THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,
AUGUST 22, 1938.
“R. ABBIT” MYSTIFIED BY
CONFIDENCE IN EDRICH SEEMS UNJUSTIFIED
BATTING STRENGTHENED BUT ATTACK WEAKENED
It was a matter of great disappointment to me on Friday when I went down with one of the foulest colds 1 have had for years and croaked so unmelodiously that speaking upon the wireless was im possible, and I had to call off early in the forenoon. But after seeing the side that the Selectors have chosen I am rather glad as all my analysis of the fourteen-or indeed more at the end-players asked to be in readiness would have resulted in conclusions which would have been utterly incorrect.
Who, I ask you, could have expected Edrich to have been selected after scoring 5, 0, 10, 12 and 28 in the five innings he has played? The whole
thing is beyond anyone's power to understand out here, and have yet to read any comments at home. They will presumably come along when the last test natch over!
is
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think
the third and fourth Tests. The first was a wash-out owing to rain, while he was crocked for the game at Leeds. But when Ames was crocked, was he selected for the fifth Test? Much too obvious, my dear Watson! They close Wood, who most people, who do not come from Middlesex, should have been picked when Gibb was crocked. It is rather amazing. is it not? Of course, Clbb may be ou put of action but we have heard thing of it. There another point which le
probably subsidiary 10 Edrich-Barnel; question. If it is a the
question "youth will be served", (though Barnett Is only twenty- eight) what about Fang? He is twenty-three--one year older than only Edrich-and he did as well as Edrich in the two trials he got with G. O. Allen's team in Australia, when his illness was coming upon has but recently emerged from that
ENGLISH SELECTORS
How Bobby Locke Swings A Wooden Club COMPTON
A cinc-camera strip showing Bobby Locke, the South African champion, using a wooden club on the fairway. The first extract shows the club well round, polating in the direction of the hole. In the second. the weight of the body is abifting over, left arm straight; third, hips turning, left shoulder coming up, with ryes directly on ball; fourth, after impact, arms still extended, head still down; last, the completion of the awing, weight transferred to left foot.
Cotton Retains His German Golf Title
Frankfurt, Aug. 21. Henry Cotton, the English golfer, retained the German Open Golf Championship to- day by 15 strokes.
He had rounds of 71,758, 70 and 76. His second round of 68 was a record for the course. -Beuter.
As I See Sport
COLONY
By "Abe'
BOWLS LEAGUE SEASON
NOW CONCLUDED
Australia's Strong Bid In Davis Cup Competition
HIMSELF WANTS TO REMAIN WITH THE ARSENAL
London, Aug. 3.
Much ink has been used this week over the case of Dennis Compton and the M.C.C. tour to South Africa. Compton has signed for the football season with the Arsenal and cannot go unless they agree to release him.
There has been some talk of discourtesy on the part of the M.C.C. in approaching the player without first consulting Mr. George Allison, the Arsenal manager. There is nothing to this, however, as the player has only received the formal letter asking him to notify the M.C.C. if he is available to make the tour if selected.
Before the M.C.C. list was will be a great blow to England if published, Compton, when asked Compton is not available. about the possibility of the tour by a friend, said "I have signed again for Arsenal. Though the trip to South Africa would be lovely, my duty will be with Arsenal.
"But football is a great game, and. frankly, the money side has to be considered. I am on good money at Highbury, and happy there. In two years' time I may get a benefit of anything up to £650."
it
ARSENAL IN THE HEADLINES Exactly how much newspaper headlines are worth to the Arsenal, It is probably impossible to estimate. ty in the news is, I know, the source The fact that the club is so frequent- of a considerable amount of jealousy on the part of less well-to-do clubs.
I fancy that there is little doubt that the Selection Committee had become the mouthpiece through which old Sir Pelham-true be only sixty-five-issues his orders. It is notorious that he is always far more influenced by a handful of runs
There is nothing like hitting the which he has seen at Lord's than by
front page just before the opening a double century elsewhere, It is
Mr. George Allison declined
of a season. It is, in fact, valuable the most pathelle side of cricket that
publicity even if some of the com- the great
Bay what would be the Arsenal ae- ericketers
who stop on in
tion to a direct request by Compton found their way there, quite apart ment is unfavourable. Arsenal have the management of the gume always tend to become autocratic an.i
him.
to be released for the cricket tour from the case of Compton and his dificult-witness the cases of Lord
and said that he was relying on him cricket. Harris and Lord Hawke. They have handicap and has done magnificently 14 and took 2 for 35 and four for
The transfer and if he were
of Bryn done great work for the game. But for his record of
not available double century 44-a brilliant success. He was 19
would probably force them to add to Wanderers forward, is still hanging Jones, the famous Wolverhampton their position would be far higher in each innings of a tame will last years of age. had they retired
gracefully
In 1934 a
their staff. similar things a few years earlier, or had, sphere in which Edrich has
faney in the from for many a year
'Are. The selection, Woolley aged 47, was
player, after he had at all events, adopted a somewhat shining. Why not try him if youth and dropped a couple of catches last of the season. The championship to be remembered that they were reported to have said, "So far as 1
been c
complete fallure as he made 4 and 0
TAST Saturday's matches in the fand Mako have won the Wimbledon
What is of greater importance at vialted Highbury, was said to want more complainant attitude. Of course is to have
Lawn Bowls League were the title two years running, but it is also the moment experience? The
is that Mr. Allison is to talk over things with Major Buck- I may be incorrect in my idea that it
only answer I can think of is that he does puro in the slips when Australia of the Second Division was the only beaten by Bromwich and Quist in am concerned, I shall not force Den assured on one or two points. What ley, the Wolves manager, and to be is Sir Pelham who has insisted on not play for Middlesex, or
on 430 for the sec retaining Edrich with his average of
appear The third time, however, appears to second wicket. much at Lord's.
one that had not been decided when Australla earlier this year and that nis to be at Arsenal stadium until not been
these points 11, and dropping Barnett who
were, the public have be fucky and Leyland is at present the end of the afternoon, the Club de peting at Wimbledon. Many Ameri,August 20. I expect him to be ready that Jones is very anxious to have
the programme commenced; but by the Australian pair were hus
told, but it is suggested scored 128, 18, 12, 30 and 20 with an
150 not out. There is of course the Recreio, by beating the Police R.C. can sports writers are of the and it to play football that day, a second string to his bow and to average of 43 per innings.
and O'Reilly notably is not fact that Leyland is a left-hander, at Happy Valley, had scored another that Bromwich and Quist are the probably
opinion dangerous when bowling to a cuddy-
for the Arsenal reserves So triumph
Besdies winning the First most formidable doubles combination against Tottenham Hotspur reserves banded bats.
and Second Division had been the only left hander on the carried off the Open Pairs Champion-rough-shod over their opponents in
Previously Paynter the Portuguese players have
championships, in the world to-day: and the way in at Whitehart Lane in the F.A. Jubl
also which the Australians have ridden tee Fund match. side as far as batting went.
ship (through C. M. Silva and F. X. the Davis Cup matches to date seems
The final Test match against Aus- Soares)
Rinks to support this view. As a matter of tralia, as I
have already told you,
I
A GOOD SHOT After these points, the Inexplicable . WHAT IS THE REASON?
Inclusion of Edrich instead of Barnett or Fagg, and of Wood for Gibb, it is Nothing has been said about unfit-refreshing to come round to the one ness though of course this may good shot the Selection Committee possibly explain the omission. have made. Leyland, aged 30, had Barnett is not stated to have dropped been generally thought to have a lot of catches, though we do know that if Edrich had held McCabe in the First Test, England almost cer tainly would
have
won. What then then
Is the answer? Has Barnett been dropped because our innings have opened badly owing to Edrich
Ketting
out? Well, on those Hines Hutton would be dropped because Edrich has falled for the sixth (and we hope the last) time. He will no doubt 80 on piling up munmoth scores against the medium and weaker counties but he has not the temperament (spelt properly in four letters) for a big match with really good bowling. It is interesting to note that Sir Pelham's
paper an attempt has been
mundo
in
ade to bolster up Edrich as bowler. Sir Home Corden
(aged very
L
Hutton
160 not out
ANOTHER SURPRISE
This selection of Leyland who has been doing a bit with the ball this year helps to explain, in my opinion, what may very well appear a very daring experiment on the Selectors' part in going into the field with only three regular bowlers.
Wright was crocked and the obvious thing seem-
em
and
the
A.
not com-
It is felt
start in business in readiness for the day when he hangs up his boots for the last time.
Be that as it may. Most of the publicity has been directed against the amount of the transfer fee which, although not officially announced, was generally estimated to be in the
(thropen (through inconship
F. fact, there has been a movement in begins at the Oval on August 20. It region of £14,000. C. A. Lopes, J. E. Noronha and C. G. Silva). A long string of Budge-Mako partnership.
10 Amerien of Inte to separate the successes indeed. Of the lust eight that if Budge had better support in players left in the Open Singles, two the doubles match, the United Sates are from the Recreio, which gives would have B.G.C., the highest them, together
much better chance of with
the
retaining the Davis Cup, Some ad- vocate the choice of Bobby Rlegs as Moreover, the Portuguese rink in the Bud International tournament is one of
а
n
Budge's
age's partner, whlie others Are
ed to be to bring in Peter Smith of the strongest in the competition, and himself Wayne Sabin. But Budge
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FIRST DIVISION Champions-Club de Recreio. Runners-Up-Kowloon C.C.
To be relegated-Civil Service. C.C.
be
of
Wisex.
But the Selectors decided to concentrate on battag
it is just as capable as any other of the nort
against the spillting of as this is a marathon match.
winning. X
The following the the partnership. A boyhood pal cannot help sus-champlon teams and those which are suggestion of the combination being peeting that they argued on the lines
Mako, Budge does not tolerate any that even our best bowlers did not to be relegated:
broken up now. Whether any head- way
has been made by this move- ment I don't know.
but. if Budge.is against the idea, It may be that It will
abandoned.
Alter Budge's wishes will have to be respected. But Henry McLemore, the well-known United Press sports writer, holds the view that a Budge- Rigg or Budge-Sabin combination would be a better one than the pre- sent Budge-Mako partnership and he thinks that Bromwich and Quist will win the doubles for the Aus Club,tralians unless a change is mude.
scem to worry the Australian cracks overmuch on a good wicket so they plumped for our best three, a fast bowler, a fast medium and a spin, and after that they decided to let sixty-seven)
.took Woolley
batsmen who could bowl a bit help severely to task for not having used
out while the big three were off. him in the Gentlemen v. Players passed out of the Test match sphere deputize for Verity while Edrich is
Leyland, as But the twelfth Baronet did
leg spinner, will not even play for his school, accord-
In 1937 he was only forty-third on the list with an average of 36.27, pretty fast up and down though not ing to Wisden, and is only a cricket while in bowling he was in atatistician! I cannot help thinking
the great performer; while Hammond Woolley knows a bit more about the eighties with 19 wickets for 28,83 may be as dangerous as any one. aplece. This year he has not appear and a strained muscle has more or He did not come off in the first Test, game.
ed
In any batting averages I have soon though he was, on July 10, less kept him off bowling since. But
match.
ANOTHER PROBLEM
A
SECOND DIVISION Champions-Club de Recrelo. Runners-Up-Kowloon B.G.C. To be relegated.-Civil Service
C.C.
THIRD DIVISION Champions-Kowloon F. C. Runners-up.-Howloon Tang.
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The sad news that Ames was again second in the bowling averages with if it, he is very much more than a Australia's Hopes crocked came through only a day 30 wickets for 15.72 runs apiece. The change bowler. or two ago. Now Gibb, a very fine Selectors have done this "harking amateur bat as well as a useful back" trick three times at the Oval, wicket-keeper had been picked for In 1020 Wilfred Rhodes made 28 and
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UIETLY, unobtrusively, the Police the Davis Cup competition; but
Recreation Club has been adding Of course these notes are written the convincing victories scored by to its minenities one of the finest sports without knowing the latest detalls of John Bromwich and Adrian Quist rounds in Hongkong. cricket in England. as much news
over the German team of Henner pleted, it will contain a full-sized was wired out as is about the Yank Henkel and Georg von Metaxa in the football pitch with accommodation for baseball game we might be in n Inter-Zone Final last week have over 5,000 spectators, two hockey better position to judge. But, with
given rise to the hope that the Cup rounds (one sand and one grass), no special knowledge the two things will this year make the long journey
Ave
tennis courts (three hard and I do want to know are--why is Bur-Austrations only just scraped through
to the Antipodes.
the two the pitches. When
grass) and two basket-ball
When I against Japan, her chances did not yesterday,
the place work
WILS proceeding seem very good, but Bromwich has apuce. Already the three hard tennis apparently returned to form, and this courts, the sand hockey pitch and the makes all the difference to Australia's w
two sand basket-ball grounds are hopes. Quist, of course, is recognised ready for use; the soccer pltch was as one of the best amateur singles
rolled, and it Is a cinch that there are many who class him as only the best turf rectangles in the Colony. of next to Donold Budge In match play. But Bromwich, at his best, is capable also be built, and when all this has gather a clubhouse and stands will beating anybody in the world, been done, it will be hard to find a although
he does not seem to be as sports arena anywhere else in Hong- consistent as his countryman. In kong to compare with it. the tie aganist Japan, Bromwich was
Leyland
players in the world to-day. In fact vers will and it to be one
beaten by life Yarangishi and Long Way From H.K.
agninst
retire in the fifth set. Had it not
m
ส
Anthere
a din-
been for Quist, who beat Yamagishi TN some respects this new recreation In his
second singles, Australia ground is ideally altunted; from an- might have made her exit from the other point of view it hos tournament before she had the chance advantage. Standing alongside the to have a crnck nt Germany. With new polo ground, li is bounded on one his two victories over Henket and side by Boundary Street, whilst one Metaxa, Bromwich has now set at end fringes Prince Edward Itond. It rest all the anxieties entertained is delightfully accessible for Kow
his behalf. If Bromwich loonites,
but whether Hongkong soccer # At man when Australin and United States
In the can be induced to make such a trip is open to demonstration. Challenge Round next week, the odds!
no apparent reason why they not as should not, so long as they can be victory are certain na some people seem to think, fairly certain of seeing some football is head and shoulders above anybody plenty of residents in Kowloon make Granted that Budge ak the moment to reward the journey. After all and that he is almost certain to the tedious journey week after weeks present the United States with two across the harbour and down to matches, the Australians are quite Caroline Hill and Sookunpoo, and the We cannot complain of the luck. capable of taking the other two new police sports ground fe just as Hammond has won the toss each singles; for both Bromwich and Quist easily reached. Not that this point time, which takes one back to Stan-are likely to beat any No. 2 that will greatly concern the ley Jackson's good fortune at the the Americans can field.
police, who beginning of the century, in 1905
155 not otit
nett not playing instead of Edrich, and P. A. Gibb instead of Wood?
LUCK
I think, when he beat Joe, Darling five ilmes running. Moreover Mc Cormick, Australia's only fast bowler was down, with neuritis. In this latter connection one must admit that (Continued on Page 9.)
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Doubles Problem
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upon the
of the Budge
fter all
are primarily interested in the fact that at long last they have a sports ground for winter games,
Their hockey players, I am sure, will be delighted with the new pitches, and result of the doubles match, the no tennis player could wish for better odds will be on the side
hardcourts than the three now ready Australians, I think. True,
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