OBITUARY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 90, 14 March 1935, Page 7

OBITUARY.

MR GEORGE E. BUCKLE. LONDON, March 12. The death has occurred of Mr George Earle Buckle. Mr George Earle Buckle, ALA., Hon. L.Litt (Oxford), Hon. LL.D., (St. Andrews), was educated at Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1880. In the same year he was appointed assistant editor" of the Times, and was editor from 1884 to 1912. PROFESSOR M. PUPIN. NEW YORK, March 12. The death has occurred of Professor Michael Pupin, the internationallyknown physicist and inventor. MR SYDNEY J. SOUTHERN. LONDON, March 13. The death has occurred of Mr Sydnev J. Southern, editor of Wisden s Cricketers’ Almanack, who collapsed after speaking at the Ferret Cricket Club’s dinner at the Oval. Mr Southern had been recently in poor health, but was cheerful during the dinner. He proposed the toast of “Cricket,” and when he sat down was apparently unwell. He was carried to an ante-room, where he died before tlie arrival of doctors. The guests immediately dispersed. CRICKET DISPUTE. . REVIEWED IN WISDEN’S. “UNPLEASANT SEASON.” The late Air Sydney Southern, in an editorial in Wisden s, written shortly before his death, which is reported from England today, said: “No matter _ from what angle it is viewed. it is next to impossible to regard the season of 1934 other than as unpleasant. All sense of proportion was lost. We constantly read during the Tests tittletattle of a mischievous character, which prompted the inevitable question : ‘Are Tests worth while?’ The .Australians, who had come hoping to avoid a recurrence of arguments surging around ‘direct attack,’ were constantly on the look-out • for something which might occur to give them just cause for complaint. Happily, nothing _ occurred to arouse their ieelings until at Nottingham in August they were subjected to a form of attack which not only they themselves, but the majority of people in England, fondly imagined had been scotched. Unless Nottinghamshire conforms strictly to the agreement of November, 1933, it will have fewer friends in other counties than it now possesses. “It is hard to believe that a state of affairs was created by a few men who placed their individual conception of what is right above the considered opinion of practically the whole of the cricketers of England. Nevertheless, it was an ungenerous and misleading gesture when some visiting batsmen ducked or turned their hacks to balls a foot above the stumps. If that was meant as a sign of silent resentment, it carried no conviction whatever, even to those who abhor short, humping bowling.” After referring to the Australians superior batting, with the performances of Grimmett and O’Reilly almost comparable with those of Gregory and McDonald in 1921, and- also Wyatt s lack of inspiration, Mr Soutlierton said: “No greater disservice could have been done English cricket than the persuasion of Larwood to print statements which put him beyond the pale of selection for tire Tests. Jardine similarly ruled himself out. It would, in the long run, have been Letter if the Australians had postponed their visit until the echoes of the cables between the Board of Control and the M.C.C. had died away.” . . Mr Southern expressed the opinion that the new llnv rule should lie tried for two or three seasons, as a wet summer in 1935 might produce u holesale condemnation. One season’s trial, he said, is inadequate.