THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, ~ FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1960.
WEEKES MISSED. IN
THE
SLIRS
West Indians' Tour
EVANS
HITS OUT
A dun! dive by Trevor Bailey and Bill Edrich in the slips fails to hold Everton Weekes off Hollies on the second day of the First Test Match at Old Trafford. -Central Press Photo.
The Prophets
The End
Of Doom Foresee
Cricket
Of Village
In About Five Years' Time
SAYS BRUCE BLUNT
ALRESFORD, Hants.
wickets on which Test the only soon he
Cricket under the
The lump-post and the tree are the two traditional cricketers were reared. It looks as though the lamp-post will nursery left for the Comptons and the Bedsers of the future. frees is dying out.
The prophets. of doom foresee the end of village cricket in about five years' time. This may be exaggerated pessimism. but if the present death-rate of village clubs continues it will be very diflicult to argue with these dismal seera.
HIGHT COSTS
ats
The
of causes
decline there for all to see, One of them
high to the
COSL of sports *equipment.
and a
SEUMIVOS
absent
can be
have not
RAE & STOLLMEYER MAKE
RECORD STAND
STAND OF
OF 355
FOR THE FIRST WICKET
Hove Sussex, June 22.
A. F. Rae, the lefthander, and J. B. Stollmeyer, acting as captain Indies wicket in of the side, established a record for any West
wicket against England when they ran up 355 runs for the first Sussex here today.
The West Indies were replying to the Sussex score of 220 and, batting for Then Sussex in most of the day, they declared at 477 runs for three wickets.* about half an hour scored 21 runs without loss in the second venture.
That opening stand. by the West Indies dominated the day for it occupied only four hours and 40 minutes and beat by five runs the third partnership of 360 runs by Weekes and Worrell against Cambridge University this season.
Challenor and
Howling
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35 4 09
28 0 01
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12
0
11
1 40
D
32
0 45
SUSSEX
Each bateman renched hiswicket in England by passing | highest score of the season, Rine the 219 runs of
Wood collecting 170 runs before the Tarlton against Nolla 27 years Comford pland was broken and Stall-ago.
added James ruus. Only five runs were
Oaken meyer going on to 198
ten, when Worrell was C. kae hit 18 fours in a stay ut after four
minutes caught at the wicket, a decision J. Oakes hours and 40 iving one possible chance at 85 he did not seem to relish. Then Cox
playing forward, J. Langridge have been Stollmeyer, Fung and might
runs. lic Byen 4, leg-byes 0, no-ball 2 was bowled at 420 stumped at 148 runs.
Statimever stayed for just on bad batted for about Ave and a (by Wood). fre and a half hours and hit 15hall houn, hitting 14 fourn.
Walcott raised Trestrail and fours.
under a He labourcil
total to 477 runs befor handicap after 68 run, when the he was hut on the thumb and Stollmeyer declared. This lett had to leave the field for al- Sussex little more than half an tention.
He had elven & hard hour's balting and their opening pair scored 21 runs without los chance. In the slips when 51
b.fore slumps were drawn 4 23,
At the lunch interval, on the recond day of the muten, the tourists were 104 runs for no wickets in reply to the County's fus hanings total of 220 runs.
At the tea interval the West Indies had scored 401 runs for the loss of une wicket
THE SCOREBOARD ASSEN
1st Innings 230 WEST INDIES
1st Innings
Rac. ibw, b. C. Orkes Stollmeyer, b. Janier Worre, c. Griffith b. Corn-
ford Trestrail, not out Walcott, not out
Extras
2nd Innings John Langridge, not out Smith, not out
Extras
12
0
1
Toini (for no wicket) 21
Bowling to date
O
Piene Worrell
Ramadhin
170 108
20
M R
W
5 1 17 0
G
4
3
D
1
0 0
~~Reuter.
GODDARD SHOULD BE FIT:
London, June 22.
John Goddard, the West Indies 10 captain, said today that his In- Jured thumb was healing sati. Total (for 3 declared) 477factorily and he was almost cer- thin to be fit for the Second Teat at Lords be- against England Wickels
ginning on Saturday.-Reuter.
RECORDS GO
board Records went by the between lunch and tea, by which tline the score was raised for the loss of Rae's wicket. Rag Was leg-before. and Stollmeyer put on 355 runs before they beat the record West Indies partnership. When they had scored 351, and 3-420.
Rne
for any
Earlier they established a new
fell: 1-353.
2-400
record for a West Indies urst COUNTY CRICKET
1
Frank Sedgman Len Hutton
Against
Beats Seixas
London, June 22. Frank Sedgman, 22-year-old Australian who is seeded No.
States)
Playing with his injured
In Form Essex
London, June 22.
A happy augury for the England Selectors, worried by injuries to Reg Simpson and Trevor Bailey, was the splendid batting form shown today by Len Hutton for Yorkshire against Essex..
Godfrey Evans, Kent and England wicket-keeper. his out at Hines Johnson in the First Test Match at Old Trafford. Evans, who made 104, hit his first cen- tury in either Test or first class cricket in England.-- Central Press Photo.
BRITAIN'S
BOXERS
MUST BE TRAINED
THE HARD
WAY
SAYS JOHN MACADAM
There has been a considerable houha of conversa- tion around and about ever since the lamentable retire ment (involuntary) of Bruce Woodcock from the inter- national heavyweight scene, and it has to be conceded that if all the words that have been spoken and writ- ten on the subject wore added together they would amount to quite a boring plece.
There have been suggestions that Bruce should pickle his face in brine- proceeding that would in volve him in long spells of burying his head in a her ring barrel, pretty much like an ostrich placing its head in the sand.
Within a radius of five miles cheapest in existence. There are school at the end of their stu- from this village eight cricket 10 playing thembers, about ten pidly extended time, they forget clubs have vanished in the last supporters who pay 2s. 6d. or the bats, and take to the more
handful of easily understood motor-cycle. few years. Some of thems never little more.
THEY WON'T WORK got started again after the war, local benefactors why still pro. and some of them have Ellen duce the annual guinea each.
Educational experts by the wayside since the peace. Then there is entertaining to Twa more have gone this year. be done. You would be sur-yet realised that no one learns which are anything useful until after he the lawy prised at The same sort of thing is hap-Broken by village clubs in has left school. So they might 'pening all over England.
at least teach the boys cricket. trantle search for betr-money"
which is con- secretaries ut Captains and
They raffle packets of cigaret.It is, after all, a form of man-
ners, a subject
from the nurviving clubs which Visit us
spicuously have one main burden for their les at 3d a time. They sell ni
modem school curriculum. increasing ek of cards m local pubs for teatime stories-the
Then another park Even when the youngsters of difficulty of scruping up a team. d. card.
Is cut, and the fortunate busetoday play cricket, they are not of the card exposed
at Wimbledon, today beat the 10s. This, you will notice, leaves very fond of working for it.
as No. 12 seed, Victor Seixas They leave the ground
3-6, 6-3 and
It has been suggested that should have been fighing for a profit of 10s. for the fund.
soon as the game is over. They (United
Next thing he knows, he is THE BIG HOUSE
do not think of the work which 6-3 in the match of the day at
American climbing under the ropes at one the Playing his first innings since the Manchester Test British Dghters cannot ever beat the submarine championship. clubs will be needed on it before on-the London Grass Court Cliom- the senf
toughness the village
played. pionships to reach
like of the glossy-programme shows One
which is rather fighters, cannot survive Anals of the men's singles.
match, in which he fractured a finger, Hutton hit 166 American fighters because of the
In the big city and, so far as £15 to which came to an end this year other came we hud Last week
the big Village cricket
runs in three hours and 65 minutes, with 15 fours. With so becaure
would be learning his craft is concerned, strapped up,
brother in Australi
etar ippend on gear. After we had has done
empty and without communal effort.
To start a new club, with the right wrist well
in the Frank Lowson, he put on 152 runs for the opening stand, asking whether, if you had
know ho is through. He is o ilizo bought two bats (E6 10%, 4d.), house stands
ground and all necessary equip-Sedgman was erratic two pairs of batting gloves (12 staff, which was the core of the
how tall were Portuguese wo-now-without the background ment, £200 would 10 nowhere, st 17. 4), one pair of wicket. lvam, has gone.
So, at the present rate
cleverly, frat by pinning innings. Caine
and Farr and Lynch star, (£30s. Gd.), Klovco
Bristol: Hampshire 180. men, or how long is a piece of that made Harvey and Petersen keeping
the laws
Seixas to the baseline and then
Let's have the Big Show oc- ane ericket ball (£1 15. and
Rain again interfered with } ilm as he came up
But passing
(Goddard five for 67) Glouce-tring.
Another one was the proposi- decline-art by
by all means because casionally, Od.) we had 3s. fd. change.
most of the County matches.
that Bruce lost tion At Derby, the pavilion wastershire 180 for two (Young 68, The results of the other men's
but no T. Graveney 01 not out). at least six
249 some of the characters in his let's also edge back to the kind Any club needs
struck by lightning,
Dudley: Worcester singles quarter-Onals were:
in the Liverpool new balls in a muson, and
just how they n damage or injury was caused. Eric Sturgess (South Africa)
for four (Dewes 00, Wyatt BO corner wore braces, but it is of show we used to watch twice should carry a stock of half a
HARDSTAFF HITS OUT beat Ken McGregor (Australia)
are going to bring in a no-foul Stadium, the Ring, Blackfriars,
these dozen bats. So far we have been
Simpson did not resume his not out, Outschoorn 52 not not dieult to see by 0-3 and 6-2,
Involving braces
where relying on pre-war bats. Taree
seminaries Art Larren rebladed (1
(United States) innings for Notts against Mid-out). Kent to bat.
Birmingham: Cambridge AL have been
THE DIFFERENCE (Uniteddlesex after his injury yester- beat Irwin Dortman
graduated slowly, (Sheppard 74) lordstait dominated University 154 Joc Sintes) by G-2, 0-u.
The simple fact is that neither knowing their jobs, and were fit
other (Australia) the play in this match, balling Warwickshire 145 for eight. Jolu Bromwich
British and hard enough to do them. any Rushden: Northampton Bruce nor AL Douglass heat Tony' Trabert (United brilliantly for 140 runs net out.
chire 313 for nine declared
of British June 22. States)
6-4, Driving fiercely, he hit and tal 31:11. I! 14:
Wis Di
jexisung machiuczy the Livingston 104), Somerset 88fighter gets a chance, within the boundaries and F. Piret. of Belgium, today Reuter.
boxing, of developing bio full wicket for four hours and 10 for four.
he is the moment at power International Cycle?
minutes.
Internationt] Over 75 Tourist Trophy ruce won
boisted into the retire from the Jock Livingston, who captain- miles
of 3 hours, 22 men's doubles later in the day.ed the Commonwealth team in and Ceylon, He is continuing his osteopathic india, Pakistan
his thousand Fourteen teams from seven treatment tomorrow morning today completed At some of them the boys are countries, numbering in all 110 and will play, if possible, his runs for the season when he hit
Larsen-Reuter. Our club, at 45. Gd, a playing just left to break bats at casual riders, enmpeted in the event.-singles semi-final match against a century for Northamptonshire
when they leave Reuter. member, must
of the practice, and
split, and one heroie
vintage bat remains,
When
Many such houses are empty now, or have been turned into hotels for students So earnest-minded the world now
can only
of of be
set but later mixed his and Yorkshire eventually led by 178 runs on the first chocse; wanting to
or hikers, arithnelle, there
the the court. it all that is planners of one end to pace the field end of cricket on the green.
blacksmith
-(London Express ServICE)
the village where unce hit his care-free sixez.
Then the coaches 10a.
and buses
Gd, each), but tive of them are carry modern youth to the Red- pre-war side and the cinema. Oh, yes, a
tot of them prefer the cinema toj the cricket field even un sunny large-scale replace-summer afternoons. ments have to be made, as must
hardly blame a And one can
has had few happen soon, the outlook will
generation which opportunities of tearning cricket.
be regrettably unsettled,
The usual subscription for playing
club before the war
Our inrce and much-vaunted
BELGIAN WINS TT RACE
the
by
G-4
INJURED WRIST
wrist
of the Motor-cyclin: Sedgman's injured a villago member to
wus 2s. secondary schools provide fields urist trophy course here in caused him to
and the record time sports equipment d. It now varies from 5s. Laland 10s, and most villages have tuowing-machines, but very few mins. 21.0 sees. increase the amount every sea teachers of cricket
БОЛ.
be one
Denis Compton Starts
DENIS
Knee Exercises
COMPTON, pictured
the London Clinie where he
with two boards convalescing, the tent of his bed. They aro
in monui, Ite pressen his right foot against the boards a part of the
at treatment to restore the strength of Loh! lex muscle following
the
help him with exercises to get at operation to his Injured kore. He
for hi retur
to ericket next hopes to be out la'a week.
day.
this season.
AL
AL
NEW MEMBERS
FOR FIFA
arena
Lee
Savold went into
inot
White City ring with something like ten times the number of
in
and
week
other Datic
the came
lado out
Lamson zapress Nervice)
No Overseas Success At
Birmingham
Birmingham, June 22.
All overseas players were
Rio de Janeiro, June 22. Nicaragua, Iran and the Saarfights under his belt that Wood-
admitted to the Inter-cock had against Somerset, his first hun-were
He went in there maybe us a Football Federation national dred for the County.
the Federation's veteran, but, by golly, he went seasoned (FIFA) when He is the tourih player to
there as a tough, reach the thousand-run murk Congress opened today in the in
vilage of Quitandlaha, perched veteran, albeit one who was 2,000 feet high in the moun- full possession of all his ghung eliminated when the match- tains 50 miles outside Rio. faculties and with every opera-piny stage of the Penfold tive muscle lautened in combat professional and Women's Little other business was done with men in the same class na foursomes opened on
time being himself. before lunch, the mostly taken up with procedural discussions-Reuter.
In an attractive innings of 104 runs, Livingston hit wo sixes and 13 fours.
Choucester- Tom Goddard,
offspinner, shire's 49-year-old claimed Ave Hampshire wickets for 67 runs at Bristol, where the Hampshire batsmen put up a feeble show against a varied uttrick.
With Marlin Young scoring 88 runs and Tom Graveney 01 not out, Gloucestershire were 17 runs ahead with eight wic- kets lu hand at the
play.
The
close of
DANES WIN Copenhagen, June 22. Denmark beat Norway by 4-0 in an international soccer match here today after leading 2-0 at half-ume. Neuter.
lean
#1
the
last
were played, Now, why should this bo so? Sutton Course today..
Two rounds
couples still en- It is so because his handler, Rill Daly, was content at the end to leaving eight
xay kaged and they do not include Bunty Miss over the ropes and
favourites,
women bappily to us: "Well, wa walled te
Stephens, who led the
Max Faulkner, qualifters and a long time.
long They were beaten in the Sure, they walled time, and they waited the hard match of the second round.
South Africa's three qualifere way, fighting around obscurely โก
the sticks of their nativo were beaten in the first round.
who Cerda, the Argentine, country, taking on all the tough,
therm were led the professional qualifiers, incalculablo babies
in the big-lost in the first round and H of Egypt, the Open city gyms, dicing with hurt in Hassenein.
USA, Champion, went out in tho C- the clubs all over the
customers demand ond. where the Aghting and get it.
effective leg-breaks of Women's Hockey around, scrapping
Ray Weeks brought him dve Cambridge University
wickets
for 42 runs in his first first- class match for Warwickshire at Birmingham,
David Sheppard dominated the University innings, hitting nine fours in his total of 74.
CLOSE OF PLAY SCORES
the close
The following are
of play scores:
At Guildford: Oxford Univer-
sity 277 and 16 for one. Surrey
150.
Tournament
Umtali,
Southern Rhodesia, June 22.
Scotland defeated Ireland 3-1 here today in a match of the women's international hockey tournament. There was no score at half-time-Reuter.
ROAD TO THE TOP
KCC TENNIS Members of the Kowloon At Derby: Derbyshire 281 for Cricket Club are advised that in
(Revill 83) against the American Tennis Tourna~ have taken Glamorgan. No further play ment that should was possible after, lunch owing pince to rain.
Cerda was partnered by Mrs W. M. Pratt and they were beaten by three and one by
It was so in this country once. Ken Bousfeld and Miss E. H. R were | Lever. years ago k/da
Hasseneln and Mrs Bolton Twenty scrapping in smoky little dens by the dozen all over the land, had won their first round match battling their way through their egalost Henry Cotton and Miss Deveral classes, hardening them-Jean B'sgood by three and two they lost afterwards by celves against foemen of their but own quality, getting closer and two holes to Miss Jean Donald doser to the top, and then, to and E. W. Warde-Beater. their immense delight, getting a INDIAN ENVOY LOSES Paris, June 22,
Malik, the In- Sirdar H. 'S. on the 10th inst, and Americans cult
the Morfontaine entered from was postponed on acelting up to the top of their dian Ambassador to France and count of the rain will now take bills, but when they got there Club, was narrowly, beaten
e nest round of the French were good and hard and At Nottingham: Notts 304 place this Saturday afternoon they
ready for their chance.
Open Amateur Goit Champlon- Hardstaff 149 not out, Simp at 3 o'clock.
Now what happen A kia ships. ABA UU. Ho
Play began son relired hurt 70), Middle- sex. three for no wicket. No
by pro string Germain further play was possible today owing to rain..・
Seven
which
crack at a tille
They
spent
the ycarpag
spend years—
All members who previously signed the list are advised that wins
an
1,
their names will be put on the pounced
en
In
today on the St- Course and Ross strong challenger United States, beat
new list now on the board and managers. He is pushed around Thompson, a else wishing to play are in a few up-country shows and from the Colchester: East. 161 211 and 62, for ofte Yorkshire 377 requested to enter their names gets a couple of headlines for Malik by a single hole-et-
stopping some old-timer "who]ter. (Hutton 180; Lavrada 68), bo the list at the Cub
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