LESSONS ABOUT CRICKET

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 17, 3 March 1939, Page 4

LESSONS ABOUT CRICKET

FOREIGN VISITORS UNAPPRECIATIVE NOT LIKELY TO APPEAL TO GERMANS (From The Guardian's London Correspondent) LONDON, February 11. Dr Robert Ley, Germany's "Strength Through Joy" and Labour Front leader, had his first cricket lesson in London this week. He did not think people in Germany would take to the game. In company with other members of the International Advisory Committee on Recreation and Spare-time, he visited the Essex County Club's indoor wickets at Walthamstow, London, to learn about cricket. Maurice Nichols and Jack O'Connor, the England and Essex players tried to show men and women from two dozen countries what it was all [ about. When asked by one of the coaches to handle a cricket bat, Dr Ley, who is 49, replied: "I leave that to one of the younger men here." English observers doubted whether Count Tagliavia, of Italy, properly appreciated the spin action that Maurice tried to show. On the other hand Mr Gustavus Town Kirby, of New York, swung the baf at an imaginary ball with a definite suspicion of a baseball swing. His fun was spoint by Dr T. Sigenari, from Japan, who seized the bat and asked what wood it was made of. He was told willow. I