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TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1936,

The History Of Australian Cricket

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¡Adelaide. As he had already com- pleted his contract with the promoters they could not say anything, although they did.

SWIMMING

THEY LAUGHED AT THE RAIN

V.R.C. CALA IN STORMY WEATHER

pro-

SURREY TRIUMPH IN

GREAT MATCH

Keen Duel Between Sandham

And Freeman

London, July 14.

was a task Indeed, and thero wait. ing, were Walt, Todd, and Freoman, who hail set Surrey at ought in the first innings,

At 3.10 Surrey had lost Gregory' med Squires for 24 runs. Two more wickets in the next twenty minutes, and Surrey were tottering-three, nd they were ruined, but for some rave net of heroism.

THE VITAL STAND

Then came the stand that won the

Keenness of the V.R.C. members when was fully tested yesterday heavy rain

their cofnelded with

Surrey bent Kent at Blackheath by 4 wickets, an exciting and match for Surrey: Barling joined the At any rate on enquiry some days

swimming, gain. But they survived

extraordinary match, ending five minutes before the extra half-trim and indomitable Sandham, and the before the game W.G. discovered

the text and carried out

hour had expired.

they were still together at 4,13, ten, that the groundsinan intended to The first gane was against 18, of

gramme in its entirely, a fine tribute

having added 00 runs. During this select the pitch and put a roller on it Victorla and W.G. b he lost the toss to the swimmers and supporters.

The chronology, arithmetic, and lost 7 wickets for 52 runs. So they period the Kent bowling, whether the morning of the game! Repre- as he seems to have done much more For the hardy unlookers the re-

probabilities of the third and inst held a lend of 107, and still one held through the unexpectedness of the sentations to the Melbourne Club often than he wen it on this trip. The word was 18 excellent display of day are worthy of record. When the opinion that they might confulibility, fell into an utter decline.

resistance or because of

hunan soon put things right and two or three 18 hit up 260, for the English bowlers

competitive swimming and diving. play began, at 11.13, Surrey, in reply ceivably win. It was even suggested It must have been gall and worm- days preparation produced an excel-Lillywhite and Mcintyre only taking On

One of the best races of the evening to Kent's total of 228, had scored 20 that Valentine might declare his inn-wood to their captain and their fol- Jent pitch, The Australian wickets in three out of the seventeen wickets.

was between A. A. da Roza and for. Ave wickets. It was then gener-ings closed at luncli. Valentine knew these

lowers, Wilfrid Lawrence in the 125 yards ally thought that, if Surrey's last 5 better: Fate knew better still. days are noted for their perfec-W.G. got ten of the others and G.F. tion and W.G. claims to have been his younger brother, four. England medley race "A" class aggregate wickets should fall within about an About

2.50 Surrey began their After tea 71 runs were needed ins the first to po the Australijus in were beaten by un innings. " It must handicap,

going the way of preparing a pitch for be remembered that besides the seconds later than Roza, only just hour, Kent, by a mixture of reason-task. They needed 191 to win, and, 180 minutes.. F. R. Brown left at 128: able 'daring with the but and fair allowing for the ten interval. they d5 to win in 60 minutes. At the cricket. This of course refers to the bowler und wicket-keeper there were

skill with the ball, might force a had about 155 minutes in which to same totul F. R. T. Holmes was bowl- hend-centres of Australian cricket,sixteen men in the field, and all of

win.

achieve victory. This may sound cd, Sul 65 runt: 5 precious min- where It was possible to get good them pretty good, Allan and Boyle,

P. Jars 2. T. Bayot Time 62.2/6 serA. At 12.10, Surrey were all out for tolerably easy to the minds of some utes less and one good man less. results If one went about it in the who were in th78 team bowled

220 yards Freesiyle Handice "Cin113, leaving Kent with a lead of 115. It was not easy. It must be remem- Brooks emerged from the Pavilion, right way. As for the wickets up- against England in this match.

Azuregate Won by J

M. Calvert. Time: Probability had so far been-fulfilled, bered that this had been a low- country, it seems some of them were

2 mina, 45.8/5 seca, 100 awful for words!

The next move was to Ballarat where there was an excellent wickel and the visitors totalled 470, of which W.G. had 120 and G.F. 112. It was tremendously hot which did not things very much, especially as only the team had been

Lawrence,

failed to catch his clubmate.

Results were follows

ten

yarda Freestyle landica (lay)1-3.

Mi C. Marques. Time: 18.5/5 secs.

180 Yarch Hediny Rare "A" Car Aggres

tions,

25 yards Freestyle Randice (Eadies). It was soon to be rocked to its found-scoring match throughout, that the pldly, enger for battle.

pitch, especially at the grandstand With 20 minutes to go, Sandham By 1.30, the luncheon interval, Fend,

pearance of an untidy allotment ing honour, 20 minutes 4 wickets- by Gover, largely owing to their own through the hammering of the faster 30 runs-and Fishlock joined Brooks." Aggregates. 6. A. Acebea! 2 & Prepitude (with one exception), had [bowlers on a soaked surface. No, it Together they won the match,

Kate Handleap:--1. A. &. in Burm: -2 W. Kent, partly owing to a fine attack, had taken on, in paris, the ap-left, full of 78 runs and resound-'

Lawn Time: 58 sern, help

220 yards Freestyle Handicap "C" Class

Rosario, Time: 3 minn, 22.4/5 acce,

There was another matter too, to which he referred ut some length, which does not seem to have drawn the notice of Caffyn. Just after the a cup game final, which had to be glad of their abandoned owing to a refusal of the was mid-suminer in the Antipodes, batting side to accept an umpire's The 22 of Ballarat did not do at all decimient

sion, and a subsequent invasiondly to make 276, but

was a fact spectators that the English bowlers had not of the ground by the This allitude

not yet This

of both players and found their fength. The game was crowds seems to have been experi-drawn, and at its end the wicket was enced by the English team themselves as true as a billard table. later. Indeed, on

occasion at But the team were at the beginning Sydney, Grace had to take his team of their troubles, (as well as of summe off the field as a batsman, given out. very good fun), and further details went back

to the

pavilion and then, had better wait for my next article. after his successor had reached the crease, returned apparently on advice from the Pavillon and claimed to con- tinue his Innings. All was well in the end but writing a quarter of a century later he notices that this

survived spirit still

Australia In Though not in so malignant a form as in the seventies'.

English team had innded they visifed in few days great-conts, although it

one

DEFICIENT IN GOOD UMPIRES

The explanation of its origin is, 11 Is suggested, that Australia in the early days was quite deficient in good and experienced umpires and there fore their decisions did not carry any weight. However that may be, (and even now Australia hus difficulty in linding many good umpires because

(To be Continued.)

CHINESE "Y" GALA

Programme Completed In Inclement Weather

In spite of ther unfavourable

weather, the Chinese Y.M.C.A. held their Awimming gain at Bridges Street on Wednesday evening, when carried out. The results were a programme of eight events was follow:

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she has not, as England has, a large 50 Metres Free Style,-1, Ip Han- body of experienced professionals rechten: 2, Chan Wing-kai: 3, Kwok tired from active cricket on which to Hon-ming. Time:-30.8 seconds. drow, it must reluctantly be admit ted that this attitude still exists 60 Metres Free Style (Junior) → among the spectators, although of Tang lu-chung: 2. Au Tung-hing: course no Australian cricketer would question an umpire's decision (other-seconds.

3,

min. 23.4

Wonk

Hing-kui, Time:~39,9

wise than in the pavilion!) any more lu-ken; 2, Kwok Hon-ming; 3. 1p 100 Metres Back-stroke-1, Yeung than an English

would. I player

Hon-chuen, Time:-1 Inney is an unfortunate survival

seconds. from the early and difficult days fanned now by an over-keen desire to see the home side win. And one must reluctantly confess that, tho' a a rule the manners of a Test match crowd in England are excellent, there more euses of bad mannered crowds than there used to be or so it seems to me.

are

These matters have been mentioned

1,

Fancy Diving (Sealed Handicap! -Won by C. A. Flavelsmbo,

100 xurda Freestyle Handicap Dadies) p-t I. Mim A. Thirlwell; 2. Mim Y. Thirlwell Time) 76.1/8_pera.

Raee Member Team

{zirenat-etenke) 1am- Win by "C" team C. Mackinush, I. J. Bítva. E. I. Grano, C. Nolinten Silva, A. A. Noronha and f. Benedim.

Beyn. Meilley Relay Bare:--Won by A. A 3. Botelho, A. Buttrees, 1. Muswell and A. Carvalho,

Hongkong-Born Cricketer's Great Bowling At Lord's

(Continued from Page 8.)

ket, again made a bold bid for the Australian tour. One of his hooks to the boundary at the expense of tts Furnes wus the best stroke of

kind I have seen this year, and on the off-side he also got a large mum- ber of his runs.

Then came the dramatie over of Stephenson that added so new and vivid a page to the history of these classic, matches. If the M.C.C. de not invite Stephenson to make the grand tour they will assuredly give him the ball with which he worked so much havoc at headquarters,

GENTLEMEN

RES Wrait b

O Allens w (N) Gover............... 0 b Copson ... 3 NS Mitchell-Innes FH Brown e Cop

llow_b_Gever.... 5 son b Gover

A Melville Verliy W II Lavett not out b Copson****** 1JWA Blephenson 80 Yards Breast-stroke (Junior).—

MJ Turnbull < Copson... ! Gimblett b Copson 4 K Farms ↳ Copson Ju-chung; 2, Au Tung-hing; Pearce b 3, Leung Chi-kit, Time:-1 min. Gover......... 1 4 b... 10·

ERT limes b

Gover 80 Tutal.150 Bowling-Gaver 15-3-41-0. Copmon 17.1.0- 329-1. Verity 18-6-35-0. Binne G-18-0.

PLAYERS

8.5 secs. 200

Metres Free Style.--1, Chan Yeung Tu-kwan. Time: 2 mins. 68 Wing-lal: 2, Ip Hon-chuen;

веск.

200 Metres Breast-stroke (Open at some length as they are both in 10 Colony)-1, Lou Mei-shun; 2, portant when considering the de-Fong Chung-yu: 3, Wong Hok-kong. velopment of Australian cricket from Time:-3 mins, 4.2 secs,

the earliest days. As regards the SOUTH CHINA A.A. standard of cricket in Australia in 1873, W.G. says that while it had not reached the height to which it had now. (In

und

it was ins

steadily improy Beneted by the

To Hold Swimming

Gala This Evening

The South Chinn A.A. will hold

attacolonial cric- keters hud two former tours, and by the sub- sequent conching of Lawrence and their second swimming gala of the Caityn. In those days the bowling season at their pavilion, North Point, was very good Indeed (as Caffyn this evening commencing at 7.30. sait about 1864 cricket) and the The events arranged are as follow: fielding very fair. And the fact that

Ladies' 100 metres England

was beginning to take much greater interest in cricket in the Antipodes was shown by the way in which the results of the games, now for the first time telegraphed, were followed by the people at home.

WHAT HAPPENED

a

The total results of the games play- ed read as follows:-Fifteen matches played, ten won, two drawn and three lost. The three games lost were all

Tat lie beginning of the tour. when

(open).

free stylo

Men's 200 metres obstacle relny. Ladies' spoon-and-egg race. 59 metres free style handicap for beginners.

* 100 metres free style for children under 15.

Tug-Of-War.

"Aquatic Boxing". Carrying the lanterns.

the visitors and not yet thrown or OVAL TEST MATCH

It is

the effects of the long voyage. interesting to note that W.G.'s agree ment with the promoters provided for fourteen matches. However for the

had not then developed as a cricket- last game, in South Australia which

ing state, instead of playing at

All-India Team Is

Selected

London Aug. 13,

Adelaide the English team was sent The following will play for India off to a place called Kadina which at the Oval In the Test Match start- could afford to make a better offering on Saturday:

to the promoters than the then small The Maharaj Kumar of Vizlana- Adelaide Club. Mention of this gram, C. K. Naidu, Wazli Al. V. M. ghastly game will be made later. the interesting thing was that W. Hussain, Jehangir Khan, Mustaq Ali, But Merchant, C. Ramaswami, Dilawar was so annoyed that he trotted off on Boon Jilani, M. Nissar, Amar Singh, his own and played match

ati-Reuter.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

Cimble and bianchi lay b

Barnette Levelt & McCorkell

Stephenton við Stephenson .....0

Hammond

A

Btrubenon Allen...........Ų

Verity b Stephen- Blephenson 12 son Leyland b Stephen. Guver e Lorell b

OR 0 Stephensonā Hardstufe Pearce

b. Stephenson G Fishlock not out

Яхагал

14

Tul, wktop 177

CONTRACT BRIDGE

Recreio Entertain Two Clubs

A very enjoyable evening was spent at the Club de Recreio on Wednesday when the members of the home team were hosts to the Kowloon Cricket Club and the American Club in the second round of the triangular trnet bridge tournament.

con-

A good lead was attained by the home team before dinner, and it was successfully maintained to the end. The results of the match were as

follow:

nink

Recreio

6,140 points Amerloan Club

3,060 points Kowloon Cricket Club 2,480 points Top honours of the evening went to the Noronha brothers of the, win- team with a net score of 7,350 points.

The substantial win by the Club de Recreio placed them in a very strong position for the honour of being the first to have their name inscribed on the trophy kindly presented by Mr. E. Abraham. The standings of t the teams for the two rounds played are: Club de Recreio

6,670 points Kowloon Cricket Club 4,420 points American Club -

1,150 points

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