Flashes From Fields Of Sport Abroad

Taranaki Daily News, 4 June 1934, Page 14

Flashes From Fields Of Sport Abroad

Inspired By Captaincy? It seems as if W. G. Lowndes, new captain of Hampshire in first-class cricket, is an example of a player s being inspired, instead of being subdued, by the cares of captaincy. Lowndes was appointed to the captaincy of Hampshire rather late; even Wisden s Cricketers’ Almanack” for this season names Lord Tennyson as this years captain. Apparently Lord Tennyson, former captain of England as well as of Hampshire, is unable to P la larly this season, although he is playing against the Australians. Lowndes, 36 years of age, is a stylish batsman who has done very well in club cricket, but who has played comparatively little ' first-class cricket. He learned his cricket at Eton, and gained a blue at Oxford in 1921. Starting in 1924, he had played, up to the end of the 1930 season, 15 innings in county championl- - games for Hampshire,, at an average of 17.60 runs an innings, with a highest score of 52. He had not ,P la yed for the county m championship matches between 1930 and this year. Yet, now that he is captain of Hampshire, he has scored already this season, 102 v. Essex, 80 v. Middlesex, and 140 v. the Australians. * # “Will he be another ‘morning glory,’ or a second D. G. A. Lowe?” That is what one of the foremost commentators on amateur athletics in England has been wondering since he saw R.. bcoxt, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, run m the 440 yards at the British public schools athletic championships a few weeks ago. Scott drew the outside lane, and ran himself off his feet” m the first 300 yards. He would have done'faster time if-he had run his race evenly. Yet the time in which he won was 50 4-ssec, which was a new record for this event at the meeting. * * * Over 50,000 Runs. , The century- which Philip Mead, veteran left-handed batsman, scored recently was the third he has made for Hampshire against Australian cricket teams, the others having been made in 1912 and 1921. • In 1921 he also made a score of 182 not out for Eng land against Australia, at Kennington Oval. That is the highest score ever made by an English batsman agamst Australia on an English ground. Mead first played for Hampshire 28 years agoc Since then he has made, centuries against the West Indies, Jamaica, South Africa, Transvaal, Tasmania, Gentlemen, and the champion county, as well as against Australia and the counties of England. The highest score in his .143 centuries, 280 not out, was made against Notts, at Southampton, 13 years ago. His highest score last season when he made 10 centuries, was 227 against Derbyshire, at Ilkeston. For Hampshire alone Mead has scored over 42 000 runs at an average of just on 50 runs an innings, and in all Ifirst-class matches he has scored over. 50,000 sruns. In an athletic meeting at Stanford University. Ca V£°^ nl n’, Touisiana State University, eight days earlier, and beating the officialj record of 52ft 7|in set up by Z. Heijasz, oi Poland, in 1932. * # A Fagg, from Kent’s second eleven, scored 111 for his county’s first eleven recently. But presumably it was not at the fag-end of the innings. Forward As Centre Three-Quarter. Enr the greater part of the late run SS'.’was'Slo 6 out.ot ’he game for a inns time, with injuries. L. Mason, ■he”big three-quarter-cast Maori, who played S in Christchurch at one time, and who has been a very forward for Wigan for several years was tried as a centre three-quarter, and did well ’’ there Wilson, who was a member of the 1927 New Zealand Rugby League team in England has be . e n closed as one of the finest forwards froin over seas seen in the English league since C. Seeling s time. When it quail fled for the semi-finals Wigan, team of overseas talent, had played 3 matches and had won 26, but 11 of its wins had been gained m its last 12 games to that time. The side was playing brilliantly as a team, and its ! backs had developed much scoring

The partnership of 247 runs, by C. P. Mead and W. G. Lowndes, for the Hampshire County Cricket Club against the Australian team, was the third-best for the fourth wicket in the annals of Hampshire, cricket. The Hampshire record for this wicket isi2s9, made by Lord Tennyson (then the Hon. Lionel Tennyson) and Mead against Leicestershire in 1921, and the secondbest is 248, made by Mead and A. Bowell against Worcestershire m 1926.

Won With Field Events. Performances at the British public schools athletic championships, held recently at the White City, London show that there is hope for Great Britain in field events. A German school, the Schloss Schule, of Salem, at which field events are cultivated systematically, sent to .the 'British championships a team with which it hoped to win the Public Schools Challenge Cup by means of field events, plus performance in one track event. Its sprinter, although beaten, picked up a point for a championship, but the German team was beaten into second place for the cup, by Bedford Modern, which gained all but two of its 40 Points-se.ven points better than the Germans—in the field events! * * * . Hat Trick Against Australians. /

Just 25 years ago there was a very noteworthy performance against an Australian cricket team by a player 101 Hampshire—a county that the present Australian team played recently and the hero of it was a man who has played on New Zealand fields. Hamp shire had first innings against the Australian team captained by M. A. Noble, and it was all out for 131 runs. Rain fell, and then came brilliant sunshine, making the wicket very treacherous. before the Australians batted, in

50 minutes the Australians were out for 83 J. A. Newman, who then was not 22 vears of age. and who became coach to toe Canterbury Cricket Association many years later, took eight of the Australian wickets for 49 runs. With the last three balls he bowled in the innings Newman did the hat trick, his victims being S. E. Gregory, C. G. Macartney, and F. Laver. However, the Australians won the match by six wickets. Hampshire scored 106 in its second innings, and the Australians then made 155 for four, Newman taking only one* wicket for 53 runs m this innings. on a wicket that had rolled out well ’ * * - * Excellent Young Weight-Putters. A weight which weighs 12 pounds, instead of the 16 pounds used by adult athletes, is used for putting the weight at the British public school athletic championships. Until the championship meeting held a few weeks ago the record for this particular event was 41ft 9|in. Three boys beat the record on this occasion. D. H. S. Neilson, of Bedford Modern, put the weight 43ft lOJin, and won. A competitor from the Schloss Schule, . at Salem, Germany, was second, with 43.0 J, and a Bedford Modern boy gained third place with 42,6. Two other boys from English schools put tne weight over 41ft. * * * Maurice Tate denies the allegation that he threw a glass of beer at D ; K. Jardine, in Australia. We certainly cannot conceive of Tate s wasting a glass of beer. - • „. -----

For three consecutive years the halfmile at the British public schools athletic championships has been won by A. G. K. Brown, of Warwick. He has run in this event four times. 1n.1931 he was sixth. Next year he won m 2.1 3-5, which was only l-ssec outside the record, made in 1931/ Last year Brow won very easily, in 2.3 1-5-. -t this year’s meeting, held m the White City Stadium, London, a few weeks ago, Brown won by three yards, m 22 2-5. He is a son of an old Cambridge Um versity miler. * * *

Maker Of Great Catch. J. H. A. Hulme, who made such a great catch, falling as he took it, to dismiss Don Bradman when the Australian had made his ian^ t ag d a e l^ t Middlesex, is one of the finest deep fields in English cricket. He is also> a famous professional m .Association foot ball, in which game he plays for the Arsenal Club, as outside-right. He was in that club’s team when. it won the Football Association Cup in the 192930 season. In the 1932-33 season he was regarded as one of the best four Soccer players in England, and as the fastest player in the game. Hulme has often represented England ip Association football. He is a powerful shot with either foot, but he weighs only 10.11, and is sft B|in in height. He will be 30 years of age in August. •s * * Llannelly is regarded >y an English Rugby critic as about the most consistent of the Welsh Rugby clubs in the 1933-34 season. It has played a bright, open game, and has been loyally ported by the crowd. The old leaders of Welsh Rugby have scarcely counted in the recent season, and the once mighty names of Cardiff, Swansea an Newport have given Pl ac ? to N eath, Llanelly, Aberavon and Bridgend_with Penarth, Cross Keys and Pontypool clcse runners-up. * * *

“The money that is in sport is ever a source of wonderment for most of us ” says a writer in the London Daily Mail ” “The figures seem to grow every year, but in no sport has there been such steady advance as in lawn tennis. The Wimbledon year just completed shows a profit of £38,000. Compare that with 1909, when A. W. Gore won the singles for England. The profit then was £ll7O, while in the Preceding year there was actually a loss of £230. Gore, the last Englishman to w in . the championship, played the final with M. J. G. Ritchie P before 6000 people. People got hysterical about this attendance but nowadays they get more than that num ( ber watching a game on No. 1 court.

* * * Worcestershire’s Loss. Very good service was given to Worcestershire by Maurice Nichol, the styl ish batsman, 28 years of age whose sudden death occurred at Chelmstoid. talb StS U wnh h Essex a,i Bo» y at W VnurhS County. Nlebol played usually one oi tne suunsc f tips—until he qualified, in byWorcestershire. While he was qualifyffie tn play for Worcestershire in the “t-dasseounty Si ?wo U vXi 0 rf b residential ouaMeation for Worcestershire elapsed heberuns in championship matcheisittCTSWi™ S At a meeting in New York, a few W ppks aso of representatives of Har vard and Princeton universities, the French Rugby Club (New York), and the game in the eastern parts of tne United States. * * * • j C. Hallows, the former Lan e ashi s®. a, 2v England cricketer, who scored a century for Lancashire against the New Zealand team of 1931, but who lost his form early in 1932, his career with Lancasbire terminating then, has now become a player-coach for a club in the Welsh Cricket League. Hallows is now 39 years of ago. It was six years tha he scored a thousand runs in May, being the only left-hand batsman and the only Lancastrian to. do so.