The Film Renter and Moving Picture News (Jul-Aug 1922)

July 8, 1922. THE FILM RENTER & MOVING PICTURE NEIVS. 39 KOMIKAL KINEMA KRICKET. ALL SQUARE! The Story of an Amusing Yorkshire Contest— Anglers and Cricketers. (Related in the Lighter Vein by our Leeds Correspondent.) HE cricket team of the Yorkshire Kinema Angling Club is the greatest that ever played in Roundhay Park, or in Leeds, cr in Yorkshire—the county of mighty cricket traditions. Collectively, it is the greatest that ever took the field. Individually, it has one or more of the greatest players that ever donned flannels—no, hardly that—that ever trod the turf. Warwick Armstrong was a great player. The Anglers have a greater. If there is any challenge let the men be placed on the scales. Umpires v. Scorers. The Anglers have made fame in a day. ‘They challenged the Yorkshire Kinema Trade Cricket Club to combat and tied with them. This without training, private cricket practice, or the aid of the scorers. All they did was to learn to shout ‘t "Ow's that?” in complete and confident chorus. The only external: help contracted for was that of the umpires. It is questionable whether the greater service in cricket can be rendered by the scorers or the umpires. The point has never really been settled. In this case the umpires were Anglers and the scorers were Cricketers. The umpires raised the fatal finger to every “ fishy "’ appeal. The scorers recorded the Cricket Club members’ fours with a six. The result of the match was a tie. So the question remains undecided. Anglers in Shoals. “The Anglers, being novices, were allowed 20 ‘players, the Cricketers fielding the usual eleven. When the Anglers took first innings, however, they batted 21 strong. The umpires did hot seem to notice, and the seorers’ protest was out of order. ‘* Scorers,"’ says Rule 3 of the Angling Club cricket laws, * should be seen and not heard. “f’ umpires’ decision is final.’’ When the Anglers took the field what it really ‘amounted to was an invasion. The ground was thick with fieldsmen. Captain Tidswell did not know what to do with them. The wicket-Keeper, being in flannels and wearing a cap of Irish yreen, required protection. He was given two long-stops—one close in and one deep. (And still the extras grew.) Five slips, three points, seven men in the long-field, three short-legs (very), and some dozen others infesting other areas and gencrally putting fenr into the batsmen, who dared not hit lest they broke ribs and cracked skulls. The field was set with the touch of the master, and there was still a man to spare. He was sent to watch the refreshments. That was Captain Tidswell’s one mistake. It robbed the Anglers of victory. He should have been sent to watch the scorers. ‘ The Creed of the Creel. Perhaps Anglers is hardly correct. They were never out unless y they were bowled. They disputed the score board, the number of wickets still to fall, and everything that tended to push the Google es result out of their reach. Every time the opposing batsman missed the ball the ‘* How's that?’’ was barked in unison at the umpire from every novk and corner of the field. This despite the fact that Rule 5 of the Angling Club cricket laws says: * Intimidation o° t’ umpires involves the loss of marks.’’ Non-Anglers Sed Wranglers. At the finish, too, when this jeering array of brown-booted, bowler-hatted, tweed-suited cricketers reached the pavilion, the vecuracy of the final scores was even questioned. Victory was claimed, and in strident tones, because all sixes therein recorded should have been fours."’ Frankly, Anglers is not correct. They were Wranglers—Senior Wranglers. Let me sum things up by adding that they all went home in a noisy little Ford charabanc—all twenty-seven of them. Knuts at the Crease. To come to the real cricketers—the members of the Yorkshire Kinema Exchange Cricket Club. They were a little disappointing as cricketers, although their flannels were mostly correct and the crease thereof in certain cases was distinctly a credit to the trade. The Fender of the party, having surveyed the wicket, said importantly, *‘ There’s only one thing to do to-day, men—hit for all you’re worth. Hit them ‘ over the hill!’ Walton and Burke pass with honours. They hit all right—so well, in fact, that none of the bowlers succeeded in hitting Walton’s legs and giving the chorus a chance until he had scored 49, when he was ‘ umpired out ’’ just in time to save a collection, But some of the others did not like the way the ball bumped. They drew back, instead of advaneing— left leg well forward ‘'"—to mect it and smite it. The Result of it All. Seriously, the cricket club at the Exchange is a capital institution. It is thriving, and everyone agrees that it is an asset. We will close the lesson with the Cricketers vy. Anglers scores : , ANGLERS,—White, ¢ and b Jay, 11; Higyins, run out, 8; Mitchell. b Walton, 5; Mason, c Eastlake b Jay, 7; Clifton, b Drake, 5; Broughton, b Jay, 0; Tidswell, ¢ Eastlake b Smith, 2; Hortier, lbw b Drake, 5; Alderson, c and b Moody, 13; Spence, b Jay, 03° Whincup, c and b Harrison, 4; Meller, c and b Harrison, 6; Smart, c Drake b Harrison, 1; Ward, b Moody, 0; Metcalfe, run out, 3; Mayo, b Drake, 0; Coulthard, st Jay b Harrison, 1; Walker, c Jay b Moody, 0; Leverton, b Moody, 0; Rogers, not out, 4; Kemp, b Jay, 0; extras, 42. Total, 117. . CrickeTers.—Walton, lbw b Kemp, 49; Moody, b Mayo, 2; Burke, b Mayo, 24; Drake, b Horner, 9; Isaacs,.b Mayo, 1; Harrison, b Mayo, 3; Jay, b Horner, 8; Smith, Ibw’b Mayo, 0; Jennings, run out, 0; Eastlake, b Mayo, 0; Goldman, not out, 2; extras, 19. Total, 117.