TEST MATCH TALE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1017, 5 January 1911, Page 5

TEST MATCH TALE.

—e SENSATIONAL FINISH. 1 L.B.W.'S FORM A CHAPTERS | AFRICANS LOSE THE TITLE, j WHITTY AND COTTER END Ttiii ! STORY. I By Tekuraph—Press Association—Gopyrigljl. ] (Esc. January 4, 10 p.m.). • : . Melbourne, . January 4. ■ . There was charming weather and a fins j attendance when the fourth, day's play in ' .j the second Tost Match between the South: Africa team and an Australian eleven was entered upon. Australia, with a first in- . ."i nings total of 348, had responded to the ; v j South Africans' score of 50C. with 20S for ■ five wickets (Trumper not out 133, Kel- ! leway not out 6). Australia's second inn-, j irigs. produced 327 runs, leaving the South i < Africans 170 to get to. win. The South' 1 Africans failed to do this, making only, .j SO runs, and thus losing by 89 runs.. The wicket was as good as at the start i of . the match. The (lay's play was full'■ :■' '• of incident and excitement, and it was generally , .considered that the South Africans..would, achieve their first, viotory in the test series, but as the game' progressed and the prospects of a win by them became uncertain the interest and . excitement increased. ■

Trumpor's Departure. Trumper and ICelleway had taken .tha Australians' score to 237, when Trumper as in the first innings, chopped a ball onr to his wicket; He scored 159 in 171 minutes, his total including fifteen fourers and one siser. Trumper's purpose was to make runs, while Ivelleway kept up the' other end, Kqlleway in an hour making! only fourteen runs. Armstrong was in; ten minutes for two runs. Then lie open? Ed out, and hit four fourers successively. Carter got a ball, a googly, which puzzled him, as he changed his mind at-the last moment, and cocked the ball up to 1 ■short-leg, Sherwell walking out from tho wicket and taking an easy catch. ■ In, Wait for Cotter.

Cotter came in and the spectators os« pectcd a merry scene. Ho began by hitting two balls pretty bard, but fell into quietude for some time.. The South Africans, . in. expect-; aney, set five men on tho boundary for him. Cotter was unable to restrain himself for long, and he let go. at Llewellyn, and sent the ball away to the boundary. Commaille, who was fielding for Zulch, who is suffering from sciatica, made a fine run from-long-on, and caught him. Commaille's catch was as fine axv effort as Nourse's. dismissal of Whitty in the first innings.

Whitty lunged at two balls, but at the solicitation of Kelleway kept his wicket uj> while Kelleway endeavoured to foray the pace. The innings lasted 24S minutes,, and although 300 runs were compiled ill' 220 ; minutes the fielding.' of the South' Africans, was first-clAss, a feature being Sherwell's wicket-keeping". '• • ' ;

Springboks Start Hopefully, But Fail, ' The South Africans, wanting 170 to win, started with great hopes. Strieker, opened with Sherwell, but only one run. had been scored when Cotter got Strieker; leg-before. \ i Faulkner had a great reception, but his partnership with Sherwell was short-' lived. There was much'excitement Whitty dismissed Sherwell, who had! made 16 out of tho 28' on the board. - Theball, which dislodged. the bails, coni-j pletely beat Sherwell, whipping in from'! the off. Nourse hid made two when an: appeal for leg-before was successful.! Three runs later Sinclair succumbed to' a leg-before appeal to Whitty. Faulkner j had batted nearly an hour for eight, and! then he gave an easy chance to Kelleway' at mid-on. ■ Llewellyn and Snooke carried! the score to 62, when the tea adjourn*' ment • was. taken.

Causo of the i Downfall. Up to this stage, Whitty had takea three wickets for 6 -runs. Of the nine: overs he had ; sent down; five were maidens. Cotter had bowled for an hour! at an extreme pace, and it was question-: able whether it had been lessened at tho' adjournment.

Schwarz began well with two good offstrokes at the expense, of Cotter, when ho fell to a "yorker." Zulch, hampered by sciatica, which had prevented his fielding, and causing C'ommailleto be substituted, batted steadily, but the Africanders went to pieces. Why, they are unable to explain—the wickets simplyrattled down. Whitty bowled with: deadly effect.

• The innings lasted for two'hours. The spectators' were amazed at the collapse, especially after the superb form shown by the South Africans iu ,their first innings. Scores:— . x ; Australia. ' First innings jjg Second Innings. > Bardsley, st. Sherwell, b. Schwarz ... H Trumper, b. Faulkner 159 Hill. b. Schwarz 0 Gehrs, st. Sherwell, b. Schwarz ...... 22 Macartney, c. Snooke, b. Llewellyn... 5 Ransford, c.' Sinclair, b. Schwarz 23 Kelleway,'b. Pegler 4s Armstrong, b. Llewellyn 29 Carter e. .Sherwell,'b. Llewellyn 0 Cotter, c. Commaille, b. Llewellyn ... 15 Whitty, not out '. 5 Extras 7 Total 327. Bowling Analysis. Schwarz took four wickets for 76 runs; Llewellyn, four for SI; Pegler, one for 21; Faulkner, one for 55; Nourse,. Nona for IS;: Snooke, no»a for 24; Sinclair, none for 22; Strieker, none for 10. How the Wickets Fell. 1 2' 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 IB 35 35 SO 04 176' 237 279 270 305 327, South Africa. First innings SOS Second Innings. Sherwell,. b. Whitty 1G Strieker, 1.b.w., b. Cotter 0 Faulkner, c. Kelleway, b. Whitty ......' 8 Nourse, 1.b.w., b. Cotter 2 Sinclair, 1.b.w., b. Whitty 3 Llewellyn, b. Cotter ....: 17 Snooke, c. Armstrong, b. Whitty 9 Zulch, not out B Schwarz, c. Kelleway, b._ Cotter 7 Pearso, c. Kelleway, b. Whitty ......... (I Pegler, 1.b.w., b. Whitty 0 Extras : 12 Total . : SO Bowling Analysis. Cotter took four wickets for 47 runs; Whitty, five for 17; Armstrong, nous for 4. How the Wickets Fell. 12345 C 7 8 9 10 7 23 31 34 46 66 6S 77 SO 80 [In the first Test match, played at Syd< nev, the South Africans were beaten bj an" innings and 114 . runs, the score) being:—Australia, 528; South Africa, 171 and 240.] TEST MATCH AT ADELAIDE. (Ree. January J, 10 p.m.) Melbourne, January 4. For the third Tost match at Adelaidj the Australian team will be tho same aj played in tho second Test, just concluded here. .Matthews has been selected to" twelfth man,