Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-07-03 | Page 11 | Famous Cricket "Ashes" Do Exist, but Australia Teams Get Urn Only

Famous Cri Cricket ket Ashes Do Exist But Australia Teams Get Urn tim Only I England Jealously Guards Remains s' s of d Which Died August 29 1882 5 By HENRY M McLEMORE LEMORE S United Press Fess ress Staff Staf Correspondent WIMBLEDON Eng July 3 The 3 The ashes for which the picked cricket teams of England and Australia now are battling to tv the death compose what Is probably the most un unimpressive sports in the world Viewed from any angle it looks like ike just what it is is-a is a fistful of ashes Not even the magn magnificent trophy case in which the ashes repose repose repose re re- re- re pose prevents it from resembling something six or seven dependable cigar smokers accumulate in an hours hour's good puffing I went to see the ashes for two reasons one being that in my boyhood boy hood I spent pent what must have been six days of ot every week cleaning out the furnace and so became a bit bitof bitof of ot a connoisseur of ashes Even to this day a clean anthracite ash gives me a thrill just as the rough dirty ash of ot bituminous stoking coal goes I against my grain Scribe Gets Curious In Iii the second place I wanted to see if it there really was such a trophy as ashes As you doubtless know there are two schools of thought on the subject Half the cricket followers follow follow- ers you meet say the ashes hes are entirely entirely en m mythical the other half hall insist insist in in- they very much exist The latter school is is' correct They do exist And behind their origin is a very pretty story After the final test match at the oval in 1882 when hen England was humbled by Australia Aus Arts the now defunct Sporting Times published the following epitaph epi In affectionate remembrance of ot English cricket which died on the theoval theoval theoval oval on August 1882 Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing sorrowing sorrow sorrow- ing friends and acquaintances R I. I P. P N B. B The body will be cremated and the ashes hes taken to Australia Went Vent ent After Ashes When the dashing Ivo 1 Bligh took his English team to Australia the next year ear sports writers remembers rememberIng remember- remember in Ing s the je jesting ting epitaph said that he was going after arter the ashes Much to the journalists journalist's surprise Ivo 1 upon his return several months later brought some ashes with him Pressed for an explanation he said that hollowing following England's victory victor in inthe inthe inthe the third and deciding match a group of ot enthusiastic Melbourne ladies ran out on the field and before anyone anone could stop them burned the stumps used in the game The ashes of ot the stumps the Honorable Ivo said were placed In Inthe Inthe inthe the urn you see here and presented to me What is my next move Nobody could think of a it next move for Ivo so he willed the urn o of ashes to the Marylebone Cricket club The urn was placed in the great trophy chest at Lords where now it is jealously jealously jeal jeal- guarded as one of the most precious o of the many valuable possessions pos sessions of the governing body of Ute tile gain game e. e Since that year the test matches matches- have been considered as a light fight for lor forthe forthe the ashes There is however no transfer of the ashes They have never left this country When Australia Australia Aus- Aus wins the ashes the team gets are arc re strictly mythical CRONE WINS AIN G I J J. J V V. Crone captured th the week end checker tournament at Liberty park with 11 games won six drawn and andhree three lost He Ie was on one onel poInt ahead of G. G D. D Barton who h had d 10 games game won seven drawn and rind th three ree lost B B. Walters finished third M ith ith 11 victories vic vic- tories orles four drawn games and five lost ost S f