OTHER “ASHES.”

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20458, 9 November 1934, Page 11

OTHER “ASHES.”

Grimmett Has Fame But Lacks a Job. ! Cricket fame is not everything. It has its ashes, writes Tom Clarke, in a London journal. Even so famous a person as the Australian bowler “ Clarrie ” Grimmett has just had it brought home to him that fame itself does not necessarily: earn one’s bread and butter. When he was bowling so well at the Oval against the Minor Counties in September that he took two wickets with successive balls, his friends knew he was probably worrying about other things—wondering what he is going to do about another job when he gets back home, for circumstances bey’ond any r one’s control have made it necessary for him to seek new employment. In view of the value they still set on his services, it will be surprising if the Australian cricket authorities do not take steps to help secure Grimmett’s future. It has been hinted that he was making his last appearance in Test cricket in England, but this view is not shared by officials of the Australian side; and Grimmett, I know, hopes to come here He does not believe that a man is necessarily too old for cricket at fortyfive, or even fifty; and certainly his activity in the field at forty-two, as well as his bowling success, does not bespeak any “ slowing up ” in his case. That is the view, too, of officials with the Australian side.