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O'REILLY TROUBLES BATSMEN

Brilliant Bowling Performance

Adelaide, Dec. 18.

A brilliant spell of bowling by W. J. O'Reilly, who took five wickets for one run, brought about a remark able change of fortune, in the Shef- New feld Shield, match between South Walea and South Australia here to-day.

New South Wales lost their four wickets for 45 runs and were all out for 337. South Australia made n good start and, with the total at 145 for one, looked like making a big

found Then O'Reilly

his scure. length and sent back five batsmen at a cost of one run. South Austra- ila's total at the close of play was 103 for six.

Attering losing C. L. Badcock, who made only two, South Australia mude good progress with R. S. Whitington and D. G. Bradman together for the second wicket. Both played cau- tiously, and so well set did they look that it seemed possible they might play out time. The reappearance of O'Reilly, however, brought disaster Whitington was for the home side, the frat to go, being caught by Fingleton after scoring 54. Robinson followed and was bowled before scoring, and Bredman was the next to fall, being caught for 01. Walle and Walker went the way of the other batsmen, and stumps drawn shortly afterwards

GOLF DRAW MADE

were

Junior Competition At Fanling

The draw for the first round of the Hongkong Golf Club Junior Cham- pionship has been completed. The irst named player in each round is the challenger and must fix the date for play. Starting times, if required, should be asked for in the usual way.

The drow resulted as follows:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY,

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OF HERO VARSITY TUSSLE

(Continued from Page 8.)

JANUARY 11, 1938.

M.C.C. COMMISSION

MAKES ITS REPORT

COMPREHENSIVE

By H. J. Henley

SURVEY

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have eventually to sanction all pro- pols, but what the Advisory Com- mittee pass it never turned down. So it the counties consider that they have not a satisfactory Championship they have only themselves to blame.

TEST MATCH PROFITS

The first part of the commissioners' report, which in devoted to finance,, with especial attention paid to the munner of alloiting Test match pro- fis, will be more to the taste of fin- anelers than to the average follower

of cricket, and the question of county "gates" and the advisability or other- wise of passing on to the publle the entertainment tax, is purely the com- cern of the club amelals, who are, at

After nine months of careful study the commission "appointed by the Marylebone Cricket Club at the request of the Advisory County Cricket Committee to investigate the problems confronting the counties taking part in the First-Class County Cricket Cham- pionship" have produced their report. It is long, it is complicated,berty to make their own decisions.

it is many-sided, and it contains no bombshells. The commis- sioners, W. Findlay, R. C. N. Parlairet, and R. H. Mallott, do not wave the red flag of revolution. They have approached cricket as a great game, too complex and honoured to be lightly despoiled, vals, and other matter's connected not as a mere recreation for the mob,which can be "jazzed" to suit the mood of an hour.

More Important from the spectators' point of view are the suggestions in regard to hours of play--the inter- with the clock. The commissioners have done especially good work in stressing, the evils of wasting time In considering their viewpoints and liveries which used to be driven, surely die quickest way to irritate their recommendations it is neces- But if a player regularly and glar- a crowd-and they would rearrange sary to recall the situation which ledingly bowls with purely defensive in-

matters that no tea, interval could be to the creation of the commission. tentions and is obviously doing more At the end of the season of 1930, harm than good to the county his taken shortly after the interval be- tween innings, and remove. the frit- after a series of wet, bienk summers, committee always has the power to

That in atering away of five minutes here or many county clubs were in a desper-drop him from the side. ate state of poverty. The

dozen there which at present happens s0 wolf power for stronger than which had been kept at bay for so cross-the-wicket lines.

wanlonly. They would also cause it long was at the doorway at last, and

to be impossible for hours of play to It looked as it some of the committee

be altered at the will of the teams on were prepared to adopt any wild-

In regard to the curtailment of the the third day, and make it a rule for cat scheme which seemed to have championship the commissioners sug-thon-going batsman on all occasions "gates." They had forgotten, as the in the first-class division should be he enters the pavillon, Everyone committers generally do in such cirreduced from seventeen to Afteen. who follows cricket will greet all

REDUCE THE NUMBER

to travel to foggy Twickenham, but even a remote chance of increasing gest that the number of competitors to meet the out-going batsman before

The Ifongkong Ping Pong Associ-beaten fifteen within a few minutes cumstances, that their troubles were in this way, they say, it would be this with hearty approval. Intervals

the plain truth is that they were a Just of the kick-off. movement ation instituted a month to raise funds for the wound-

the

had

many

I

in a big measure caused by the bed possible for all the sides to meet each illegally prolonged do not benefit the Los Angeles, Jan. 10.

weather, which had equally affected the hire of boats on the rivers, the other which would do away with the players, and there is no excuse for LICKED, HUMBLED

percentage method of judging Using a putter which he bought a

dawdling. It is a pity that a sugges a junk shop for $1, Jimmy Thomped Chinese soldiers. A meeting has

licked and humbled ice-cream trade, seaside boarding Per 'They were

inter-county cricket would be TC- ment from being taken out on the son, with a score of 273, won $2100been called for 7.30 p.m. to-morrow

duced

from about 236 matches to 210, field between the refreshment inter- Club, Hollywood and removed from Oxford's path houses and hotels, and everything sults, and the amount of first-class tion is not made to prevent refresh-

their well-known/cise which depends upon sunshine of the $7,500 Open Golf Tournament at the Confucius

chiefly because Rond, where the organising of leagues triangle was throttled long before it for proat. But the counties only and thereby allowing extra representative vals except on very exceptional ocea-

that their balance-sheets were matches to be played. But here stons. here to-day.

and a crisis approaching rapidly again we are on slippery ground. offor men and women will be discuss-could ever get on the move. Johnny Revolta, with a score

The commissioners point out that Lawioned. To this end cups have been pre-

The person principally responsible So they did what they generally do Who would be the two teams exiled? 277, won $1,200, while W.

M.C.C. for uld. Little and Henry Picard tied with sented by the Chinese Newspaper for this was Freakes, who until very in times of trouble and turned to the To send down to the second-class their recommendatlong have not yet

division the two counties finishing at been considered by any of the gov Correspondents Union and Mr. Yee recently was Oxford's full-back.

at left-centre, cards of 273 cách-United Press.

the bottom of the first-class table erning bodies, and no doubt before The commissioners Recently he was Chow-shul, the famous Chinese stage

and if there is justice on earth he

most popular the conduct of the game much will and cinema comedian,

It is anticipated that the best pluy-will be hoisted on hight when he schemes brought before them, but i might mean the sudden disappear- | any changes ore definitely made in more drastle teams-and no hint is given of how be whittled away and many a sug-.

allowing

the team could ever be brought back gestion turned down. But if they Mr. R. A. D. Forrest fined a shop

because his tackling was recommending plauded

the forms of "reform," such as

succeed in bringing home to foki, Wan Chi, $10 at the Centralers from Hongkong. Canton, Shang-returns to Oxford-holsted and ap- they have carefully refrained from ance of one of the

not only dendly, but among

counties even the importance of

the of tossing for innings, period plny, Magistracy this morning, for crucity hai and Macao will participate in

commission these leagues, among whom are

This, however, is the affair of the punctuality two-day matches, a longer over, and counties themselves, a point which have been worth whlic. "WATCH- eight Keeso. The geese, said several who represented China at the finest ever seen at famed Twicken- the visiting team to bat first instead again.

the Cambridge a method of promotion and relega- often escapes notice. For they have MAN." B. J. B. Morahan v. R. K. M. Simp-Sergeant J. Shephard, were tied in Far Eastern Olympic Games.

tactics of

so completely tion from teams of different divisions.

a perfect right to control their own' Arrangements will also be made to back division facilitate the appearances of Miklos mechanical and orthodox that they Indeed, of the changes they do re- destinies. They could introduce a a commend that are more directly con- relegation or promotion rule next themselves 0.3 Kelen, the Szabados and Istvan

really offered Hungarian world champions who re-sacrifice to the Oxford defence, but cerned with the manner of play as

tees present any cause for reasonable distinct from 'financial jugglery, two ja spectacle.

objection. Of these, one applies to a visit to Japan, but who will be re-.

short-pitched fast bowling, common turning again in March.

ly known as "negative length," the other to a reduction in the number of Arst-class counties.

E. G. Smith-Wright v. T. Low.

N. K. Littlejohn v. H. Overy.

It. Hancock v. R. S. Johnson.

son.

H. H. Mundy v. R. E.H. Nelson.

R. G. Gray v. T. E. Pearce.

G. S. Archbutt v. W. Woodward.

J, L. C. Pearce v. W. W. C. She- wan,

The first round to be played on or before January 23: second round on

to

pairs and were placed in a small bus- ket: Your on top and four on the bottom.

bam.

The

were

or before February 6; semi-final on cently passed through the Colony on even this did not harm the game as

or before February 20, and the final (30 holes) on or before February 27.

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SECOND FLOOR.

THEY DISAPPOINTED The second half was better than the first for there were frequently that proved that the movements open game in Rugger has not be- come an entirely lost art.

Cambridge had Infinitely the bet ter of the tight serums, heeling from nine out of len, but that was the limit of their superiority. Their

the

will

week if a majority of the commit- SPORT ADVTS.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1938.

were in favour of it. The M.C.C. govern the game at farge, but they do not want to interfere with the domestic affairs of a competition. They have no more desire to direct the County Championship than they wish to have a finger in the Lanca- shire League or

Bradford the League. It was the advisory County In regard to "negative length," Cricket Committee, which consist of they contend that much of the dull a representative of each first-class play is caused by the bowlers rather county, three from the Minor Coun-

Entries for the above will close then by the batsmen, and they sug-tics Association, and one from the gest that a line or lines should be M.C.C., who introduced the two-day at 3.00 p.m. on SATURDAY, 16TH

the wicket. beyond match scheme which helped to spoil

LINE FOR BOWLING?

backs got going only to be mowed drawn across down like, chaff in a gale, and they which bowlers would be required to the senson just after the war. It is JANUARY, 1938, at the Secretary's never looked-like-scoring save when pitch the ball, or be penalised in the Advisory County Committee, not Office, Exchange Building. Bruce-Lockhart dropped his neat some way, presumably by being "no-the-M.C.C.-who-change the methodBy-Order-of-the-Stewards...

balled. But here we are on very of deciding the Championship from and smart goal.

slippery ground. The spot where time to time, and who are responsi dis-negative length meets the ground ble for the cumbersome collection of differs appreciably with the pace of first-innings points and elaborate the pitch and the speed of different percentages. The M.C.C. It is true, bowlers. Are we, then to have half

Cambridge were 1 great appointment to all and sundry, per- haps even to the King who is him self a Cambridge man, and who was present to witness the downfall of bis varsity.

a

dozen lines drawn across the wicket, or is a groundsman, urmed with brush and bucket and white-

are

100

In every way it was a grand wash, to rush forth periodically and match, and the only slowness was change the position of the line? contributed by the band when they Morcover, an accurate bowler would played the National Anthem. On soon learn to pitch the ball mechant- cach occasion the big crowd was cally an inch or two over the line, ahead of it by two lengths at the and still be negative in effect but Anish.

not in law, Censider, too, the un- Prince Obolensky, the speedy fortunate umpire, He cannot have Oxford wing, was scarcely seen, the eyes everywhere. There ball unfortunately not running his many snags here for comfort. way. The only real opportunity he

No doubt balls short of a length bad came late in the game-and he was then

used persistently do slow down the Soccer trip.

scoring, although the many batsmen Mayhew stood out as the man of who now play right back to every- forward push the day, but close behind him were thing and regard a Cooke, the Oxford serum-half, and stroke as old-fashioned, cannot be Roden. Those who will not want to considered innocent parties. They remember the "Varsity match of turn into "negative" bowling de- 1937 are the Cambridge triangle,

brought down

with a

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