land, may fairly claim to be best of can hardly have altered his style of wicket-takers in ordinary county batting to such an extent as to pro-

Shaw in 1875 took 160 duce his difference."

of pace.

matches.

wickets at something under 10

each. Of these, he bowled a two, had 48 caught and 11 stun

stumped

one

took

OBSTRUCTION AT A DISCOUNT

Twelve

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Ascot, June 18, The result of the Gold Cup was an follows:

Quashed, 3 to i Omaha, 11 to 8 Bokbul, 100 to -G Nine ran.

Nazir All, who is not in the present side, played in all these games and bore the brunt of the bowling.

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The race was won by a short head, with five lengths between second and

or fifteen years ago the off him, had eight men leg-before and methods adopted by certain first-

hit wicket. Freeman in

1034 class batsmen were highly produc- 205 wickets, Arty-nine bowled, tive, or appeared to be highly Seventy-six caught, twenty-eight productive, of leg before wicket de stumped, and forty-two leg-before. cisions. It was fashionable to stand Whether you bowl a batsman or get facing the bowler and to begin by third. him leg-before, in either alternative walking in front of the stumps, Special place betting was as fol- you penetrate his defence, so that whatever kind of ball was bovied. lows: 4/7 Quashed, 7/4 Valerius, Freeman would presumably have hit Then, wielding your bat in front of 5/2 Buckleigh, 5/2 Robin Goodfellow, the stumps forty more times, if he your body or legs, you pushed the 11/4 Bokbul.—Reuter. had not found the batsman's pads in ball either back to the bowler or on the way, an obstruction which Shaw's the off or on alde as opportunity bowling encountered so seldom as to served. The advantages or 'disad- be hardly worth mentioning. What vantages of such a style need not be is the reason of this curious change discussed here. The only feature of in the playing of cricket? Is it due it which need be noticed is that as to new methods of batting, or to the batsman's pads entirely covered now methods of bowling, or to a the wicket, he was out leg before it mixture of bath? For the change (Continued on Pago 5.)

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LOUIS AND SCHMELING

New York, June 18. The fight between Loula and Schmeling has been postponed till to-morrow owing to rain-Reuter.

M. Hussain played for All

Madras (3 days) and "An Indian XT" CANTON ACENTS

(two days). In this Intter game M. J. Gopalan and C. Ramaswami ap- peared, while the last named also played for All Madras. He is or was a batsman who goes in early.

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Finally, it would be interesting to know if the Dilawar Hussain who played for Northern Punjab (2 days) and Northern India (3 days) which he made 10 and 85 la the summe Dilawar Hussain who is now up at Cambridge and played in the second Test against Jardine's team in 1933/4. If so he must be a good deal beyond the average age of an undergraduate, (To be Concluded.)

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