Cricket - Curling - Fencing - Polo

Jul. 07, 1956 - Cricket - from wheel chairs and crutches.: Every fine afternoon the lawns of Hinwick Hall, Beds, ring with the sound of boyish voice playing cricket. The click of leather on willow, the shout of How's that are typical of the cries heard on hundreds of school playing fields and recreation grounds. But closer looks reveals a difference. this is a cricket match played by Hinwick boys, most of whom are in greater or lesser degree incapacitated by muscular dystrophy or atrophy, a decease for which at the moment there is no cure, and which means the sufferer will remain on crutches or in a wheel chair for life. The Gamemaster at Hinviok hall - a residential school ly the Shaftesbury Society, is Mr. ken Claybourne. Back up by the Superintendent, Mr. J Riding, he has encouraged the boys to overcome their disabilities so much that even cricket is possible. In fact, its a regular game for them after classes. Photo shows 12-year-old Cowell, is the ace boweler of Hinwick Hall. In spite of his crutches he manages a run up to the wicket and bowls a nice fine ball, a little bit to the off, but with a deadly spin

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