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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY

1937.

SPORT ADVIS. YORKSHIRE STRENGTH

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

CRICKET

Draft Programmes and Entry PROSPECTS

Forms for the Fifth Extra Raco Meeting to be hold on Saturday, 15th and Monday, 17th May, 1937, (weather permitting) may be ob tained at the Secretary's Office, Exchange Building; the Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club, the Sports Club; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.

Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on Thursday, 6th May, 1937.

By Order,

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Secretary

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(By Ronald T, 5ymond)

Nine times champions since the war, Yorkshire may be said to start every season as favourlies for the county cricket championship. The club has abundant resources and a fine organisation. Every member of the team has Sharacter and skill, und

und behind the regular players is a reserve of 28 amateurs and 53 professional colts. George Ifirst, of seasoned knowledge, Jat hand to conch the young and to keep open his weather eye for new blood throughout the county.

When we see Yorkshire win a match in their traditional crushing atyle, we wonder how it is that any County

ever challenges their pride. Mitchell,

Sutcliffe, Leyland, Mitch and com- pany lay a firm foundation of some 400 runs or so; then Verity, Bowes, and Smailes, supported by a keen. efficient field, remorselessly put their opponents through the hoop. York- shiremen rub their hands together. and say it was a fine match, perfect- ly reflecting the respective merits of the teams.

OF CRICKET CHAMPIONS

(By Ronald T. Symand)

Derbyshire, as reigning cricket champions, will have their hands full to retain the title this senson in face of powerful competition such as can be supplied by Middlesex and Yorkshire. But the Midland county are riding on the crest of a successful period, and they enjoy both the con- idence and the all-round ability to defend their position.

A. W. Richardson, the popular captain, who led the

team to 11 present eminence, has, unhappily, hud to retire for business reasons. His place will be taken by R. H. Bucks- ton, who will be able to play regular- ly this year.

All lust year's players are again available, and the strength of the team will be further augmented by the return of Pope (G, H.), who was injured in the second match Inst season, but who is now completely fil following an operation for removal of a carillage.

HOPES OF SMITH

NEED ANOTHER BOWLER

Pope will be a valuable addition But maiters do not always fall to an already excellent attack, and the brilliant left-hander, out thus. Rarely do the Yorkshire Smith, batsmen fail to do. thele part, but should emerge from the bad patch of the attack, if its first onslaught is form which troubled him last year resolutely opposed, begins to show and do full justice to his powers. Its limitations.

R. H. Buckston was Eton's wicket- Verity, Bowes, and Smalles form a keeper in and inter redoubtable trio, but who comes next Jesus College at Camden

In addition to the when the offensive has to be pro-

promising longed, or JS unfit to play? With due aprecia- tion of the occasional value of Ley- Jand's oriental trickeries, it must be admitted that once the drst shock has been withstood, opposing bats

A

If one of these stalwarts staff is Gladwin, a young a user

men have little to fear.

from Glupwell Colliery Cricket Club. On the whole, the team should be shade stronger even than last year. The

is good but not great, The batting and the real power of the champions lies in the keen attack. Copson and short, Yorkshire, with all their the brothers Pope, supported "by wealth of resources, badly need an-Mitchell and Townsend, form an en- other good bowler to give proper viable combination of bowlers, the balance to their formidable team. team always fields well, and Elliot is Doubtless the county will find one in one of the safest wicket-keepers in due time, but meanwhile opponents the country. Last, but far from may take what profit they can from least, confidence counts. a temporary situation.

A. B. Sellers will continue in his able captaincy, and all the old play- ers are avaliable. Young men who may improve their growing reputa- tions are P. A. Gibb, N. W. Yardley, and Hutton. Mitchell, who has had his cap since 1920, and has stored 31 centuries, will take his beneft in the Surrey match at Bradford in July. Lancashire

HOPE OF

PROGRESS BY

Warwick Key-mon Sound Again

Warwickshire did not enjoy a good season last year, chiefly owing to the prolonged absence through incus of Paine, their left-arm slow bowler, and the indifferent batting form of R. E. S. Wyall, the captain, during much of the season. These were severe handicaps, but the outlook is brighter now. Wyatt appears: have recovered fine form after his unfortunate injury in Australia, and Paine is ft again.

to

A return to full effectiveness of the principal batsman and bowlor is enough in itself to encourage hope of possibilities which augur well for Warwickshire. Dollery, the attack-

YOUNG TEAM improvement, but there ure

The red rose of Lancashire did not

bloom with its wonted bravery last year, the county falling from fourth to eleventh place in the champion ship.

other

batsman, and Holles, the spin

bowler, are two of the most promis- may reasonably expect to improve on ing young men in the game, and both

their figures of last season.

W. H. L. Lister, the new captain, who will continue in the leadership, had to contend with many dimeul-batsman, will be available after the tles. Retirement of the irreplaceable Ernest Tyldesley was the first blow. Watson failed to maintain his best form of the previous year, while Washbrook and Oldfield scarcely achieved the fullness of progrcas which their brilliant promise had led us to expect.

Iddon and lopwood returned toler- ably good figures, but Paynter was the only batsman who lived fully up to his reputation. So splendidly did he bat towards the end of the season. that the Test selectors were sorry they had been unable to find room for him in the team to tour Austra-

Attack is the chief weapon of suc- cessful counties. It was in the days of MacDonald, Parkin, Cook, and Richard Tyldesley that Lancashire took a long lease of the champion- ship. But the team was not impres- sive in this respect last year. Pol- Hard was the most successful bowler, but the attack in general was weak, Two new bowlers have всеп added to the

HELP FROM AMATEURS. A. F. T. White, the Cambridge

Varsily match. He is a s

a sound player of considerable

promise. Other amateurs who will play occasionally are N. E. Partridge, P. Cranmer, C. C. (wicketkeeper and captain Goodway of Staffordshire last year), and pas- sibly R. B. Bruce-Lockhart after the summer term.

Per there is a hopeful nip

In the air al Edgbaston. The club's finances

have been handsomely restored by a magnificent response to £3 special appeal, yielding over £5,300. A fine new score-board is being erected on the county, ground, thanks to the generosity of Dr. Harold Thwalle, the treasurer of the club.

DEMPSTER'S MEN

Additions to Staff

(medio sinf T. Jacques: C. S. Dempster, one of the most at-

Middleton, and

After passing through an anxious period financially, Leicestershire will again take the field in good spirit. tractive batsmen

in tire again lead the side, and it is hoped world, will

that M. St. J. Packe will be more

frequently available, this year.

right arm) from and J. Briggs, of tasting den, who bowls left-arm spin.

High hopes are entertained at Old Trafford that the young team will

With the exception of Marlow and develop greater power and better

all last season's Shipman,

players form this year. The match against have been re-engaged, and Shipman Middlesex in mid-July has been set will still be available to play if re- aside for the benefit of Frank Sib-quired. Additions to the staff are

bles.

Sussex

NEW PLAYERS

Hard Wickets Hope

Sussex had a distressing time last season, falling to fourteenth place in the championship-the lowest they have · ́occupied since 1011. Their team was substantially the same as that which made them runners-up in 1932-3-4, but somehow nothing would go right last year.

Riley, a forcing batsman; Bowley, left-am slow bowler; Lester, a leg-

break bowler;, and Thursting, a lefi-

arm bowler. The first-named three are Leicestershire born, but Thurs- from the Lord's ting, who comes staff, has yet to qualify.

Prospects of a successful season in Smith, the fast bowler, to his great the field depend upon the return of form of 1935, on the continued ex- cellence of those stalwart veterans

Gene batsmen to

and Astill, and on the ability offer more con- sistent support to C. S. Dempster. It these expectations are favourably Supporters are now hoping for a more favourable turn of the tide and confirmed, there is avery reason to

hope that Leicestershire will win. watching with interest the progress

ship.

of the younger generation, such as higher place in the county champion-

Nye, Woods, and Oakes. Wensley has gone to the West of Scotland C.C. Pearce to the Lancashire League, and Greenwood, who is qualifying for Northamptonshire, to Forfarshire C.C.0.

has

The greatest loss, however, been the return home to South Africa of Alan Melville, the former Sussex captain.

A. J. Holmes wit again lead the team, and another amateur in B. L. Cumming, a cousin of Alan Melville. play whenever possible. With will better luck and harder wickels, Sussex hope to make a more charact Keristic showing in the coming season. Cook will take his beneßt in the Warwickshire match at Hove in August.

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Rowlands, H.K.F.A. goalkeeper making a spectacular anve from Lai 'Shul-wing during yesterday's Governor's Cup match. (Photo by Staff

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was made recently, when the Football Association accepted theee League's proposal that the plan should be put in operation in the practice matches next August and later in three selected games in League and competitions.

By this decision the Football AR- The decision may be claimed as a

have, in effect, fathered victory for the League over the sociation amateur clubs, who have vigoriously the suggested trial, and in June they bring. the matter before the -opposed the scheme. There were, will

faci, immediately scare reports International Board, who are res- that the amateurs would continue to ponsible for the rules of the game. fight against it. It was even sug-

At present the rule says that "a gested that it would lead to a split.match shall be controlled by a re-

in

I do not

The vote in favour of the pro-feree and two linesmen." posal put forward by Mr. W. C. Cur think there is any intention to ask on behalf of the management com- the Board to alter this until the re- mittee of the League simply means suits of the trial are known, They that the amateurs have been per-will simply be urged to grant per- sunded that it is in their interest mission for the test to be made in practice games and three competi- that two referees should be tried.

The Association are not committed live matches.

them- The Football Association to the new plan. Neither are the

the no- | kelves League, but the officers of the

experimented, with two re- tional competition continue to

twice Inst to refereca

season without ceive bitter reports concerning seeking the

of the permission referees and the inadequacy of pre-International Board, and the officers -sent-method-of-control, and they be-of-the-League-claim that-they-might-

lieve that many of the troubles will

60 In practice games be removed by putting only half the official sanction. field in charge of one man.

NOT CONVERTED

do

without

-own

The League, however, have now adopted a constitutional procedure, They have not yet converted the and though it is doubtful how Scot- clubs to this pohit of view, Aland, Ireland, and Wales regard majority of those in the First Divi-two referees so far as their sion of the League are in favour of interests are concerned, it is not an- that they will put any the trial being held, but the majority ticipated of those in the Second and Third obstacle in the way of the trial. Divisions have voted against two The alteration of the offsido rule referees, mainly on the ground that was made without thorough trial and they cannot afford to meet the ex-without realislag how vital were the changes it would create in the play. There are, however, a consider-

Although the introduction of a abic number who have not seen the

second

referee will not affect any system in operation, and it is felt

principle of the game, it is most that they thould have the op-important that every precaution portunity of doing so before a final should be taken against another mis- decision is taken.

Lake.

pense of another official:

'WHO-IS-IT?' HORSE

Owner, Trainer Do Not Know

BILLIARDS RECORD BY ENGINEER

The racing world has struck first-rate mystery. It concerns the identity of a mare entered for a two o'clock race at Newcastle recently in the name of Ling......

The Racing Calendar states that the mare, was withdrawn from the race by permission of the Stewards, who asked Mr. Botterill, the trainer, to explain his possession of the animal, as the real "Ling by Bulger, (By Frank Poxon)

out of Freedom, was in the posses- London, April 7.

of Mr. R. J. Colling, and wes at slon stud. A young Birmingham engineer, Kingsley Kennerley, made a world's Mr. Botterill (the Calendar adde) record break-305-under existing said he purchased the mare as Ling rules in the Championship of from Mr. Wills, auctioneer, of Amateur Billiards at the Burroughes Malton, Yorkshire. The Stewards Hall, London, yesterday afternoon.. asked Mr. Botterill to make in-

His Lime was 23 minutes-excap-quiries and report to them, tional for an amateur. He to chai-

Mr. Botterill said: "Mr. Willis is Thompson leniging Joseph

(the not a racehorse owner, and does not holder), of Workington. The record know any more than that he bought he broke was the 200 of J. Beetham the mare as Ling in good faith."

Mr. Maugham (on whose behalf "Kennerley's break was near to Mr. Botterli bought the mare) said: absolute perfection," said Horare "We had no reason to believe that Coles, an ex-champion-and I cer- the mare was not Ling." tainly was,

last year.

At the evening session, Kennerley's ment to a total of 33. best break was 100. This brough his „Closing scores were: Kennerley century breaks In this year's tourna- 3,200; Thompson (in play) 2,275.

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