1939-08-18 — Page 21

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

By Ernie

August 18, 1939.

Bushmiller

NANCY

ARE WE

NEARLY THERE, AUNT FRITZI?

YES, NANCY--- WE TAKE THE NEXT ROAD TO THE

RIGHT ACCORDING TO MR. MCDIMPLE'S DIRECTIONS/

I HOPE

IT'S A

NICE PLACE

IT OUGHT TO

BE SWELL

MR. MEDIMPLE

IS A VERY RICH MAN!,

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THEY'RE COOL

REAL CRICKET TALENT WASTED, SAYS TATE

Coming Youngsters Not Taken In Hand Early By Competent Teachers

London,

Maurice Tate, the former England and Sussex bowler, who is now appearing in League cricket, has a word or two to say on the matter of spotting young talent and in an article in Reynolds News suggests that cricket might do well to imitate the F.A. in giving the summer sport a little more publicity.

"Surely cricket has enough cash available for just such a campaign as the F.A. have put into opera tion?" writes Tate. "While I am not of those apostles of gloom who say that the grand old summer sport is dead, I do think that much real lalent is, year by year, allowed to be

case, he must have been cracking up huge scores or taking an exceptional number of wickets in Saturday club games. Ollerwise he is out."

Tate quotes the case of a young bowler who was given a chance in a championship game. He was good

wasted he continues, "Because which he had been playing but when:

enough for the class of cricket in game he

up-and-coming youngsters are not it came to the "big time" gan taken in hand by experts, men who falled dismally. He had never been could show them their faults and put told how to bowl to his field, says them on the right road.

Tate. He had never really been told

"As a matter of fact, the develop-how to set his field and yet with ment of a a cricket star is more often sound coaching he might have than not a a haphazard affair. A boy turned into a fine bowler. shows promise of being a batsman or

bowter while still at school. What "As I see it," concludes the former happens? He is given some sort of Sussex cricketer, "the amateurs, whether you like them or not, are rough and ready conching by a sports master, an excellent fellow in his coming more into the limelight. In way, but, often enough, without a post-war seasons, most of the county real grounding in the game.

skippers have been medioere--they would not have found a place in, let

YOUNGSTERS SPOILED

"The result is that a youngster, alone led, teams that included such one with a a real aptitude for cricket, stars as Charles Fry, Sammy Woods, Stanley Jackson or Lionel Pallerci.

is usually spoiled from the start. But they are coming atong strongly is all very well to show Ind how to keep a straight bat or to put his signal rank.

arm overhigh. That's not enough.

There must, from the beginning, be

"Believe me, it is conching that

instruction in footwork, and when it counts all the time,

Unless this is

comes to bowling, in use of the body done, the game will suffer. It can only live by the introduction of new in that final effort."

blood-and that new blood must be Tate goes on to say that while he chiefly transfused into the profes is the first to praise the enthusiastle sional ranke. manner in which schoolmasters carry

out

the work of training young "Under modern conditions the ericketers he nevertheless feels that game depends on the money-player this work ought really to be done by and unless he is given every chance cld-time professionals, a class that early on then the game will stand rele

knows the game.

stili. And any game that stands the county, clubs are still, is, in my opinion, dead." usually crying out that they cannot And young talent," declares Tale, "they make little effort to go out into the highways and byways and look for likely cricketers.

The

whole system Is wrong.

Quile apart from any coaching sya- tem, there should be a scouting sys- tem along the lines of that in opera- tion by Soccer clubs,

Thailand Team To Play At Sookunpoo

All that the Kentucky of glorious tradition means imperious beauties and chivalrous men, magnificent ihoroughbreds, long-fought racing rivalry and the famed Derby flself-has been captured in the 20th Century. Fox's technicolour production, "Kentucky," featuring Loretta Young, Richard Greene and Walter Brennan, and showing

King's Theatre to-day.

tlie

DECISION UPHELD BY COUNCIL Suspension Now Confirmed

YACHTING Two Pictures

PROTEST UPHELD

Mr. G. L. L. Watson, secretary of Royal London Yacht Club, announced at Cowes after a meeting of the club's committee, that Mr. T. 0. M. Sopwith's protest against Mr. H. S.

lize first

in the 12 metres

Previewed

Colour Adds To Beauty Of "Kentucky"

A meeting of the Hongkong Hockey roll's Vim which crassed the film which is showing at the King's]

Association Council was held at St.

"Kentucky" a 20th Century Fox

Andrew's Church Hall yesterday. In

lo-day, is the type of film which the absence of the President, Mr. A. race on Monday, July 31, had been goes to the heart of most audiences. A. Dand, the Chair was taken by upheld, but that it was not a un-It Is really wonderful how much Mr. G. E. R. Divett.

animous decision.

and

emollon a horse race can be made to arouse in the films and how much genuine excitement.

the beautiful

A letter was read from Cdr. Rust,

Mr. Sopwith's Tomahawk holsted a the

Naval Vice-President, tendering protest just at the start of the race his resignation, and nominating Lt. which, on sccount of scratched en-

The Alm, of course, is a tribute to Cdr. J. O' B. Milner-Barry as His tries, had resolved itself into a match

The

between successor.

Kentucky resignation

Incing the. British yacht and the nomination were accepted by the crack American boat. The complaint and in the great race the colour is of horses. Much is added by the colour "Too often we find that the future

Council.

was that when both yachts

were great of a Test stor rests on the recom-

importance adding An appeal against his suspension reaching for the line mendation of a club member. Now

for an incident during an Interna-ward, bore down on Tomahawk in-

tack Vim, which was to wind steadily mounting excitement of the that clubman may be an excellent

ft for play the tional game lost season, brought by stead of giving way. The disquall- judge of a player,, or, as is more will meet the Indian R.C. in a match was suspended for six weeks,

visiting tennis players from Thailand G. H. Fowler, was discussed. Fowler Mention often the case, he may be merely an at Seokungoo this afternoon.

means that the enthusiastic, but inexpert, follower of

awarded to Tomahawk,

If the courts are

the game. Yet, on his word, a The following programme has been youngster gets a trial.

[arranged;

REFORM NEEDED

date

from October 1 this year, by the Hockey Umpires Board. He was

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concerned in an Incident with K. Hussain, one of the umpires in the

"There is too much of the holy- Sanch and Capt. Kasom (Thailand) match. of-holics about a county club head-v. Omar Rumjahn and I. M. A. Razack Following a discussion and after quarters. In very few cases do you (1.R.C.) in a best-of-five set match.giving a fair hearing to both men, the find it possible for an unknown to Muang Roeng and Miss Sanguan Council decided to uphold the verdict come along and show his paces atį (Thailand) v. A. H. Mador and A. R. of the Umpires' Hockey Board. the nots.

"No, he must be recommended by:

Minu in a best-of-three set match.

After the tennis, the visitors will a member, or, as is sometimes the be entertained to dinner by the club.

The financial report of the Assocía- tion was also presented, and it was stated that the Association's position was sound.

The meeting also passed a pro- posal that a charge of $1 be made for all persons wishing to take the umpires examination, and that the successful candidate be presented with an umpires' badge.

The date of the annual general meeting of the Association was fixed for September 7.

Starting Times At Fanling

The following are the starting times for Fanling on Sunday:

OLD COURSE

9.10 A, B, Purves, 1. H. Gearo, 9.20 E..C, Norris, R. J. K. Walker. 9.24 R. M. M, King, E. Laidlaw. u.za A, N. & Q. A. A. Macfadyen. 03 P. Ann, J. W. Claque.

9.38 J. M. Pearson, M, Pollock,

9A 9. S. Church, B. O. Baldwin. 0.44 J. B. Harrison, L. A. R. Duncan. 94 J. L. C. Pearce, I, P. Tamworth,

D. Price, R. R. de La Llesching Marshall, J, W.-Mayhow.

30.30 G

on the star-

гасс

Test Girls Have "Dress

Rehearsal"

scent.

to

the

But before the race there is much

is

in the film. An old Kentucky home

is sold up, faithful negroes are in: tears and there are many painful | misunderstandings between Loretta) Young and Richard Greene who are divided by a family feud.

The Alm commences in the time of the Civil War and describes the tragedy of commandeering racing horses by the army. Gradually, ex- citement is worked up until the climax, the Kentucky Derby.

Special mention must be made of, the fine study of a Kentucky horse- Most of the girls who will represent lover by Walter Brennan. His por- England against Australia in the trayal of Peter Goodwin dominatės matches in that country when they the whole film and the success of the arrive there in November had a story is largely due to his fine work. practice game on the Trent Bridge) Ground at Nottingham recently.

They took part in the North and Midland Vs. the South and East match and the latter won comforia- bly by nine wickets. The girls wore their official Test match "uniform" which consisted of white divided skirts, shirt blouses with short sleeves and long white cotton-stock- ings

which are compulsory.

"Too Hot To Handle"

"Too Hot to Handle" is a newsreel Mias Aline Brown, playing for the melodrama which has been adopted Midlands, who learned her cricket from a story by Len Hammond. It from her brother Freddie Brown, the deals with the adventures of rival Surrey player, bowled well with her newsreel cameramen and the effect, slow left-arm round the wicket and created upon them by an airwoman ended with a good average of four in search of a lost brother. for 07.

Miss McEvoy, the tallest memberly action sequences and good camera- Expert direction has produced live- of the team who hails from Surrey, work exploits the thrills. will be the team's fastest bowler

were

and the Nottingham crowd

Clark Gable takes the leading role quick to dub her "Lady Larwood, as Chris Hunter, a cameraman to Star of the South and East team whom the means matter much les in the match was the diminutive than the end--cheating at cards, fak- PRAGUE, Aug. 17 (Trans-Ocean). brunette, Misa Muriel Lowe, who ing shots and generally abusing con- The gorrison established in the used to work at Nottingham and Adences seeming to be a definite Protectorates of Bohemia and Moravia learned her cricket in the town. part of his hero role. Myrna Loy

on August 1 for the preservation of She is in business in London now appears as Alma Harding, the alc- pearu and order" number 7,000. They and celebrated her visit to her home woman' who is searching for ber are divided Into 12 battalions of town by scoring a lively 06, 2

brother. Others in the case include which alx are under the Prague Clarks Cable and Myrna Loy, in- "Too Hot to Handle," previewed Inspectorate and three under each of terans in the pavilion when she The aim will be shown shortly at

"Wall played, sir," shouted, the ve- Walter Pidgeon and Lea Carrillo. yesterday' and coming to the Queen's Theatre to-morrow.

played her beautiful leg glides. the Queen's Theatre..

the Protectorates.

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THE ROMANCE THAT LIVES IN

THE HEART OF PROUD KENTUCKY....... captured in the jewelled huos of Technicolor!

Imperious, beautiful women! Chivalrous, headstrong men! Magnificent racing champions! Thoroughbreds all! Their glam- orous drama glows with the warm beauty of the Blue Grass land and climaxes in the famed Kentucky Derby!

Kentucky

IN TECHNICOLOR

LORETTA YOUNG RICHARD GREENE

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