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Northern Advocate, 28 July 1934, Page 2

Wicketkeeping and Batting. There is a considerable grain of truth in remarks by Neville Cardus, famous’ English cricket critic, on L. E. G. Ames’ missing of a good chance to stump M. J, Turnbull, off the slow bowling of T. B. Mitchell, in the English trial match just before the first Test: “Obviously Ames, who is a [ good batsman, thought Turnbull would ! hit it easily. Ho probably measured 1 Turnbull’s ability to hit the ball in terms of his own. Perhaps the ideal wicketkeeper ought really to bo an indifferent batsman, for then lie is not so likely to jump to conclusions as to what His potential victims are able to do with loose balls on the log-side.” • * * • The Difference. W, E. Merritt seems to be developing something of the politician’s art. At a smoko concert in Lancashire, recently lie referred to statements which A. W. Roberts and I. B. Cromb made about Lancashire league cricket, after they returned from their engagements in it. Merritt contradicted those statements, and said that he was ashamed of Roberts and Cromb. However, Merritt has to live there now; Roberts and Cromb do not.

Attractive Opening Batsman. A really attractive batsman, with beautiful off-driving and square-cutting, is W. W. Keeton, the 29-year-old Notts professional batsman, who scored 261 runs as an opening batsman against Gloucestershire, and whb| then gained a place in England’s thirteen for the third test. He has made remarkable progress in the last three years, and in each of the last two seasons he has scored over 2000 runs. He made over a thousand runs last August. His score against Gloucestershire is his highest to date, but. in 19.12 he.jnade 242 against Glamorgan and 200 not out against Cambridge University . Keeton has ■ played Association football as an inside, forward for Sunderland and. for Nottingham Forest. * ♦ * * Grimmett and Mailey. Neville Cardus (“Cricketer,” of the “Manchester Guardian”) hits off C. V. \ Grimmett in a few phrases: .“Grimmett is the most perfect length /bowler of his kind. He is curiously economical in the way he.bowls googlies. The difference between him and A. A. Mailey is that Mailey bowled googlies like a millionaire, andi Grimmett bowls googly stuff like a. miser—not so keen to give away loose ones.”