1937-01-09 — Page 13

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,

JANUARY ́9, 1937.

The History Of Australian Cricket

IN THE EARLY DAYS OF POST

WAR TEST CRICKET

AUSTRALIA PRODUCES NEW GENERATION

OF PLAYERS

ENTER GREGORY MACDONALD AND ARMSTRONG

(By R. Abbit)

R. ABBIT'S CRICKET NOTES

(Continued from Paye 8.)

tory as the Navy and the Club, each won a game. dwever the Club didi everything but bent the Army- another ten minutes would probably live finished it of-and beat the Navy so 1 think It must be admitted they are the best side. All the same

East Lancs. Win Cricket Competition

ELVIN'S 4 WKTS. IN 4 BALLS

du not think the Army showed The Royal Artillery were decisively their true form they are a lot beaten by the East Lancashires in the The intervention of the war put an end to cricket for five belter than one would think just foal of the Units. Cricket Competi- years practically and many Australian, as well as English players from the result of the recent matches. tion played at the Kowloon Cricket passed on. In 1919 however the game began again and marred is a great pity that we shall not Club yesterday afternoon.

be able to see more of Commu. Thanks to magnifléent bowling by though it was by the disastrous effect of the two day matches, Boucher. He is a great cricketer

Elvin, the Artillery were dismissed and it is a treat to watch him for 68. the there was ample evidence that it was hale and hearty.

only players to reach bowling, and also hatting if he gets double agures being Latham not out 14. Capt. Mitchell 15, and Chaplin

going.

LEAGUE GAME

►

14.

the attack of Lleut.

EAST LANCS.' LAST GAME TO-MORROW

ond

In Australia, as in England, i wickets, serious cricket had stopped with the I am not going into the actual war and the last recorded Shefeld(detalls of play or players in this ar Today the League 'gets going agulha Elvin decomplished a remarkable Shield result was the victory of ficte, but I want to give a general after the holidays and some interest-performance by taking four wickets Victoria In the season of 1914/15. view of early post-war cricket and Ing games are down for 'decisim. In in four balls, and finished with an The contest, did not take place again if possible explain the suprembey the First Division K.C.C. are at analysis of 5 for 23.

Despite home to the Civil Service but unless until the season of 1919-1920 when of Australin. New South Wales were the success- To begin with, for six years Aus- the C.S. rack up I don't think the Garthwaite, Captain Mitchell, and ful team.

tralia won evory rubber played, for home side will have it all their own Latham, the East Lanes scored freely But in this season in Australin after Douglas's disastrous tour, the way, I hear they are without the and totalled 180, Coster scored 02, cricketers had had some play, for in Australian eleven of Warwick Arm-services of Mackay but with An-Cox 25, Goldsworthy 23 and Murphy the summer an Australian Military strong in 1921 won three and drew derson playing their batting should 20,

Lithium the two of the Test Matches; while in be strong enough, Sargent is play- eleven

tonk 5 for 59 toured England under ausplees of the Australian Military 1924-25 Gilligan's side, though highly ing for them, and B. D. Lny has Gurthwaite 4 for 72, Command. They played a long pro-thought of, did not succeed in doing been howling very well lately.

The Artillery batled a second-time to and managed beat more than winning a single match. The LRC play the Army at and at the close of play had seured gramine Yorkshire. who were

easily the

The obvious remark is that Aus-Soakorpeo and as the former side 140 for the loss of three wickets. Champion County, It was a gorge tralia were the better cricketers and have had rather an off time lately ous summer and the wickels were Australia crickel was on the up-¡they will have to all out to win, parteci.

swing. This is quite true but therojalthough they are playing at home, If I recollect correctly Warwick is a further reason. For one thing This is probably the most open game Armstrong captained the ride and there were very few bowlers worth of the four as even with some of their for the first time the English batis much in England after the war-just best pinyers game the Navy can men had to meet the amazing pace the ordinary pendulum swing, nofeld a strong side and should beat of J. M. Gregory who had not played doubt. But both before and after Galgengower at King's Park, while before the war. He came to all the the war a great majority and de- the Club even with a weakened team place of A. Cotter who had been veloped the swing, at the expense should account for the University at klied in action. He was the only of length very often.... The first re-Pokfulam, Test cricketer, by the way, on the sult was that our English batsmen: THE SECOND DIVISION side of the Australians who lost his appeared very much stronger than Craigengewer and Navy 11 should life in the war while, curiously they actually were.

be a good game and so should the enough, on the English side K. L. But there was something deeper than | Club vs. Army A. & fear CS.C.C. Hutchings and Blythe atone fell. Of this. Swing bowling such as 1 have have no chance against the K.C.C. the South African teams Gordon mentioned sets a batsmen back on second team, especially if Hung and White and Reggie Schwarz made the his sticks as much as possible as he Zimmern are playing for the Jatter great sacrifice.

to make his shot as late as side.

and the Police should Army AUSTRALIA VISITED

posable. Moreover this same desire account for Recreio and University Whereas the war hnd disrupted was the direct outcome of the strug-II respectively while the Army Catedical Corps Australian cricket exactly as much gles of English batsmen to get used and 1.R.C. should be a very good It bud English cricket in one way to playing The South African game. Like their first the Indians there was to my mind the slight google. The result was that the second-team has had a patch but difference that Australian cricket two-eyed stance developed, and they have the makings of a very

much younger institution batsmen played back even to well good side. compared with that of England; and pitched up balls with both puds just as a youth can get over in

was

wecks.

wants

aplumb in front of the wicket.

the

(Continuet from Page 8.)

Kowloon

R. Artery (8) -Kowloon, 2.30

THIRD

DIVISION

AIR FORCE

Ordnance Corps

V St. Joseph's

Chatham Itd. I * KWONG WAK -Happy Valley, 4

** Liga

-St. Joseph's. 1

SUNDAY

FIRST DIVISION

E. Lancs

*

Chinese A.A.

V

V

few days a heavy fall that would This largely eliminated the drive develop nearly so much in Australia, Iny

for and the cut out a middle aged man

and I well remember or so I venture to suggest, because so Australian cricket shook seeing one batsman scare about 40 there was plenty of fast bowling off the effects of the war much runs simply by deflecting straight about to make things unhealthy for Kowloon "C" sooner than could the Englishmen. balls from his tummy, af various the style, and also because

South At alt events there was the utmost angles to leg. And unfortunately Africans had never been able to keenness to see on English Eleven the bowling was so bad It paid! reproduce any good bowling form playing Tests in Australla, a sight There was not a single refily fast of the google Type on Australian | CHINESE A.A. not seen since the season of bowler in England in the first two wickets just as many of our slow 1911-1912. And in the end the or three years after the war

M.C.C. sent out a side under J. W. mighty few bowlers who bow and spin bowlers had never been able to Kowloon

S. CHINA "A"

-Sookunpoo, 4

SL JOSEPH'S -Caroline HUN. 4

Eastern

-Club, 4

SECOND.

DIVISION

THIRD

an-do themselves justice out in Aus- H. T. Douglas, who stepped into the accurate length steadily. Spoonfed tralia. It has been suggested too Captaincy when Reggie Spooner on this easy attack English batsmen that there are fewer swervers in was unable to take It. So strongly | could not cope with the pace of Australia as the ball will not curl had Austraila come back that for Gregory and MacDonald. Lord Har-so much in the atmosphere there. Police "C" the first time in history they won ris as far back as 1910 had written But of this I confess I imow nothing all the five Test matches outright. un article in. Wisden pointing out the However this may be the fact was Kumuon Rifles Nor was it even

close thing in any dangers of this new style of batting, that the Australians were in for a game. Australia won by 377 runs, by an innings and 91 runs, by 110 runs, by eight wickets, and by nine

A very good article it was too, and long run of success of which the de-¦ FUSILIERS nearly all he prophesied come true. talls shall be told later.

Now this type of batting did not

(To be continued.),

v R. Artillery (L)

-Caroline HM. 2.30

Eastern

+

-Club, 2.30

DIVISION

V

RECREIO

-Kowloon, 2.30

V R.A.S.C.

~~~~Chatham Na, 2.20

V

EAST LANCS

V

Police "E"

-Kowloon, 4

R. Engineers

Chatham Rd. 4-

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London, Dec. 15. Ex-Seaman Lawlor (Lowesidf!) gained a good points decision over Theophile Theo (Belgium) in a 10- round contest at Lowestoft last nigut. Lawlor was up against a very plucky opponent, and his "southpaw" stance 'did not in any way perturb his op-

ponent.

Lawlor used his right swings to advantage, and time and again they landed on the Belgian's head. Theo appeared to tire at the halfway stage, but Lawlor continued to colleet many points with his left leads.

Lawlor was clearly on top, but he failed to land a knock-out blow,

Ireland beat Germany in an amb- teur boxing match at Belfast by seven contests to one.

Charlic Baxter (Walsall),, 'bx- Southern area welter-weight cham- jlon, was successful in his second fight of his "come back" campaign when he easily outpointed Jimmy Teasdale (Middlesbrough) in a 10- round contest at the Wälverhampton Drill Hall, last night.

BANK PROFITS

London, Jan. 8. The "Big Five" banks have not all declured Their Anal dividends for 1038. The aggregate profits amount- to £0,608,338, an increase of £760,578 over last year-British Wireless.

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