I want to setup up a triva section maybe you can help me out with that...
BTW, those were good questions...
nah! the 'chinaman' was Puss Achong.
anytime with the trivia. tenks about the questions! I hoped deh wud have raised some intress...not too hard but not real trivia dat everybody know already
After bowling this variation to have Walter Robins stumped at Old Trafford in 1933, it is reputed that Robins said to the umpire Joe Hardstaff Sr., "fancy being done by a bloody Chinaman ". Learie Constantine is said to have replied: "Do you mean the bowler or the ball?" An unorthodox left-arm spin delivery (spinning from the off side to the leg side for a right-handed batsman) is known as a "Chinaman" as a result.
thats the man Bally, Puss himself. the name strikes a memory match, fiyahs-up recall.
bwoy westindian history contains magic for me. that is what I hold and cherish about it all, a magic that is my own about the life we had.
the greater and lesser antilles... the name antilles was pure magic, sweet and full of mystery, as my big brothers searched the radio dial for radio antilles and the fantastic music they played on it..music we could find nowhere else.
there were stories from the older ones of a place called 'down the maine' which was spanish and could have only been Venezuela, through the Bocas and up the caribbean sea on the spanish central american side..and the music from there too...Celia Cruz and Tito Puente'... names so fresh in my memory it could have been only yesterday
and christmas used to be a special time, a time of such excitement that when it was gone one was depressed that such a time could be so fleeting. but carnival soon took its place and the magic of calypso made one forget christmas.
ths stories I heard around and above me of people like Tang Choon, Achong, the Furlongs, Gerry Gomez, Stollmeyer, Andy Ganteume, Eric Williams, Raphick Poolool, Bhadase Maraj, Asgarali...all of them were tantalyzing, gloriously exciting, riveting, never to be forgotten names and stories
but then man grow up and come to know the real world and must deal with. the older ones disappear and one takes their place and becomes in turn the older one. there is no more Spoiler and Small Island Pride, no more King Fighter and Commander, no more Duke and Christo and Shorty, and Blakie.....no more Cypher, Terror and Kitchener.....
real westindian life was hell for most westindians...used to be hell for me. I dont know what its like now in the westindies, but I am sure it is still hell for most westindians.
but in all the hell I hope for the kids there is still some magic, the magic of childhood that may sustain one through life, the magic in the fantasy innocence contains. soon one grows up and reality intrudes. and reality can make all the magic disappear..eat it all up!
