Players quality at the right price , > .., s• ' z , 00...'" :0'" "z :> mild. smooth. satisfying PNSE 165 PACKETS CARRY A GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING Irish THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE IRISH CRICKET SOCIETY Television Contents and Thoughts on looking into Morgan Dockrell 3 "Strange rs' Gallery" Mix ed Season for Galway Cricketers 5 Ulster League Championship 1974 Cor{ A"derson 7 Players No.6 Cup Championships 1974 M. N.A. Bre"na" 8 CRICKET Woolm3rk/ Peter Tait Trophy M.P. Ruddle 9 The Council of Cricket Societies LC Horron 10 1974 in the North-West O. W. Todd II The Irish Schools V TIle Welsh Schools Frank Morrisson ]J The Northern Senior Cup Carl Alldersoll 14 Since its inception the Irish Television Cork County Cricket Cub 100 Not Out D.II. Donovall IS Service (RTE) has done nothing for The Guinness Cup 1974 Seal! Pellder 17 cricket eithcrnationally or internationally. Alfie Well done Skipper IS Over :I number of years many requests Guinness Cup Statistics 1974 19 have been made for the inclusion of Personalities 2()"2 1 cricket in the sports programmes, but Old We11ingtonian Irish Tour.August 1974 23 with little success. nlere is no live- Answers to the Competition in Summer 24 coverage of Irish cri cket except when lssue of "Irish Cricket" Australia or West Indies have played in As One Englishman Sees It James D. Coldham 25 Dublin, and then considerable pressure had to be applied to get some limited 'Tween Innings Teasers 26 coverage. This must now change. During The New Wiggins Tea pe League Scorer 27 1975 the World Cup Cricket Competition Mullingar c.c. Open New Ground 28 is being staged in England - can Irish The Irish Schools XJ V Cork County Frallk Morrison 29 viewers who are unable to gel BBC I oc One Degree Under E. Murray Power 31 BBe 2 be allowed to see this spectacle? The Four Captains of the Year Major IIJ.E.P. Prolheroe.fJeynon 32 RTE gave blanket coverage 10 the World Cup Soccer Competition during 1974 - Return of M.C.C. Observer 33 can we hope for SOME coverage of the Gillette Type Cricket A Fall 34 greatest of aU games during the coming leprechauns English Tour 1974 11 .0 . Leoll 35 season. Cricket Reminiscences Dr. Alan Buchanan 37 The narrow minded attitude of the Vis it of Israeli Cricket Association J8 people controlling RTE must be changed, The Australian Murray Hedgcock and 1975 is the year when aU possible 39 pressure should be applied in order that letters to the Editor 40 will be included in the schedule of programmes. Published by Edilor Wake up RTE and get with il! The Irish Cricket Society, Michael Brennan " Margretla", 364, Tonlegee Road, Editorial Panel The Editor Raheny, H.M. DockreU Dublin 5. Telephone: 01·310545 Pi ctures by Greg Ledwidge Design by 37 Henley Park, McCaffrey Design Cons.ultants Ltd., OlUrchtown, 93 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 14. Dublin 4. 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'le Cricket' was an Allen Synge, who was educated at Trinity instant success, so perhaps Skeffington CoUege Dublin, has as its sub-title "SOME stressed its similarities with the duel, and FOREIGN OF CRICKET". It is channell ed the skill which the boys would a book in which cricket is looked at otherwise have expended on the steel through the eyes of two Irishmen, Alec blade into the willow one. It is to be Reid and 'William Trevor', nineteen per- hoped that Skeffmgton was thus able to sons of different sexes born outside the partake in some of the success enjoyed British Isles, and one Englishwoman, by Hobbs, Hammond and Woolley across Caroline Hill , who is presumably included the Olarulel! One of the young boys because the game is supposed to be pressed into service as a fielder that foreign to the female temperament. summer is now the Mayor of Digeon, and Business Consultants are paid thous- it is a tribute to Skeffington's missionary ands of pounds per week by the Firms zeal that he still retains an interest in the they advise. A fresh approach is often game. For Skeffington cricket was really invaluable in that it forces one to fe-think a form of religion, and he was known to one's position on the familiar. Allen provoke the un-cpnverted at times by has gathered together an anything 17!e lAte Senoto, Eoin Shethy Skeffington' stating that "as a religion cricket has but silent cloud of witnesses who approach much in its favour, for at its centre is cricket without the sense of having been Grace". born to it. I found it a fascinating and character to comment at the end of his Perhaps the secret with foreigners is to valuable exercise to see the game through article, " I ga ther the Ponsonbys thought catch them while still young. I can vouch other eyes. Ha ving enjoyed two educa- that my intended game wi th her was not for the fact that some years ago in the tional establishments at which cricket was quite cricket". Black Forest i'had a most enjoyable few part of one's heritage, I was aware of it The five articles by Frenchmen led my hours of cricket with a tennis ball and from lhe age of 7. It was something I mind to wonder how the French would roughly fashioned bat in company with a could accept or reject, but at my prep- take to cricket if it were presented to collection of young Spaniards whose school life was infinitely more pleasant them in such a manner as to their parents were in a circus. The Spaniards for the acceptors. I therefore determined imaginations. In cricket at its best there had ",earnt excellent German within a few to make the mosl of it, since one had the is the strong element of the personal weeks of touring the country, and from occasional bonus of getting off gym for duel between a great batsman and great me they at least learnt the rudiments of nets, and in due course became hooked bowler. Critics have written of the duels the game in about 20 minutes. J have on both the game and the sub·culture of in the 19305 between Bradman and Verity. never seen such agile fielding! One of the statistics and literature associated A most inspiring teacher who had con- them told me thaf circus people are very with it. I am sure I benefitted greatly siderable success in arousing an interest adaptable. from the age of about II ' from reading in cricket on the part of a number of Most of Mr. Synge's foreigners became and re-reading the works of Cardus. French boys was Dr. Owen Sheehy acquainted with cricket wht:n already Inevi tably much of Mr. Synge's book SkeffIngton, who in his lectures on French well advanced into adulthood. Dr_ Ernst is of a humourous nature. "Oose of literature in TCD could always be relied Burgsch.m.idt of Erlangen University was Play", by Gaston Berlemont, who in on to make a faded rose bloom. Skeff- one of Ulese.. He became attracted by the 1895 was paying unwelcome attenlions ington spent the 1928 summer vacation graceful batting of Graveney while teach- to a Miss Ponsonby, deserves to be an in Digeon (picardy) and felt increasingly ing Itt a school in Worcestershire, and anthology piece. Cricket for this amorous frus trated to read of the run getting feasts later wrote a PhD. with .the title young Parisien was a device employed by of that summer, in which five batsmen srUDIEN ZUM VERBUM IN ENG US· the brothers of the girl to keep him scored over 3000 runs in the first class CHEN F ACHSPRACHEN, a work of over away long enough from Ce lia for her season. He therefore decided to try to 500 pages on the terminology of cricket. parents to despatch her off to the convert the native Digeonnais to the I once read an account by a German Hebrides to visit a sick relative. M. game , and rounded up as many able called Leonhardt in his book 77x ENG- Berlemont knew enough of the English bodied males as he could find between lAND in which he describes cricket in 3 terms of a represen tation of the protec- Marven Cohen sees cricket as an elab- 'William Trevor's' article should be tion of chastity_ The game is basically a orate metaphor; in fact he sees tife as a compulsory readi ng fo r all boys at Sand- symbolic rite of the dragon I seducer metaphor for cricket, and develops his ford Park and the owners of the Sandford (bowler) attacking St.