SANDMAN IN SYDNEY.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1954, 10 January 1914, Page 12

SANDMAN IN SYDNEY.

HERO OF THE OKIOKET MATOIJ, Sandman is easily the hero of tho recent New South Walcs-Naw Zealand cricket matcli. He made 53 not out in tho first iiinings, and was l'Ufi out through a confrere's folj.v when 36 on in tho sccond innings. In 'his first kfiotk he batted 74 minutes, and hit eight' 4's. li« weiit for the howling from the jump, and mado coind fine off shots, particularly square : and near third man. In addition his niuning between tho wickets Waß good. His second innings is referred to in the course of th® following from the Sydney "Referee""fhe second . iiiiiings of New Zealand was disappointing. With the exception of Sandman, wlio, tots run out for 33, tho men sseiiicd unable to get. into their stride, though Htmius and Snoddoi! were hattino; in ptomisinp; form and had scored 20 for the first wicket wh&ii Sneddon mis-liit a bumpy one ■ Froiii Kellowav to Trnmpor at- short square-le?. Sandman, _as in the first innings, batted aggressively arid in /zood form, scored by good Stfokes on both sides, a?id *iS far less Bf-eieotyped in bis motlKxls than most of the others. His rmmit was peculinr. H» wa» very much faster than T, Carlton, and almost overlapped lain in running threes. Sand : man caroe right through in -th® case or his dismissal, but Carlton remained rooted, at first watching: Bardslav, the fieldsman. near fine long-on, and litter watching Sandman coming. .He should have gone (op his run, and either tj-fed to pet home or to save Sandman's wisket, for •t'lie latter was showing much bottor form than- Carlton..' .Bn.rd.sley- returned the bnir , SffiffliP ! S'tfd'«tf«ißHt tor' Andrews, tho howler, with Carlton at that, end and Sandman a yard or so off. Andrews threw it pentlv to M'itetv at the other end, and Sandnwn was out, to the dis' j aiipoiiuiiient of tho orowd. who- oiplaad-, ed him heartili-. An ahlo al.!-rotin<J' cricketcf, Sandman has lef£ a very good . impression on Sydnftv enthnsisfits." As'to Sandman's bowling, tbe "Re-' feree" says:—"Sandmnn was New Zealand's host hnwlcr, though his two wickets <y>st 131 runs. ''Robinson, who cnptiirrd foni' for 129, pegged away persistently, hut is not quite fast enough fn be dangeroiis oii wickets acaiflSt InVh-dasS batsmen. howled only there overs, and nijeht havo. ueeft rrivpn a Wore extruded triftl.- Tho. ground fielding was good, shd tho men were rmieHr than they had.heen on the Friday." Saxshall Behind tho Stumps, The fourteen years have made a marked ohaiigo fn C. W. BoSshall. Ho rt> called Walter Humphreys, tho lob bowler, who came out with A. E. Stoddart's first team in 1894. He is far stouter than ono cxpcctcd_ him to be, and, having seen him on tie field, one can thoroughly enter into the feelings of those New Zealand writers who contended that it would have been better fof cricket in tho Dominion to have given the placo to a younger man. Boxshall took the howling well, and showed a good deal of smartness in handling tho ball, but he could not get to anything returned ft bit wide and last. 'Referee."