"DYING OUT"

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 166, 3 April 1939, Page 3

"DYING OUT"

TIIE GAME OF CRICKET OVERSEAS OPINION Let South Africa speak, says the Manchester Sunday Chronicle. Prom Beacousfield, Kimberley, ccmes a wail against the first two undecided games. ‘•These test matches are fizzling out,” writes R. Bagge, from Beaconsliold, Kimberley. “In fact, it- looks as if the good old game ,of cricket is dying out. •‘.lt the pitch trouble can’t be remedied). how about four instead of three •.stumps? Cricket, somehow, must give the bowler a better chance.” So South 'Africa, is no happier about it than those of us in this country, who have hammered awayi at the overprepared pitch, and sought to restore tlie balance between bat and ball. Now the players are joining in. Yorkshire’s. Bowes has. made n> pungent contribution, and Australia's OReilly has protested, with reason, against the howler being turned into u galley-slave. .Meantime. Bradman goes on eating up all the records—equalling even C. B. Fry’s six centuries in successive innings—and the galley-slaves toil on. .Says Joe Davis, world’s snooker champion: “Billiards is dead and buried!. The 1000 break, killed it. Alt- got tooi monotonous. “People nowadays will have nothing but snooker. They want to see both players. Snooker gives them action.” “That's right.” says Horace Lindruui. What has this to do with cricket? — Plenty. Pm- 1000 break read 100 innings. It is killing cricket. Too monotonous.