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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

JANUARY 11, 1938.

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O'REILLY TROUBLES BATSMEN -

Brilliant Bowling

Porformance

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- feld Shield match between New South Wales 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 a good start and, with the total at 145 for one, looked like making a big score. Then O'Reilly found hls length and sent buck five batsmen at a cost of one run. South Austra- lia's total at the close of play was 100 for six.

Altering losing C. L. Badcock, who made only two, South Australia made Kood 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 for the home side. Whitington was the first to 10. being caught by Fingleton after scoring 54. Robinson folinwed and was

Jamen Melton and A scene in "Melody For Two." now showing at the King's Theatre, in which Patricia Ella are co-starred. A famous radlo favourite, Melton comes to the screen for the third time.

WIRELESS OPERATOR AUSTRALIA WANTS HERO OF

TELLS OF FALL

OF TSINGTAO

| MIGRANTS FROM

NORTH EUROPE

VARSITY TUSSLE

(Continued from Page 8.}

M.C.C. COMMISSION

MAKES ITS REPORT

have eventually to sanction all pro- pornls, but what the Advisory Com- mittee pass it never turned dowIL· So I the counties consider that they have not a satisfactory Championship |they have only themselves to blame. TEST MATCH PROFITS

The Arst part of the commissioners'

COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY report, which is devoted to Brunce,

By H. J. Henley

with especial attention paid to the manner of alloiting Test match pro- Ats, will be more to the taste of fin- onciers than to the average follower of cricket, and the question of county "gates" and the advisability or other- white of passing on to the publie the entertainment tax, is purely the con- cern of the club offelals, who are at

After nine months of careful study the commission "appointed by the Marylebono 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,iberty to make their own decisions.

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

a than

dozen

More important from the spectators' point of view are the suggestions in regard to hours of play-the inter- vals, and other matters connected. with the clock. The commissioners have done especially good work in stressing the evils of wasting time- surely the quickest way to irritate

In considering their viewpoints and liverles which used to be driven. their recommendations it is neces- But if a player regularly and alar-n crowd-and they would rearrange sary to recall the situation which jedingly bowls with purely defensive In- to the creation of the commission. tentions and is obviously doing more matters that no ten interval could be At the end of the season of 1930, harm than good to the county his taken shortly after the interval be- after a series of wet, blenk summers, committer always has the power to tween Innings, and remove the frit- many county clubs were in a desper- drop him from the side. That is utering away of five minutes here or

wolt power for stronger ate state of poverty. The

there which at present hoppens to which had been kept at bay for yo cross-the-wicket lines.

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

REDUCE THE NUMBER to be impossible for hours of play to It looked as if 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- the in-going batsman on all occasions "gates." They hnd forgotten, the in the first-class division should be he enters the pavilion. Everyone from Tsingtao to made by the political correspondent of to travel to forgy Twickenham, but even a remote chance of increasing gest that the number of competitors to meet the out-going batsman before committees generally do in such cir- reduced from seventeen to Afteen. who follows cricket will greet all cumstances, that their troubles werd In this way, they say, it would be this with hearty approval. Intervals In a big measure caused by the bad possible for all the sides to meet each illegally prolonged do not beneat the 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

judging re-dawdling. It is a pity that a sugges percentage method of ice-cream trade, seaside bourdink suits, and the amount of first-class tion is not made to prevent refresh- houses and hotels, and everythink inter-county cricket would be re-ment from being taken out on the for profit. But the counties only and thereby allowing extra representative vals except on very exceptional occa- that hainnee-sheets were and a crisis approaching rapidly, matches to be played. But here sions.

again we are on slippery ground. Who would be the two teams exiled? So they did what they generally do in times of trouble and turned to the To send down to the second-class M.C.C. for uid.

division the two counties finishing at the bottoms of the first-class table many might mean the sudden disappear

Melbourne, Jan, 10. Hankow, Jan. 13

projected A suggestion that the The Japanese landing at Tsingtao bowlest before

Policy Commonwealth Migration

of scoring, and Bradman was the next has been officially confirmed by the

entall An heroic wireless opern-should

encouragement to fall, being caught for 01. Walle Chinese.

northern Europe is and Walker went the way of the for at the Tsingtao radu station sent migracils from

the plain truth is that they were a other batsmen, and stumps

were the last message

Hunkow, reporting "Japanese blue-the Melbourne Herald.

beaten fifteen within a few minutes drawn shortly afterwards

jackets started landing at 10.45 am. The paper states that the Common-of the kick-off. If possible I will cominunicate again wealth appreciates the difficulties of Britain, and

LICKED, HUMBLED skilled workers from this afternoon."

and humbled Hankow tried to call Tsingtao in adds the feeling is growing among

They were

Oxford's path the afternoon, but received no atiswer, many members of the Cabinet that -United Press.

migrants from Germany, Holland ond and removed

chiefly be throtiled long before it

$1 Putter Wins Owner $2,100

Los Angeles Golf Tournament

Los Angeles, Jon. 10. Using a putter which he bought at junk shop for $1, Jimmy Thomp son, with a score of 273, won $2,100 of the $7,500 Open Golf Tournament

here to-day.

a score

of

Johnny Revolta, with 277, won $1,200, while W. Lawson Little and Henry Picard tied with

cards of 278 each.-United Press.

FINED FOR TAKING TOW FROM STEAMER

In thes

A total of $130 in fines were in- Alicted on six Chinese boat people when they appeared before Cmdr. G.

Harbour F. Hole.

Master, Marine Court this morning.

Lance Sergeant MacKenzie prose- cuting, said that the defendants had their boals made fast to the Hat Lee while the ship was still under way, without the permission of the Master or Omeer in charge of the vessel.

defendants, The second and sixth who had previous convictions, were ined $40 each, the fourth defendant

320 and the rest $10 each.

licked from

for

Scandinavia would make admirable (chlefly because their well-known ; else which depends upon sunshine anced from about 236 matches to 210.1 field between the refreshment inter-

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FLYING SQUADRON

ON NEW LAP TO

AUSTRALIA

Lad

could ever get on the move.

The person principally responsible ots Freakes, who until very recently was Oxford's full-back.

It lefl-centre, Recently he was

he The commissioners and if there is justice on earth will be hoisted on high when he schemes brought before them, but ance of one of the most popular returns to Oxford-hoisted and ap-they have carefully refrained from teams-and no hint is given of how

more because his tackling was recommending the plauded

drastic the leam could ever be brought back London, Jan. 10. not only deadly, but among the forms of "reform, such as allowing again. The flying boats of No. 204 General finest ever seen at famed Twicken- the visiting team to bat first instead

This, however, is the affair of the of tossing for innings, period play, Squadron of the ham.

two-day matches, a longer over, and counties themselves, a point which Reconnaissance

The tactics of the Cambridge

a method of promotion and relega- often escupes notice. For they have Royal Air Force, which left Plymouth

were so completely tion from teams of different divisions, a perfect right to control their own on December 2, left Singapore to-day|

with schedule on a back division in accordance further stage of a flight to Sydney, mechanical and orthodox that they Indeed, of the changes they do re-destinies. They could introduce

offered themselves.

commend that are more directly con- relegation or promotion rule next Australia, where they will take part really in the New South Wales 150th anni-sacrifice to the Oxford defence, but cerned with the manner of play as week if a majority of the commit- versary celebrations on January 26, even this did not harm the game as distinct from financial jugglery, two tees were in favour of it. The

ja spectacle.

present any cause for reasonable M.C.C. govern the game at large, but. -British Wireless.

objection. Of these, one applies to they do not want to interfere with short-pitched fast bowling, common- the domestic affairs of a competition. ly known as "negative length," the They have no more desire to direct other to a reduction in the number the County Championship that they of first-class counties.

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

LINE FOR BOWLING?

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wish to have a finger in the Lonca- shire League or the Bradford League. It was the advisory County Cricket Committee, which consist of a representative of each Brst-class

The commissioners point out that their recommendations have not yet been considered by any of the gov erning bodies, and no doubt before any changes are definitely made in the conduct of the game much will be whittled away and many aug

But if they gestion turned down.

10 the succeed in bringing home counties even the Importance of punctuality

will the commission have been worth while. "WATCH- MAN."

SPORT ADVTS.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1938.

Entries for the above will close

In regard to "negative length," Cumbridge had infinitely the bet- ter of the tight serums, heeling from they contend that much of the dull county, three from the Minor Coun- play is caused by the bowlers rather tles Association, and one from the nine out of ten, but that was he than by the batsmen, and they sug-M.C.C., who introduced the two-day at 3.00 p.m. on SATURDAY, 15TH limit of their superiority. Their gest that a tine or lines should be match scheme which helped to spoil

rks gut going, only to be mowed drawn across the wicket, beyond the season_just_after_ the war. It is JANUARY, 1938, at the Secretary'

down like chair in a gale, and they which bowlers would be required to the Advisory County Committee, not Once, Exchange Building.—— never looked like scoring save when pitch the ball, or be penalised in the M.C.C., who change the method Bruce-Lockhart dropped his neat some way, presumably by being "no- of deciding the Championship from and smart goal.

bailed," But here, we are on very

Cambridge were

#treat il

dis-slippery ground. The spot where time to time, and who are responsi- appointment to all and sundry, per-negative length" meets the ground ble for the cumbersome collection of hops even to the King who is him- differs appreciably with the pace of first-innings points and elaborate self a Cambridge man, and who was the pitch and the speed of different percentages. The M.C.C. It is true, present to witness the downfall of bowlers. Are we, then to have helf a dozen lines drawn across the bis varsity.

wicket, or is a groundsman, armed

Anish.

In every way It was a grand with brush and bucket and white- mutch, and the only slowness was wach, to rush forth periodically and of the line? contributed by the band when they change the position played the National Anthem. On Moreover, an accurate bowler would ench occasion the big crowd was soon Journ to pitch the ball mechani- ahead of it by two lengths at the cally on inch or two over the ne, and still be negative in effect but Prince Obolensky, the speedy not in law. Consider, too, the un- Oxford wing, was scarcely seen, the fortunate umpire. He cannot have everywhere. There re too ball unfortunately not running his eye way. The only real opportunity he many snags here for comfort. had came late in the game-and he

No doubt balls short of a length was then

used persistently do slow down the Suecer trip.

Mayhew stood out as the man of scoring, although the many batsmen the day, but close behind him were who now play right back to every- forward push Cooke, the Oxford scrum-halt, and thing and regard a Roden. Those who will not want to stroke as old-fashioned, cannot be 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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