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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1951.

UNCOMFORTABLE TEST IRONY Cynical Comment On Batting Of English Team

US NAVAL BUILDINGN APPROVED

Washington, Jan. 9.

$2,000,000,000 programme to build up the United States Navy was approved by the House Armed Services Commit- tée today in two hours.

The measure provides for the construction of

a 60,000-ton "super" aircraft carrier and 172 other new ships.

The Committee acted only one

day after the authorisation' mea- sure was sent to it.

It was taken as a sign of a clear road ahead for rearmament the United States' own defences. The bill also provides for the modification and conversion of 291 existing ships,

proposals so long as they add to

Defeatist Spirit

In Visitors' Second Innings

(BY FRANK ROSTRON)

Sydney, Jan. 10.

A sadly chastened MCC team agrees today that there is an uncomfortable irony in the send- ing from England of two bowlers, Tattersall and Statham, to strengthen the team.

Australia's previously sympathetic public, who After yesterday's surprise innings defeat, supported the popular Freddie Brown's team against its own side until yesterday's febrile bat- ting alienated its patronage, is saying cynically now that what reinforcement is really needed from Lords is an expeditionary force of competent batsmen.

Mr Carl Vinson

Curiously, what was widely later batsmen yesterday. re- (Democrat, Georgia) Chairman of

agreed before the team started; sembling their slapdash work the Armed. Services

the tour to be a weak bowling that earned so much criticism Committee, side estimated that

has bowled the

carrier well. But what was thought to

moderately earlier in the tour. would take three and a half

That, as much as Jack. Iver- years to build. Reuter.

be a fair batting side, with con- son's uncannily accurate stream siderable potentialities of de- of spinners and the

•velopment, has

way the a consistent baked wicket supplied record of failure in matches that accounted for the helter-skelter "bite," matter.

procession to and from the pavilion of furtive batsmen who slunk about like schoolmasters about to be sent to the head- master for a birching.

Dalai Lama's Armed

Men Watching

con-

It is genuinely distasteful to criticise the efforts of a side that has suffered more than its fair Kalimpong, Jan, 9. share from the slings and arrows Twenty-five armed men from of outrageous fortune. So it 19

That spirit, in curious the Dalai Lama's party, now not a question of being wise after trast to the admirable way the camping at Yatung, in Tibet, the event or for the sake of say-bowlers had fought through re- near the Indian border, haveing "I told you so" but the side's gardless of the crippling odds, been stationed at the fortress tentative batting technique yes town of Phari Dzong, a day's terday on a fairly journey away, to watch and re-

responsive wicket confirmed port the movements of the local lowly

the original estimations which inhabitants and foreigners. sheltered behind the side's bat-

ting and bowling feats.

Phari Dzong is 14,700 feet up on the edge of the great Central, Asian Plains.

Commodity prices-have soared in the Yatung area since the arrival of the Dalai Lama, the 16-year-old spiritual and tem- poral ruler of Tibet, his suite and followers totalling 300 Reuter.

No.

Commis

made every Englishman blush and lost us a lot of newfound Australian friends.

The

Needs A Change

Starlet Laura Elliott had enough on when this photo was taken in Cali- fornia. But now she's visiting in the East where

need a pair of ear muffs it's cold, and Laura will

with the costume.

ONLY FOUR

Sydney These facts were known and gossip columnist, W. A. O'Carroll, Daily Mirror accepted. But what we were consolingly says "Sydney Cricket shown in the field during the land has the best batsman in the less prepared for after the zest Club members agree that Eng- whole of last month and par- world, Len ticularly after the enthusiastic bowler in the world, Alec Bedser, Hutton, the best battling in the previous two and the best wicketkeeper in indulge in the luxury of trying The Australians can now the world, Godfrey Evans."

newcomers. Though their selec- I agree and would add that fighting Freddie

tors are notoriously afraid of Brown is probably the biggest-hearted

cheapening Australian caps, captain in the world and

Loxton for one is likely to be replaced by the South Aus chump as a tactician either.

But these four, who are our candidate from half

tralian, Graeme Hole, favourite only figures to emerge with-batsmen I would gladly see in a dozen out damaged reputations, could the England side. not and cannot carry seven un- reliable team fellows.

Tests was a return to some of the defeatist "throwing in sponge" spirit of some of the

And now to the

no

next two

to

And now tomorrow we plan escape from Miller and

POST-WAR LOWEST

Tests, in the first and third Iverson for 10 days by crossing weeks of February, at Adelaide the Bass Strait to Tasmania and Melbourne, respectively.

where, praise be, they don't play. Without marked weather

Test matches:" ad- vantages there is little chance of a win even if Tattersall and Statham prove immediate suc-

Melbourne, Jan. 9: cesses. But there is no good England's batting was reason, any more than there generally criticised was in this match, why

by cricket we writers here in their comments should be beaten by an innings. on If the newcomers adapt them-tory. Sid Barnes, the former Australia's third Test vic- selves to Australian conditions Test player, writing in the with moderate success it would Melbourne Argus, said: "Be- be as good a thing to give witched, bothered and be- them their Test chance now wildered were the Englishmen that the rubber has been de- when they faced Jack Iverson, cided, because it is plain that England must look for a dras- tically changed. Test team next season against the South Afri-

cans.

Jack Fingleton, another Test player, commented in the Melbourne Sun News Pictorial that "English batting had slipped to its post-war lowest in technique and spirit." Famous England stand-bys the Englishmen want.

He added: "It's not bowlers like Washbrook are beginning should

They

ENGLAND'S NEED

be sending for a few

to show that their Test heyday batsmen who know the prin is past, and Denis Compton, for the first time in his glittering

ciples of batting."

career, has a question mark Neville Cardus, in the same against his name.

paper, remarked: "Another

"Similarly newcomers like rubber lost by England from Simpson and Parkhouse, whom behind the crease or

Outburst In

Moscow On Germany

Moscow, Jan. 9.

The Soviet Literary Gazette today accused the United States of all possible subterfuges" to disrupt the proposed four-Power conference on Germany.

It

the dis-

claimed that "reactionary Press" had torted the sense of the Soviet pote in an effort to spread dis- belief in the -success of such

talks.

"The

Washington adven- turers," it said, "are hurriedly restoring the regular German army in an effort to evade every kind of negotiation that might block the realisation of their aggressive plans."-Reuter.

Propeller Damaged

Dunkirk, Jan. 9. The 7,000-ton Greek cargo boat, Cougar, arrived in Dunkirk Harbour today after being towed from Alglers by a Dutch tug. The Cougar brought a cargo of pyrites from Cyprus. It is be- lieved her propeller shaft was badly damaged off Algiers.

The repairs at Dunkirk were expected to take two months.- Reuter.

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we were welcoming last wenson out of it. Nothing venture, Added: This Modern as potential Test residents," nothing win."

Have not yet established any A former Test bowler, Bil

sort of reliability,

What we need. more anything else in England cannot find a near-ges Miller to replace

raade the lar

O'Reilly, summing up in the than Melbourne Age, wrote: "Eng-

if we land was beaten in Brisbane by Hike ain, in Melbourne by the par-

Towest of margins

Were leapped by the loss of two

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