MAKING THEIR MARK

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 110, 11 May 1935, Page 22

MAKING THEIR MARK

- IhVßowantte-'South African' team has a .„batting "find.*, so. far "as winter, natibi^aj cricket asf concerned. 2''He was included in the'tfeajn>'maihly as uhderr studs'' tp;'.Wade: i:aad' ■Sjeidle, the. recog-i hise'd Opening' batsmimi'Fbui'iph ;form to' date it looks' as; though he'is going to be hard to keep out of the Test eleven.. He has done well, in cricket in the Transvaal, where he'ls also pro^ ininent as a hockey' player. , As;a batsman he^is-ojE th4>^eady.t^e.TJ^th no lack of "confidence, "lie is '25' years' o| jjg&v** •■■■i--s<».'"-'-iwns.i\.s-:r;;--•'«&•.■■. ;* l."Thefe is little 'doUbtvthat the select tors, in choosing the bowlers, had vividly>b'efbfeT'their mind's the success achieved .by Grimmett and .O'Reilly qt\ English pitches last swnmer," stated a South African writer hi commenfing upon the selection. ■ Tomh'nsbn, a slow spin bowler, is another "tod." He is the first Rhodesian' to be'in a South African team on. tour;;overseas, and already he has shown that his English' coaching 'and. subsequent experience iri "Rhodesia ha^tre" made him :a bowler of some account. is recorded that when"'on leave in .England, .Tomlinsori had some'- lessons ' :|it the Faulkner School of Cricket, and; haying his final lesson Dn the afternoon before the famous "South' African's tragic death, he was in all probability Faulkner's, last pupil.- Tomlinson is 24 yeaA of age. : . -, • r

The South African , cricket .captain,' H. F. Wade, is an old pupil of Herb'y Taylor and has been a conspicuous figure in cricket in Natal. It is no new experience for him to be playing in England, as;'he 'spent two' yearsin Yorkshire league cricket. Wade has been a keen Rugby player, and.atone time captained- the Yorkshire Rugby fifteen". It has not taken him long to get amongst 'the runs^on; the present cricket tour*'and his big score'against Cambridge" University' should',set him on the right way* to hieing a success as an." opening batsman bri the tour; •

' Langton, who has-started off well as a bowler for the South -African team in Eriglaiid, is the youngest' member of the touring side.. He is 22 yjbars of age and ponies'from-Transvaal.' He is a bowler "of medium-pace. It was whil/. in hospital after an operation for appendicitis that he received word that he^had been chosen for the tour.