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!OVERS OF
• England and Australia are far
frontg _bein • the only countries
interested hi cricket. Look at the
fine team the West Indies 1%it�l.d,.......
South Africa too. And 1 will not
dilate' on the prowess of th.e
Chicago eleven. India however,
took to cricket long .'ego _and
thanks to good eyes and
wonderfUT co-ordination they
have produced some ,first class
cricketers. ,Whoever saw hire bat
will riot 'soon forget the `great,
Ranjitsinghi, as he batted „for;
•' Sussex. What. wrists! What an
eye! What fluency ' of
performance! When he reached
his fifty, a waiter would appear?
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SUNKEN TR
Most of us have dreamed of,
finding buried treasure, and
however remote the possibility
might be on land, the coastline
, of Britain, surrounded by the
wrecks of ships, is an area of
exploration that is proving to be
profitable for the skin diver. But
apart—from—the money value a
sunken ship might hold; have
you ever wondered hciw
front the pavilion tarrying a tray
,on which r-ested a brandy and
scr.da: 'I'huk .hail i wen•f on to his -
century. 1 speak °ol',t,he turn of
'The century, when England`
enjoyed an occasional summer
or Iwo.
Quite -recently_ Mr. P. B. Jog,
M.A., 1.,L,1). umpire, published
a pamphlet.' (1569- Sadashiv
•Peth, Poona 9. India. Phone
55448. Price 10 Poise-►. Actually
it pttoved: to be a double threat,
t'or' while it was 'tithe nature of
an advertisement for Mr. .Jog's
prowess as an umpire, it also
sought, to right t) wrong. It
,appears that Mr. Jog has been
EASURE
great Lakes
Level Above
1O-Y.ear
Average
The U.S,: Lake Survey
Monthly Bulletin of Lake Levels
for December shows that the
. levels •of the Great Lakes are all
above their 10 -year, averages —
Lake Superior 10 inches,
'Michigan and Huron 17 inches,
St. Clair 12 inches, Erie 10,
inches, and Ontario three inches.
With the exception of Lake.
Ontario, they , are also above
their November 1967 mean
bevels. • Lake Superior, due 4o
heavy precipitation and several
severe storms, rose' to 60152
feet or about 11 inches above its
1967 level; Lakes Michigan and
Hurn at 578,40 feet were about
six 'inches above; Lake St. Clair;
573,41. feet, about' three , inches.
above; and take Erie, 570.35
feet, about two inches above.
Lake Ontario, "``"'the Ione
xception, dropped to 244.02
et, or about 44 inches below
its 1967 November mean level,
though it is still. above its.
10 -year average.
The levels of'all of the Lakes;
including _Ontario, are 'expected
• to remain above the 10 -year
average well into 1969.
For a -•truly .Canadiah gift,
Took for one of the products of
Rehabilitation Industries.
1969 Caprice Coupe
important some of these wrecks
are tb archaeologists and
historians? In a BBC World
Service broadcast, Miss Du Platt_
Taylor, of the Department of
Archaeology. at Isondon
University, had this to say:—
"Wrecks are a capsule in time,
because everything in a ship -and
on -a ship, which was there when
she sank, was in use at that
particular tirrle, • This " • is
something which we don't get
on land. We may get. a tomb
grou), but , things have been
selected tb put there; whereas in
a ship when she sinks the things
are --there because they. ate ,the
cargo, or in use as the tools .of;,
the 'crew or the, trading material
of the captain. And this 'is an
invaluable time -factor which we
don't oobtain in any other way."
TME r, NATURE
OF LOVE
"it there's one sight that
moves me more than any other
and makes me believe in the
hope of, a possibly endless love
between man and woman, it's
the sight of' two elderly people,
maybe stooped, a little feeble,
no longer beautiful, ,but still
walking together hand -in hand."
Jackie Gillott, in a BBC broadcast
b�l"w
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118 it. David Goderkh .
passed. over by the, Indian Board
of Cricket. Control as an umpire
for their 'fest Matches. It i not
thereture surprising that/ he
addresses the 'pamphlet` to
"Cricket -loving Englishrnen",
and. thus, 21 years after jndian
Independence: he strikes a
sh{ewd blow at those poeple
who helie4e that 200 years of
Britisg, rule achieved nothing. Of
course umpires the world -over
have an equalled reputation -1'6r -,temporary blindness, on the field;
Of play. So much so that 'one
recent Victim. a bowler, .. said:
"It's not a question of hitting
the wicket. You have. to• ,break
-the bloody ' thins. into little -
pieces before the umpire •wFll-
give the batsman out".
So,, Mr. P. B. Jog, M.A., LLD
writes: "Do" you really want •to
improve Indian C'ricket'? Then
' do the followin at once:
P luck* the present Board.
B oard must be "under
control ofTest Players only.
J- ust find out strong ands
healthy bbys and train them.
...0 ffer sumptuous"allgwarfce
to cricketers.
G et rid of the monopoly, of
men like A. N. Gosh, M:
t iiinah61Aanty. Datt Itay and
such otlit.'rs �r'ltsa ha e trot
wheeled the willow •
'_(:'Pluck means 'fail' as in 'he
.-Jailed.to, pass'.
♦"1'hese art the. suggestions
front P. 13. ,Jog, Nf.A,.,, LL.B..
Advocate, the only best Indian
!Umpire of 28 Years standing."
Mr. Jog went on hunger strike
outside the Board's Bombay•
Office. It lasted six days and all
it achieved was hunger pains, so
Mr, Jog, has plat, turned to
• pamphleteering:
An Appeal to Cricket
English
M.A., LL.B.
1. The . love of the
Englishmen for' good ,x and
"-sprightly cricket isproverbial:..It.
is known all over world that
, Englishmen'honour the umpires
with equal love and respect as,r
'they do .a good batsman, bowler
or a good fielder, because cricket
• can prosper on efficiency of a •
good, umpire.
2. 1 have had honour of
to .Business. Direct�ry_
RonaIdL. ".
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doing umpiring iii India •in first
class cricket (Or more thativ27
years. Since I was 1,0 }ears old. 1
became enamoured of _good
c• rickt't....'I•.he .main reason- why 1
ain not selected as l'mpire i►;
that 1 ltay.e • never been st•
sychophant of the nonexisting
virtues UL tt&' Members of the
Board M`r'. qualilieation as an
advocate of the high Court of
Bombay, makes me most
impartial and independent in my
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umpiring.
3, 'Therefore being convinced
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4 . 1 ncidentally • ' I may
mention thatduring,my Protest
Fast at Bombay in the year 1964 t Agint fog 24 -hr.. %.
£RICKET
Ieant.,.•and w it ty M•r.
Woodbridge, the, famous
reporter. had come to.,meet me
I wise just near the Brabourne
Stadium ,at Bombay where I had
undertalic!n the epic. fast "for.
removal of Ihjusti •e....I publicly-
acknowledgiY n y.thanks to Chem
and I do it again with regards for
their •love of true cricket. Finally
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England and especially those
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Matches...,1 may mention here
that my love of cricket ancPof
umpiring is so much that I shall
undertake jciurney to 1.1.,:ngL Ind
for" that purpope at lily 't'usts,F„
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