lily the strongest pair of backs ever to represent Shanghai, played in front of me, in goal.' He played with me on Shanghai T turned out for the Tientsin side. Te played with and against me in both baseball and Yawn tennis, These are unusual opportu observe a player's characteristics and throughout them all Harry displayed a sportsman's instincts, It has been said that he gave baseball because it did not offer suicient individual initiative, but having played baseball with him T happen to know that he gave it up for other reasons. There is just as much room for initiative in baseball as in cricket, but there were certain "legitimate plays" in the former that, to Harry, savoured too] A much of guile and too little of sportsmanship. " He never liked taking an opponent unawares with 1 ball hidden in his glove. He was brought up in the cricket tradition and that rot of think was "pot could not do it, Te was playing first base one day when T was on the opposing side in a Blue Sox. Red Sox game among the Amateurs, reached first and was about to take the usual "lead off" to steal second, whispered grimly got the ball." Tie could not play what he called a dirty trick, And not long after that he went back to cricket, T recall Harry's dismay, when, during an S.R.C.S.C.C. match, a bowler on his team ran up to the crease, and, instead of bowling, held the ball, turned about and stumped the runner, who had been too anxious to' run. Strictly, as all cricketers know, it is possible under the rules, but it is nevertheless, Tike the hidden baseball, "not cricket."
What happened T do not know, but that sort of effort was never allow-fed to happen again, When T first saw him he wax a stylist with a wonderful eye essay-fancy late cuts and leg glances, but, after the arrival in Shanghai of the old Surrey skinper, Touis Walker, and *Captain Barrett, Itivated the straight hat. He began to keep em low, and to steer his shots past mid-off. Barrett was ent when he declared that Harry, with-regular play in scoad company, would find place in English county cet. Tt is just as true now as: in the past. T would have put him fourth or fifth wicket in any county team T saw at Lords or the Oval last Summer."
Harry Ollerdessen was the last!
Jactive representative of the halcyon of pre-war cricket in Shang-Modern diversions, lawn tennis, dancing and other things, have robbed the local game "of young who would devote serious hours to the cultivation of a straight bat. The chances are that jocal born youth may never produce another Harry Ollerdessen. He will rank ith the stalwarts who have kept prime place in Jdreds through the years of sojourn in Shanghai have sone home, retired, or passed on. "Willie" Moule,
and Bertie Lanning, Weippert, D.R-Barrett. jackson, "Dode McEuen, Turnbull Guilfosle, Connelly, "Bobbie" Brand, the Wallace brothers—some of them merely names to present-day Shanghai—
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