economised, two of the heroes, Bates and Ryan, both in the veteran stage, were released. The county adopted a home-grown policy and 1932 was to see the start of a new opening partnership which lasted for years as Emrys Davies and Arnold Dyson replaced Bates and Bell at the head of the order. Meanwhile two holiday fixtures against the 1931 New Zealanders brought some fine batting from Dempster at Cardiff, where the match was drawn, and a comfortable win for the tourists at Swansea. The Indians also found South Wales to their liking in 1932, with the Whitsun match at Cardiff being drawn, Turnbull declaring after Dyson made 100 and setting the tourists 257. Wazir Ali hit 108 but time ran out at 184 for four. In the return at Swansea, Mercer and Clay were among the wickets but Amar Singh’s pace wrecked Glamorgan’s first innings and they were beaten by 54 runs. It was a disappointing outcome for the Welsh crowd but the Cardiff faction of it received a rare treat in the 1933 Whitsun game, when the West Indies were the visitors. George Headley, still arguably the greatest batsman to emerge from the Caribbean, gave a delightful display, his timing and quick footwork being brilliant. He made 129 in a total of 475 but Dyson, excelling with late and square cuts and drives past cover, responded with 147 for Glamorgan. Glamorgan headed the West Indian total by 18, though on the last day the tourists were handicapped through both their fast bowlers Martindale and Griffith suffering from strains. There was added interest in the season because Turnbull appeared in two of the three Test matches against the West Indies (he made only 28 and four) so his 60 at Cardiff had added significance. At Cardiff everything went the West Indies’ way and they cruised home by ten wickets, the main feature being a hard hitting century by Sealey. This paved the way for another Australian year but there was to be no Bradman, who was injured, at Swansea in August. He played at Oxford over Whitsuntide but never appeared comfortable in making 37 on the Saturday. Len Darling made 100 and Grimmett and Fleetwood-Smith spun the University out twice for an innings’ victory. At St Helen’s Woodfull was unbeaten with 228 in a total of 440 for seven declared and then Bill O’Reilly and Fleetwood-Smith got among the wickets but the game was drawn. It was all very one-sided but Glamorgan’s followers were to be richly entertained when the South Africans came again in 1935. On Whit Saturday at Cardiff the tourists batted all day for 327 for three, Herbert Wade and Eric Rowan making hundreds and adding 256 for the second wicket. The total reached 401 and on Monday Glamorgan were dismissed in three hours for 142. Following on, Glamorgan, requiring 259 to avoid defeat by an innings, began the last day with four men out for 10. The fifth wicket also went down at 10 and although Cyril Smart offered resistance, the eighth and ninth fell in successive balls from Langton after tea with the score on 114. Smart was then joined by Donald Hughes, a 24-year-old schoolmaster from Ebbw Vale and later headmaster of Rydal School, who was making his county debut as a right-arm fast medium bowler. Hughes not only survived the hat trick ball but launched into an incredible attack on the bowling which produced four sixes and six fours in an unbroken partnership of 131 for the last wicket. Smart joined in the fun, reaching his century with a six and shortly afterwards lofting the ball out of the ground and through the window of the nearby Grand Hotel in Westgate Street. The match ended with Glamorgan 245 for nine; Smart 114 not out (three sixes and 11 fours), Hughes 70 not out. There was more fun in the return at Swansea, when 17,000 attended on August Bank Holiday Monday. Glamorgan needed 251 to win and Welsh Fervour 110