More youngsters and new blood are badly needed. Wainwright promises well, but has a lot to learn. He will make a good slow bowler and may develop into a really good all-round cricketer if he takes the game sufficiently seriously.
This short article must not be closed without an appeal to all those who are keen on cricket, to support the game for all they are worth, firstly by playing thems: lves, and secondly, by encouraging others to play. - The delights of tennis, bowls, and baseball are beginning to tell on local cricket and it is the duty of those who are keen on cricket to instil keenness in others. From the racket and noise of the baseball ground to the sedate quietude of the cricket field is a metamorphosis on which many have been heard to comment to the detriment of cricket.
Let the baseball fans keep their "rooting" and leave us to play our own game in our own dull way.
Something should be done by the authorities to encourage and imrove fielding. Nothing, in cricket, is more delightful to watch than really good fielding. This ie merely a matter of practice, and if properly taken in hand the ludicrous and childish efforts so often in evidence on the field would disappear. A fielding prize, as in vogue in many public schools, might be tried. Fielding is certainly as important as batting or bowling when a match has to be won, and it deserves more notice than it receives in Shanghai cricket.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.