DOOMED TO HEAVY DEFEAT
Allen's Captaincy Praised j LONDON, March 1. ! A general acceptance that England is doomed to heavy defeat is the keyno.te of newspaper reports fronx Mel-' bourne and London coinmentators. i The Daily Mail sports gossip writer, referring to Allen's speech, sa'ys : ' ' Allen is evidently \dissatislied with hia own form. His batting could have been better but he bowled well. Everybody; seems to agree that his captaincy was! ifirst-class, but the best captaincy in the; world will not win the rubber ff the! team is only znoderate. Two captainaJ seem to be needed on the tour, one to play cricket and the other to do tiie speech-making. ' ' The sorry contrast between Austra-i lian and English batting is referred foj by Carson in the Evenixig News. He; says: "We threw away wickets with: unbelievable prodigality. Barnett andj Hammond went out"to strokes unworthyj of them. We have not much batting to! come. I do not think we can get out: of the rness, but 1 am hopiug we shatf make a better sliow to-morrow. Should wft Ism wt akall aake so
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 40, 3 March 1937, Page 13
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