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Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1921, Page 1

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UNITED SERVICE TELEGRAMS. AUSTRALIA V. YORKSHIRE. LONDON, July 20. The last of these was Bardsley’s who soon after Gregory arrived played back to a bailer and was bowled. He was missed twice and his innings was patchy and at a time, ultra careful, but it redeemed the score from insignificance. He was in for nearly three hours and hit six fours. Waddington and "Wilson met with much success, the former howling particularly well after lunch, by which time the attendance had increased to ten thousand. A valuable stand by Gregory and Oldfield followed, which carried the score to 205 and after the latter left, McDonald helped to increase it to 251. Gregory was the last out. at the same total.

Wilson preserved an irreproachable length even Gregory playing him guardedly. For Oldfield. Waddington reduced his pace to a fast medium, delivered express pace halls at Gregory. At no time during the tour have the Australian batsmen been kept so quiet.

Gedorge Hirst, the famous Yorkshire nrofessional appeared with Waddington’s sweater and was tremendously apnlnuded Wilson brought Kilner to Ally point when howling, the crowd eheering singles ironically, hut Oldfield could not he moved from most carefnl play- , After tea scoring became more fre■ment. Oldfield opened his shoulders with boundary drives. When given out ho hesitated before leaving, and looked i, nc k twice as though surprised at the decision.

During the MoDonald-Gregory partnership. runs came quicker than at any ether period of the day. At one stage •>1 were scored in 10 minutes. Qreory’s fift-v took 84 minutes. Wadding)on and "Robinson followed Rhodes with ,1 1P Fnll nnd at 230 Wilson superseded Robinson. Yorkshire’s ground fielding fell away after tea, but there were instances ef brilliancy. The innings lasted 250 minutes. Gregory hit ten fours end hatted 100 minutes, a ehnnceless end valuable effort.

Wilson howled 21 overs, whereof ibir'oen were maidens.

The attendance reached 15.000 when Yorkshire went in for half an hour’s hat-ting. Gregorv and McDonald opened the atnok. The crowd cheered the early success. Roth howlers were sending in their fastest stuff, and humping * l«t.

LONDON. July 21. The match was resumed in sunny, breezy weather, the ,attendance in the afternoon numbering 12,000. Official correction of yesterday’s score, Gregory st. Allen, b Waddington. The hall rebounded from the wicketkeeper's pads. The accurate howling, perfect fielding and defensive hatting gave a test match air to the struggle. The first, third, fourth and fifth overs were maidens. Seven overs only produced eleven. Armstrong displaced McDonald at 40 and Oldroyd sent his first ball to leg and hit the second with terrific force into Mailov’s hands at. midon. 44 for 2. The same over Robinson got his leg in front to Armstrong. After this, the howlers maintained the upper hand, and the wickets fell rapidly. Holmes was in nearly two hours for his 20, hut apart, from him Burton was the only one who could stand up to the howling with much success. A feature of the game was that each howling charge immediately came off. The returns from the long field were also remarkable, Taylor iUl d Macartney both hitting the stumps with full tosses. Nine wickets fell ior 90 but Waddington. the last man, showed determination, and with his captain saved a follow-on, anrnl cheers, tiurton played a sound, attractive game and was last. out . The innings last 1 minutes. AUSTRALIA—Ist Innings. Hnrdsloy, b Wilson Collins, 1) Waddington Macartney, b Kilner - j/ Andrews, o Waddington, b Macau-

lay J : Taylor, e and b Waddington 23 Armstrong, l.b.w. b Wilson 1

Hollow, li Wnddington « (Irogorv, 1) Waddington r ’ B Oldfield, U).w. I) Rhodes 23 MacDonald, 1.1).w. ’) Wilson 16 Mailev (not out) 0 Extras

Total 251 Howling analysis:—Robinson 0 for 81, Waddington 4 for 83, Kilnor 1 for 26, McCanlay 1 for 45, Rhodes 1 for 27, Wilson 3 for 24.