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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 193, 30 July 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

No English touring side has yet beaten loowoomba at League Rugby. The present touring side nearly broke the rule. It played a drawn game. Kenneth Fames, the Essex amateur who has been awarded a place in England’s Test cricket trial at Cardiff, stands 6ft. 4in. n his socks. He turned 21 years of age this month. Fames is a right-hand fast-medium bowler of distinct promise. Lately,’ too, he has been improving his batting without losing any of his skill with the ball. As a freshman, Fames gained his blue for Cambridge University last year, but he did not enjoy much success against Oxford then. He was unable to play against the New Zealand cricket team, for either Essex or Cambridge, but he has been of much assistance in othergames to both the country and his university. A message from Adelaide says that C. V. Grimmett is believed to have mastered a new trick delivery which, instead of going on at normal pace when it hits the pitch, hangs and then goes through slowly. Grimmett is said to have been experimenting for years with the new delivery, which experts thought impossible with a leather ball. “The hall seems to be delivered with remarkable finger action, which makes it hang after striking the pitch,” said one of the onlookers. “It is like a man snapping his fingers, but Grimmett has the ball in his fingers when ho snaps them, and his length and direction are splendid. It is practically impossible to pick as the delivery is the same an for the ball which goes straight through.” Grimmett said: “I am always experimenting,” , and the crafty one left it at that.