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... colour. DUDLEY CAREW'S The House is Gone (Hale, 10s. 6d.), a nostalgic retrospect, covers much the same period. Novelist, cricket writer, he looks back to the England of forty and more years ago when £1 was £1 and beer was twopence a pint, there was a ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1906 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

By PETER WILSON The Man They Can't Gag

... By PETER WILSON The Man They Can't Gag O BOXING: The adoption Of the no foul rule. G some of them are world CRICKET: A redue- champions - and the more tion of the fixtures in world titles We can have a the County Chain- bash at. the better for pionship ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1142 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

VE IT TO

... VE IT TO mar School that he would do it. And Brian Close, another Yorkshire boy who became the youngest cricketer ever to play for England in a match. These were feats everyone heard about. There were others that only those of us who are privilm.d to ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 128 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

PICK YOUR STARS' aSseat mamong meagrrneeadt

... last past-master of a Patsy was the bravest man Soccer art that's fading fast seen against fast bowling. NEXI on the list Is cricket—and this is 1 the Flat -r acing where Fred Root takes his 1 game, Stuart Combe how. Fred, as you probably said; Without a ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1423 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Australians Score 312 For 4

... match. at Capetown yasterdaY I reports Exchange). Opening play was slow, but after lunch the were treated to some bright cricket. Morris and Moron., had given the tourists a sound opening and put on 68 when Morris 42)1 hit • rising ball into the hands ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 105 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

COMPARISONS ARE GREAT FUN!

... argument to discover who years gone by that comparisons was the greatest boxer, jockey, are odious. The phrase will be ' cricketer. or what have you, can used for many more years to come have no conclusive answer. Each and every man must have his own ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Sunday Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 103 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

Here's a saucy forecast for 1950 Sporting honours

... weighing anchors, is also in the picture. An American will win at Wimbledon. of course. And there are the same old faces on the cricket scene. The county championship will go North. Woks like a big Y on the honours scroll for 1960. But I still can't see any ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: The People
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 817 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

WESTERN EVENING HERALD Monday January 2 1950 i i the Drapery Dept EMPORIUM ROYAL PARADE Special Offer COVERS ..

... Championships Adelaide jump dor Olympic title 1946 Renter BERT SUTCLIFFE'S NZ RECORD Hits 355 Bert - Sutcliffe who 'New Zealand cricket team today Zealand record individual score with 355 Previous made by Blunt In 1951-52 Cornwall Senior Cup Positions St Blasey ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Western Evening Herald
County: Devon, England
Type: | Words: 2782 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

LONDON STOCK

... 46s «d Most breweries are steady, but textiles are inclined to ease mainly as the result end account levelling up of books. CRICKET Neil Harvey Makes 178 in Test Neil Harvey made 178 runs In Australia's 526 for seven (dec.) first innings during the second ...

40. YEARS ON, 11 'LEICESTER MEN KEPT PLEDGE TO MEET

... 40. YEARS ON, 11 'LEICESTER MEN KEPT PLEDGE TO MEET F ORTY YEARS AGO, 19 lads who made up the Humberstone Congs—the cricket club of the Humberstone-road Congregational Church Sunday School—made a pact to meet together on January lof every tenth year ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Leicester Evening Mail
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: | Words: 425 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

SUBURBAN CINEMAS ALL SAINTS' GROSVENOR *Cont. from'

... Manchester Mystery of Morris United's seniors, wing-half tANE of the features of the Henry Cockburn and goalkeeper Australian cricket tour of Jack Crompton, whose broken South Africa to date has been wrist bone has kept him out of the comparative failure of ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 3202 | Page: 4 | Tags: none