For some reason or other Peckham has the true aroma of Cockney London indissolubly attached to its doings and name, It also seems to delight in producing trepidation io political breasts. The new Earl Beatty, now in the House of Lords, sat for Peckham as Viscount Borodale until his father died, Now Peckham With Aston Villa's fate trem the balance, the soccer foi season. reaches the pemullimate of the League competition The "destination of the. Cyp to. be determined at Went Cricket, formally begins, with Seniors' match at Oxford: the Fr men turn out of the pavilion on nesday and next Saturday cricket starts at Cardiff where morgan shire receive Kent and ter where the Surrey team Visitors. At Lords a week tony MCC. play the Champions, at bridge the Seniors prove their p bilities, at Oxford the "Varsity p Gloucestershire and at Worcester, AIL India team makes ite debut, this points to the timeliness of arrival, of the Spring Annual of "Plum" Warner's valuable "Crick which collects all relevant inf on regarding the opening seas Incidentally reminds the anth that, although erleket is a game which the sun never sets "and girdled the Barth, the real home of cricket Is 1 Sydney, Johannesburg these Worthlly. famous places fat the other side of, the hed} our 'English lanes. 'The same as". V. Lucas' Hambledon Played, as rich in, character a Countryside which Is ite true Here cricket September, for Nobody knows Just how long cipally" concerned with. enjoying Self, free from the sensatlonsn fand the Ananeler who dog lis Cultured Kinsman.
So the comfortable conclusia reached that no better game wes is lo be called upon to elect another th in his plac and as he beat Mr, Silkin, the Labour aspirant, last November, by the comparatively small margin of 772 votes, contrasting horribly with his majority of 8,241 in 1931, the forthcoming by-election ig regarded with some interest. In pre-war days Peckham—which" is technically but disdainfully only a, division of Camberwell where the beauties come from—had some citing contests, notably in 1908 when its then Liberal "tendencies were suppressed by anxiety for the price of beer with which, in some recondite fashion Free Trade was linked, and a Conservative victory was triumphantly recorded. Now Mr. Lewis Silkin, bearing the prestige of a chairman of the L.C.C. Housing Committee, and relieved of fear of the possibly greater prestige of a courtesy Viscount, hopes that he will repeat Mr. Hugh Dalton's success of 1924, when Peckham was first won for the Labour Party. Against him is standing Captain P, G, A. Harvey a Comservative supporter of the National' Government and it is not thought thnt the Liberals, after a disastrow showing in 1929, will make a three-cornered contest of it in spite of Peckham's former Liberal loyalty..So it would seem that Peckham is in the throes of a fierce straight fight between a Government and an Opposition nominee, What Peckham thinks to-day Westminster may not] always think to-morrow, but it would be foolish to ignore the possibilities in view of Mr, Silkin's local exper! fence and the narrowness of the mar: gin by which his opponent wa returned Inst November, The writ for the by-election was delayed and it} Is expected that the polling day will fall in the early part of next month. It will afford a useful test of the extent to which Mr. Baldwin's recent performances have weakened the Government's hold on the country, albeit, for want of precise information just now it is not possible to say whether Captain Harvey is a strong candidate. - He did not figure in the Uisls at the General Election.
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