THE TEST MATCH.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 212, 8 March 1895, Page 2

THE TEST MATCH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. The tiual match in the great cricket tournament is over, and, for once, I feel a satisfaction that the Englishmen have won. " I was not ever thus " for heretofore, my sympathies lay with the colonials, but the eternal brag and ungenerous one sidedness of the Australian team and their supporters has given my sympathies a yaw. Why, sir, from the commencement of these matches, the colonial team has filled the Australian atmosphere with their boasting — " They were the better team," they could do this, that, and what not. This was bad and unsportsmau like enough, but the partizau cable reports were quite as objectionable. We were given the individual play of each member of the Australian team with a minuteness of detail and warm eulogy worthy the most brilliant and supreme of mortal man's achievement at cricket or anything else, while on the other hand the play of the Englishmen was dismissed with the least possible comment. If a big score was made by the latter, it is attempted to explain it away. The English team had the handicap ; they were on foreign ground and in a foreign climate, and it would look better if our colonials admitted these things and gave generous credit to their opponents, instead of behaving so childishly. I am, etc., U.MI-IRE.