JOY IN ENGLAND.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1366, 17 February 1912, Page 18

JOY IN ENGLAND.

When England won • the second test S .1' . e '& ht wickets, the jov of the Jinglisli cricketing world was unbounded. "\Yandcrer" wrote in "Tho Sportsman": —"It was more than a victory; it was a triumph. As part. and.parcel of. the batting success much bo reckoned tho subjection of the 'googly' bowler. Though lie seut down 17 overs; every 0110 of which was scored from, ho did not! secure a wicket, whilst his punishment was the same as in. tho first venture, viz., GG. The batsmen did not attemnt to punish him or dash in, but played the C. B. Fry--11. E. Foster method of placing his deliveries gently for one or two,-which is even more aggravating than the more vigorous troatment. v The "Daily Chronicle", wrote:—"There is nothing better in. tho result of tho second test match than tho fact that Dr. H. V. .Hordcrn, whose googly bowling has been such a terror, has at last been more or less conquered. So long as that gentleman went from success to success there was scarce a hope that England would make a show as good as all of us over here hoped they would. Like all licv bowlers of that type, Dr.. Hordcrn was difficult to play, as mucli because of tho reputation that preceded him as by tho "difficulties which his bowling presented in actuality. Once get a batsman in apprehensive mood and he is half beaten, and how many of our batsmen stood up to Dr. Hordern's bowling in any mental state other than . one ;of wonderment as to what was going to' happen when, as googly bowling lias been described, the ball might break both ways and then •go off like' a cracker? All bowlers of Dr. Hordern's type are a- success until found out, and English cricket enthusiasts will be hopeful that Australia s remarkable bowler has been discovered ta the extent that is suggested by the fact that his analysis in this match was four wickets for 132 runs-four for GG in tho first innings and none for GG,ui the second. England is now m a position oC havine to plav the best of three test matches, md 'it may be that they have t.ho great advantage of having found out Australia's most troublesome WW. Fral IrXle, one of the Austral selectors, cabled to the Daily M al ,l ■ • "England'? .victory ..was ..a. one. In every, department men showed marked superiority over tho Australians., Cotter gave a suijnsingly good exhibition of batting in stiong iefief to some of the earlier Australian ba "ln e England's second imrings Rhodes n-nd Hobb* gave 1 their sulo a splendid start, and if the batting was slow, it was quite justified, ns England could take no ?isks. Hobbs played a stylishly, sound "and occasionally forceful game. His plac-. ing of the bowline was wonderful, and he made only one bad stroke. Ho tnor n-iphlv deserved to reach his century. Gunn suffered in contrast to Hobbs, as ho was over-cautions though sound. "The \ustrahan howling lacked fire. s true'"form;-so the.result of the le.maming matcfe livery' problematical. England s chances arc now much brighter.