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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

Indoor ski-jumps

... the between-wars years nobody Introduded London and the South to the swift. heady excitement of Saturday !afternoon league cricket. with runscoring feats that make Test rna•ches look like Itee-parties. The clubs In the London area got around to talking ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 493 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

No bolo at oil

... oil p t r h I o r g a . rn r ;V i iir r hy ria n i o iy t make the Pr e ul by having on the igro , lnd thing like a county:cricket t nit where champ.% front ,the teams could he diableYed f erybody base, A broadcaat announremFuttrm tee before the kick-oli ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 884 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

But against this defence one goal was no 'mystery'

... his bails flying two runs later. They lost five wickets for only 94 runs by lunch. Livingston and Oldfield played watchful cricket. against the Indian bowlers. who were getting some help from the pitch. !Propped Tries, Freer and Old/lcid opened the second ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 461 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

RUN, RABBIT, RUN-BEFORE

... RUN, RABBIT, RUN-BEFORE New cover on cricket field k o IPECTATORS at cricket match es played by a Hayes, Kent. club will be covered next season by third party insurance against possible Injury. Announcing this, Mr. Arthur Collins, club president, said ...

Published: Monday 02 January 1950
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 74 | Page: 5 | Tags: none